Penetration Testing Jobs in County Antrim

Penetration Testing
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - 94
Rank change year-on-year - - -29
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 5 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 2.63% - 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% - 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,270 - £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,801 - £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +222.22%
75th Percentile £88,333 - £73,750
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median annual salary £82,801 - £72,500
% change year-on-year - - +222.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 180 565 770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 94.74% 90.11% 96.98%
Number of salaries quoted 44 268 419
10th Percentile £27,575 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £33,500 £37,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £67,750
Northern Ireland median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +13.64%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in County Antrim

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in County Antrim

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

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in County Antrim

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 10 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
Belfast - 5 £82,801 - 12
Penetration Testing
Northern Ireland

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Wireshark
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) AppScan
1 3 (60.00%) Burp Suite
1 3 (60.00%) Metasploit
General
1 4 (80.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Principal Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Principal Security Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (60.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Data Encryption
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Information Assurance
4 1 (20.00%) Information Security Management
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) SABSA
4 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Security Management
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CISSP
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (60.00%) GIAC
2 3 (60.00%) GPEN
2 3 (60.00%) GWAPT
2 3 (60.00%) OSCP
3 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Trustwave
2 1 (20.00%) Google