Security Testing Jobs in the East Midlands

Security Testing
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 194 175
Rank change year-on-year +86 -19 +20
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 50 7 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.85% 0.14% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 0.18% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £41,659
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +26.02% -1.40%
England median annual salary £71,500 £61,206 £75,000
% change year-on-year +16.82% -18.39% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Security 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 2,495 3,806 2,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 92.27% 78.34% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 940 2,632 1,220
10th Percentile £25,625 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £44,941 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -14.40% +10.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,200 £66,063
90th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the East Midlands

Security Testing
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for Security Testing in the East Midlands

Security 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 Security Testing within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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 - 34 £45,000 - 2
Northamptonshire +10 16 - -
Security Testing
England

Security 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 (2.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (2.00%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Git
1 1 (2.00%) JMeter
1 1 (2.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (2.00%) Postman
1 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (2.00%) Retail
1 1 (2.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (98.00%) Principal Engineer
1 49 (98.00%) Principal Security Engineer
1 49 (98.00%) Security Engineer
2 28 (56.00%) Analyst
2 28 (56.00%) Principal Security Analyst
2 28 (56.00%) Product Analyst
2 28 (56.00%) Security Analyst
3 21 (42.00%) Product Engineer
4 1 (2.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (2.00%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (2.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) Playwright
1 1 (2.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (98.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 49 (98.00%) Cybersecurity
1 49 (98.00%) Information Security
1 49 (98.00%) Project Management
1 49 (98.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (2.00%) Agile
2 1 (2.00%) BDD
2 1 (2.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (2.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (2.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (2.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (2.00%) OWASP
2 1 (2.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (2.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (2.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (2.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (2.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 49 (98.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 49 (98.00%) CESG Certified Professional
1 49 (98.00%) CISM
1 49 (98.00%) CISSP
1 49 (98.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (98.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 49 (98.00%) JSP 440
1 49 (98.00%) NIST
1 49 (98.00%) RMADS
2 1 (2.00%) QA