Penetration Testing Contracts in Glasgow

Penetration Testing
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 66 85 -
Rank change year-on-year +19 - -
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.49% 0.22% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate £515 £563 -
% change year-on-year -8.44% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 746 853 875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.21% 94.36% 92.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 596 667
10th Percentile £275 £350 £266
25th Percentile £371 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £455
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +7.14% +8.33%
75th Percentile £561 £583 £538
90th Percentile £619 £682 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 34 19
10th Percentile £11.85 - £20.05
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £23.83
Median hourly rate £40.94 £13.88 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +195.06% -62.93% +16.06%
75th Percentile £55.63 £22.50 £45.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £56.55
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Glasgow

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Ethical Hacker
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Installations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Kali Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Purple Team
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) OSCP
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk