Penetration Testing Job Trends in Cheltenham

Penetration Testing
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Penetration Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 - 64
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 0.32% - 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% - 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £58,000
25th Percentile £48,750 - £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £90,000
75th Percentile £56,250 - £97,500
90th Percentile - - £102,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £80,000 - £90,000
% change year-on-year - - +80.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 248 67 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 79.74% 91.78% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 179 48 291
10th Percentile £34,500 £29,200 £31,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -3.51%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,063 £68,125
90th Percentile £95,750 £100,000 £83,750
Gloucestershire median annual salary £54,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.66% +5.20% -9.09%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Penetration Testing job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Penetration Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing
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%) Offensive Security
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