Penetration Testing Contracts in Peterborough

Penetration Testing
Cambridgeshire > Peterborough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Peterborough requiring Penetration Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Penetration Testing over the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Peterborough 1.08% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate - £675 £475
% change year-on-year - +42.11% -22.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Peterborough

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 Peterborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 79 162 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Peterborough 84.95% 83.08% 93.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 47
10th Percentile £188 £174 £226
25th Percentile £195 £178 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £220 £425
Median % change year-on-year +30.68% -48.24% +21.43%
75th Percentile £450 £386 £531
90th Percentile £469 £536 £615
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £442 £450
% change year-on-year +7.47% -1.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 131 153
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.84 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.27 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £20.84 £16.85 £15.75
90th Percentile £33.38 £21.46 £22.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £17.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year +4.74% +11.93% -

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Peterborough

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Peterborough.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Peterborough

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Peterborough 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) VMware