Security Testing Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Security Testing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Security Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 101 113
Rank change year-on-year -26 +12 +31
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 14 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.63% 0.24% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.28% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £463 £411 £541
25th Percentile £484 £473 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £641 £650
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -1.35% +53.85%
75th Percentile £538 £788 £725
90th Percentile £618 - £755
England median daily rate £525 £643 £600
% change year-on-year -18.29% +7.08% +0.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Security 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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,945 1,440 1,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.49% 85.61% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,234 907 1,075
10th Percentile £263 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £587 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 47 50
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.10 £16.88 £17.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.60 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.04% +2.61% +29.80%
75th Percentile £30.00 £34.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £40.46 £52.50 £67.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Security Testing job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Security Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Security Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Testing in the West Midlands

Security Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Security Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Security Testing

Security Testing
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 Security Testing within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Birmingham - 7 £488 - 5
Shropshire -33 6 £531 +21.17% 4
Warwickshire -8 1 - -
Security Testing
England

Security Testing
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 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Akamai
2 6 (42.86%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Firewall
1 6 (42.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Selenium
2 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 2 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Gatling
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) JUnit
3 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
3 1 (7.14%) TestDirector
3 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Tester
2 3 (21.43%) Manual Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Development Director
3 1 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) SailPoint Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Security Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
1 1 (7.14%) Java EE
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
1 1 (7.14%) LDAP
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth
1 1 (7.14%) Playwright
1 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) SailPoint
1 1 (7.14%) SAML
1 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.14%) CMDB
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 7 (50.00%) Application Security
2 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 6 (42.86%) Ethical Hacking
3 6 (42.86%) OWASP
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (28.57%) Pair Programming
4 4 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
5 3 (21.43%) Manual Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Reverse Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) Groovy
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) CEH
2 1 (7.14%) CISM
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
2 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
2 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) CSIRT
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) F5
1 6 (42.86%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Tenable