Security Testing Job Trends in the North East

Security Testing
England > North East

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 87 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.29% 0.10% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.12% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £56,109 - -
25th Percentile £57,773 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,539 - -
75th Percentile £69,300 - -
90th Percentile £72,160 - -
England median annual salary £74,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.50% +10.34% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Security 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 834 850 465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 80.97% 87.27% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 546 394 404
10th Percentile £25,592 £30,825 £28,075
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,591 £61,250
90th Percentile £81,745 £85,000 £73,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Security Testing job vacancy trend in the North East

Security Testing
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Security Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Security Testing

Security Testing
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in the North East over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Testing in the North East

Security 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 Security Testing within the North East region over the 6 months to 18 December 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 - 2 £70,079 -
Tyne and Wear - 1 £55,000 - 1
Security Testing
England

Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Datadog
1 1 (33.33%) dbt
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Locust
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Test Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) Blazor
2 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) FinOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft