Penetration Testing Contract Job Trends in Telford

Penetration Testing
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring Penetration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.55% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Shropshire median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 173 70 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 95.05% 82.35% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 65 22
10th Percentile £325 £298 £405
25th Percentile £406 £338 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £435 £490
Median % change year-on-year +17.76% -11.22% -7.55%
75th Percentile £538 £515 £567
90th Percentile £542 £567 £588
Shropshire median daily rate £506 £435 £480
% change year-on-year +16.42% -9.46% -9.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £31.31 £23.60 -
% change year-on-year +32.65% - -

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Penetration Testing job vacancy trend in Telford

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

Penetration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Component Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) PagerDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk