GWAPT Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for GWAPT qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 - 425
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GWAPT 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.006% - 0.005%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.018% - 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £500
UK median daily rate £733 £400 £495
% change year-on-year +83.13% -19.19% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

GWAPT falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,438 6,337 7,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.15% 35.19% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,222 3,804 4,543
10th Percentile £220 £300 £300
25th Percentile £393 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.94%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £638
90th Percentile £675 £713 £705
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 672 642 555
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.48 £14.69
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £49.50 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.19% -3.88% +14.44%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £73.63 £79.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% -13.64% +22.22%

GWAPT
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GWAPT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GWAPT in the UK excluding London

GWAPT
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

GWAPT
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 GWAPT within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Yorkshire - 1 £700 - 1
North of England - 1 £700 - 1
GWAPT
UK

GWAPT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Imperva