Penetration Testing Contracts in Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for Penetration Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Penetration Testing over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 108 137
Rank change year-on-year +7 +29 -33
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 5 13 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.30% 0.59% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.65% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 5
10th Percentile £615 £496 £364
25th Percentile £638 £507 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +31.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile - £547 £488
90th Percentile - £558 £537
England median daily rate £585 £575 £588
% change year-on-year +1.74% -2.13% +11.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Penetration 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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,429 2,006 2,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.81% 90.77% 90.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,312 1,769
10th Percentile £275 £275 £250
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £581 £619 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £652
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 63 83
10th Percentile £11.30 £9.80 £10.71
25th Percentile £12.15 £10.22 £12.59
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -42.54% -7.23%
75th Percentile £20.24 £21.50 £22.58
90th Percentile £53.75 £49.32 £28.45
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 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 Yorkshire +20 4 £650 +23.81% 5
East Yorkshire - 1 £650 -
South Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
Penetration Testing
England

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Wireless
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Penetration Tester
1 3 (60.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JWT
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Mobile App
1 4 (80.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Application Security
2 4 (80.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 4 (80.00%) Offensive Security
2 4 (80.00%) Red Team
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile First
3 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C++
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CEH
1 4 (80.00%) CREST Certified
1 4 (80.00%) GIAC
1 4 (80.00%) GPEN
1 4 (80.00%) OSCP
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes