Metasploit Contracts

Rapid7 Metasploit
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Metasploit skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Metasploit over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 595 701 839
Rank change year-on-year +106 +138 -157
Contract jobs citing Metasploit 3 18 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.030% 0.011%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.059% 0.20% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - £567 -
25th Percentile £583 £667 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £768 £675
Median % change year-on-year -23.13% +13.70% +28.57%
75th Percentile £598 £790 £713
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £675

All Development Application Skills
UK

Metasploit is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

Metasploit
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Metasploit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Metasploit in the UK

Metasploit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Metasploit.

Daily rate trend for Metasploit in the UK

Metasploit
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metasploit within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +114 3 £590 -25.32% 4
London +90 3 £590 -25.32% 1

Metasploit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Red Team
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Nessus