Penetration Testing Contract Job Trends in West London

Penetration Testing
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Penetration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.43% 0.74% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.83% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £487 - -
25th Percentile £514 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.74% - -
75th Percentile £614 £513 -
90th Percentile £636 - -
London median daily rate £538 £550 £585
% change year-on-year -2.27% -5.98% +6.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West London

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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 402 240 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 86.45% 88.56% 91.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 149 195
10th Percentile £240 £246 £250
25th Percentile £400 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £425 £485
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% -12.37% -13.78%
75th Percentile £680 £512 £588
90th Percentile £754 £561 £650
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 35 18
10th Percentile £22.17 £20.45 £19.96
25th Percentile £23.70 £25.09 £23.80
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% -45.03% -30.68%
75th Percentile £34.38 £33.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £37.75 £50.20 £70.10
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Penetration Testing job vacancy trend in West London

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in West London over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Penetration Testing in West London

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in West London

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 West London region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Hillingdon - 2 £569 -
Penetration Testing
London

Penetration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) SABSA
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Security Auditing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS