Metasploit Job Trends in London

Rapid7 Metasploit
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Metasploit skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 380 473
Rank change year-on-year -10 +93 +127
Permanent jobs citing Metasploit 13 4 43
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.064% 0.032% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.91% 0.29% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 41
10th Percentile - £53,600 -
25th Percentile - £65,375 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile - - £120,000
England median annual salary £51,058 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -24.36% -10.00% -16.67%

All Development Application Skills
London

Metasploit falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,430 1,401 2,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.02% 11.10% 10.86%
Number of salaries quoted 879 971 1,863
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £90,625 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Metasploit
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Metasploit relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Metasploit job vacancy trend in London

Metasploit
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Metasploit.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Metasploit

Metasploit
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metasploit within the London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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
Central London +4 9 - -
Metasploit
England

Metasploit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) Wireless
2 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 4 (30.77%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) HTTPS
2 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Burp Suite
2 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket
General
1 13 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Analyst
1 9 (69.23%) Digital Analyst
1 9 (69.23%) Security Analyst
1 9 (69.23%) Senior
1 9 (69.23%) Senior Analyst
1 9 (69.23%) Senior Digital Analyst
1 9 (69.23%) Senior Security Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Cyber Threat Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
2 9 (69.23%) Mobile App
2 9 (69.23%) Security Posture
3 4 (30.77%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (30.77%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Kali Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Unix
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
1 9 (69.23%) API Testing
1 9 (69.23%) Application Security
1 9 (69.23%) Business Strategy
1 9 (69.23%) Business Transformation
1 9 (69.23%) Coaching
1 9 (69.23%) Collaborative Culture
1 9 (69.23%) Creative Thinking
1 9 (69.23%) Ethical Hacking
1 9 (69.23%) Internal Audit
1 9 (69.23%) Mentoring
1 9 (69.23%) Offensive Security
1 9 (69.23%) Penetration Testing
1 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (69.23%) Purple Team
1 9 (69.23%) Red Team
2 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
2 4 (30.77%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 4 (30.77%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Bash
1 13 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 13 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) CCSAM
1 9 (69.23%) CHECK Team Leader
1 9 (69.23%) CHECK Team Member
1 9 (69.23%) CREST Certified
1 9 (69.23%) OSCP
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Nessus
2 4 (30.77%) Ansible
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes