Penetration Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Penetration Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 131 144 183
Rank change year-on-year +13 +39 -30
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 10 14 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.34% 0.43% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.50% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 17
10th Percentile £400 £505 £463
25th Percentile £425 £625 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +26.09% +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £600
90th Percentile - £763 £625
England median daily rate £585 £570 £588
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.98% +11.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,373 2,816 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.50% 87.48% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 1,978 3,231
10th Percentile £234 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 101 130
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +24.91%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in the Midlands

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in the Midlands

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Penetration Testing in the Midlands

Penetration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Penetration Testing in the Midlands

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +13 7 £650 -10.34% 9
East Midlands - 3 £400 - 3
Penetration Testing
England

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) CloudFront
1 5 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 5 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
1 5 (50.00%) Network Security
1 5 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) tcpdump
2 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
1 5 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Information Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Information Security Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Security Incident Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Security Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) OAuth
1 5 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 5 (50.00%) SAML
2 1 (10.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (10.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 5 (50.00%) Application Security
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (50.00%) Data Security
2 5 (50.00%) Defensive Programming
2 5 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 5 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 5 (50.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (30.00%) Information Security
5 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (10.00%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (10.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Reverse Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk