Security Tester Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Security Tester
England > East Midlands

The median Security Tester daily rate in the East Midlands is £449, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Security Tester 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.12% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £424 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £449 £765 £600
% change year-on-year -41.31% +27.50% +26.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East Midlands with a recognized job title 744 717 814
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.18% 93.00% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 425 589
10th Percentile £200 £252 £213
25th Percentile £333 £355 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £445 £489
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% -9.00% +8.67%
75th Percentile £500 £534 £600
90th Percentile £625 £609 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.42% -0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 44 51
10th Percentile £16.17 £12.09 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.08 £14.89
Median hourly rate £21.25 £24.09 £18.38
Median % change year-on-year -11.79% +31.07% +4.67%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £41.88
90th Percentile - £54.07 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.52
% change year-on-year -44.11% -1.13% +75.06%

Security Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings that featured Security Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Security Tester in the East Midlands

Security Tester
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Tester job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Tester job vacancies in the East Midlands

Security Tester Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 28 September 2025, Security Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Security Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) COBIT
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SailPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (100.00%) IT Audit
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI

Security Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) SailPoint
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) IT Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) COBIT
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7