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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 - 100
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 3 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.59% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% - 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £67,500 - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.00%
75th Percentile £89,375 - £90,000
90th Percentile £93,500 - -
South West median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £50,950
% change year-on-year +11.54% +27.58% -24.52%

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 417 816 868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 82.41% 85.89% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 287 389 493
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £29,440
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,700 £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

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Penetration Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Penetration Testing job vacancy trend 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
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Penetration Testing in Gloucestershire

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 27 October 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
Gloucester - 1 £92,500 - 1
Tewkesbury - 1 £70,000 -
Penetration Testing
South West

Penetration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) ICMP
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Arduino
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Debian
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Development
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) MODAF
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Protective Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) RMADS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat