Security Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Testing
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 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 390 464
Rank change year-on-year +152 +74 -77
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 108 82 159
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.71% 0.32% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.35% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 60 124
10th Percentile £500 £450 £390
25th Percentile £550 £504 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £620
90th Percentile £733 £788 £718
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,424 23,231 40,628
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.86% 89.84% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,419 29,475
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £715
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 532 547
10th Percentile £15.12 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.89
Median hourly rate £40.28 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.76% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Security Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Security Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Testing
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 Security Testing.

Security Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Testing over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Security Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.56%) nginx
2 1 (0.93%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.93%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.26%) SaaS
2 35 (32.41%) PaaS
3 34 (31.48%) IaaS
4 24 (22.22%) Azure
5 18 (16.67%) AWS
6 11 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (6.48%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (6.48%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (6.48%) Serverless
8 6 (5.56%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 5 (4.63%) Azure API Management
9 5 (4.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (4.63%) Azure Functions
9 5 (4.63%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.85%) Azure Cognitive Search
10 2 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.85%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 33 (30.56%) 5G
1 33 (30.56%) Broadband
2 9 (8.33%) Firewall
3 2 (1.85%) DNS
4 1 (0.93%) BGP
4 1 (0.93%) LAN
4 1 (0.93%) OSPF
4 1 (0.93%) SSL
4 1 (0.93%) VPN
4 1 (0.93%) WAN
4 1 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.93%) Wireless
4 1 (0.93%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.26%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.93%) Big Data
5 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.93%) MySQL
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (9.26%) Git
2 9 (8.33%) Visual Studio
3 8 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.70%) GitLab
5 3 (2.78%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.78%) JMeter
5 3 (2.78%) LoadRunner
5 3 (2.78%) NUnit
5 3 (2.78%) Postman
6 2 (1.85%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.85%) FitNesse
6 2 (1.85%) JIRA
6 2 (1.85%) Selenium
6 2 (1.85%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.85%) TestRail
7 1 (0.93%) Appium
7 1 (0.93%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.93%) rollup.js
7 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.93%) webpack
General
1 35 (32.41%) Law
2 33 (30.56%) Organisational Skills
3 21 (19.44%) Finance
3 21 (19.44%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.48%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.70%) Banking
7 3 (2.78%) Electronics
7 3 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.78%) Marketing
7 3 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.85%) Back Office
8 2 (1.85%) Front Office
8 2 (1.85%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 36 (33.33%) Tester
2 34 (31.48%) Penetration Tester
2 34 (31.48%) Security Specialist
3 33 (30.56%) Security Penetration Tester
3 33 (30.56%) Security Tester
3 33 (30.56%) Testing Specialist
4 13 (12.04%) Developer
5 10 (9.26%) Consultant
5 10 (9.26%) Security Consultant
6 8 (7.41%) Lead
7 7 (6.48%) Senior
8 6 (5.56%) Architect
8 6 (5.56%) Full Stack Developer
9 5 (4.63%) Information Security Consultant
9 5 (4.63%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.63%) Security Manager
9 5 (4.63%) Test Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Vulnerability Management Manager
9 5 (4.63%) Vulnerability Management Project Manager
9 5 (4.63%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (30.56%) Web Services
2 10 (9.26%) CSS
3 9 (8.33%) HTML
4 8 (7.41%) Sass
5 7 (6.48%) Laravel
5 7 (6.48%) WebSockets
6 6 (5.56%) .NET
6 6 (5.56%) REST
7 5 (4.63%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.63%) ARM Templates
7 5 (4.63%) Playwright
8 4 (3.70%) SOAP
9 3 (2.78%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.78%) JSON
9 3 (2.78%) Node.js
9 3 (2.78%) OAuth
9 3 (2.78%) OpenID
9 3 (2.78%) XML
10 2 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
11 1 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 35 (32.41%) Mobile App
2 9 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.63%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.63%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.70%) IoT
5 3 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.85%) PKI
7 1 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.93%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.48%) Linux
2 6 (5.56%) Unix
3 5 (4.63%) Windows
3 5 (4.63%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (52.78%) Application Security
2 49 (45.37%) Cybersecurity
3 40 (37.04%) OWASP
4 37 (34.26%) Penetration Testing
5 36 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 33 (30.56%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 31 (28.70%) DevOps
8 29 (26.85%) Test Automation
9 27 (25.00%) CI/CD
10 18 (16.67%) Agile
11 17 (15.74%) Information Security
11 17 (15.74%) Static Application Security Testing
12 16 (14.81%) DevSecOps
13 15 (13.89%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
13 15 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (13.89%) Vulnerability Management
14 12 (11.11%) SDLC
14 12 (11.11%) TDD
15 10 (9.26%) Test Strategy
16 9 (8.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 10 (9.26%) PHP
3 8 (7.41%) SQL
4 7 (6.48%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.56%) Python
6 5 (4.63%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.78%) C#
Qualifications
1 41 (37.96%) Security Cleared
2 34 (31.48%) CREST Certified
2 34 (31.48%) SANS
3 33 (30.56%) GIAC
3 33 (30.56%) GPEN
3 33 (30.56%) OSCP
4 8 (7.41%) Degree
4 8 (7.41%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.63%) CISSP
6 4 (3.70%) CISM
6 4 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.70%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.78%) CRISC
8 2 (1.85%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.85%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.93%) CEH
9 1 (0.93%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (30.56%) GDPR
1 33 (30.56%) NCSC
1 33 (30.56%) PCI DSS
2 13 (12.04%) Accessibility
3 7 (6.48%) NIST
4 6 (5.56%) QA
5 4 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.85%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.85%) GRC
7 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (9.26%) Docker
2 3 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (7.41%) Kubernetes
1 8 (7.41%) Terraform
2 7 (6.48%) Ansible
3 3 (2.78%) SCCM
4 1 (0.93%) Grafana
4 1 (0.93%) Graylog
4 1 (0.93%) Nagios
4 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (30.56%) Virgin Media
2 11 (10.19%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.56%) Oracle
4 5 (4.63%) SAP
5 4 (3.70%) Rapid7
5 4 (3.70%) Sophos
6 2 (1.85%) CA
6 2 (1.85%) Qualys
6 2 (1.85%) VMware
7 1 (0.93%) Adobe
7 1 (0.93%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.93%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.93%) Google
7 1 (0.93%) Juniper
7 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.93%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.93%) Splunk
7 1 (0.93%) WSO2