Security Testing Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Security Testing
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.22% - 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% - 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £850
75th Percentile £588 - £875
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £563 £556 £713
% change year-on-year +1.12% -21.93% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 340 172 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 73.59% 90.05% 73.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 107 86
10th Percentile £245 £175 £200
25th Percentile £419 £263 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £649 £600
90th Percentile £730 £715 £681
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 21 7
10th Percentile £14.85 - £12.50
25th Percentile £41.63 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £62.25 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +236.30% -25.96% -51.82%
75th Percentile £90.00 £63.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £100.00 - £63.75
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +3.85%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Security Testing job vacancy trend in Somerset

Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Security Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Security Testing

Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware