Security Testing Jobs in England

Security Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 653 533
Rank change year-on-year +249 -120 +10
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 304 194 404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.21% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.26% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 108 171 207
10th Percentile £46,100 £39,500 £41,495
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £61,206 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -18.39% +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,250 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £137,500 - £106,250
UK median annual salary £66,250 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.42% -20.00% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,475 75,726 80,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.94% 83.76% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 23,181 54,917 48,908
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £56,500 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +2.73% -9.69% +1.50%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in England

Security Testing
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Testing in England.

Salary trend for Security Testing in England

Security Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Testing in England

Security Testing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Midlands +162 148 £45,000 -10.00% 90
West Midlands +133 98 - - 51
London +116 80 £85,000 +21.43% 87
East Midlands +77 50 £45,000 -14.29% 33
South East +88 39 £63,750 +44.60% 120
North of England +30 22 £60,000 - 111
Yorkshire +59 16 £80,000 +60.00% 47
South West +120 7 £77,500 +6.90% 65
North West -9 6 £55,000 -10.14% 49
East of England +43 2 £71,500 +10.00% 65
Security Testing
UK

Security Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.64%) Appian
3 3 (0.99%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.66%) TPMS
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 84 (27.63%) Azure
2 64 (21.05%) AWS
3 43 (14.14%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (7.57%) PaaS
5 22 (7.24%) GCP
6 19 (6.25%) Power Platform
7 16 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (4.61%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (2.30%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.97%) GitHub
11 5 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.64%) MinIO
12 3 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.99%) IaaS
12 3 (0.99%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.99%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.28%) Firewall
2 10 (3.29%) Network Security
3 5 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.32%) VPN
5 2 (0.66%) Wireless
6 1 (0.33%) 4G
6 1 (0.33%) 5G
6 1 (0.33%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.33%) IPsec
6 1 (0.33%) VLAN
6 1 (0.33%) VoIP
6 1 (0.33%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (3.62%) Power BI
3 6 (1.97%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.64%) MySQL
5 4 (1.32%) Big Data
5 4 (1.32%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.66%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.33%) Airbyte
7 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (11.18%) Selenium
2 27 (8.88%) JMeter
3 25 (8.22%) Postman
4 16 (5.26%) JIRA
5 14 (4.61%) IntelliJ
6 12 (3.95%) Cypress.io
7 11 (3.62%) Git
7 11 (3.62%) LoadRunner
8 10 (3.29%) Robot Framework
9 9 (2.96%) Jenkins
10 8 (2.63%) Appium
10 8 (2.63%) REST Assured
11 7 (2.30%) Burp Suite
11 7 (2.30%) Gatling
11 7 (2.30%) SoapUI
12 6 (1.97%) JUnit
12 6 (1.97%) Locust
12 6 (1.97%) TestRail
13 5 (1.64%) GitLab
13 5 (1.64%) Snyk
General
1 43 (14.14%) Social Skills
2 36 (11.84%) Finance
3 20 (6.58%) Law
4 16 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.63%) Banking
5 8 (2.63%) Cantonese Language
5 8 (2.63%) Mandarin Language
6 6 (1.97%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.64%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.99%) Games
8 3 (0.99%) Legal
9 2 (0.66%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.33%) Aviation
10 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 173 (56.91%) Security Engineer
2 147 (48.36%) Principal Engineer
2 147 (48.36%) Principal Security Engineer
3 98 (32.24%) Analyst
4 91 (29.93%) Security Analyst
5 87 (28.62%) Principal Security Analyst
5 87 (28.62%) Product Analyst
6 60 (19.74%) Product Engineer
7 36 (11.84%) Senior
8 31 (10.20%) Lead
9 19 (6.25%) Tester
10 15 (4.93%) Test Engineer
11 14 (4.61%) Java Engineer
11 14 (4.61%) Senior Java Engineer
12 12 (3.95%) Security Specialist
13 10 (3.29%) Penetration Tester
14 9 (2.96%) Cybersecurity Specialist
14 9 (2.96%) Developer
15 8 (2.63%) Architect
15 8 (2.63%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.89%) YAML
2 22 (7.24%) REST
3 17 (5.59%) React
4 7 (2.30%) Kafka
5 6 (1.97%) Playwright
5 6 (1.97%) pytest
6 5 (1.64%) .NET
6 5 (1.64%) .NET Framework
6 5 (1.64%) Apache NiFi
6 5 (1.64%) Node.js
7 4 (1.32%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.32%) Jest
7 4 (1.32%) JWT
7 4 (1.32%) OAuth
7 4 (1.32%) RESTful
7 4 (1.32%) Swagger
7 4 (1.32%) Web Services
8 3 (0.99%) CSS
8 3 (0.99%) React Native
8 3 (0.99%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.25%) Security Posture
2 9 (2.96%) Cloud Native
2 9 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (2.30%) Mobile App
5 6 (1.97%) Cyberattack
5 6 (1.97%) Low-Code
5 6 (1.97%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.66%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.66%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.66%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.66%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.66%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.66%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.66%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.29%) Windows
2 6 (1.97%) Linux
3 2 (0.66%) Android
3 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (61.18%) Cybersecurity
2 167 (54.93%) Information Security
3 155 (50.99%) Risk Management
4 148 (48.68%) Project Management
5 147 (48.36%) Cyber Resilience
6 72 (23.68%) CI/CD
7 71 (23.36%) Test Automation
8 68 (22.37%) Agile
9 65 (21.38%) Application Security
10 52 (17.11%) DevOps
11 46 (15.13%) OWASP
11 46 (15.13%) Penetration Testing
12 43 (14.14%) Vulnerability Management
13 39 (12.83%) SDLC
13 39 (12.83%) Software Testing
14 37 (12.17%) DevSecOps
15 35 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (10.20%) Creative Thinking
17 29 (9.54%) Threat Modelling
18 27 (8.88%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (13.82%) Python
2 39 (12.83%) Java
3 29 (9.54%) SQL
4 24 (7.89%) JavaScript
5 23 (7.57%) PowerShell
6 10 (3.29%) C#
7 8 (2.63%) Go
8 5 (1.64%) Bash
8 5 (1.64%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.99%) Scala
9 3 (0.99%) X++
10 2 (0.66%) C++
10 2 (0.66%) Ruby
11 1 (0.33%) PHP
11 1 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 191 (62.83%) Degree
2 160 (52.63%) CISSP
3 154 (50.66%) CISM
4 152 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 147 (48.36%) CESG Certified Professional
6 35 (11.51%) Master's Degree
7 28 (9.21%) ISTQB
8 24 (7.89%) Security Cleared
9 21 (6.91%) SC Cleared
10 18 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (4.61%) PhD
12 13 (4.28%) CREST Certified
13 10 (3.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 7 (2.30%) Azure Certification
15 6 (1.97%) CEH
15 6 (1.97%) CHECK Team Leader
16 5 (1.64%) DV Cleared
16 5 (1.64%) SANS
17 4 (1.32%) OSCP
18 3 (0.99%) OSWP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (60.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 179 (58.88%) NIST
3 147 (48.36%) JSP 440
3 147 (48.36%) RMADS
4 25 (8.22%) QA
5 23 (7.57%) NCSC
6 15 (4.93%) GDPR
7 10 (3.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (2.30%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.97%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (1.32%) SLA
11 2 (0.66%) COBIT
11 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 2 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.66%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 24 (7.89%) Docker
2 4 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 27 (8.88%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.95%) Terraform
3 7 (2.30%) Ansible
4 5 (1.64%) HP Fortify
4 5 (1.64%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.33%) Grafana
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.33%) Nessus
5 1 (0.33%) Nmap
5 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.64%) BiZZdesign
2 5 (1.64%) Black Duck
2 5 (1.64%) Databricks
2 5 (1.64%) UiPath
2 5 (1.64%) VMware
3 4 (1.32%) Oracle
4 2 (0.66%) Checkmarx
4 2 (0.66%) Cisco
4 2 (0.66%) F5
4 2 (0.66%) Fortinet
4 2 (0.66%) Palo Alto
4 2 (0.66%) Splunk
5 1 (0.33%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.33%) Coverity
5 1 (0.33%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.33%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.33%) HP
5 1 (0.33%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.33%) Sophos