Penetration Testing Jobs in Devon

Penetration Testing
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Devon 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 75 67
Rank change year-on-year +19 -8 +5
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 0.22% 0.24% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.32% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £49,578 -
25th Percentile £66,250 £52,356 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £59,225 £24,146
Median % change year-on-year +13.97% +145.28% -38.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,106 -
90th Percentile - £67,293 £27,658
South West median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +17.39% +12.75% -27.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 422 631 528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 93.57% 74.32% 92.31%
Number of salaries quoted 201 463 352
10th Percentile £25,087 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £30,875 £30,932
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,440
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,952 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% -2.95% +5.00%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Devon

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Devon

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

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in Devon

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the Devon region over the 6 months to 5 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
Exeter +15 1 £67,500 -
Penetration Testing
South West

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Information Officer
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Officer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Officer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Contingency Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Internal Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune