Burp Suite Contract Job Trends

PortSwigger Burp Suite
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Burp Suite skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 532 538
Rank change year-on-year -115 +6 +111
Contract jobs citing Burp Suite 13 19 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.057% 0.065%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.21% 0.38% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 22
10th Percentile £491 £506 -
25th Percentile £500 £591 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.04% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £598
90th Percentile £629 - £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +1.50% -13.04% +2.22%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,231 4,956 4,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.64% 14.97% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,997 3,338 3,281
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 112 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.99 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.63
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.03 £73.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%

Burp Suite
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Burp Suite job vacancy trend in the UK

Burp Suite
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Burp Suite
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Burp Suite over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Burp Suite in the UK

Burp Suite
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Burp Suite.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Burp Suite

Burp Suite
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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
England -119 12 £515 -20.77% 27
Work from Home -63 7 £525 -12.50% 10
London -83 7 £601 -7.62% 12
UK excluding London -97 5 £508 +1.50% 17
North of England - 3 £460 - 3
North West - 3 £460 - 2
South East -62 1 £515 +3.00% 5
South West - 1 - - 5
West Midlands - 1 £538 - 2
Midlands - 1 £538 - 3

Burp Suite
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) GitHub
3 6 (46.15%) AWS
3 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) GCP
5 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (15.38%) Akamai
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
7 1 (7.69%) Apigee
7 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (7.69%) SaaS
7 1 (7.69%) Serverless
7 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) HTTP
2 1 (7.69%) HTTPS
2 1 (7.69%) Internet
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 5 (38.46%) Snyk
2 5 (38.46%) SonarQube
3 4 (30.77%) GitLab
4 3 (23.08%) Metasploit
5 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
5 2 (15.38%) Gatling
5 2 (15.38%) Git
5 2 (15.38%) Gradle
5 2 (15.38%) LoadRunner
5 2 (15.38%) REST Assured
5 2 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (7.69%) JMeter
6 1 (7.69%) Postman
6 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
6 1 (7.69%) sqlmap
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Security Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Tester
2 3 (23.08%) Penetration Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Security Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Product Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Playwright
2 2 (15.38%) Node.js
2 2 (15.38%) Quarkus
2 2 (15.38%) React
2 2 (15.38%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) Spring
2 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (15.38%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (7.69%) IoT
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) Threat Modelling
3 7 (53.85%) DevOps
3 7 (53.85%) DevSecOps
3 7 (53.85%) OWASP
3 7 (53.85%) SDLC
3 7 (53.85%) Security Testing
4 6 (46.15%) Application Security
4 6 (46.15%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 6 (46.15%) Penetration Testing
4 6 (46.15%) Security Architecture
5 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
5 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
5 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (30.77%) SABSA
6 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (30.77%) Static Application Security Testing
6 4 (30.77%) Validation
6 4 (30.77%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) CISSP
1 4 (30.77%) GIAC
1 4 (30.77%) OSCP
2 3 (23.08%) CREST Certified
2 3 (23.08%) GPEN
3 2 (15.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
3 2 (15.38%) CEH
3 2 (15.38%) CISA
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (15.38%) CISM
3 2 (15.38%) CRISC
4 1 (7.69%) CHECK Team Leader
4 1 (7.69%) CHECK Team Member
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Scheme
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) OSCE
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (38.46%) NIST
3 2 (15.38%) GDPR
3 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
3 2 (15.38%) QA
4 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
4 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 5 (38.46%) Terraform
3 4 (30.77%) HP Fortify
4 2 (15.38%) Ansible
4 2 (15.38%) Istio
4 2 (15.38%) Nmap
4 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Checkmarx
1 4 (30.77%) Veracode
2 3 (23.08%) Qualys
3 2 (15.38%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (15.38%) Dynatrace
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Rapid7
4 1 (7.69%) Tenable