Penetration Testing Jobs in the East Midlands

Penetration Testing
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Penetration Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Penetration Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 171 180
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -19
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 23 6 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.51% 0.21% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.22% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 18 3 17
10th Percentile £31,750 £46,327 £37,286
25th Percentile £42,813 £53,330 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £43,323
Median % change year-on-year - +50.04% -0.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £53,750
90th Percentile - £71,000 £59,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.35% +7.60% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Penetration Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,569 2,683 3,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.40% 95.86% 91.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,514 1,259 2,037
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,162 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.68% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in the East Midlands

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in the East Midlands

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Penetration Testing in the East Midlands

Penetration Testing
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 Penetration Testing within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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 - 14 £65,000 - 1
Leicestershire -9 6 £53,250 -23.93%
Lincolnshire - 3 £33,500 -
Penetration Testing
England

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Amazon ECS
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
1 8 (34.78%) Cloudflare
2 4 (17.39%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.70%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) Firewall
2 3 (13.04%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
General
1 8 (34.78%) Games
2 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Legal
4 3 (13.04%) Aerospace
4 3 (13.04%) Automotive
4 3 (13.04%) Manufacturing
4 3 (13.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Lead
2 8 (34.78%) Technical Leader
3 4 (17.39%) Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Junior
3 4 (17.39%) Security Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Information Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Information Security Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Junior Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Junior Security Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Security Manager
5 2 (8.70%) IT Manager
5 2 (8.70%) IT Security Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.35%) IT Support
6 1 (4.35%) Service Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Service Manager
6 1 (4.35%) SOC Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 12 (52.17%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (21.74%) Cyberattack
3 4 (17.39%) Management Information System
4 3 (13.04%) Driving Licence
5 2 (8.70%) IoT
5 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (73.91%) Incident Response
3 16 (69.57%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (56.52%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 9 (39.13%) Information Security
6 8 (34.78%) Cloud Security
6 8 (34.78%) DevOps
6 8 (34.78%) Fintech
6 8 (34.78%) Security Auditing
6 8 (34.78%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (30.43%) Risk Management
8 5 (21.74%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 5 (21.74%) Process Improvement
8 5 (21.74%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (21.74%) Security Architecture
8 5 (21.74%) Threat Intelligence
8 5 (21.74%) Vulnerability Management
9 4 (17.39%) BCP
9 4 (17.39%) Due Diligence
9 4 (17.39%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) PHP
1 8 (34.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) CISM
1 9 (39.13%) CISSP
2 5 (21.74%) CEH
2 5 (21.74%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (17.39%) NIST
2 2 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
1 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Cisco
1 3 (13.04%) HP
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.04%) Nimble Storage
1 3 (13.04%) Veeam
1 3 (13.04%) VMware