Penetration Testing Jobs in Birmingham

Penetration Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 132 101
Rank change year-on-year +30 -31 +64
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 3 13 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.21% 0.47% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.57% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 17
10th Percentile £61,500 £36,000 £46,500
25th Percentile £61,875 £47,525 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +40.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,916 £105,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,166 - £76,000
West Midlands median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +22.73% -8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,347 2,265 1,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 94.93% 82.04% 96.00%
Number of salaries quoted 752 1,832 1,378
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,000 £31,425
25th Percentile £42,688 £40,988 £43,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,240
Median % change year-on-year - -2.20% +2.25%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,936 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,875 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.85% +5.10%

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 13 May 2025.

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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Information Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) People Management
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Register
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) SABSA
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Security Management
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (33.33%) NCSC
3 1 (33.33%) QA