Security Testing Contracts in London

Security Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security 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 303 289 394
Rank change year-on-year -14 +105 +60
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 50 102 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.40% 0.57% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.65% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 65 60
10th Percentile £313 £460 £432
25th Percentile £384 £575 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £606
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +7.22% +6.59%
75th Percentile £638 £780 £754
90th Percentile £763 £795 £827
England median daily rate £495 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -19.18% +2.08% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in London

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in London.

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in London

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in London

Security Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Testing in London

Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +3 8 £688 +6.59% 2
West London - 8 £400 - 1
East London +7 1 £495 -23.85% 1
Security Testing
England

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.00%) SAP CRM
1 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (28.00%) Azure
2 12 (24.00%) AWS
3 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.00%) GCP
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (4.00%) BrowserStack
5 2 (4.00%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.00%) Firebase
6 1 (2.00%) GitHub
6 1 (2.00%) OCI
6 1 (2.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) Firewall
2 2 (4.00%) BGP
2 2 (4.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (4.00%) HTTP
2 2 (4.00%) MPLS
2 2 (4.00%) VPN
3 1 (2.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Power BI
1 4 (8.00%) Tableau
2 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.00%) Big Data
3 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (18.00%) Selenium
2 8 (16.00%) JIRA
3 7 (14.00%) JUnit
4 6 (12.00%) REST Assured
5 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
5 5 (10.00%) Postman
6 4 (8.00%) Cypress.io
6 4 (8.00%) GitLab
7 3 (6.00%) Appium
7 3 (6.00%) JMeter
8 2 (4.00%) Git
8 2 (4.00%) LoadRunner
8 2 (4.00%) Robot Framework
9 1 (2.00%) Burp Suite
9 1 (2.00%) Gatling
9 1 (2.00%) HP UFT
9 1 (2.00%) Locust
9 1 (2.00%) NeoLoad
9 1 (2.00%) TestRail
9 1 (2.00%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (18.00%) Finance
4 4 (8.00%) Banking
4 4 (8.00%) Law
4 4 (8.00%) Legal
4 4 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.00%) Billing
5 1 (2.00%) Electronics
5 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.00%) Marketing
5 1 (2.00%) Military
5 1 (2.00%) Police
5 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (18.00%) Architect
1 9 (18.00%) Lead
2 8 (16.00%) Test Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Analyst
3 7 (14.00%) Security Architect
3 7 (14.00%) Senior
4 6 (12.00%) QA Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Report Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Security Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Security Manager
7 3 (6.00%) Java Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) QA Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) QA Leader
7 3 (6.00%) Security Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Java Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Applications Architect
8 2 (4.00%) IT Manager
8 2 (4.00%) IT Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) REST
2 5 (10.00%) Playwright
3 4 (8.00%) Node.js
4 3 (6.00%) Jest
4 3 (6.00%) React
4 3 (6.00%) YAML
5 2 (4.00%) .NET
5 2 (4.00%) JSON
5 2 (4.00%) NETCONF
5 2 (4.00%) pytest
5 2 (4.00%) RESTCONF
5 2 (4.00%) SOAP
5 2 (4.00%) XML
5 2 (4.00%) YANG
6 1 (2.00%) Flutter
6 1 (2.00%) Kafka
6 1 (2.00%) RESTful
6 1 (2.00%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Product Ownership
1 6 (12.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (8.00%) Cyber Security Posture
3 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.00%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.00%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (2.00%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Android
2 2 (4.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (4.00%) CentOS
2 2 (4.00%) Unix
2 2 (4.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.00%) Agile
2 21 (42.00%) Test Automation
3 16 (32.00%) CI/CD
4 15 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (28.00%) Regression Testing
6 11 (22.00%) Performance Testing
7 10 (20.00%) Analytics
7 10 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 10 (20.00%) Manual Testing
8 9 (18.00%) Risk Management
8 9 (18.00%) Threat Modelling
9 8 (16.00%) Information Security
9 8 (16.00%) Penetration Testing
9 8 (16.00%) Scrum
9 8 (16.00%) Test Strategy
10 7 (14.00%) Security Architecture
10 7 (14.00%) Validation
11 6 (12.00%) Integration Testing
11 6 (12.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 21 (42.00%) Python
2 15 (30.00%) Java
3 9 (18.00%) SQL
4 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.00%) Bash
6 2 (4.00%) PHP
7 1 (2.00%) ABAP
7 1 (2.00%) C++
7 1 (2.00%) Perl
7 1 (2.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) Degree
2 10 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (20.00%) ISTQB
3 9 (18.00%) CISSP
4 7 (14.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (14.00%) Security Cleared
5 4 (8.00%) CISM
6 3 (6.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
6 3 (6.00%) CEH
6 3 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (4.00%) CISA
7 2 (4.00%) OSCP
8 1 (2.00%) CCSP
8 1 (2.00%) CREST Certified
8 1 (2.00%) CRISC
8 1 (2.00%) ISEB
8 1 (2.00%) SANS
8 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (30.00%) QA
2 9 (18.00%) NIST
3 6 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (10.00%) GDPR
5 3 (6.00%) Accessibility
5 3 (6.00%) HIPAA
5 3 (6.00%) PCI DSS
6 2 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (2.00%) EU AI Act
7 1 (2.00%) NIST 800
7 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) CASB
2 1 (2.00%) Grafana
2 1 (2.00%) QRadar
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.00%) Cisco
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.00%) Databricks
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle
2 2 (4.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (4.00%) SAP
2 2 (4.00%) Splunk
3 1 (2.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (2.00%) Google
3 1 (2.00%) Qualys
3 1 (2.00%) Salesforce