Security Testing Contracts in the City of London

Security Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 118 166
Rank change year-on-year +7 +48 +10
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 8 9 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.46% 0.41% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.45% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 10
10th Percentile £616 £520 -
25th Percentile £631 £550 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £645 £750
Median % change year-on-year +6.59% -14.00% +54.80%
75th Percentile £747 £675 £870
90th Percentile £763 £680 £925
Central London median daily rate £688 £645 £700
% change year-on-year +6.59% -7.86% +47.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the City of London

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in the City of London

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP CRM
1 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Security Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) CRM Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Information Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Operational Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SAP CRM Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (12.50%) Blockchain
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Application Security
1 3 (37.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
1 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (25.00%) Information Security
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (25.00%) SDLC
2 2 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) API Testing
3 1 (12.50%) QA Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) ABAP
1 1 (12.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CISM
1 3 (37.50%) CISSP
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) CISA
3 1 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (12.50%) CCSP
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CRISC
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) NIST 800
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) CASB
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
1 1 (12.50%) SAP