Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Security Testing
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Security Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.86% - 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% - 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £266 - -
25th Percentile £286 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 - -
75th Percentile £369 - -
90th Percentile £399 - -
East of England median daily rate £366 - £825
% change year-on-year - - +64.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 306 348 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 87.68% 80.93% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 116 194
10th Percentile £250 £225 £225
25th Percentile £400 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £552 £550
90th Percentile £700 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £442 £500
% change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 136 192
10th Percentile £14.26 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.84 £15.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £19.63 £16.85 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £42.88 £28.08
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year -37.13% +101.92% -2.17%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in Cambridgeshire

Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in Cambridgeshire

Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Testing within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. 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
Cambridge - 1 £413 - 5
Security Testing
East of England

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation Manager
1 3 (100.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
1 3 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA