Security Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 285 383 473
Rank change year-on-year +98 +90 -75
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 64 76 154
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.31% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.35% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 59 121
10th Percentile £440 £450 £381
25th Percentile £525 £495 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -2.22% +5.53%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £625
90th Percentile £650 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £600 £594 £550
% change year-on-year +1.05% +7.95% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,824 21,734 40,250
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,646 15,426 29,289
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 517
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Security Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Testing.

Security Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Testing over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Security Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (10.94%) nginx
2 1 (1.56%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.56%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.56%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 21 (32.81%) Azure
2 16 (25.00%) AWS
3 9 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (10.94%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (7.81%) Serverless
6 3 (4.69%) Azure API Management
6 3 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (4.69%) Azure Functions
6 3 (4.69%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (4.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (4.69%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.69%) SaaS
7 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.56%) Apigee
8 1 (1.56%) GCP
8 1 (1.56%) GitHub
8 1 (1.56%) IaaS
8 1 (1.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.94%) Firewall
2 3 (4.69%) DNS
3 2 (3.13%) LAN
3 2 (3.13%) VPN
4 1 (1.56%) BGP
4 1 (1.56%) HTTP
4 1 (1.56%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.56%) IPsec
4 1 (1.56%) Network Security
4 1 (1.56%) OSPF
4 1 (1.56%) SSL
4 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.56%) VLAN
4 1 (1.56%) VoIP
4 1 (1.56%) WAN
4 1 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.56%) Wireless
4 1 (1.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.06%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.56%) Big Data
4 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.56%) MySQL
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Git
1 7 (10.94%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.38%) Visual Studio
3 4 (6.25%) GitLab
4 3 (4.69%) Cypress.io
4 3 (4.69%) JMeter
4 3 (4.69%) LoadRunner
4 3 (4.69%) NUnit
4 3 (4.69%) Postman
5 2 (3.13%) Burp Suite
5 2 (3.13%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.13%) FitNesse
5 2 (3.13%) JIRA
5 2 (3.13%) Selenium
5 2 (3.13%) SpecFlow
5 2 (3.13%) TestRail
6 1 (1.56%) Appium
6 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.56%) TestNG
General
1 23 (35.94%) Finance
2 17 (26.56%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.25%) Banking
5 3 (4.69%) Electronics
5 3 (4.69%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.69%) Marketing
5 3 (4.69%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.13%) Back Office
6 2 (3.13%) Front Office
6 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.13%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Automotive
7 1 (1.56%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 12 (18.75%) Developer
2 9 (14.06%) Consultant
2 9 (14.06%) Security Consultant
2 9 (14.06%) Senior
3 7 (10.94%) Full Stack Developer
4 6 (9.38%) Security Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Test Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Information Security Consultant
6 4 (6.25%) Security Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Test Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Azure Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Integration Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Lead
7 3 (4.69%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
7 3 (4.69%) Vulnerability Management Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.50%) CSS
1 8 (12.50%) HTML
1 8 (12.50%) Laravel
1 8 (12.50%) Sass
1 8 (12.50%) WebSockets
2 5 (7.81%) Playwright
3 4 (6.25%) .NET
3 4 (6.25%) REST
4 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.69%) ARM Templates
4 3 (4.69%) GraphQL
4 3 (4.69%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (3.13%) SOAP
6 1 (1.56%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (1.56%) Apache Camel
6 1 (1.56%) Node.js
6 1 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.56%) Spring
6 1 (1.56%) Web Services
6 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 5 (7.81%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (7.81%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.25%) IoT
4 3 (4.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (4.69%) PKI
4 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.13%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.56%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.56%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.50%) Linux
2 7 (10.94%) Unix
3 5 (7.81%) Windows
3 5 (7.81%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (43.75%) Test Automation
2 27 (42.19%) DevOps
3 23 (35.94%) CI/CD
4 21 (32.81%) Application Security
5 18 (28.13%) Agile
6 17 (26.56%) Static Application Security Testing
7 16 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 15 (23.44%) DevSecOps
8 15 (23.44%) Information Security
9 14 (21.88%) SDLC
9 14 (21.88%) Vulnerability Management
10 13 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (20.31%) TDD
11 11 (17.19%) Waterfall
12 10 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (14.06%) Test Strategy
14 8 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
14 8 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
14 8 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.19%) JavaScript
2 9 (14.06%) PHP
3 6 (9.38%) SQL
4 5 (7.81%) Python
4 5 (7.81%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.25%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Degree
2 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared
2 6 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) CISM
3 5 (7.81%) CISSP
4 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.25%) CRISC
5 3 (4.69%) ISTQB
6 2 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.56%) CSSLP
7 1 (1.56%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.56%) MCSE
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.56%) PMP
7 1 (1.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.31%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.81%) QA
3 3 (4.69%) NIST
4 2 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (14.06%) Docker
2 4 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (12.50%) Terraform
2 7 (10.94%) Ansible
2 7 (10.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.25%) SCCM
4 1 (1.56%) Grafana
4 1 (1.56%) Graylog
4 1 (1.56%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.56%) Nagios
4 1 (1.56%) Nmap
4 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.94%) Oracle
3 4 (6.25%) SAP
4 3 (4.69%) CA
4 3 (4.69%) Qualys
4 3 (4.69%) VMware
5 1 (1.56%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.56%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) Juniper
5 1 (1.56%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.56%) Splunk
5 1 (1.56%) WSO2