Penetration Testing Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Penetration Testing
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Penetration Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 43 64
Rank change year-on-year -15 +21 +12
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 10 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 0.16% 2.89% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 3.09% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £87,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £90,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.23% +57.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £57,500 £93,250 £61,250
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £55,000 £90,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year -39.23% +54.04% -18.97%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 534 324 598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 86.41% 93.64% 89.39%
Number of salaries quoted 353 229 410
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,678 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £92,000 £77,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Penetration Testing job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Penetration Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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%) SaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Information Officer
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Officer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Officer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS