Offensive Security Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Offensive Security
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Offensive Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Offensive Security 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.27% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £78,375 - -
25th Percentile £79,688 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 - -
75th Percentile £87,188 - -
90th Percentile £88,125 - -
East of England median annual salary £83,750 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Offensive Security 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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 633 881 572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 84.97% 80.46% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 448 418 354
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £47,500 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £61,572 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.98% +14.02% +2.86%
75th Percentile £62,500 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,150 £85,000 £85,750
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +1.85% +2.86%

Offensive Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Offensive Security relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Offensive Security job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Offensive Security
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Offensive Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Offensive Security

Offensive Security
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Offensive Security within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
Peterborough - 1 £80,000 - 1
Offensive Security
East of England

Offensive Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Hunter
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) Event Correlation
2 1 (50.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
1 1 (50.00%) GREM
1 1 (50.00%) OSCP
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Incident Response Team
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk