Penetration Testing Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Penetration Testing
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Penetration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.12% - 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £401
25th Percentile - - £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £413
75th Percentile - - £428
90th Percentile - - £434
South East median daily rate £563 £658 £530
% change year-on-year -14.45% +24.06% -7.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

Penetration 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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 667 208 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 77.65% 94.12% 82.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 139 276
10th Percentile £313 £262 £271
25th Percentile £420 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £474
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +0.13% -0.13%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £644 £648
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +3.00% -0.20% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 29 29
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.01 £15.85
25th Percentile £15.15 £14.20 £18.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.12 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% -39.52% +81.82%
75th Percentile £18.32 £24.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £24.06 £62.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £27.05 £47.50
% change year-on-year +94.10% -43.06% -5.00%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Penetration Testing job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Penetration Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Penetration Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 24 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes - 1 £625 -
Penetration Testing
South East

Penetration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft