Penetration Testing Contracts in Warwickshire

Penetration Testing
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warwickshire 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 38 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 1.29% - 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% - 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £300 - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.09%
75th Percentile £788 - £753
90th Percentile - - £781
West Midlands median daily rate £569 £650 £663
% change year-on-year -12.50% -1.89% +12.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 278 309 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 89.97% 91.42% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 209 228
10th Percentile £235 £318 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.71% +5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £599 £700 £638
90th Percentile £664 £850 £741
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 31 3
10th Percentile £14.70 £13.18 £14.39
25th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £14.43
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +55.17% -27.50%
75th Percentile £28.18 £26.95 £19.13
90th Percentile £45.33 £35.00 £21.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Warwickshire

Penetration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Daily rate trend for Penetration Testing in Warwickshire

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Penetration Testing in Warwickshire

Penetration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in Warwickshire.

Hourly rate trend for Penetration Testing in Warwickshire

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire 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
Warwick - 3 £300 -
Penetration Testing
West Midlands

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warwickshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Contract Management
1 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (50.00%) Information Governance
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (50.00%) SDLC
1 2 (50.00%) Security Hardening
1 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (50.00%) CCSP
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) TOWER Software