Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Barrow-in-Furness

Security Testing
Cumbria > Barrow-in-Furness

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness requiring Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Barrow-in-Furness 0.39% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £501 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 - -
75th Percentile £504 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cumbria median daily rate £503 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Barrow-in-Furness

Security 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 Barrow-in-Furness.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 172 62 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness 67.45% 73.81% 91.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 30 60
10th Percentile £316 £436 £415
25th Percentile £400 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% +1.64% -14.89%
75th Percentile £552 £547 £577
90th Percentile £700 £621 £655
Cumbria median daily rate £492 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -0.81% -0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 20
10th Percentile £17.69 £26.96 £47.27
25th Percentile £27.78 £28.19 £55.67
Median hourly rate £53.73 £41.71 £62.32
Median % change year-on-year +28.83% -33.07% +11.58%
75th Percentile £70.36 £58.50 £71.57
90th Percentile £73.25 £63.40 £80.88
Cumbria median hourly rate £40.99 £41.71 £62.32
% change year-on-year -1.71% -33.07% +15.93%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness.

Security Testing job vacancy trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Barrow-in-Furness by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto