Security Testing Contracts

Security Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security 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 418 509 557
Rank change year-on-year +91 +48 -57
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 168 189 300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.34% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.38% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 127 220
10th Percentile £430 £450 £361
25th Percentile £550 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +3.68%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £650
90th Percentile £780 £805 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £590 £600 £533
% change year-on-year -1.67% +12.68% +6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £37.75 - -
25th Percentile £41.88 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £48.75 - £19.00
75th Percentile £55.63 - £21.00
90th Percentile £59.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.75 - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -55.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Security 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the UK

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in the UK

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in the UK

Security Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Testing.

Hourly rate trend for Security Testing in the UK

Security Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Testing over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Testing in the UK

Security Testing
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +67 142 £600 - 64
London +87 90 £600 - 19
Work from Home +103 64 £575 +4.55% 61
UK excluding London +16 61 £590 -1.67% 44
South East +11 20 £550 -8.33% 8
Scotland +58 13 £600 +9.09% 4
North of England +11 10 £475 -13.85% 15
North West +14 9 £475 -11.63% 8
South West +8 7 £590 -1.67% 7
Midlands +3 7 £623 -14.14% 8
West Midlands +1 4 £425 -41.38% 5
East Midlands - 3 £820 - 3
East of England -1 2 £700 -15.15% 2
Wales - 2 £666 - 1
Yorkshire +11 1 - - 6

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.76%) Apache
1 8 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (4.76%) nginx
2 6 (3.57%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.19%) CMS
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Dynamics GP
1 3 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 52 (30.95%) Azure
2 40 (23.81%) AWS
3 23 (13.69%) SaaS
4 22 (13.10%) Serverless
5 15 (8.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (8.33%) IaaS
6 14 (8.33%) PaaS
7 12 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (4.76%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 7 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.17%) OpenShift
11 6 (3.57%) Apigee
11 6 (3.57%) GCP
12 4 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (2.38%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.38%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.12%) Firewall
2 11 (6.55%) VPN
3 10 (5.95%) BGP
4 8 (4.76%) Ethernet VPN
4 8 (4.76%) MPLS
5 7 (4.17%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (2.38%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (1.79%) DNS
7 3 (1.79%) LAN
7 3 (1.79%) SSL
8 2 (1.19%) IPsec
8 2 (1.19%) OSPF
8 2 (1.19%) WAN
8 2 (1.19%) Wireless
8 2 (1.19%) WLAN
9 1 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.60%) Cisco Wireless
9 1 (0.60%) Network Security
9 1 (0.60%) VLAN
9 1 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.74%) NoSQL
2 12 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.17%) Oracle Database
3 7 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.38%) Big Data
5 3 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.79%) MySQL
5 3 (1.79%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.19%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.60%) HDInsight
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 22 (13.10%) Git
2 19 (11.31%) Jenkins
3 16 (9.52%) JIRA
4 15 (8.93%) GitLab
5 11 (6.55%) TestRail
6 9 (5.36%) Selenium
6 9 (5.36%) Visual Studio
7 8 (4.76%) Burp Suite
7 8 (4.76%) Postman
7 8 (4.76%) Robot Framework
8 7 (4.17%) NUnit
9 6 (3.57%) JMeter
9 6 (3.57%) LoadRunner
9 6 (3.57%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.79%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.79%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.79%) FitNesse
10 3 (1.79%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.79%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.19%) Subversion
General
1 41 (24.40%) Finance
2 32 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.74%) Banking
5 11 (6.55%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (6.55%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.38%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.38%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.79%) Back Office
7 3 (1.79%) Electronics
7 3 (1.79%) Front Office
7 3 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.79%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.79%) Marketing
8 1 (0.60%) Automotive
8 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.60%) Local Government
8 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (18.45%) Senior
2 29 (17.26%) Architect
3 23 (13.69%) Security Architect
4 19 (11.31%) Security Engineer
4 19 (11.31%) Test Engineer
5 17 (10.12%) Developer
6 14 (8.33%) Consultant
6 14 (8.33%) Tester
7 13 (7.74%) Security Consultant
8 11 (6.55%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (6.55%) Senior Test Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (5.36%) Lead
9 9 (5.36%) Senior Architect
9 9 (5.36%) Senior Security Architect
10 8 (4.76%) Cloud Security Architect
10 8 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
11 7 (4.17%) Security Manager
11 7 (4.17%) Security Project Manager
11 7 (4.17%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.12%) REST
2 14 (8.33%) SOAP
3 11 (6.55%) CSS
3 11 (6.55%) HTML
4 9 (5.36%) AngularJS
4 9 (5.36%) Laravel
4 9 (5.36%) Playwright
4 9 (5.36%) Sass
4 9 (5.36%) WebSockets
5 8 (4.76%) NETCONF
5 8 (4.76%) Node.js
5 8 (4.76%) RESTCONF
6 7 (4.17%) .NET
6 7 (4.17%) GraphQL
6 7 (4.17%) YANG
7 6 (3.57%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (3.57%) Apache Camel
7 6 (3.57%) RAML
7 6 (3.57%) Spring
7 6 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.52%) IoT
1 16 (9.52%) Mobile App
2 15 (8.93%) Security Posture
3 12 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 11 (6.55%) PKI
5 9 (5.36%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.79%) PMI
9 2 (1.19%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.19%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.19%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.60%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.60%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.60%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.12%) Linux
2 11 (6.55%) Windows
3 10 (5.95%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.76%) Unix
5 6 (3.57%) Oracle Linux
5 6 (3.57%) Solaris
5 6 (3.57%) VMS
6 3 (1.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (35.71%) Test Automation
2 55 (32.74%) CI/CD
3 52 (30.95%) Application Security
4 50 (29.76%) Agile
5 47 (27.98%) DevOps
6 40 (23.81%) Static Application Security Testing
7 39 (23.21%) DevSecOps
8 36 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 34 (20.24%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 30 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (17.26%) Penetration Testing
12 28 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
13 27 (16.07%) SDLC
14 26 (15.48%) Vulnerability Management
15 24 (14.29%) Cloud Security
16 23 (13.69%) Performance Testing
17 22 (13.10%) Information Security
18 21 (12.50%) Scrum
19 19 (11.31%) Computer Science
20 18 (10.71%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 25 (14.88%) Python
1 25 (14.88%) SQL
2 15 (8.93%) JavaScript
3 12 (7.14%) PHP
4 11 (6.55%) TypeScript
5 6 (3.57%) Java
6 5 (2.98%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.79%) Bash
7 3 (1.79%) C
8 2 (1.19%) C++
8 2 (1.19%) Perl
8 2 (1.19%) Ruby
8 2 (1.19%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.60%) C#
Qualifications
1 32 (19.05%) Degree
2 19 (11.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (9.52%) CISSP
4 12 (7.14%) CISM
5 8 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.76%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.98%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.98%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.38%) CISA
7 4 (2.38%) CRISC
7 4 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.38%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.79%) MCSE
8 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.79%) SANS
9 2 (1.19%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.19%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.19%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 22 (13.10%) NIST
3 17 (10.12%) QA
4 11 (6.55%) PCI DSS
5 8 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
7 6 (3.57%) GDPR
7 6 (3.57%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.79%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (1.19%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (16.07%) Docker
2 8 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.57%) KVM
4 6 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 32 (19.05%) Terraform
2 18 (10.71%) Ansible
3 15 (8.93%) Kubernetes
4 7 (4.17%) SCCM
5 4 (2.38%) Grafana
6 3 (1.79%) Graylog
6 3 (1.79%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.79%) Nagios
6 3 (1.79%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.19%) Nessus
7 2 (1.19%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.19%) Puppet
7 2 (1.19%) WebInspect
8 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.60%) Kibana
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.60%) Nmap
Vendors
1 29 (17.26%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.50%) Oracle
3 11 (6.55%) VMware
4 9 (5.36%) SAP
5 7 (4.17%) Checkmarx
5 7 (4.17%) Google
6 6 (3.57%) MuleSoft
6 6 (3.57%) Qualys
6 6 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.57%) Veracode
6 6 (3.57%) WSO2
7 3 (1.79%) CA
7 3 (1.79%) Splunk
8 2 (1.19%) Cisco
8 2 (1.19%) Databricks
8 2 (1.19%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.19%) Juniper
8 2 (1.19%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.60%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (0.60%) Rapid7