Burp Suite Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

PortSwigger Burp Suite
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Burp Suite skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 371 411
Rank change year-on-year -6 +40 +98
Contract jobs citing Burp Suite 7 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.040% 0.024%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.30% 0.31% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 4
10th Percentile £405 £545 £479
25th Percentile £407 £551 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £573 £533
Median % change year-on-year -25.76% +7.51% +12.46%
75th Percentile £472 £586 £584
90th Percentile £531 £590 £624
UK median daily rate £550 £560 £533
% change year-on-year -1.79% +5.16% +6.50%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Burp Suite falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,364 2,227 2,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.92% 12.74% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,616 1,294 1,789
10th Percentile £312 £337 £354
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -3.71% -1.44%
75th Percentile £550 £583 £600
90th Percentile £636 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £522 £550
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 154 205
10th Percentile £16.84 £46.18 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £55.87 £54.37
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.04 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.15% - +8.33%

Burp Suite
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Burp Suite relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Burp Suite job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Burp Suite
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Burp Suite.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Burp Suite

Burp Suite
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Burp Suite in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Burp Suite in the UK excluding London

Burp Suite
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Burp Suite within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 6 £419 - 9
East of England - 1 £550 -
Burp Suite
UK

Burp Suite
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Metasploit
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Penetration Tester
1 6 (85.71%) Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Application Security Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Security Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Kali Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Ethical Hacking
2 6 (85.71%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 6 (85.71%) OWASP
2 6 (85.71%) Red Team
2 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (14.29%) Application Security
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Bash
1 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
1 6 (85.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) CEH
1 7 (100.00%) OSCP
2 6 (85.71%) GPEN
3 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) CISM
4 1 (14.29%) CISSP
4 1 (14.29%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GRC
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Nmap
2 1 (14.29%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Qualys
1 1 (14.29%) Tenable