Security Testing Contracts in Berkshire

Security Testing
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 101 130
Rank change year-on-year -7 +29 -32
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 14 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.72% 0.67% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.75% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile £489 £465 £469
25th Percentile £506 £544 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £606 £490
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% +23.66% -1.95%
75th Percentile £644 £636 £519
90th Percentile £650 £644 £530
South East median daily rate £550 £600 £558
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.62% +6.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,714 1,594 2,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.54% 89.60% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 995 1,321
10th Percentile £258 £339 £275
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% +5.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £710 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 51 39
10th Percentile £17.45 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.31 £25.31 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.53 £63.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +200.00% -2.33%
75th Percentile £71.75 £74.90 £34.95
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £70.68
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in Berkshire

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in Berkshire

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in Berkshire

Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Testing within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Reading -11 13 £613 +1.03%
Newbury +4 1 £475 -26.92%
Security Testing
South East

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (42.86%) Apache
1 6 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.14%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (14.29%) Azure API Management
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) BGP
1 6 (42.86%) Ethernet VPN
1 6 (42.86%) MPLS
1 6 (42.86%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (42.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) MongoDB
1 6 (42.86%) NoSQL
1 6 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) JIRA
2 6 (42.86%) GitLab
2 6 (42.86%) Robot Framework
2 6 (42.86%) TestRail
3 3 (21.43%) Git
4 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Network Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Test Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Designer
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Development Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Integration Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Lead Designer
2 2 (14.29%) Security Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) NETCONF
1 6 (42.86%) REST
1 6 (42.86%) RESTCONF
1 6 (42.86%) SOAP
1 6 (42.86%) YANG
2 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 2 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 2 (14.29%) CSS
2 2 (14.29%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) NumPy
3 1 (7.14%) Pandas
3 1 (7.14%) PySpark
3 1 (7.14%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 10 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 8 (57.14%) Integration Testing
3 8 (57.14%) Unit Testing
3 8 (57.14%) Workflow
4 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 6 (42.86%) Performance Testing
4 6 (42.86%) Regression Testing
4 6 (42.86%) Scrum
5 4 (28.57%) Application Security
5 4 (28.57%) DevOps
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (21.43%) Data-Driven Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Break/Fix
7 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (14.29%) OWASP
7 2 (14.29%) Proactive Maintenance
7 2 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) PHP
4 1 (7.14%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Databricks
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft