Security Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Testing over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 368 414
Rank change year-on-year +51 +46 -24
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 68 78 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.34% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.38% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 47 65
10th Percentile £455 £435 £380
25th Percentile £500 £506 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £600
90th Percentile £711 £763 £673
UK median daily rate £600 £594 £550
% change year-on-year +1.05% +7.95% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Security Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Security Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Security Testing
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 Security Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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 +14 27 £550 -8.33% 12
Scotland +52 12 £600 +4.35% 2
North of England +23 12 £475 -15.56% 18
North West +17 11 £475 -5.00% 6
South West +9 8 £590 -1.67% 6
Midlands +13 4 £425 -41.38% 7
West Midlands +8 3 £588 -18.97% 6
East of England +7 3 £700 -15.15% 5
Wales - 2 £666 -
East Midlands +13 1 £355 -40.83% 1
Yorkshire +12 1 - - 10
Security Testing
UK

Security Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (13.24%) Apache
1 9 (13.24%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.47%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (4.41%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 26 (38.24%) Azure
2 14 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (10.29%) AWS
4 6 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (8.82%) Azure Key Vault
4 6 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (8.82%) Serverless
5 5 (7.35%) Azure API Management
5 5 (7.35%) Azure Functions
5 5 (7.35%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (7.35%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.94%) GCP
6 2 (2.94%) PaaS
6 2 (2.94%) SaaS
7 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.47%) GitHub
7 1 (1.47%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.24%) BGP
1 9 (13.24%) Ethernet VPN
1 9 (13.24%) MPLS
1 9 (13.24%) Radio Access Network
1 9 (13.24%) VPN
2 7 (10.29%) Firewall
3 4 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 9 (13.24%) MongoDB
2 9 (13.24%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (10.29%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.41%) Big Data
5 3 (4.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.94%) MySQL
6 2 (2.94%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 11 (16.18%) JIRA
1 11 (16.18%) Visual Studio
2 10 (14.71%) GitLab
3 9 (13.24%) Git
3 9 (13.24%) Robot Framework
3 9 (13.24%) TestRail
4 5 (7.35%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.35%) NUnit
4 5 (7.35%) Postman
5 4 (5.88%) Selenium
6 3 (4.41%) Burp Suite
6 3 (4.41%) JMeter
6 3 (4.41%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.94%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.47%) AppScan
8 1 (1.47%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.47%) Pa11y
8 1 (1.47%) Subversion
8 1 (1.47%) TestCafe
8 1 (1.47%) webpack
General
1 10 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (14.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.35%) Finance
2 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.41%) Banking
4 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.47%) Automotive
5 1 (1.47%) Electronics
5 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (27.94%) Test Engineer
2 15 (22.06%) Senior
3 10 (14.71%) Senior Test Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) Network Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) Lead
6 6 (8.82%) Security Specialist
7 5 (7.35%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 5 (7.35%) Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Architect
8 4 (5.88%) Consultant
8 4 (5.88%) Integration Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Security Consultant
9 3 (4.41%) Azure Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Coordinator
9 3 (4.41%) Test Coordinator
9 3 (4.41%) Test Leader
9 3 (4.41%) Test Manager
9 3 (4.41%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.65%) REST
1 12 (17.65%) SOAP
2 9 (13.24%) NETCONF
2 9 (13.24%) RESTCONF
2 9 (13.24%) YANG
3 8 (11.76%) .NET
4 7 (10.29%) AngularJS
5 5 (7.35%) ARM Templates
5 5 (7.35%) GraphQL
5 5 (7.35%) Playwright
6 4 (5.88%) XML
7 3 (4.41%) CSS
7 3 (4.41%) JSON
7 3 (4.41%) OAuth
7 3 (4.41%) OpenID
7 3 (4.41%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.94%) HTML
8 2 (2.94%) Node.js
8 2 (2.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) PKI
2 6 (8.82%) Security Posture
3 5 (7.35%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (7.35%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.41%) IoT
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.47%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.76%) Windows
2 7 (10.29%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.06%) Test Automation
2 31 (45.59%) DevOps
3 28 (41.18%) Agile
4 24 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 24 (35.29%) Performance Testing
5 15 (22.06%) Integration Testing
6 14 (20.59%) DevSecOps
6 14 (20.59%) Scrum
7 13 (19.12%) Load Testing
7 13 (19.12%) Non-Functional Testing
8 12 (17.65%) Application Security
8 12 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (17.65%) Test Strategy
9 11 (16.18%) Containerisation
9 11 (16.18%) Manual Testing
9 11 (16.18%) Unit Testing
9 11 (16.18%) Workflow
10 10 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (14.71%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.41%) SQL
2 17 (25.00%) Python
3 7 (10.29%) PowerShell
4 6 (8.82%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.41%) C#
5 3 (4.41%) Java
5 3 (4.41%) PHP
6 2 (2.94%) C
6 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.47%) Bash
7 1 (1.47%) C++
7 1 (1.47%) Perl
7 1 (1.47%) Ruby
7 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (16.18%) Degree
2 4 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (5.88%) MCSE
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.41%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.94%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.94%) SANS
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.47%) CISSP
5 1 (1.47%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.47%) ISEB
5 1 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.47%) OSCP
5 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.12%) Accessibility
2 7 (10.29%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (7.35%) QA
4 3 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.41%) NIST
5 2 (2.94%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (23.53%) Docker
2 5 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.35%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (8.82%) Ansible
1 6 (8.82%) Terraform
2 5 (7.35%) SCCM
3 3 (4.41%) Grafana
4 2 (2.94%) Graylog
4 2 (2.94%) HP Fortify
4 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.94%) Nagios
4 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.47%) Kibana
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.47%) Nessus
5 1 (1.47%) Nmap
5 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.47%) Puppet
5 1 (1.47%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.41%) Oracle
2 3 (4.41%) Rapid7
2 3 (4.41%) Sophos
3 2 (2.94%) Checkmarx
3 2 (2.94%) Splunk
4 1 (1.47%) Adobe
4 1 (1.47%) Cisco
4 1 (1.47%) Databricks
4 1 (1.47%) Google
4 1 (1.47%) Pega
4 1 (1.47%) SAP
4 1 (1.47%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.47%) Veracode
4 1 (1.47%) VMware