Penetration Testing Contracts in Surrey

Penetration Testing
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 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 36 54 68
Rank change year-on-year +18 +14 +14
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.01% 0.34% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.41% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £398 -
25th Percentile - £450 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -4.35% -
75th Percentile - £650 £588
90th Percentile - £703 -
South East median daily rate £658 £530 £573
% change year-on-year +24.06% -7.42% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £83.50 -
% change year-on-year -37.13% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 267 484 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 89.60% 82.45% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 352 436
10th Percentile £188 £213 £198
25th Percentile £280 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -2.68% +2.75%
75th Percentile £544 £619 £625
90th Percentile £659 £700 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 55 33
10th Percentile £20.63 £11.71 £32.10
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £26.33 £20.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% -54.44% +87.50%
75th Percentile £40.98 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £63.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Surrey

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in Surrey

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Redhill - 2 - -
Guildford +2 1 £450 -18.18% 9
Penetration Testing
South East

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 (66.67%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Information Assurance Specialist
1 2 (66.67%) Information Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) IT Security Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Communications Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cryptography
2 2 (66.67%) Information Assurance
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (33.33%) Compliance Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Risk and Compliance Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CEH
1 2 (66.67%) CISM
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk