Security Testing Jobs in the Thames Valley

Security Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Testing over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 211 232
Rank change year-on-year -19 +21 -30
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 9 51 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.13% 0.83% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.88% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 9 5 27
10th Percentile £37,900 - £49,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £42,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% -46.88% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £45,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £48,000 - -
South East median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% -30.32% +29.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Security Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,700 5,805 6,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.11% 94.70% 92.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,986 3,153 3,923
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,275 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Security Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the Thames Valley

Security Testing
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Security Testing in the Thames Valley

Security Testing
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Testing in the Thames Valley

Security Testing
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Testing within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 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
Berkshire -2 8 £38,500 - 1
Oxfordshire +6 1 £40,000 -
Security Testing
South East

Security Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (77.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 7 (77.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) SonarCloud
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) JIRA
General
1 8 (88.89%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (88.89%) Retail
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Service Owner
2 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (77.78%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (11.11%) Application Security
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Management
3 1 (11.11%) SDLC
3 1 (11.11%) Security Operations
3 1 (11.11%) SIEM
3 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Adobe
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
1 7 (77.78%) MuleSoft
1 7 (77.78%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk