Penetration Testing Contracts in England

Penetration Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 363 421 571
Rank change year-on-year +58 +150 -95
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 188 224 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.48% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.53% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 151 148
10th Percentile £418 £450 £375
25th Percentile £500 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £570 £588
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -2.98% +11.90%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £745 £800 £754
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £578
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.43% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% - -
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
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in England

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in England

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Penetration Testing in England

Penetration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Penetration Testing in England

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London +52 105 £585 -2.50% 41
North of England +16 27 £650 +23.81% 18
South West +12 21 £525 - 9
North West +20 20 £666 +21.09% 12
Midlands +13 10 £600 -17.24% 13
South East +4 10 £530 -7.02% 16
East of England +3 8 £650 +18.18% 3
West Midlands +13 7 £650 -10.34% 10
Yorkshire +6 5 £650 +23.81% 6
East Midlands - 3 £400 - 3
North East - 2 £625 -
Penetration Testing
UK

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.06%) IIS
1 2 (1.06%) JBoss
2 1 (0.53%) Confluence
2 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (20.74%) Azure
2 18 (9.57%) AWS
3 14 (7.45%) GCP
4 8 (4.26%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (4.26%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.66%) CloudFront
5 5 (2.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.13%) GitHub
7 3 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.60%) SaaS
8 1 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.53%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle CX
8 1 (0.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (26.60%) Firewall
2 35 (18.62%) Network Security
3 12 (6.38%) WAN
4 11 (5.85%) SD-WAN
4 11 (5.85%) Wireless
5 9 (4.79%) VPN
6 8 (4.26%) DNS
7 7 (3.72%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (2.66%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.60%) DHCP
10 2 (1.06%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (1.06%) HTTP
10 2 (1.06%) Internet
10 2 (1.06%) LAN
10 2 (1.06%) tcpdump
10 2 (1.06%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.53%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.53%) IPsec
11 1 (0.53%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.53%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.06%) DB2
2 1 (0.53%) Apache Hive
2 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (8.51%) Jenkins
2 13 (6.91%) GitLab
3 7 (3.72%) Burp Suite
4 6 (3.19%) JIRA
5 3 (1.60%) Metasploit
6 2 (1.06%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.53%) Git
7 1 (0.53%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 57 (30.32%) Finance
2 38 (20.21%) Social Skills
3 29 (15.43%) Banking
4 19 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.85%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.85%) Retail
6 5 (2.66%) Legal
7 3 (1.60%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.06%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.53%) Automotive
9 1 (0.53%) Games
9 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Law
9 1 (0.53%) Marketing
9 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (17.55%) Architect
2 31 (16.49%) Security Architect
3 29 (15.43%) Security Engineer
4 27 (14.36%) Consultant
5 25 (13.30%) Security Consultant
6 22 (11.70%) Analyst
7 16 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (8.51%) Tester
8 15 (7.98%) Network Engineer
8 15 (7.98%) Penetration Tester
9 12 (6.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (5.85%) Security Analyst
10 11 (5.85%) Senior
11 8 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (4.26%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 7 (3.72%) IT Consultant
12 7 (3.72%) IT Security Consultant
12 7 (3.72%) SOC Analyst
13 6 (3.19%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.66%) OAuth
1 5 (2.66%) OAuth2
1 5 (2.66%) SAML
2 1 (0.53%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.53%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (0.53%) EDI
2 1 (0.53%) JWT
2 1 (0.53%) OLE
2 1 (0.53%) OpenID
2 1 (0.53%) RESTful
2 1 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.36%) Security Posture
2 22 (11.70%) Cyber Threat
3 16 (8.51%) Data Centre
3 16 (8.51%) Private Cloud
4 13 (6.91%) Mobile App
5 12 (6.38%) PKI
6 8 (4.26%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (3.72%) Operational Technology
8 6 (3.19%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.19%) Cyberattack
8 6 (3.19%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (1.06%) Algorithms
12 2 (1.06%) Blockchain
12 2 (1.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (1.06%) Insider Threat
12 2 (1.06%) IoT
12 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.49%) Windows
2 24 (12.77%) Linux
3 4 (2.13%) Unix
4 3 (1.60%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.06%) AIX
5 2 (1.06%) Solaris
5 2 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.53%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (46.28%) Cybersecurity
2 51 (27.13%) Information Security
3 44 (23.40%) Cloud Security
4 42 (22.34%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 39 (20.74%) Application Security
6 35 (18.62%) DevSecOps
7 33 (17.55%) SIEM
8 30 (15.96%) CI/CD
8 30 (15.96%) DevOps
8 30 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (15.96%) Threat Modelling
9 29 (15.43%) Identity Access Management
10 28 (14.89%) Incident Response
11 27 (14.36%) Vulnerability Management
12 24 (12.77%) Red Team
12 24 (12.77%) Risk Management
12 24 (12.77%) Security Testing
13 23 (12.23%) Security Operations
14 22 (11.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 21 (11.17%) Ethical Hacking
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.64%) Python
2 14 (7.45%) Kusto Query Language
3 9 (4.79%) C++
4 6 (3.19%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.19%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.66%) Perl
5 5 (2.66%) Search Processing Language
6 4 (2.13%) C#
6 4 (2.13%) Java
7 3 (1.60%) C
7 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.60%) SQL
8 2 (1.06%) Bicep
8 2 (1.06%) Go
8 2 (1.06%) Ruby
9 1 (0.53%) Bash
Qualifications
1 43 (22.87%) Security Cleared
2 41 (21.81%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.30%) Degree
4 19 (10.11%) CISSP
5 17 (9.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (8.51%) CEH
7 15 (7.98%) CISM
7 15 (7.98%) CREST Certified
8 14 (7.45%) OSCP
9 11 (5.85%) GIAC
10 8 (4.26%) GPEN
11 7 (3.72%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (2.66%) AWS Certification
13 4 (2.13%) Master's Degree
14 3 (1.60%) CCNA
14 3 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (1.60%) DV Cleared
15 2 (1.06%) CCSP
15 2 (1.06%) CESG Certified Professional
15 2 (1.06%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (23.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 43 (22.87%) NIST
3 17 (9.04%) GDPR
4 12 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 11 (5.85%) PCI DSS
6 10 (5.32%) QA
7 7 (3.72%) HIPAA
8 5 (2.66%) COBIT
8 5 (2.66%) NCSC
9 4 (2.13%) SLA
10 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (1.06%) ISO 22301
10 2 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.53%) JSP 440
System Software
1 16 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (7.98%) vSphere
3 14 (7.45%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.66%) Docker
5 2 (1.06%) Firmware
5 2 (1.06%) Snort
6 1 (0.53%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 18 (9.57%) Terraform
2 13 (6.91%) vCenter Server
3 6 (3.19%) Nessus
4 2 (1.06%) Ansible
4 2 (1.06%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.06%) SCCM
4 2 (1.06%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.53%) Argo
5 1 (0.53%) CASB
5 1 (0.53%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.53%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.53%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.53%) Kibana
5 1 (0.53%) Nmap
5 1 (0.53%) OpenVAS
5 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.04%) VMware
3 14 (7.45%) Google
4 9 (4.79%) Qualys
5 7 (3.72%) Splunk
6 5 (2.66%) Cisco
6 5 (2.66%) SAP
7 4 (2.13%) Oracle
8 3 (1.60%) Checkmarx
8 3 (1.60%) F5
8 3 (1.60%) Veracode
9 2 (1.06%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.06%) IBM
9 2 (1.06%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.06%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.53%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.53%) Citrix
10 1 (0.53%) Dell
10 1 (0.53%) Intel
10 1 (0.53%) Remedy