Offensive Security Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Offensive Security
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Offensive Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Offensive Security 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.63% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £48,165 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 - -
75th Percentile £54,213 - -
90th Percentile £54,685 - -
East Midlands median annual salary £51,058 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

Offensive Security 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 Nottinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 559 927 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 88.17% 85.67% 91.13%
Number of salaries quoted 334 355 280
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £28,750 £39,875 £41,158
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £58,250 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £81,375
East Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -9.52% +5.00%

Offensive Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Offensive Security relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire.

Offensive Security job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Offensive Security
Salary Trend in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Offensive Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Offensive Security

Offensive Security
Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Offensive Security within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 29 October 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
Nottingham - 2 £53,029 -
Offensive Security
East Midlands

Offensive Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (50.00%) Metasploit
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Security Specialist
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Insider Threat
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 2 (50.00%) Black-Box Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Red Team
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNA
1 2 (50.00%) CEH
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CISMP
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (50.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) GIAC
1 2 (50.00%) GPEN
1 2 (50.00%) MCP
1 2 (50.00%) MCSE
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (50.00%) OSCP
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft