Security Testing Job Trends in Shropshire

Security Testing
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Security Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 6 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Shropshire 1.05% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% - -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile £67,750 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £70,000 - £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -26.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 342 95 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Shropshire 60.11% 82.61% 80.44%
Number of salaries quoted 241 89 165
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +31.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,600 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Security Testing job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Security Testing
Salary Trend in Shropshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Security Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Security Testing

Security Testing
Salary Histogram in Shropshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in Shropshire over the 6 months to 22 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Testing in Shropshire

Security Testing
Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Testing within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 22 June 2026. 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
Telford - 6 £50,000 - 1
Security Testing
West Midlands

Security Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Cypress.io
1 5 (83.33%) GitLab
1 5 (83.33%) Selenium
2 4 (66.67%) Burp Suite
2 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 4 (66.67%) Gatling
2 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) JMeter
2 4 (66.67%) LoadRunner
2 4 (66.67%) Postman
2 4 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 4 (66.67%) SonarQube
3 3 (50.00%) HP UFT
4 1 (16.67%) Appium
4 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (16.67%) Blockchain
1 1 (16.67%) Low-Code
1 1 (16.67%) N-Tier
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Kali Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Performance Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) OWASP
3 4 (66.67%) SDET
3 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
4 3 (50.00%) BDD
4 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
4 3 (50.00%) SDLC
4 3 (50.00%) Test Planning
4 3 (50.00%) Validation
5 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) JCL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Grafana
1 4 (66.67%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Veracode
2 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk