Penetration Testing Job Trends in Bracknell

Penetration Testing
Berkshire > Bracknell

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bracknell requiring Penetration Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bracknell 1.56% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 - -
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -9.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bracknell

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 Bracknell.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 287 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bracknell 79.17% 94.72% 88.74%
Number of salaries quoted 126 212 241
10th Percentile £30,000 £42,700 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £53,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £112,500
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -8.33%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Bracknell

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

Penetration Testing job vacancy trend in Bracknell

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Bracknell

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bracknell citing Penetration Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bracknell citing Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bracknell 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 3 (100.00%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 3 (100.00%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Ethical Hacker
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) OWASP
1 3 (100.00%) Purple Team
1 3 (100.00%) Red Team
1 3 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Social Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Offensive Security
3 1 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) OSCP
2 1 (33.33%) CREST Certified
2 1 (33.33%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Nmap