Penetration Testing Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Penetration Testing
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Penetration Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 - 98
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.18% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65,000 - £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £90,000
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £70,000 £64,000 £51,183
% change year-on-year +9.38% +25.04% -24.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 455 904 842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 83.18% 82.33% 93.97%
Number of salaries quoted 291 535 483
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,918 £29,440
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Gloucestershire

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Penetration Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Tewkesbury - 1 £70,000 -
Penetration Testing
South West

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Business Development
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat