Offensive Security Job Trends in the East Midlands

Offensive Security
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Offensive Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Offensive Security 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.087% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £50,474 - -
25th Percentile £53,936 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,779 - -
75th Percentile £68,800 - -
90th Percentile £71,770 - -
England median annual salary £72,500 £90,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -19.44% +56.52% -20.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Offensive Security 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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,992 2,856 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.53% 78.81% 92.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,083 1,219 1,040
10th Percentile £25,900 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -15.49% +6.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,650 £76,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%

Offensive Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Offensive Security relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Offensive Security job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Offensive Security
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Offensive Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Offensive Security

Offensive Security
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Offensive Security in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Offensive Security in the East Midlands

Offensive Security
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Offensive Security within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Nottinghamshire - 1 £51,058 - 2
Offensive Security
England

Offensive Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (50.00%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Insider Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Black-Box Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Red Team
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CEH
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CISA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) CISMP
2 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (50.00%) CREST Certified
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) GIAC
2 1 (50.00%) GPEN
2 1 (50.00%) MCP
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) OSCP
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft