Penetration Testing Job Trends in Doncaster

Penetration Testing
South Yorkshire > Doncaster

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Doncaster requiring Penetration Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Doncaster 1.89% - 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% - 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £55,000
75th Percentile £65,000 - £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median annual salary £66,250 - £72,500
% change year-on-year - - +70.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Doncaster

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 Doncaster.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 55 59 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Doncaster 51.89% 90.77% 92.86%
Number of salaries quoted 29 30 61
10th Percentile - £16,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,000 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -
75th Percentile £32,500 £60,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £60,000 - £57,500
South Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -10.00%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Doncaster

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

Penetration Testing job vacancy trend in Doncaster

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Doncaster

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Doncaster citing Penetration Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Doncaster citing Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Doncaster 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Bid Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Business Development
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Fuzz Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Value Proposition
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) APMP
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft