Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Security Testing
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 1.45% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £450 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 116 50 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 84.06% 89.29% 84.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 32 92
10th Percentile £380 £514 £378
25th Percentile £455 £568 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £615 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +9.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £625 £678 £675
90th Percentile £700 £747 £725
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.45% -5.91% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 10
10th Percentile - - £64.55
25th Percentile £12.43 - £70.50
Median hourly rate £12.56 - £71.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.71%
75th Percentile £24.74 - £73.75
90th Percentile £52.75 - £73.88
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £35.00 £67.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -48.15% +80.00% -51.92%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Security Testing job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

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

Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VirtualBox
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware