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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 851 947 1200
Rank change year-on-year +96 +253 -321
Permanent jobs citing Metasploit 51 25 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.025% 0.018%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.53% 0.17% 0.082%
Number of salaries quoted 46 13 20
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 £59,800
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +50.50% +13.90%
75th Percentile £82,500 £98,000 £81,000
90th Percentile £120,000 - £82,400
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 9,537 14,458 35,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.62% 14.27% 22.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6,706 8,868 15,755
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% +9.65%
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 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Metasploit in the UK

Metasploit
Top 10 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 9 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 +124 50 £75,000 -16.67% 8
London +124 43 £75,000 -16.67% 3
Work from Home +85 17 £90,000 - 5
UK excluding London +11 8 £50,000 -4.76% 5
North of England +56 3 £50,000 -4.76% 1
North West - 3 £50,000 -
South West - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £70,000 - 4
Midlands - 2 £70,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £57,500 -

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 4 (7.84%) AWS
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
2 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (3.92%) Serverless
2 2 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (1.96%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 28 (54.90%) Network Security
2 8 (15.69%) Wireless
3 4 (7.84%) Wireshark
4 2 (3.92%) Firewall
4 2 (3.92%) Internet
4 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.92%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 48 (94.12%) Burp Suite
2 2 (3.92%) sqlmap
3 1 (1.96%) AppScan
General
1 32 (62.75%) Social Skills
2 28 (54.90%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.88%) Marketing
5 2 (3.92%) Finance
5 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (72.55%) Penetration Tester
1 37 (72.55%) Tester
2 12 (23.53%) Senior
3 9 (17.65%) Analyst
3 9 (17.65%) Security Analyst
3 9 (17.65%) Senior Analyst
3 9 (17.65%) Senior Security Analyst
4 4 (7.84%) Vulnerability Analyst
4 4 (7.84%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Consultant
5 3 (5.88%) Security Consultant
5 3 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
5 3 (5.88%) Senior Security Consultant
5 3 (5.88%) Senior Testing Consultant
5 3 (5.88%) Testing Consultant
5 3 (5.88%) Threat Hunter
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Security Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Vulnerability Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.65%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Mobile App
2 6 (11.76%) IoT
3 3 (5.88%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.92%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (72.55%) Kali Linux
2 28 (54.90%) Linux
3 2 (3.92%) Unix
3 2 (3.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (78.43%) Information Security
2 39 (76.47%) Penetration Testing
2 39 (76.47%) Red Team
3 37 (72.55%) Cybersecurity
4 35 (68.63%) Application Security
5 34 (66.67%) Security Testing
6 31 (60.78%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (60.78%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 30 (58.82%) Malware Analysis
7 30 (58.82%) Reverse Engineering
8 28 (54.90%) Computer Science
8 28 (54.90%) Critical Thinking
9 11 (21.57%) OWASP
10 9 (17.65%) Visualisation
10 9 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
11 8 (15.69%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 7 (13.73%) DevSecOps
13 6 (11.76%) Social Engineering
14 5 (9.80%) Threat Modelling
14 5 (9.80%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.73%) Python
2 3 (5.88%) Java
2 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.92%) Bash
3 2 (3.92%) C#
Qualifications
1 30 (58.82%) Degree
2 28 (54.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (23.53%) OSCP
4 8 (15.69%) CREST Certified
5 6 (11.76%) OSCE
6 4 (7.84%) GPEN
7 3 (5.88%) CEH
7 3 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (5.88%) GIAC
7 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
7 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
8 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
8 2 (3.92%) CHECK Team Member
9 1 (1.96%) CGEIT
9 1 (1.96%) CISA
9 1 (1.96%) CISM
9 1 (1.96%) CISSP
9 1 (1.96%) CRISC
9 1 (1.96%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.92%) NIST
Systems Management
1 17 (33.33%) Nmap
2 10 (19.61%) Nessus
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Qualys
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.96%) Trustwave