Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Security Testing
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 68 78
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 +23
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 2 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.26% 0.50% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.61% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £642 -
25th Percentile £613 £719 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £775 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% - -
75th Percentile £638 £803 -
90th Percentile - £831 -
South West median daily rate £619 £713 -
% change year-on-year -13.16% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £64.25
Median hourly rate - - £68.50
75th Percentile - - £72.75
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate - - £68.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 711 654 910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 90.69% 82.26% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 360 584
10th Percentile £235 £227 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £641
90th Percentile £745 £738 £700
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 89 124
10th Percentile £13.04 £35.00 £33.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £50.94
Median hourly rate £33.50 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.37% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £76.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Security Testing job vacancy trend in Bristol

Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Security Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Security Testing

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (50.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared