Security Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 399 464
Rank change year-on-year +123 +65 -60
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 69 71 153
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.29% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.32% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 55 119
10th Percentile £474 £450 £363
25th Percentile £525 £489 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £622
90th Percentile £676 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,882 21,904 40,173
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.65% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,678 15,514 29,175
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 507 533
10th Percentile £14.83 £18.58 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.06 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +37.60% +58.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

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 23 May 2024.

Security Testing daily 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 8 (11.59%) nginx
2 1 (1.45%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.45%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.45%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 24 (34.78%) Azure
2 19 (27.54%) AWS
3 12 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (11.59%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 7 (10.14%) Serverless
6 6 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (7.25%) Azure API Management
7 5 (7.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (7.25%) Azure Functions
7 5 (7.25%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (7.25%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (7.25%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (5.80%) SaaS
9 3 (4.35%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.90%) PaaS
11 1 (1.45%) GCP
11 1 (1.45%) GitHub
11 1 (1.45%) IaaS
11 1 (1.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.14%) Firewall
2 3 (4.35%) DNS
3 2 (2.90%) LAN
3 2 (2.90%) VPN
4 1 (1.45%) BGP
4 1 (1.45%) HTTP
4 1 (1.45%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.45%) IPsec
4 1 (1.45%) Network Security
4 1 (1.45%) OSPF
4 1 (1.45%) SSL
4 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.45%) VLAN
4 1 (1.45%) VoIP
4 1 (1.45%) WAN
4 1 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.45%) Wireless
4 1 (1.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.94%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.80%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.45%) Big Data
5 1 (1.45%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.45%) MySQL
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.45%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (13.04%) Visual Studio
2 7 (10.14%) Git
2 7 (10.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.80%) GitLab
4 3 (4.35%) Cypress.io
4 3 (4.35%) JMeter
4 3 (4.35%) LoadRunner
4 3 (4.35%) NUnit
4 3 (4.35%) Postman
5 2 (2.90%) Burp Suite
5 2 (2.90%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.90%) FitNesse
5 2 (2.90%) JIRA
5 2 (2.90%) Selenium
5 2 (2.90%) SpecFlow
5 2 (2.90%) TestRail
6 1 (1.45%) Appium
6 1 (1.45%) JUnit
6 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.45%) webpack
General
1 21 (30.43%) Finance
2 19 (27.54%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.14%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Banking
6 3 (4.35%) Electronics
6 3 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.35%) Marketing
6 3 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.90%) Back Office
7 2 (2.90%) Front Office
7 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.90%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Automotive
8 1 (1.45%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (21.74%) Developer
2 9 (13.04%) Consultant
2 9 (13.04%) Security Consultant
3 8 (11.59%) Full Stack Developer
3 8 (11.59%) Senior
4 6 (8.70%) Architect
5 5 (7.25%) Security Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Test Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Information Security Consultant
6 4 (5.80%) Integration Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Security Architect
6 4 (5.80%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Test Manager
7 3 (4.35%) Azure Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Lead
7 3 (4.35%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
7 3 (4.35%) Vulnerability Management Manager
7 3 (4.35%) Vulnerability Management Project Manager
7 3 (4.35%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.49%) CSS
1 10 (14.49%) Sass
2 9 (13.04%) HTML
2 9 (13.04%) Laravel
2 9 (13.04%) WebSockets
3 6 (8.70%) .NET
3 6 (8.70%) REST
4 5 (7.25%) ARM Templates
4 5 (7.25%) Playwright
5 4 (5.80%) SOAP
6 3 (4.35%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.35%) GraphQL
6 3 (4.35%) JSON
6 3 (4.35%) OAuth
6 3 (4.35%) OpenID
6 3 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (4.35%) XML
7 1 (1.45%) Enzyme
7 1 (1.45%) Jest
7 1 (1.45%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.04%) Security Posture
2 6 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.25%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.80%) IoT
5 3 (4.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (4.35%) PKI
5 3 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.90%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.45%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.45%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.45%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.04%) Linux
2 8 (11.59%) Unix
3 6 (8.70%) Windows
3 6 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (44.93%) Test Automation
2 30 (43.48%) DevOps
3 26 (37.68%) CI/CD
4 23 (33.33%) Application Security
5 18 (26.09%) Agile
6 16 (23.19%) Static Application Security Testing
7 15 (21.74%) DevSecOps
7 15 (21.74%) Information Security
7 15 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (20.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 14 (20.29%) TDD
8 14 (20.29%) Vulnerability Management
9 13 (18.84%) SDLC
10 11 (15.94%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (14.49%) Test Strategy
11 10 (14.49%) Waterfall
12 9 (13.04%) Full Stack Development
12 9 (13.04%) Microservices
12 9 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (13.04%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.39%) JavaScript
2 10 (14.49%) PHP
3 8 (11.59%) SQL
4 6 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.25%) Python
5 5 (7.25%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.35%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (13.04%) Degree
2 7 (10.14%) SC Cleared
2 7 (10.14%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.80%) CISM
4 4 (5.80%) CISSP
4 4 (5.80%) ISTQB
5 3 (4.35%) CRISC
6 2 (2.90%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (2.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.45%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (1.45%) CHECK Team Member
7 1 (1.45%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.45%) CSSLP
7 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (21.74%) Accessibility
2 6 (8.70%) QA
3 3 (4.35%) NIST
4 2 (2.90%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.45%) GRC
5 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (13.04%) Docker
2 4 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (11.59%) Terraform
2 7 (10.14%) Ansible
2 7 (10.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.80%) SCCM
4 1 (1.45%) Grafana
4 1 (1.45%) Graylog
4 1 (1.45%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.45%) Nagios
4 1 (1.45%) Nmap
4 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.14%) Oracle
3 4 (5.80%) SAP
4 3 (4.35%) CA
4 3 (4.35%) Qualys
4 3 (4.35%) VMware
5 1 (1.45%) Adobe
5 1 (1.45%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.45%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.45%) Google
5 1 (1.45%) Juniper
5 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.45%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.45%) Splunk
5 1 (1.45%) WSO2