Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Brighton

Security Testing
East Sussex > Brighton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Brighton requiring Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Brighton 3.39% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 - -
East Sussex median daily rate £220 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Brighton

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 Brighton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57 43 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Brighton 96.61% 93.48% 81.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 22 22
10th Percentile £220 £319 £376
25th Percentile £350 £438 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -5.26% -26.92%
75th Percentile £581 £573 £575
90th Percentile £627 £773 £638
East Sussex median daily rate £492 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +9.22% -5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 0
10th Percentile - £18.04 -
25th Percentile £61.87 £20.61 -
Median hourly rate £63.73 £26.29 -
Median % change year-on-year +142.46% - -
75th Percentile £65.60 £31.24 -
90th Percentile - £32.12 -
East Sussex median hourly rate £63.73 £13.38 £52.50
% change year-on-year +376.49% -74.52% +191.67%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Brighton

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

Security Testing job vacancy trend in Brighton

Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Brighton

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

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

Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brighton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Laravel
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Purple Team
1 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) SOAR
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (50.00%) OSCP
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk