Penetration Testing Jobs in Belfast

Penetration Testing
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Belfast requiring Penetration Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Penetration Testing over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 92
Rank change year-on-year - - -29
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 5 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 2.81% - 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% - 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,270 - £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,801 - £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +222.22%
75th Percentile £88,333 - £73,750
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median annual salary £82,801 - £72,500
% change year-on-year - - +222.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

Penetration 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 Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 168 447 722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 94.38% 88.34% 97.57%
Number of salaries quoted 40 227 395
10th Percentile £45,875 £30,000 £32,200
25th Percentile £50,000 £33,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £87,500 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,500 £87,500 £68,900
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +11.11%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Belfast

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Belfast

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in Belfast.

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in Belfast

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Wireshark
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) AppScan
1 3 (60.00%) Burp Suite
1 3 (60.00%) Metasploit
General
1 4 (80.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Principal Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Principal Security Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (60.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Data Encryption
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Information Assurance
4 1 (20.00%) Information Security Management
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) SABSA
4 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Security Management
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CISSP
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (60.00%) GIAC
2 3 (60.00%) GPEN
2 3 (60.00%) GWAPT
2 3 (60.00%) OSCP
3 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Trustwave
2 1 (20.00%) Google