Penetration Testing Contracts in Cheshire

Penetration Testing
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Penetration Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Penetration Testing over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 51 57
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 2 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.38% 1.38% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 1.53% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £763 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £500 £362
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% +38.12% -46.80%
75th Percentile £788 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £666 £550 £556
% change year-on-year +21.09% -1.12% +30.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Penetration 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 advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 444 459 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.62% 90.35% 87.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 300 273
10th Percentile £308 £288 £205
25th Percentile £390 £400 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +11.11% +3.21%
75th Percentile £580 £586 £550
90th Percentile £638 £664 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 29 33
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.95 £9.96
25th Percentile £17.49 £22.53 £12.73
Median hourly rate £35.75 £30.54 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year +17.06% +40.22% -12.88%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.00 £31.00
90th Percentile - £40.00 £55.50
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.39
% change year-on-year -23.83% +49.64% +29.53%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Cheshire

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in Cheshire

Penetration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Penetration Testing in Cheshire

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Knutsford - 2 £775 - 1
Penetration Testing
North West

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (100.00%) Cyberattack
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST