Penetration Testing Jobs in Bristol

Penetration Testing
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 145 146
Rank change year-on-year +45 +1 +9
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 5 23 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.40% 0.74% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.84% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 12
10th Percentile - - £44,376
25th Percentile £61,250 £37,500 £50,015
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £47,500 £55,683
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -14.70% -20.90%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £75,938
90th Percentile £83,500 £76,375 £84,375
South West median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% +22.55% -27.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,184 2,740 2,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 94.95% 88.07% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 770 2,062 1,479
10th Percentile £30,975 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,231 £43,750 £43,162
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £58,000 £59,191
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -2.01% +11.45%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,433 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Bristol

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in Bristol

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in Bristol over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Penetration Testing in Bristol

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in Bristol

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the Bristol region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Avonmouth - 1 £65,000 -
Penetration Testing
South West

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (40.00%) Metasploit
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Penetration Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (40.00%) Application Security
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Red Team
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) OWASP
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CREST Certified
2 3 (60.00%) CISSP
3 2 (40.00%) CHECK Team Member
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (40.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (40.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Nmap