Security Testing Job Trends in Basingstoke

Security Testing
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring Security Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 8 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 2.46% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% - -
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £15,500 - -
25th Percentile £26,938 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £90,313 - -
90th Percentile £92,500 - -
Hampshire median annual salary £55,712 £65,000 -
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Basingstoke

Security Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Basingstoke.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 247 402 274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 76.00% 65.05% 90.73%
Number of salaries quoted 214 293 173
10th Percentile £29,750 £43,530 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,875 £51,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,772 £60,000 £49,694
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +20.74% -9.65%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £89,325 £85,000 £78,500
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Security Testing job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Security Testing
Salary Trend in Basingstoke

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Security Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Security Testing

Security Testing
Salary Histogram in Basingstoke

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Testing in Basingstoke

Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (75.00%) Appian
2 5 (62.50%) Apache
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) MinIO
2 6 (75.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 8 (100.00%) Selenium
2 6 (75.00%) Snyk
3 2 (25.00%) GitLab
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) TestRail
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Applications Architect
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Manual Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Apache NiFi
1 6 (75.00%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (75.00%) Low-Code
2 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 8 (100.00%) User Stories
2 7 (87.50%) Test Management
3 6 (75.00%) ArchiMate
3 6 (75.00%) Business Process Analysis
3 6 (75.00%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (75.00%) Data Integration
3 6 (75.00%) DevSecOps
3 6 (75.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
3 6 (75.00%) Microservices
3 6 (75.00%) OO
3 6 (75.00%) Presales
3 6 (75.00%) Robotic Process Automation
3 6 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (75.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 6 (75.00%) Ansible
3 2 (25.00%) Grafana
3 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Nessus
3 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) BiZZdesign
1 6 (75.00%) Black Duck
1 6 (75.00%) UiPath
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) Blue Prism
2 5 (62.50%) Coverity