Metasploit Job Trends in England

Rapid7 Metasploit
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Metasploit skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 623 721 739
Rank change year-on-year +98 +18 +369
Permanent jobs citing Metasploit 14 26 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.032% 0.038% 0.009%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.43% 0.45% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 12 20 3
10th Percentile £45,775 £56,250 £62,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £61,844 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -26.39% +12.50%
75th Percentile £81,875 £79,063 -
90th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -27.78% +11.80%

All Development Application Skills
England

Metasploit falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,228 5,821 7,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.49% 8.49% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,000 3,489 5,707
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +3.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

Metasploit
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Metasploit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Metasploit in England

Metasploit
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Metasploit.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Metasploit

Metasploit
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metasploit in England over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Metasploit in England

Metasploit
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metasploit within the England region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
London +46 6 £95,000 +43.40% 6
South East +47 3 £46,000 -23.33% 4
North of England +55 1 £57,500 - 1
Yorkshire +20 1 £57,500 - 1
South West - 1 £67,500 -
Metasploit
UK

Metasploit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 11 (78.57%) AWS
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) GCP
3 3 (21.43%) Cloudflare
4 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Wireless
2 3 (21.43%) DNS
3 1 (7.14%) Firewall
3 1 (7.14%) Internet
3 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (100.00%) Burp Suite
2 1 (7.14%) Postman
2 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
2 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Tester
2 6 (42.86%) Penetration Tester
3 3 (21.43%) Information Security Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Principal Security Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Security Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Digital Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Security Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Team Leader
5 1 (7.14%) Ethical Hacker
5 1 (7.14%) Security Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Penetration Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) JWT
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
1 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (14.29%) Driving Licence
3 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (7.14%) Cyberattack
4 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) Kali Linux
3 3 (21.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Red Team
2 10 (71.43%) Penetration Testing
3 9 (64.29%) Cloud Security
4 8 (57.14%) Purple Team
4 8 (57.14%) Security Testing
5 6 (42.86%) OWASP
6 5 (35.71%) Offensive Security
6 5 (35.71%) Threat Modelling
7 4 (28.57%) Ethical Hacking
7 4 (28.57%) Information Security
7 4 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 4 (28.57%) Social Engineering
7 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
8 3 (21.43%) Agile
8 3 (21.43%) Blue Team
8 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (21.43%) Data Loss Prevention
8 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
8 3 (21.43%) Network Segmentation
8 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Bash
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 12 (85.71%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) OSCP
2 7 (50.00%) CREST Certified
3 4 (28.57%) CHECK Team Leader
4 3 (21.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (21.43%) CCSP
4 3 (21.43%) CHECK Team Member
4 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (21.43%) CISSP
4 3 (21.43%) GCIH
4 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
5 2 (14.29%) CCSAM
5 2 (14.29%) Cyber Scheme
5 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
6 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (7.14%) GPEN
6 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
6 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
6 1 (7.14%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (35.71%) NIST
2 4 (28.57%) GDPR
3 1 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (7.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Nmap
2 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Rapid7
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk