Penetration Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Penetration Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 304 337 432
Rank change year-on-year +33 +95 -87
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 97 93 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.41% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.46% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 54 46
10th Percentile £425 £450 £388
25th Percentile £481 £481 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% -5.17% +22.11%
75th Percentile £669 £634 £642
90th Percentile £681 £738 £731
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £578
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.43% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £83.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year +4.38% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London

Penetration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +16 27 £650 +23.81% 15
South West +12 21 £525 - 9
Scotland +61 20 £520 -5.45% 8
North West +20 20 £666 +21.09% 10
Midlands +13 10 £600 -17.24% 12
South East +4 10 £530 -7.02% 17
East of England +3 8 £650 +18.18% 3
West Midlands +13 7 £650 -10.34% 9
Yorkshire +6 5 £650 +23.81% 5
East Midlands - 3 £400 - 3
North East - 2 £625 -
Wales +21 1 £363 -27.50% 1
Penetration Testing
UK

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.03%) Confluence
1 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.65%) Azure
2 9 (9.28%) AWS
3 7 (7.22%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.15%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (5.15%) CloudFront
4 5 (5.15%) Entra ID
4 5 (5.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.03%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.03%) GCP
6 1 (1.03%) PaaS
6 1 (1.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (30.93%) Firewall
2 20 (20.62%) Network Security
3 9 (9.28%) Wireless
4 8 (8.25%) DNS
5 7 (7.22%) VPN
6 4 (4.12%) SSL
7 3 (3.09%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (3.09%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.06%) DHCP
9 1 (1.03%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (1.03%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.03%) LAN
9 1 (1.03%) MPLS
9 1 (1.03%) SAN
9 1 (1.03%) tcpdump
9 1 (1.03%) WAN
9 1 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (1.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.03%) Apache Hive
1 1 (1.03%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.12%) JIRA
2 1 (1.03%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.03%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 26 (26.80%) Public Sector
2 14 (14.43%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.37%) Finance
4 6 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.19%) Retail
5 5 (5.15%) Banking
5 5 (5.15%) Legal
6 1 (1.03%) Automotive
6 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.03%) Law
6 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.03%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 23 (23.71%) Analyst
2 17 (17.53%) Security Analyst
3 16 (16.49%) Architect
3 16 (16.49%) Security Architect
4 15 (15.46%) Network Engineer
5 13 (13.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (12.37%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (11.34%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 8 (8.25%) Penetration Tester
8 8 (8.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 8 (8.25%) Security Engineer
8 8 (8.25%) Senior
8 8 (8.25%) Tester
9 7 (7.22%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (7.22%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
9 7 (7.22%) Senior Security Analyst
10 6 (6.19%) Consultant
10 6 (6.19%) Security Consultant
11 5 (5.15%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 5 (5.15%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.15%) OAuth
1 5 (5.15%) OAuth2
1 5 (5.15%) SAML
2 1 (1.03%) .NET
2 1 (1.03%) JWT
2 1 (1.03%) OLE
2 1 (1.03%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.49%) Cyber Threat
1 16 (16.49%) Data Centre
1 16 (16.49%) Private Cloud
2 15 (15.46%) Management Information System
2 15 (15.46%) Security Posture
3 8 (8.25%) Mobile App
4 6 (6.19%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.19%) Cyberattack
4 6 (6.19%) Operational Technology
4 6 (6.19%) PKI
5 5 (5.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (5.15%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (2.06%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.03%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.03%) FMCG
7 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.03%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 24 (24.74%) Windows
2 17 (17.53%) Linux
3 6 (6.19%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (68.04%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (28.87%) Information Security
3 22 (22.68%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 21 (21.65%) Vulnerability Management
5 18 (18.56%) Risk Management
6 17 (17.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (16.49%) Application Security
7 16 (16.49%) Incident Response
7 16 (16.49%) Resource Management
7 16 (16.49%) SIEM
8 15 (15.46%) Security Architecture
8 15 (15.46%) Threat Modelling
8 15 (15.46%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 14 (14.43%) Security Operations
10 13 (13.40%) Cryptography
10 13 (13.40%) Red Team
10 13 (13.40%) Use Case
10 13 (13.40%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 12 (12.37%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.22%) C++
1 7 (7.22%) Kusto Query Language
1 7 (7.22%) Python
2 6 (6.19%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.09%) Search Processing Language
4 2 (2.06%) Java
5 1 (1.03%) C
5 1 (1.03%) Perl
5 1 (1.03%) Ruby
5 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (32.99%) Security Cleared
2 31 (31.96%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.25%) CREST Certified
3 8 (8.25%) Degree
3 8 (8.25%) OSCP
4 7 (7.22%) CEH
4 7 (7.22%) CISSP
4 7 (7.22%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (7.22%) MCSE
4 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (6.19%) GIAC
5 6 (6.19%) GPEN
6 5 (5.15%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.15%) CISM
6 5 (5.15%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (3.09%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.03%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.03%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (26.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (24.74%) NIST
3 9 (9.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (5.15%) GDPR
5 4 (4.12%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (2.06%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.06%) SLA
7 1 (1.03%) COBIT
7 1 (1.03%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.03%) JSP 440
7 1 (1.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (16.49%) Active Directory
1 16 (16.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (15.46%) vSphere
3 5 (5.15%) Docker
4 4 (4.12%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.06%) Firmware
6 1 (1.03%) Snort
6 1 (1.03%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 13 (13.40%) vCenter Server
2 5 (5.15%) SCCM
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.06%) Nessus
4 1 (1.03%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.03%) Kibana
4 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.03%) Nmap
4 1 (1.03%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 17 (17.53%) VMware
2 13 (13.40%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.19%) Splunk
4 1 (1.03%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (1.03%) Cisco
4 1 (1.03%) Citrix
4 1 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.03%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.03%) Dell
4 1 (1.03%) Google
4 1 (1.03%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.03%) Qualys
4 1 (1.03%) Veeam