Penetration Testing Contract Job Trends in Woking

Penetration Testing
Surrey > Woking

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Woking requiring Penetration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Woking 5.56% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £508 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - -
75th Percentile £523 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median daily rate £515 £503 -
% change year-on-year +2.49% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Woking

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 Woking.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12 6 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Woking 66.67% 35.29% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 6
10th Percentile £458 £283 £295
25th Percentile £471 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £411 £406
Median % change year-on-year +23.40% +1.23% +103.13%
75th Percentile £631 £495 £453
90th Percentile £664 £633 £658
Surrey median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.73
Surrey median hourly rate £65.00 £24.83 £18.35
% change year-on-year +161.78% +35.31% -59.22%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Woking

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

Penetration Testing job vacancy trend in Woking

Penetration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Woking

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Woking citing Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Woking 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 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Metasploit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CHECK Team Member
1 1 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Scheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nmap