Penetration Testing Jobs in the North of England

Penetration Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 335 363
Rank change year-on-year +25 +28 -39
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 29 49 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.25% 0.28% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.33% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 25 39 57
10th Percentile £25,750 £36,250 £47,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £78,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £91,583 £67,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +6.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,172 14,688 16,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.98% 83.05% 96.83%
Number of salaries quoted 5,760 11,269 7,893
10th Percentile £25,313 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,750 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,500
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in the North of England

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in the North of England

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Penetration Testing in the North of England

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 19 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
North West -19 23 £61,000 +1.67% 29
North East - 4 £72,692 - 3
Yorkshire +53 2 £55,000 +24.29% 16
Penetration Testing
England

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.90%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (13.79%) AWS
4 2 (6.90%) AWS KMS
5 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.45%) GCP
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) DNS
1 5 (17.24%) Network Security
2 4 (13.79%) Firewall
2 4 (13.79%) HTTP
3 3 (10.34%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (6.90%) FTP
4 2 (6.90%) HTTPS
4 2 (6.90%) SMTP
4 2 (6.90%) SSH
4 2 (6.90%) SSL
4 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.45%) DHCP
5 1 (3.45%) IGMP
5 1 (3.45%) VoIP
5 1 (3.45%) VPN
5 1 (3.45%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) MySQL
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Burp Suite
General
1 15 (51.72%) Social Skills
2 10 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (13.79%) Manufacturing
5 3 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Banking
6 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Legal
7 1 (3.45%) Aviation
7 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) Analyst
1 5 (17.24%) Security Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Architect
2 4 (13.79%) Help Desk Support
2 4 (13.79%) Help Desk Support Technician
2 4 (13.79%) Help Desk Technician
2 4 (13.79%) Lead
2 4 (13.79%) Security Analyst
2 4 (13.79%) Security Architect
2 4 (13.79%) Support Technician
3 3 (10.34%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Information Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Information Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Information Security Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Information Security Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) IT Manager
4 2 (6.90%) IT Security Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Lead Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) EDI
2 2 (6.90%) LAMP
2 2 (6.90%) Loki
2 2 (6.90%) PyTorch
2 2 (6.90%) scikit-learn
2 2 (6.90%) TensorFlow
2 2 (6.90%) XML
3 1 (3.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Management Information System
1 7 (24.14%) Security Posture
2 3 (10.34%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (6.90%) Cyberattack
3 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Life Science
3 2 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (6.90%) Replication
3 2 (6.90%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.45%) NHS
4 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
2 4 (13.79%) Windows
2 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.90%) AIX
3 2 (6.90%) CentOS
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (6.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (48.28%) Information Security
3 10 (34.48%) Incident Response
4 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (31.03%) Risk Management
5 7 (24.14%) Cloud Security
5 7 (24.14%) Vulnerability Management
6 6 (20.69%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (17.24%) Decision-Making
7 5 (17.24%) Security Management
7 5 (17.24%) SIEM
8 4 (13.79%) Architectural Patterns
8 4 (13.79%) Customer Service
8 4 (13.79%) Information Assurance
8 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
8 4 (13.79%) SABSA
8 4 (13.79%) Security Architecture
8 4 (13.79%) Security Operations
8 4 (13.79%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) Python
2 3 (10.34%) C++
2 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.90%) AWK
3 2 (6.90%) C
3 2 (6.90%) C#
3 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.90%) Korn
3 2 (6.90%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (6.90%) Perl
3 2 (6.90%) PHP
4 1 (3.45%) Go
4 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) CISSP
2 8 (27.59%) CISM
3 5 (17.24%) CEH
3 5 (17.24%) Degree
4 4 (13.79%) CISA
4 4 (13.79%) CRISC
4 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
5 2 (6.90%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (6.90%) GCIH
5 2 (6.90%) GIAC
5 2 (6.90%) GISF
5 2 (6.90%) ISACA
5 2 (6.90%) SANS
5 2 (6.90%) SSCP
6 1 (3.45%) CSSLP
6 1 (3.45%) MCSA
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.45%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (44.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (34.48%) NIST
3 4 (13.79%) NCSC
4 3 (10.34%) GDPR
4 3 (10.34%) QA
5 2 (6.90%) GRC
5 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
6 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) KVM
2 2 (6.90%) Postfix
2 2 (6.90%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Nessus
2 2 (6.90%) Grafana
2 2 (6.90%) Nagios
3 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Google
2 2 (6.90%) IBM
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
2 2 (6.90%) SAP
2 2 (6.90%) Tenable
3 1 (3.45%) Monzo
3 1 (3.45%) Samsung