Penetration Testing Contracts in the East of England

Penetration Testing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Penetration Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Penetration 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 105 108 149
Rank change year-on-year +3 +41 -43
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 8 10 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.41% 0.51% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.59% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 1
10th Percentile £476 £266 -
25th Percentile £506 £438 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -10.20% -
75th Percentile £725 £675 £644
90th Percentile £763 £743 -
England median daily rate £585 £570 £588
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.98% +11.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Penetration 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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,639 1,700 2,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 83.67% 87.31% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 1,011 1,311
10th Percentile £200 £208 £195
25th Percentile £313 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £587
90th Percentile £671 £704 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 616 320 379
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.25 £13.41
Median hourly rate £40.00 £21.26 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.15% +21.49% +9.38%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in the East of England

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in the East of England

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Penetration Testing in the East of England

Penetration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Penetration Testing in the East of England

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England 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
Hertfordshire +3 4 £700 -1.75% 3
Cambridgeshire -4 3 £675 +42.11%
Bedfordshire 0 1 £500 +222.84%
Penetration Testing
England

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Coordinator
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Security Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Test Coordinator
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Audit Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Audit Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) IT Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) IT Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (12.50%) FMCG
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 1 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
2 3 (37.50%) SIEM
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 2 (25.00%) Blue Team
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (25.00%) Data Security
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Malware Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (25.00%) Red Team
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CISSP
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CEH
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Nessus
1 1 (12.50%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Qualys
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk