Security Testing Contracts in the South East

Security Testing
England > South East

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 185 241
Rank change year-on-year +6 +56 -38
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 22 26 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.39% 0.46% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.52% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 8
10th Percentile £506 £308 £483
25th Percentile £525 £502 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £558
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.62% +11.50%
75th Percentile £625 £706 £673
90th Percentile £648 £790 £699
England median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +3.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Security 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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,684 5,048 6,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.95% 89.05% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,709 3,470 4,714
10th Percentile £260 £250 £233
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 221 274
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.23 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.50 £15.13
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -17.81%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £62.95
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the South East

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in the South East

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in the South East

Security Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Testing in the South East

Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley +26 19 £550 -8.33% 3
Berkshire -5 16 £575 -6.12% 1
Buckinghamshire +32 3 £550 -1.12%
West Sussex +8 3 £550 +104.65% 1
Security Testing
England

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (31.82%) Apache
1 7 (31.82%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (13.64%) Azure API Management
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Functions
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (13.64%) Serverless
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) BGP
1 7 (31.82%) Ethernet VPN
1 7 (31.82%) MPLS
1 7 (31.82%) Radio Access Network
1 7 (31.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) NoSQL
2 7 (31.82%) MongoDB
2 7 (31.82%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) JIRA
2 7 (31.82%) GitLab
2 7 (31.82%) Robot Framework
2 7 (31.82%) TestRail
3 3 (13.64%) Git
3 3 (13.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Network Engineer
1 6 (27.27%) Test Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Consultant
2 4 (18.18%) Security Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Integration Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Test Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Designer
4 2 (9.09%) Development Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Lead Designer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Telecoms Tester
5 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) REST
1 8 (36.36%) SOAP
2 7 (31.82%) NETCONF
2 7 (31.82%) RESTCONF
2 7 (31.82%) YANG
3 3 (13.64%) ARM Templates
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 2 (9.09%) CSS
4 2 (9.09%) HTML
4 2 (9.09%) Node.js
4 2 (9.09%) XML
5 1 (4.55%) .NET
5 1 (4.55%) JSON
5 1 (4.55%) NumPy
5 1 (4.55%) OAuth
5 1 (4.55%) OpenID
5 1 (4.55%) Pandas
5 1 (4.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Test Automation
2 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 12 (54.55%) Agile
3 12 (54.55%) Integration Testing
4 11 (50.00%) DevOps
5 10 (45.45%) Performance Testing
6 9 (40.91%) Unit Testing
6 9 (40.91%) Workflow
7 7 (31.82%) Containerisation
7 7 (31.82%) Regression Testing
7 7 (31.82%) Scrum
8 5 (22.73%) Application Security
8 5 (22.73%) OWASP
8 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
9 4 (18.18%) API Design
10 3 (13.64%) Break/Fix
10 3 (13.64%) Data-Driven Testing
10 3 (13.64%) DevSecOps
10 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (13.64%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) SQL
2 9 (40.91%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) PHP
5 1 (4.55%) C
5 1 (4.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Databricks