Senior Penetration Tester Contracts in England

Senior Penetration Tester
UK > England

The median Senior Penetration Tester daily rate in England is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 August 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
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 522 613
Rank change year-on-year +9 +91 +178
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Penetration Tester 6 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.006% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.006% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £653 - -
25th Percentile £731 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £765 £375
Median % change year-on-year +4.58% +104.00% -37.50%
75th Percentile £825 - £500
90th Percentile - - £568
UK median daily rate £800 £765 £375
% change year-on-year +4.58% +104.00% -37.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 25,342 31,079 43,055
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.69% 92.90% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,441 20,449 30,337
10th Percentile £285 £300 £307
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,310 1,833 1,343
10th Percentile £13.55 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.66 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.98% +5.88% +66.67%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%

Senior Penetration Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Penetration Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Penetration Tester in England

Senior Penetration Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Penetration Tester in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Penetration Tester in England

Senior Penetration Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Penetration Tester in England over the 6 months to 6 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Penetration Tester in England

Senior Penetration Tester
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Penetration Tester within the England region over the 6 months to 6 August 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
South West - 5 £800 - 2
London -2 1 £600 -21.57% 4
Senior Penetration Tester
UK

Senior Penetration Tester Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 6 August 2025, Senior Penetration 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 England region featuring Senior Penetration Tester in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Coaching
5 1 (16.67%) GCP
5 1 (16.67%) Burp Suite
5 1 (16.67%) Kali Linux
5 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
5 1 (16.67%) CREST Certified
5 1 (16.67%) NIST
5 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (16.67%) Red Team
5 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) OWASP
5 1 (16.67%) Metasploit
5 1 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) OSCP
5 1 (16.67%) Nmap
5 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001

Senior Penetration Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Burp Suite
1 1 (16.67%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (16.67%) OWASP
4 1 (16.67%) Red Team
4 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CREST Certified
2 1 (16.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Nmap