Metasploit Jobs with Work from Home Options

Rapid7 Metasploit
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 659 835
Rank change year-on-year +83 +176 -279
Permanent jobs citing Metasploit 17 4 17
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.010% 0.025%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.44% 0.063% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 14 3 10
10th Percentile £45,000 £54,500 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £66,875 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £57,100
Median % change year-on-year - +57.62% +3.82%
75th Percentile £120,000 £92,500 £60,800
90th Percentile - - £81,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £59,800
% change year-on-year -16.67% +50.50% +13.90%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,907 6,344 16,503
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.54% 15.26% 24.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,003 4,505 8,363
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,029 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% +6.72% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,772 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.76%

Metasploit
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Metasploit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Metasploit trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Metasploit.

Metasploit salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Metasploit over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Metasploit salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (23.53%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
2 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (11.76%) Serverless
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Wireless
2 3 (17.65%) Wireshark
3 2 (11.76%) Firewall
3 2 (11.76%) Internet
3 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.76%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (82.35%) Burp Suite
2 2 (11.76%) sqlmap
General
1 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Penetration Tester
1 8 (47.06%) Tester
2 7 (41.18%) Analyst
2 7 (41.18%) Security Analyst
2 7 (41.18%) Senior
2 7 (41.18%) Senior Analyst
2 7 (41.18%) Senior Security Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Threat Hunter
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Mobile App
2 3 (17.65%) IoT
2 3 (17.65%) Operational Technology
3 2 (11.76%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Kali Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Unix
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Information Security
2 8 (47.06%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (47.06%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 8 (47.06%) OWASP
2 8 (47.06%) Penetration Testing
2 8 (47.06%) Red Team
3 7 (41.18%) DevSecOps
3 7 (41.18%) Visualisation
3 7 (41.18%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (29.41%) Application Security
4 5 (29.41%) Benchmarking
5 4 (23.53%) Incident Response
6 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
6 3 (17.65%) Data Privacy
6 3 (17.65%) Ethical Hacking
6 3 (17.65%) Microservices
6 3 (17.65%) Offensive Security
6 3 (17.65%) Social Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 3 (17.65%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) OSCP
2 5 (29.41%) CREST Certified
3 3 (17.65%) CEH
3 3 (17.65%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (17.65%) GIAC
3 3 (17.65%) GPEN
3 3 (17.65%) OSCE
3 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 2 (11.76%) CHECK Team Member
4 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Nmap
2 6 (35.29%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) Qualys