Penetration Testing Contracts in Guildford

Penetration Testing
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Guildford 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 13 15 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Guildford 2.38% 2.41% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 3.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
Surrey median daily rate £450 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -18.18% -4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 41 63 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 97.62% 75.90% 78.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 52 32
10th Percentile £250 £215 £266
25th Percentile £325 £429 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -1.44% +20.58%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £620
90th Percentile £588 £763 £738
Surrey median daily rate £470 £500 £514
% change year-on-year -6.00% -2.68% +2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 0
10th Percentile £23.00 - -
25th Percentile £26.50 £11.71 -
Median hourly rate £28.00 £12.43 -
Median % change year-on-year +125.35% - -
75th Percentile - £13.14 -
90th Percentile £30.30 £18.75 -
Surrey median hourly rate £26.33 £20.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +28.41% -54.44% +87.50%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Guildford

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

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

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in Guildford

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Guildford 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
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Security Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
1 1 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk and Compliance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk