Penetration Testing Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Penetration Testing
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 - 112
Rank change year-on-year - - +42
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.42% - 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% - 0.23%
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 - - +37.50%
75th Percentile - - £60,000
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary - £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -27.27% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 460 1,270 1,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 95.83% 78.01% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 289 948 540
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £36,885 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Cambridgeshire

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in Cambridgeshire

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 29 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
Cambridge - 2 - - 24
Penetration Testing
East of England

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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