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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 302 394
Rank change year-on-year +20 +92 +90
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 68 92 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.54% 0.52% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.59% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 55 51
10th Percentile £313 £425 £433
25th Percentile £400 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £770 £781
90th Percentile £713 £780 £844
England median daily rate £513 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -14.58% - +14.29%

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 11,665 15,594 22,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.36% 88.40% 90.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,821 11,134 16,508
10th Percentile £338 £343 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 309 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -28.60% +9.49%
75th Percentile £50.25 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.15 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 £700 +8.53% 17
West London - 7 £400 -
East London +11 1 £495 -23.85% 3
South London - 1 £625 - 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 (1.47%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.47%) SAP CRM
1 1 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (47.06%) Azure
2 26 (38.24%) AWS
3 15 (22.06%) GCP
4 13 (19.12%) GitHub
5 5 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.41%) BrowserStack
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.94%) Sauce Labs
9 1 (1.47%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.47%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.47%) Firebase
9 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.47%) OCI
9 1 (1.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) Firewall
1 2 (2.94%) HTTP
1 2 (2.94%) SSL
2 1 (1.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.88%) Power BI
1 4 (5.88%) Tableau
2 1 (1.47%) Big Data
2 1 (1.47%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Burp Suite
1 12 (17.65%) Metasploit
1 12 (17.65%) SonarQube
2 11 (16.18%) Selenium
3 7 (10.29%) JUnit
4 6 (8.82%) JIRA
4 6 (8.82%) REST Assured
5 5 (7.35%) Appium
5 5 (7.35%) Jenkins
5 5 (7.35%) Postman
6 4 (5.88%) Cypress.io
7 3 (4.41%) JMeter
8 2 (2.94%) Git
8 2 (2.94%) GitLab
8 2 (2.94%) NUnit
8 2 (2.94%) Robot Framework
8 2 (2.94%) SpecFlow
8 2 (2.94%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.47%) Gatling
9 1 (1.47%) Zephyr
General
1 36 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 11 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.71%) Finance
5 9 (13.24%) Banking
6 5 (7.35%) Law
7 4 (5.88%) Military
7 4 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.41%) Legal
9 1 (1.47%) Billing
9 1 (1.47%) Electronics
9 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.47%) Marketing
9 1 (1.47%) Police
9 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 15 (22.06%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 11 (16.18%) Lead
4 9 (13.24%) Architect
5 8 (11.76%) QA Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Analyst
6 7 (10.29%) Security Architect
6 7 (10.29%) Senior
6 7 (10.29%) Test Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) Report Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) Security Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) Consultant
9 3 (4.41%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) QA Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) QA Leader
9 3 (4.41%) Senior Java Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Test Leader
10 2 (2.94%) Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.82%) Playwright
2 5 (7.35%) REST
3 4 (5.88%) Node.js
4 3 (4.41%) Jest
4 3 (4.41%) React
5 2 (2.94%) .NET
5 2 (2.94%) pytest
6 1 (1.47%) Flutter
6 1 (1.47%) Kafka
6 1 (1.47%) RESTful
6 1 (1.47%) web3js
6 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Security Posture
2 5 (7.35%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.88%) Cyber Security Posture
3 4 (5.88%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.41%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.41%) PKI
5 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.47%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.47%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.47%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.47%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.88%) Android
1 4 (5.88%) Apple iOS
1 4 (5.88%) Windows
2 3 (4.41%) Linux
3 2 (2.94%) Unix
4 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (45.59%) CI/CD
3 25 (36.76%) Penetration Testing
3 25 (36.76%) Test Automation
4 24 (35.29%) Agile
5 19 (27.94%) DevSecOps
6 18 (26.47%) OWASP
6 18 (26.47%) Threat Modelling
7 17 (25.00%) Cloud Security
8 16 (23.53%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 16 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (22.06%) Application Security
9 15 (22.06%) Static Application Security Testing
9 15 (22.06%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 14 (20.59%) DevOps
10 14 (20.59%) SDLC
10 14 (20.59%) Secure Coding
11 13 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (17.65%) Regression Testing
12 12 (17.65%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 34 (50.00%) Python
2 17 (25.00%) Java
3 15 (22.06%) Bash
4 7 (10.29%) JavaScript
4 7 (10.29%) SQL
5 6 (8.82%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.41%) Bicep
6 3 (4.41%) C#
6 3 (4.41%) C++
6 3 (4.41%) Perl
6 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.94%) PHP
7 2 (2.94%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.47%) ABAP
8 1 (1.47%) C
8 1 (1.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 21 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 19 (27.94%) SC Cleared
3 16 (23.53%) CREST Certified
4 14 (20.59%) OSCP
5 12 (17.65%) ISTQB
5 12 (17.65%) Tigerscheme
6 10 (14.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (14.71%) Degree
7 9 (13.24%) CHECK Team Member
8 6 (8.82%) CISSP
9 4 (5.88%) CEH
10 3 (4.41%) Azure Certification
11 2 (2.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
11 2 (2.94%) GIAC
11 2 (2.94%) SANS
12 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (1.47%) CISM
12 1 (1.47%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (27.94%) QA
2 8 (11.76%) NCSC
3 7 (10.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (10.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 7 (10.29%) NIST
4 6 (8.82%) Accessibility
5 5 (7.35%) GDPR
6 4 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (4.41%) HIPAA
7 3 (4.41%) PCI DSS
8 2 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (2.94%) WCAG
9 1 (1.47%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.94%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (17.65%) Nmap
2 4 (5.88%) Terraform
3 3 (4.41%) Ansible
3 3 (4.41%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.47%) CASB
4 1 (1.47%) Grafana
4 1 (1.47%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (17.65%) Veracode
2 5 (7.35%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.41%) Oracle
3 3 (4.41%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.41%) SAP
4 2 (2.94%) Databricks
4 2 (2.94%) Google
4 2 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.94%) Splunk
5 1 (1.47%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.47%) Exabeam
5 1 (1.47%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.47%) Qualys
5 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow