Rapid7 Metasploit
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Metasploit skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Metasploit over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 842 927 1209
Rank change year-on-year +85 +282 -313
Permanent jobs citing Metasploit 53 25 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.025% 0.018%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.56% 0.18% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 48 13 21
10th Percentile £62,500 £48,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +44.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £82,500 £98,000 £81,000
90th Percentile £120,000 - £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +45.83% -22.16%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Metasploit is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,512 14,072 37,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.42% 14.29% 23.08%
Number of salaries quoted 6,632 8,593 15,905
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Metasploit
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Metasploit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Metasploit in the UK

Metasploit
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Metasploit.

Salary trend for Metasploit in the UK

Metasploit
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metasploit over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Metasploit in the UK

Metasploit
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metasploit within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +125 53 £75,000 -16.67% 9
London +139 45 £75,000 -16.67% 6
Work from Home +77 19 £92,500 +2.78% 7
UK excluding London +16 8 £50,000 -4.76% 5
North of England +41 3 £50,000 -4.76% 1
West Midlands - 3 £72,500 - 2
Midlands - 3 £72,500 - 2
North West - 3 £50,000 -
South West - 2 - -

Metasploit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (9.43%) AWS
2 3 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (5.66%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (5.66%) Amazon S3
2 3 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (5.66%) AWS CloudTrail
2 3 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (5.66%) Serverless
2 3 (5.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 28 (52.83%) Network Security
2 9 (16.98%) Wireless
3 3 (5.66%) Wireshark
4 2 (3.77%) Firewall
4 2 (3.77%) Internet
4 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.77%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 50 (94.34%) Burp Suite
2 3 (5.66%) sqlmap
General
1 33 (62.26%) Social Skills
2 28 (52.83%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.32%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.55%) Marketing
5 2 (3.77%) Finance
5 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (69.81%) Penetration Tester
1 37 (69.81%) Tester
2 14 (26.42%) Senior
3 10 (18.87%) Analyst
3 10 (18.87%) Security Analyst
3 10 (18.87%) Senior Analyst
3 10 (18.87%) Senior Security Analyst
4 4 (7.55%) Vulnerability Analyst
4 4 (7.55%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Consultant
5 3 (5.66%) Security Consultant
5 3 (5.66%) Security Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Senior Consultant
5 3 (5.66%) Senior Security Consultant
5 3 (5.66%) Senior Testing Consultant
5 3 (5.66%) Testing Consultant
5 3 (5.66%) Threat Hunter
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) Senior Penetration Tester
7 1 (1.89%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.87%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Mobile App
2 7 (13.21%) IoT
3 3 (5.66%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.77%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.77%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 37 (69.81%) Kali Linux
2 28 (52.83%) Linux
3 2 (3.77%) Unix
3 2 (3.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (77.36%) Information Security
2 40 (75.47%) Penetration Testing
2 40 (75.47%) Red Team
3 36 (67.92%) Application Security
3 36 (67.92%) Cybersecurity
4 34 (64.15%) Security Testing
5 31 (58.49%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (58.49%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 30 (56.60%) Malware Analysis
6 30 (56.60%) Reverse Engineering
7 28 (52.83%) Computer Science
7 28 (52.83%) Critical Thinking
8 13 (24.53%) OWASP
9 10 (18.87%) Visualisation
9 10 (18.87%) Vulnerability Management
10 9 (16.98%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 8 (15.09%) DevSecOps
12 7 (13.21%) Social Engineering
12 7 (13.21%) Threat Modelling
13 6 (11.32%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.09%) Python
2 3 (5.66%) Java
2 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.77%) Bash
3 2 (3.77%) C#
Qualifications
1 30 (56.60%) Degree
2 28 (52.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (22.64%) OSCP
4 9 (16.98%) CREST Certified
5 7 (13.21%) OSCE
6 3 (5.66%) AWS Certification
6 3 (5.66%) CEH
6 3 (5.66%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (5.66%) GIAC
6 3 (5.66%) GPEN
6 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
6 3 (5.66%) Security Cleared
7 2 (3.77%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.66%) NIST
Systems Management
1 19 (35.85%) Nmap
2 10 (18.87%) Nessus
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) Qualys
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft