Penetration Testing Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Penetration Testing
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring Penetration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 2.08% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £550 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42 41 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 87.50% 82.00% 98.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 44
10th Percentile £366 £300 £233
25th Percentile £425 £347 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -13.16% -20.83%
75th Percentile £703 £481 £638
90th Percentile £732 £610 £700
Suffolk median daily rate £450 £413 £475
% change year-on-year +9.09% -13.16% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £15.84 - £16.23
25th Percentile £16.36 - £20.31
Median hourly rate £17.46 £70.00 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year -75.06% +152.25% +73.44%
75th Percentile £18.32 - £35.31
90th Percentile £18.68 - £39.48
Suffolk median hourly rate £23.75 £61.25 £14.00
% change year-on-year -61.22% +337.50% -12.50%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Penetration Testing job vacancy trend in Ipswich

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Penetration Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CRISC
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable