Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Security Testing
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - 74
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.25% - 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% - 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.15%
75th Percentile - - £725
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £570 £320 £700
% change year-on-year +78.13% -54.29% -15.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 641 325 765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 79.23% 92.07% 87.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 164 263
10th Percentile £202 £306 £228
25th Percentile £406 £444 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +33.33% -17.50%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £581
90th Percentile £750 £675 £700
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £441
% change year-on-year - +13.38% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 79 324
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.95 £38.12
25th Percentile £20.09 £31.64 £40.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +24.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.35 £82.25 £75.25
East of England median hourly rate £31.18 £36.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -13.40% -10.00% +90.48%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Security Testing job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Watford - 1 - -
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £850 - 1
Security Testing
East of England

Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Google Gemini
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Technical Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Celery
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) JWT
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SailPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Apple
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow