Penetration Testing Jobs in the North East

Penetration Testing
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 - 108
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 4 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.45% - 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% - 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £56,978 - -
25th Percentile £61,819 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,692 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +53.85%
75th Percentile £80,194 - £67,500
90th Percentile £84,143 - -
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 1,694 1,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 84.22% 85.51% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 392 1,377 594
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £47,711
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -0.44% +12.26%
75th Percentile £64,250 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in the North East

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in the North East.

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in the North East

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in the North East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Penetration Testing in the North East

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the North East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Durham - 3 £76,000 - 1
Tyne and Wear - 1 £57,500 - 20
Penetration Testing
England

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) IGMP
2 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) VRRP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Aviation
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Information Assurance
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security Management
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (50.00%) SABSA
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Security Management
1 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (25.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (75.00%) NIST
2 2 (50.00%) NCSC
3 1 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) QA