Burp Suite Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Burp Suite skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Burp Suite over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 468 599
Rank change year-on-year +129 +131 -114
Contract jobs citing Burp Suite 5 6 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.023% 0.045%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.27% 0.15% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 11
10th Percentile £579 £490 £525
25th Percentile £585 £513 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £525 £585
Median % change year-on-year +13.14% -10.26% +56.00%
75th Percentile £620 £588 £675
90th Percentile £636 £709 £700
UK median daily rate £590 £575 £588
% change year-on-year +2.61% -2.13% +27.72%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Burp Suite 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 WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,835 3,905 8,285
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.05% 15.29% 18.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,319 2,795 5,986
10th Percentile £360 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% +3.33% +9.03%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 110 103
10th Percentile £27.62 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £47.06 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £62.20
90th Percentile - £82.73 £67.74
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +16.67%

Burp Suite
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Burp Suite as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Burp Suite trend for jobs with a WFH option

Burp Suite
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Burp Suite.

Burp Suite daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (20.00%) AppScan
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Ethical Hacker
1 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Kali Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) OWASP
2 3 (60.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Application Security
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Purple Team
4 1 (20.00%) Red Team
4 1 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) OSCP
2 1 (20.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Graylog
2 2 (40.00%) HP Fortify
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Nagios
3 1 (20.00%) Nessus
3 1 (20.00%) Nmap
3 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Checkmarx
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Veracode