Offensive Security Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Offensive Security
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Offensive Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Offensive Security 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.25% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £360 - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £610 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -2.40% +4.17% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Offensive Security 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,907 2,187 2,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.76% 87.55% 81.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,372 1,397 1,468
10th Percentile £313 £231 £270
25th Percentile £405 £358 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £671 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 181 94
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.62 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.72 £16.35 £14.70
Median hourly rate £25.00 £21.39 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% +4.34% -25.45%
75th Percentile £43.96 £27.21 £36.88
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £53.71
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

Offensive Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Offensive Security job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Offensive Security
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Offensive Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Offensive Security

Offensive Security
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Offensive Security within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
West Midlands - 11 £425 - 3
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
Offensive Security
England

Offensive Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Claude Code
2 1 (8.33%) Rational Performance Tester
General
1 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Legal
1 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Lead
2 5 (41.67%) Penetration Tester
2 5 (41.67%) Tester
3 4 (33.33%) Lead Tester
3 4 (33.33%) Security Penetration Tester
3 4 (33.33%) Security Tester
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 2 (16.67%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 5 (41.67%) Red Team
3 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (33.33%) Purple Team
4 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) SIEM
5 2 (16.67%) SOAR
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (8.33%) Change Control
6 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (8.33%) Data Governance
6 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
6 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
6 1 (8.33%) Information Security
6 1 (8.33%) ITSM
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CEH
1 1 (8.33%) CISM
1 1 (8.33%) CISSP
1 1 (8.33%) CREST Certified
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Scheme
1 1 (8.33%) ECSA
1 1 (8.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
1 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto