Penetration Testing Jobs in the City of London

Penetration Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 140 202
Rank change year-on-year +16 +62 +43
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 16 36 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.84% 1.08% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.17% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 14 33 26
10th Percentile £54,125 - £42,222
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £55,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £98,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -28.57% +68.97%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £76,000 £105,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £98,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% -18.37% +68.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,837 3,064 4,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.23% 91.74% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,378 2,398 3,612
10th Percentile £41,925 £41,250 £42,775
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in the City of London

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in the City of London.

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in the City of London

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Penetration Testing in the City of London

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
1 6 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 5 (31.25%) Google Workspace
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (6.25%) AWS KMS
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) VLAN
2 5 (31.25%) SSL
2 5 (31.25%) Wireless
3 2 (12.50%) Firewall
3 2 (12.50%) VPN
4 1 (6.25%) 4G
4 1 (6.25%) 5G
4 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (6.25%) IPsec
4 1 (6.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) SOC Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (12.50%) IT Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Junior
4 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Security Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Application Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Information Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Information Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Security Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Junior Information Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (18.75%) CSOC
2 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
4 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 7 (43.75%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 6 (37.50%) Cloud Security
4 6 (37.50%) DevOps
4 6 (37.50%) Incident Response
4 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Management
4 6 (37.50%) Project Management
5 5 (31.25%) Business Continuity
5 5 (31.25%) Cost Control
5 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
5 5 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (31.25%) Network Architecture
5 5 (31.25%) Network Design
5 5 (31.25%) Security Operations
5 5 (31.25%) SIEM
5 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
6 4 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
2 2 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) CISA
2 2 (12.50%) CISM
2 2 (12.50%) CISSP
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) CREST Certified
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) COBIT
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (31.25%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (31.25%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (18.75%) QRadar
4 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
4 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Cisco
2 5 (31.25%) Google
2 5 (31.25%) Meraki
3 2 (12.50%) Checkmarx
4 1 (6.25%) HP
4 1 (6.25%) Sophos