Penetration Testing Jobs in the East of England

Penetration Testing
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 207 222 234
Rank change year-on-year +15 +12 -73
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 10 24 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.17% 0.42% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.44% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 39
10th Percentile - £51,750 £21,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £52,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +37.50% -14.73%
75th Percentile £47,500 £62,500 £58,000
90th Percentile £57,625 £64,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,919 5,429 5,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 81.82% 94.91% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,682 2,347 2,718
10th Percentile £25,809 £29,000 £28,175
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £77,500
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in the East of England

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in the East of England

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Penetration Testing in the East of England

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 16 April 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
Suffolk -3 5 £40,000 -30.43% 1
Hertfordshire 0 2 £56,250 +2.27% 1
Essex - 2 £45,000 -
Cambridgeshire +22 1 £42,500 -
Penetration Testing
England

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) DHCP
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) VoIP
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Security Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
1 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (20.00%) Server Management
3 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (10.00%) SIEM
4 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Bash
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
1 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) Aruba
3 2 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (20.00%) HP
3 2 (20.00%) Meraki
3 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (20.00%) Sophos