Offensive Security Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Offensive Security
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Offensive Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Offensive Security 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £360 - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £610 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -2.40% +4.17% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Offensive Security 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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,977 1,500 1,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.37% 88.18% 81.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,901 943 1,035
10th Percentile £313 £233 £275
25th Percentile £406 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £671 £668 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 108 58
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £13.13
25th Percentile £19.34 £15.02 £14.70
Median hourly rate £33.98 £24.34 £19.99
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% +21.79% -25.98%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.14 £37.50
90th Percentile £71.37 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

Offensive Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Offensive Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Offensive Security job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Offensive Security
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Offensive Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Offensive Security

Offensive Security
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Offensive Security within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Birmingham - 11 £425 - 3
Offensive Security
England

Offensive Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Claude Code
2 1 (9.09%) Rational Performance Tester
General
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Lead
2 5 (45.45%) Penetration Tester
2 5 (45.45%) Tester
3 4 (36.36%) Lead Tester
3 4 (36.36%) Security Penetration Tester
3 4 (36.36%) Security Tester
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 2 (18.18%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Security Testing
2 5 (45.45%) Red Team
3 4 (36.36%) Purple Team
4 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) SIEM
5 2 (18.18%) SOAR
6 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
6 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
6 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
6 1 (9.09%) ITSM
6 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
6 1 (9.09%) Security Monitoring
6 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
6 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (9.09%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) CREST Certified
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Scheme
1 1 (9.09%) ECSA
1 1 (9.09%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto