Security Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 380 475
Rank change year-on-year +103 +95 -80
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 64 77 148
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.32% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.36% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 62 115
10th Percentile £429 £450 £389
25th Percentile £525 £493 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +3.19%
75th Percentile £628 £650 £631
90th Percentile £650 £749 £725
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £37.75 - -
25th Percentile £41.88 - -
Median hourly rate £48.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.63 - -
90th Percentile £59.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £48.75 - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -40.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Security Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 24 June 2024.

Security Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Testing.

Security Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Testing over the 6 months to 24 June 2024.

Security Testing hourly 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 (9.38%) nginx
2 1 (1.56%) Anypoint
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.56%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.25%) Azure
2 15 (23.44%) AWS
3 8 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (9.38%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (6.25%) Serverless
7 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.69%) SaaS
8 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.13%) Azure API Management
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.56%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.56%) OCI
9 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.94%) Firewall
2 3 (4.69%) DNS
3 2 (3.13%) LAN
3 2 (3.13%) VPN
4 1 (1.56%) BGP
4 1 (1.56%) HTTP
4 1 (1.56%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.56%) IPsec
4 1 (1.56%) Network Security
4 1 (1.56%) OSPF
4 1 (1.56%) SSL
4 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.56%) VLAN
4 1 (1.56%) VoIP
4 1 (1.56%) WAN
4 1 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.56%) Wireless
4 1 (1.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.56%) Big Data
3 1 (1.56%) MySQL
3 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Git
1 7 (10.94%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.81%) Visual Studio
3 4 (6.25%) GitLab
4 3 (4.69%) Cypress.io
4 3 (4.69%) JMeter
4 3 (4.69%) LoadRunner
4 3 (4.69%) NUnit
4 3 (4.69%) Postman
5 2 (3.13%) Burp Suite
5 2 (3.13%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.13%) FitNesse
5 2 (3.13%) JIRA
5 2 (3.13%) Selenium
5 2 (3.13%) SpecFlow
5 2 (3.13%) TestRail
6 1 (1.56%) Appium
6 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.56%) TestNG
General
1 24 (37.50%) Finance
2 17 (26.56%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.69%) Electronics
4 3 (4.69%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.69%) Marketing
4 3 (4.69%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.13%) Back Office
5 2 (3.13%) Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Front Office
5 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.56%) Automotive
6 1 (1.56%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (15.63%) Consultant
1 10 (15.63%) Developer
1 10 (15.63%) Security Consultant
2 9 (14.06%) Senior
3 7 (10.94%) Security Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Full Stack Developer
4 6 (9.38%) Test Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Test Manager
5 4 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Information Security Consultant
5 4 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Lead
6 3 (4.69%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
6 3 (4.69%) Security Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Security Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Security Project Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Vulnerability Management Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Vulnerability Management Project Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.94%) CSS
1 7 (10.94%) HTML
1 7 (10.94%) Laravel
1 7 (10.94%) Sass
1 7 (10.94%) WebSockets
2 5 (7.81%) Playwright
3 3 (4.69%) .NET
3 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.69%) GraphQL
3 3 (4.69%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (4.69%) REST
4 2 (3.13%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.56%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.56%) Node.js
5 1 (1.56%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.56%) SOAP
5 1 (1.56%) Spring
5 1 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 5 (7.81%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (6.25%) IoT
4 3 (4.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (4.69%) PKI
4 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.13%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.56%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.56%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Linux
2 6 (9.38%) Unix
3 5 (7.81%) Windows
3 5 (7.81%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.19%) Test Automation
2 26 (40.63%) DevOps
3 22 (34.38%) CI/CD
4 20 (31.25%) Application Security
5 17 (26.56%) Agile
6 16 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
7 15 (23.44%) DevSecOps
7 15 (23.44%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 15 (23.44%) Information Security
8 14 (21.88%) Vulnerability Management
9 13 (20.31%) SDLC
10 12 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (18.75%) TDD
11 11 (17.19%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (17.19%) Waterfall
12 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (14.06%) Test Strategy
13 8 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 7 (10.94%) Functional Testing
14 7 (10.94%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.63%) JavaScript
2 8 (12.50%) PHP
3 5 (7.81%) Python
3 5 (7.81%) SQL
3 5 (7.81%) TypeScript
4 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Degree
2 6 (9.38%) CISM
2 6 (9.38%) CISSP
3 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.25%) CRISC
5 3 (4.69%) ISTQB
6 2 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.56%) CEH
7 1 (1.56%) CSSLP
7 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.56%) MCSE
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.56%) PMP
7 1 (1.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.75%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.81%) QA
3 2 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.13%) NIST
4 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (14.06%) Docker
2 4 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (12.50%) Terraform
2 7 (10.94%) Ansible
2 7 (10.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.25%) SCCM
4 1 (1.56%) Grafana
4 1 (1.56%) Graylog
4 1 (1.56%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.56%) Nagios
4 1 (1.56%) Nmap
4 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.94%) Oracle
3 4 (6.25%) SAP
4 3 (4.69%) CA
4 3 (4.69%) Qualys
4 3 (4.69%) VMware
5 1 (1.56%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.56%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) Juniper
5 1 (1.56%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.56%) Splunk
5 1 (1.56%) WSO2