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 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 - 96
Rank change year-on-year - - +33
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.19% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% - 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 £68,750 £64,500 £51,367
% change year-on-year +6.59% +25.57% -23.90%

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 444 838 837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 83.15% 82.72% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 288 459 491
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £29,440
25th Percentile £35,524 £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 £67,125 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,125 £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

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
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 3 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
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 (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