Security Testing Contracts in the North of England

Security Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 159 172 202
Rank change year-on-year +13 +30 +7
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 7 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.21% 0.27% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.32% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 13
10th Percentile - £444 £500
25th Percentile £263 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -47.62% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £559 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £725 £648
England median daily rate £495 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -19.18% +2.08% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -16.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 the North of England

Job postings citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in the North of England

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Testing in the North of England

Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
Yorkshire +11 4 £275 - 21
North West +8 3 £650 +23.81% 26
Security Testing
England

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (28.57%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) IaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Cypress.io
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
1 4 (57.14%) Postman
1 4 (57.14%) Selenium
1 4 (57.14%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) QA Tester
1 4 (57.14%) Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) SAP APO Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (14.29%) IoT
1 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
1 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Project Management
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Project Management
2 4 (57.14%) API Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Manual Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Non-Functional Testing
2 4 (57.14%) OWASP
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
2 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Ethical Hacking
3 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Red Team
4 1 (14.29%) Cryptography
4 1 (14.29%) Order Management
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) CREST Certified
2 2 (28.57%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Accessibility
1 4 (57.14%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow