Offensive Security Job Trends in Berkshire

Offensive Security
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Offensive Security skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 135 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Permanent jobs citing Offensive Security 2 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.097% 0.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.20% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 - -
South East median annual salary £46,000 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Offensive Security 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 Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,833 1,964 1,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.68% 81.02% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 699 1,048 1,301
10th Percentile £26,950 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -

Offensive Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Offensive Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Offensive Security in Berkshire

Offensive Security
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Offensive Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Offensive Security

Offensive Security
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Offensive Security within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 10 September 2025. 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
Bracknell - 2 £46,000 -
Offensive Security
South East

Offensive Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (100.00%) Metasploit
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Purple Team
1 2 (100.00%) Red Team
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Nmap