Penetration Testing Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Penetration Testing
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Penetration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 2.38% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
Central London median daily rate £450 £635 £540
% change year-on-year -29.13% +17.59% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 the City of Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37 54 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 88.10% 96.43% 73.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 28 35
10th Percentile £350 £398 £301
25th Percentile £450 £440 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -16.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £650 £581 £875
90th Percentile £800 £788 £1,000
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £18.87 - £26.00
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +6.87% -24.05%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Penetration Testing job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Penetration Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Paddington - 1 £700 - 1
Penetration Testing
Central London

Penetration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance Leader
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800