Penetration Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Penetration Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Penetration Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Penetration Testing over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 471 474
Rank change year-on-year -47 +3 -80
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 239 304 437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.51% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.53% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 159 169 335
10th Percentile £36,200 £41,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £74,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,000 £88,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Penetration 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,616 57,236 66,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.97% 95.60% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,251 29,494 41,057
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East -4 66 £43,750 -37.50% 15
Midlands -12 53 £55,000 -8.33% 8
North of England +19 51 £58,750 +11.90% 16
South West -16 50 £62,500 +22.55% 18
North West +14 39 £60,000 +12.15% 10
West Midlands -10 31 £55,000 -8.33% 5
East Midlands -1 22 £65,000 - 3
Yorkshire +57 12 £44,250 -13.85% 5
East of England +6 8 £41,250 -25.00%
Scotland -78 7 £60,000 +7.75% 7
Wales +3 3 £90,000 +55.17% 3
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -
Penetration Testing
UK

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.42%) Apache
3 1 (0.42%) IIS
3 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 49 (20.50%) Azure
2 30 (12.55%) AWS
3 16 (6.69%) Cloud Computing
4 11 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (3.35%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (3.35%) Cloudflare
6 6 (2.51%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (1.67%) GCP
7 4 (1.67%) SaaS
8 3 (1.26%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.26%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.26%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.26%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (0.84%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (0.84%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (0.84%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.42%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (25.94%) Firewall
2 33 (13.81%) Network Security
3 19 (7.95%) Intrusion Detection
4 16 (6.69%) TCP/IP
5 15 (6.28%) Wireless
6 13 (5.44%) DNS
7 12 (5.02%) VPN
8 10 (4.18%) Internet
9 9 (3.77%) SSL
10 7 (2.93%) Wireshark
11 6 (2.51%) BGP
12 5 (2.09%) HTTP
12 5 (2.09%) IPsec
12 5 (2.09%) LAN
12 5 (2.09%) NGFW
12 5 (2.09%) OSPF
12 5 (2.09%) SAN
12 5 (2.09%) VLAN
12 5 (2.09%) WAN
13 4 (1.67%) FlexRay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.09%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.26%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (3.35%) Burp Suite
2 5 (2.09%) Metasploit
3 4 (1.67%) Git
4 2 (0.84%) JIRA
5 1 (0.42%) Snyk
General
1 74 (30.96%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (11.30%) Finance
4 21 (8.79%) Aerospace
4 21 (8.79%) Legal
5 16 (6.69%) Telecoms
6 14 (5.86%) Military
7 13 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (5.02%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (4.60%) Games
9 11 (4.60%) Retail
10 10 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (4.18%) Public Sector
11 8 (3.35%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.93%) Automotive
12 7 (2.93%) Aviation
12 7 (2.93%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (2.51%) Marketing
14 5 (2.09%) Electronics
14 5 (2.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 44 (18.41%) Analyst
2 36 (15.06%) Penetration Tester
3 35 (14.64%) Tester
4 33 (13.81%) Security Analyst
5 26 (10.88%) Lead
6 24 (10.04%) Senior
7 20 (8.37%) Security Manager
8 18 (7.53%) Consultant
9 17 (7.11%) Security Consultant
10 16 (6.69%) Architect
10 16 (6.69%) Security Architect
11 15 (6.28%) Security Engineer
12 13 (5.44%) Security Penetration Tester
12 13 (5.44%) Security Tester
13 12 (5.02%) Business Development Manager
13 12 (5.02%) Business Manager
13 12 (5.02%) Development Manager
13 12 (5.02%) IT Manager
14 11 (4.60%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 11 (4.60%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.35%) Laravel
1 8 (3.35%) OAuth
2 6 (2.51%) OAuth2
3 5 (2.09%) Web Services
4 4 (1.67%) EDI
5 2 (0.84%) OpenID
5 2 (0.84%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.23%) Cyber Threat
2 29 (12.13%) Security Posture
3 22 (9.21%) Management Information System
3 22 (9.21%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (8.37%) Operational Technology
5 16 (6.69%) Data Centre
6 15 (6.28%) Cyberattack
7 13 (5.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (4.60%) Cyber Defence
9 10 (4.18%) IoT
9 10 (4.18%) Mobile App
10 6 (2.51%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (2.51%) Onboarding
11 5 (2.09%) Algorithms
11 5 (2.09%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 3 (1.26%) Driving Licence
13 3 (1.26%) Raspberry Pi
13 3 (1.26%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 38 (15.90%) Windows
2 19 (7.95%) Linux
3 10 (4.18%) Kali Linux
4 9 (3.77%) Android
4 9 (3.77%) Apple iOS
5 7 (2.93%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.26%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.84%) Unix
8 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (77.82%) Cybersecurity
2 72 (30.13%) Incident Response
3 65 (27.20%) Information Security
4 53 (22.18%) Computer Science
5 45 (18.83%) Vulnerability Management
6 42 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (15.06%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 35 (14.64%) Application Security
9 33 (13.81%) SIEM
10 32 (13.39%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 30 (12.55%) OWASP
11 30 (12.55%) Patch Management
11 30 (12.55%) Security Operations
12 29 (12.13%) Red Team
13 26 (10.88%) Risk Management
13 26 (10.88%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 25 (10.46%) Mentoring
15 23 (9.62%) Software Engineering
16 20 (8.37%) Data Protection
16 20 (8.37%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (16.74%) Python
2 16 (6.69%) Bash
3 8 (3.35%) PHP
3 8 (3.35%) Rust
4 6 (2.51%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.09%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.26%) Java
6 3 (1.26%) SQL
7 2 (0.84%) C#
7 2 (0.84%) Ruby
8 1 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 58 (24.27%) Degree
2 51 (21.34%) CISSP
3 34 (14.23%) CISM
3 34 (14.23%) OSCP
4 19 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (7.95%) Security Cleared
5 17 (7.11%) CREST Certified
6 15 (6.28%) CEH
6 15 (6.28%) GIAC
7 12 (5.02%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (4.60%) CHECK Team Member
8 11 (4.60%) SC Cleared
9 10 (4.18%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (3.35%) CISA
10 8 (3.35%) GPEN
11 7 (2.93%) DV Cleared
12 5 (2.09%) CCIE
12 5 (2.09%) CCNA
12 5 (2.09%) CCNP
12 5 (2.09%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (23.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (12.13%) NIST
3 26 (10.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 17 (7.11%) GRC
5 15 (6.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 12 (5.02%) GDPR
7 9 (3.77%) PCI DSS
8 7 (2.93%) DO-254
8 7 (2.93%) NCSC
9 6 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 6 (2.51%) NIST 800
9 6 (2.51%) QA
10 3 (1.26%) HIPAA
10 3 (1.26%) JTAG
10 3 (1.26%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.42%) COBIT
11 1 (0.42%) FISMA
11 1 (0.42%) HITRUST
11 1 (0.42%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (9.21%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.84%) Docker
4 2 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (5.02%) Nessus
2 11 (4.60%) WSUS
3 7 (2.93%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (2.51%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.09%) Ansible
5 5 (2.09%) Nmap
5 5 (2.09%) Suricata
6 3 (1.26%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.26%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.26%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.84%) CSIRT
7 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.42%) Anchore
Vendors
1 36 (15.06%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.02%) Cisco
3 10 (4.18%) Qualys
3 10 (4.18%) Splunk
4 8 (3.35%) Palo Alto
4 8 (3.35%) VMware
5 6 (2.51%) HubSpot
6 5 (2.09%) Juniper
7 4 (1.67%) HP
8 3 (1.26%) Lauterbach
8 3 (1.26%) Nimble Storage
8 3 (1.26%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.26%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.26%) Veeam
8 3 (1.26%) Veracode
9 2 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.42%) Aruba
10 1 (0.42%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.42%) Meraki
10 1 (0.42%) SolarWinds