Penetration Testing Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Penetration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 71 74
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +50
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 5 1 18
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.59% 0.13% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.15% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 15
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £514 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +10.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £567 - £515
90th Percentile £587 - £595
Yorkshire median daily rate £526 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.34% +10.00% +15.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 736 679 1,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.00% 85.73% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 423 788
10th Percentile £290 £325 £317
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +1.94%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 18
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.00 £12.82
25th Percentile - £19.19 £16.61
Median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +41.03% -7.14%
75th Percentile £66.88 £37.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £44.00 £30.02
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.79 £18.82 £21.31
% change year-on-year +26.41% -11.70% +12.16%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Penetration Testing job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Penetration Testing
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Leeds -10 4 £532 -3.20% 2
Bradford - 1 - - 1
Penetration Testing
Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (20.00%) Contracts Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Information Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Information Security Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Lead Tester
1 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Flash
1 2 (40.00%) pytest
1 2 (40.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (60.00%) Information Security
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Assessment
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 2 (40.00%) Application Security
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Federated Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) KYC
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Rust
1 2 (40.00%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) CCSK
2 2 (40.00%) CEH
2 2 (40.00%) CISA
2 2 (40.00%) CISM
2 2 (40.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) OSCP
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
2 2 (40.00%) GDPR
2 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (40.00%) QA
2 2 (40.00%) SOC 2