Penetration Testing Jobs in Oxford

Penetration Testing
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxford 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 1.75% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £74,000 - -
25th Percentile £76,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £80,000 - £61,250

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 224 565 426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 97.82% 86.92% 94.04%
Number of salaries quoted 125 417 250
10th Percentile £43,000 £29,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £63,750 £72,188
90th Percentile £95,750 £75,000 £85,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Oxford

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Oxford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in Oxford.

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in Oxford

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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:

General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Information
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Security
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Testing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Resilience Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Information Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) SIEM
4 1 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Management
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
1 4 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On