Security Testing Contracts in Wiltshire

Security Testing
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire requiring Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 82 87
Rank change year-on-year +29 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Security Testing 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.21% 0.23% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.28% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £581 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £644 £675 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £556 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -14.42% +8.33% +11.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 416 719 953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 89.08% 84.39% 90.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 541 756
10th Percentile £303 £360 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £543 £565
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% -3.90% +2.64%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £669
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 11
10th Percentile £18.69 £12.00 £60.00
25th Percentile £18.87 - £60.75
Median hourly rate £22.25 £12.79 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.96% -80.91% +21.82%
75th Percentile £25.15 £15.64 £77.50
90th Percentile - £30.25 £87.50
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -58.08% -7.69% +30.00%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in Wiltshire

Security Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in Wiltshire.

Daily rate trend for Security Testing in Wiltshire

Security Testing
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
Corsham +29 1 £613 -5.77%
Security Testing
South West

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk