Offensive Security Job Trends in Cheltenham

Offensive Security
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Offensive Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Offensive Security 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 0.56% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £48,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £56,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 130 150 347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 72.63% 93.75% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 97 79 192
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,200 £37,525
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%

Offensive Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Offensive Security job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Offensive Security
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Offensive Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Offensive Security

Offensive Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus