Penetration Testing Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Penetration Testing
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Penetration Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 1.79% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £413 £600
% change year-on-year +33.33% -31.25% -2.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48 58 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 85.71% 65.91% 82.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 29 84
10th Percentile £207 £168 £371
25th Percentile £261 £230 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £375 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -37.50% +2.13%
75th Percentile £481 £538 £711
90th Percentile £548 £640 £745
East of England median daily rate £500 £442 £500
% change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 2
10th Percentile £16.53 - £14.21
25th Percentile £18.07 £14.05 £15.27
Median hourly rate £22.04 £14.60 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +50.92% -15.51% -
75th Percentile £30.41 £51.91 £19.05
90th Percentile £39.87 £52.27 £19.95
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £19.81
% change year-on-year -34.02% +92.43% -3.37%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Suffolk

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Ipswich - 1 £550 - 1
Penetration Testing
East of England

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CRISC
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable