Metasploit Job Trends in the Midlands

Rapid7 Metasploit
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 269 -
Rank change year-on-year +36 - -
Permanent jobs citing Metasploit 1 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.018% 0.022% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.28% 0.40% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £75,500 -
25th Percentile £48,165 £76,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £77,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% - -
75th Percentile £53,951 £78,750 -
90th Percentile - £79,500 -
England median annual salary £57,500 £66,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.21% +20.45% -33.73%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 353 506 485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.38% 5.54% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 216 253 408
10th Percentile £34,125 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,438 £40,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £69,663
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -

Metasploit
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Metasploit job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Metasploit
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Metasploit.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Metasploit

Metasploit
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metasploit within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
East Midlands - 1 £51,058 - 2
Metasploit
England

Metasploit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Insider Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Black-Box Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISMP
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) GPEN
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft