Security Testing Contracts in the Thames Valley

Security Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 129 161
Rank change year-on-year +18 +32 -29
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 19 16 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.72% 0.56% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.62% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 3
10th Percentile £506 £458 £472
25th Percentile £516 £516 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £514
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +16.85% +8.11%
75th Percentile £631 £641 £612
90th Percentile £650 £685 £657
South East median daily rate £550 £600 £558
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.62% +11.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,598 3,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.01% 90.78% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,766 2,158
10th Percentile £213 £319 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £579
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 69 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.50 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
% change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the Thames Valley

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in the Thames Valley

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in the Thames Valley

Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Berkshire -6 16 £575 -6.12% 1
Buckinghamshire +31 3 £550 -1.12%
Security Testing
South East

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (36.84%) Apache
1 7 (36.84%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.26%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (15.79%) Azure API Management
3 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Functions
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (15.79%) Serverless
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) BGP
1 7 (36.84%) Ethernet VPN
1 7 (36.84%) MPLS
1 7 (36.84%) Radio Access Network
1 7 (36.84%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) NoSQL
2 7 (36.84%) MongoDB
2 7 (36.84%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) JIRA
2 7 (36.84%) GitLab
2 7 (36.84%) Robot Framework
2 7 (36.84%) TestRail
3 3 (15.79%) Git
3 3 (15.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Network Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) Test Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Consultant
2 4 (21.05%) Security Consultant
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Integration Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Designer
4 2 (10.53%) Development Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Telecoms Tester
5 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) REST
1 8 (42.11%) SOAP
2 7 (36.84%) NETCONF
2 7 (36.84%) RESTCONF
2 7 (36.84%) YANG
3 3 (15.79%) ARM Templates
4 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.53%) CSS
4 2 (10.53%) HTML
4 2 (10.53%) Node.js
4 2 (10.53%) XML
5 1 (5.26%) .NET
5 1 (5.26%) JSON
5 1 (5.26%) NumPy
5 1 (5.26%) OAuth
5 1 (5.26%) OpenID
5 1 (5.26%) Pandas
5 1 (5.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) CI/CD
2 11 (57.89%) Test Automation
3 9 (47.37%) Agile
3 9 (47.37%) Integration Testing
3 9 (47.37%) Unit Testing
3 9 (47.37%) Workflow
4 8 (42.11%) DevOps
5 7 (36.84%) Containerisation
5 7 (36.84%) Performance Testing
5 7 (36.84%) Regression Testing
5 7 (36.84%) Scrum
6 5 (26.32%) Application Security
6 5 (26.32%) OWASP
6 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
7 4 (21.05%) API Design
8 3 (15.79%) Break/Fix
8 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (15.79%) SDLC
8 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) SQL
2 9 (47.37%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) PHP
5 1 (5.26%) C
5 1 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Databricks