Penetration Testing Jobs in the East Midlands

Penetration Testing
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 173 171
Rank change year-on-year +17 -2 +9
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 3 23 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.11% 0.51% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.64% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2 18 3
10th Percentile £39,100 £31,750 £46,327
25th Percentile £39,250 £42,813 £53,330
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% - +50.04%
75th Percentile £40,750 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £40,900 - £71,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,250
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.35% +7.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,538 3,569 2,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 92.39% 79.40% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 974 2,514 1,259
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,162 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -11.68% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,188 £56,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,218 £68,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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
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 21 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
Leicestershire +33 1 £40,000 -24.88%
Nottinghamshire +14 1 £40,000 -38.46%
Northamptonshire - 1 - - 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) 5G
1 1 (33.33%) Bluetooth
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) LTE
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware