Penetration Testing Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Penetration Testing
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 72 124 102
Rank change year-on-year +52 -22 +25
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 18 3 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 1.76% 0.15% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 0.18% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 7
10th Percentile £81,675 - £55,000
25th Percentile £87,750 - £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,500 - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £93,250 - £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £70,000 £43,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +60.00% -37.50% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 979 1,708 1,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 95.70% 86.92% 92.23%
Number of salaries quoted 361 1,028 696
10th Percentile £24,750 £28,500 £28,954
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Buckinghamshire

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in Buckinghamshire

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary histogram for Penetration Testing in Buckinghamshire

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes +59 9 £90,500 - 3
Newport Pagnell - 2 - -
Bletchley - 2 £70,000 -
Penetration Testing
South East

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) 5G
1 9 (50.00%) Bluetooth
1 9 (50.00%) LTE
1 9 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 9 (50.00%) Electronics
2 9 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (88.89%) Lead
2 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (50.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (38.89%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) IoT
1 9 (50.00%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
1 9 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 9 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 9 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 7 (38.89%) Budgeting
3 7 (38.89%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (38.89%) Coaching
3 7 (38.89%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (38.89%) Security Testing
3 7 (38.89%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 7 (38.89%) Threat Management
3 7 (38.89%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.56%) Application Security
5 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.56%) Offensive Security
5 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Bash
1 10 (55.56%) PowerShell
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 9 (50.00%) Degree
1 9 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (5.56%) CISSP
2 1 (5.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Terraform
2 9 (50.00%) Ansible
2 9 (50.00%) Puppet
3 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 9 (50.00%) VMware