Penetration Testing Jobs in Cambridge

Penetration Testing
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - 85
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 0.77% - 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% - 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.88%
75th Percentile - - £60,000
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary - - £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +37.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 244 829 888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 94.21% 82.41% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 146 631 375
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £31,200
25th Percentile £37,813 £42,500 £40,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,188 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £91,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +4.35%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Cambridge

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Cambridge

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

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in Cambridge

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
1 2 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Biopharmaceutical
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Immunology
1 2 (100.00%) Line Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft