Penetration Testing Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Penetration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 39 56
Rank change year-on-year -51 +17 +4
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.36% 0.71% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.77% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - £506 £329
25th Percentile £463 £516 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +34.38% +20.30%
75th Percentile £494 £566 £444
90th Percentile £498 £579 £463
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 791 261 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.84% 92.88% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 154 246
10th Percentile £325 £209 £375
25th Percentile £404 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% -2.14% -
75th Percentile £538 £599 £610
90th Percentile £650 £672 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.32% -5.00% -3.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 15
10th Percentile £16.11 £12.44 £10.90
25th Percentile £19.50 £13.49 £12.66
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% -19.05% +104.08%
75th Percentile - £18.58 £23.75
90th Percentile - £19.43 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £19.32 £17.64
% change year-on-year +30.19% +9.51% +1.99%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Penetration Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Penetration Testing job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Penetration Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Sheffield -56 3 £475 -11.63% 1
Penetration Testing
Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Jest
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) System Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker