Penetration Testing Jobs in Birmingham

Penetration Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Penetration Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Penetration Testing over the 6 months to 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 109 176
Rank change year-on-year -25 +67 -54
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 15 35 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.56% 1.72% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.80% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12 17 14
10th Percentile £36,030 £45,000 £35,775
25th Percentile £53,138 £51,250 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.64% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £105,000 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile - £76,000 £71,375
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -21.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Penetration Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,239 1,947 3,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.02% 95.77% 97.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,820 1,424 2,404
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Birmingham

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in Birmingham

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in Birmingham over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Penetration Testing in Birmingham

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (13.33%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Network Security
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (13.33%) Wireshark
3 1 (6.67%) 3GPP
3 1 (6.67%) 5G
3 1 (6.67%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (6.67%) HTTP
3 1 (6.67%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 4 (26.67%) Retail
4 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (13.33%) Legal
6 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Law
6 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Lead
1 4 (26.67%) Senior
1 4 (26.67%) Team Leader
1 4 (26.67%) Test Team Leader
2 2 (13.33%) Incident Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Information Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Information Security Manager
2 2 (13.33%) IT Security Officer
2 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Security Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Security Officer
2 2 (13.33%) Security Tester
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Security Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Security Penetration Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Integration Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Web Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) EDI
2 1 (6.67%) OAuth
2 1 (6.67%) OpenID
2 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Cybercrime
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Android
2 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 5 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 5 (33.33%) Information Security
2 5 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (26.67%) Creative Thinking
3 4 (26.67%) Data Privacy
3 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
3 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
3 4 (26.67%) Presales
3 4 (26.67%) Security Operations
3 4 (26.67%) Service Catalogue
3 4 (26.67%) SIEM
3 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (20.00%) Application Security
4 3 (20.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (13.33%) Log Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) CREST Certified
2 5 (33.33%) CISSP
2 5 (33.33%) Degree
3 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (20.00%) OSCP
5 2 (13.33%) CEH
5 2 (13.33%) CISM
5 2 (13.33%) DBS Check
5 2 (13.33%) GCFA
5 2 (13.33%) GCFE
5 2 (13.33%) GCIH
5 2 (13.33%) GREM
5 2 (13.33%) SANS
5 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
6 1 (6.67%) CISA
6 1 (6.67%) CISMP
6 1 (6.67%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (6.67%) Cyber Scheme
6 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
6 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
2 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (13.33%) NIST
4 1 (6.67%) GDPR
4 1 (6.67%) NCSC
4 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) SAP