Penetration Testing Contracts in East London

Penetration Testing
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East London requiring Penetration Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Penetration 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 14 25 31
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 -
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 6 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 5.71% 4.33% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% 4.63% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 1
10th Percentile - £540 -
25th Percentile £495 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £585 £540
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile - £728 -
90th Percentile - £775 -
London median daily rate £600 £590 £600
% change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East London

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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 98 216 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 93.33% 93.51% 88.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 187 129
10th Percentile £285 £360 £198
25th Percentile £415 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £647 £688
90th Percentile £675 £770 £755
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 11
10th Percentile £14.66 - -
25th Percentile £24.66 £11.95 £21.24
Median hourly rate £28.60 £23.32 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% +3.71% +14.49%
75th Percentile £37.00 £36.48 £23.73
90th Percentile £38.80 £38.28 -
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in East London.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in East London

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in East London.

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in East London

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in East London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Penetration Testing in East London

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in East London

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 East London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Tower Hamlets +9 5 £630 +7.69%
Docklands, London +6 1 - -
Penetration Testing
London

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) PaaS
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Database Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (33.33%) BCP
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Data Encryption
3 2 (33.33%) Database Security
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (50.00%) NIST
3 2 (33.33%) GRC
3 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Nessus
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Apple
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Qualys
1 1 (16.67%) Samsung
1 1 (16.67%) Tenable
1 1 (16.67%) Tripwire