Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Security Testing
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.60% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
South West median daily rate £588 £500 £590
% change year-on-year +17.50% -15.25% -1.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 290 223 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 86.83% 88.49% 85.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 156 219
10th Percentile £227 £221 £363
25th Percentile £380 £361 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% +3.77%
75th Percentile £613 £641 £668
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 21 38
10th Percentile £12.63 £26.12 £15.05
25th Percentile £26.25 £31.50 £22.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.15% +68.75% -48.72%
75th Percentile £51.21 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £73.75
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £32.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +76.92% -40.91% -4.35%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Security Testing job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Security Testing

Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Cheltenham - 2 £450 - 1
Security Testing
South West

Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VirtualBox
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware