Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Bracknell

Security Testing
Berkshire > Bracknell

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bracknell requiring Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 4 1 12
As % of all contract jobs in Bracknell 3.23% 1.10% 6.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 1.23% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £574 - -
25th Percentile £591 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% - -
75th Percentile - £388 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £585 £600
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bracknell

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 Bracknell.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 108 81 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bracknell 87.10% 89.01% 92.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 44 59
10th Percentile £205 £236 £141
25th Percentile £462 £383 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -12.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £706
90th Percentile £650 £625 £800
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £63.10 £21.98 £18.95
25th Percentile £65.88 £26.00 £26.98
Median hourly rate £71.00 £28.50 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year +149.12% -34.23% +116.65%
75th Percentile £75.75 £41.00 £56.73
90th Percentile £78.30 £42.13 £65.93
Berkshire median hourly rate £38.86 £59.00 £61.65
% change year-on-year -34.14% -4.29% +52.21%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Bracknell

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

Security Testing job vacancy trend in Bracknell

Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Bracknell

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bracknell citing Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bracknell citing Security Testing

Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bracknell 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:

General
1 4 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Test Manager
2 3 (75.00%) Strategy Manager
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) JWT
1 4 (100.00%) OAuth
1 4 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 4 (100.00%) Conflict Management
1 4 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 4 (100.00%) Matrix Organization
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) OWASP
1 4 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 4 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Management
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP