Penetration Testing Jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne

Penetration Testing
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 - 84
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.32% - 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,750 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.66%
75th Percentile £61,250 - £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £57,500 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +53.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 296 909 751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 93.97% 88.42% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 214 753 398
10th Percentile £27,225 £31,250 £31,763
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,603 £64,875
90th Percentile £83,675 £77,500 £75,300
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +10.53%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Newcastle upon Tyne

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in Newcastle upon Tyne

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST