Penetration Testing Jobs in Kent

Penetration Testing
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring Penetration Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Penetration Testing over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 95 95
Rank change year-on-year +24 0 +23
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 2 11 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.25% 0.73% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.90% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 4
10th Percentile £47,250 - £42,025
25th Percentile £50,625 £41,250 £46,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £65,625 £43,750 £52,875
90th Percentile £69,750 - £55,350
South East median annual salary £70,000 £43,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +60.00% -32.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 677 1,223 1,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 84.10% 81.70% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 322 891 523
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,500 £27,550
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -8.60% +3.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Kent

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in Kent.

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in Kent

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in Kent over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Penetration Testing in Kent

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the Kent region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Dartford - 1 £45,000 - 2
Tunbridge Wells - 1 £70,000 - 1
Penetration Testing
South East

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (50.00%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) SABSA
2 1 (50.00%) Scalability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
1 1 (50.00%) OSCP
1 1 (50.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (50.00%) QA