Security Testing Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Security Testing
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.43% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £388 - -
25th Percentile £472 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £640 £600
% change year-on-year -17.97% +6.67% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 786 489 597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.43% 87.01% 83.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 296 425
10th Percentile £188 £229 £213
25th Percentile £350 £318 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £525 £539 £563
90th Percentile £625 £631 £674
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 23 43
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.48 £11.86
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +12.50% +18.84%
75th Percentile £24.49 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £54.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Security Testing job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Security Testing

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in the East Midlands

Security Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Security Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Security Testing

Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Testing within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Leicestershire - 2 £625 - 3
Nottinghamshire - 1 £338 - 3
Derbyshire - 1 - - 1
Security Testing
England

Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Aviation
3 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Functional Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Information Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ERP
1 3 (75.00%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Information Assurance
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Matrix Management
3 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle