Offensive Security Job Trends in the South East

Offensive Security
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Offensive Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Offensive Security 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.019% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £51,400 - -
25th Percentile £59,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 - -
75th Percentile £86,500 - -
90th Percentile £94,600 - -
England median annual salary £53,750 £77,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -30.65% +24.00% -26.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,378 8,110 6,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.85% 87.72% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,956 3,982 4,915
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £44,253 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Offensive Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Offensive Security job vacancy trend in the South East

Offensive Security
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Offensive Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Offensive Security

Offensive Security
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Offensive Security in the South East over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Offensive Security in the South East

Offensive Security
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Offensive Security within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Thames Valley - 2 £73,000 - 3
Berkshire - 1 £46,000 - 3
Buckinghamshire - 1 £100,000 -
Offensive Security
England

Offensive Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (50.00%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Purple Team
1 1 (50.00%) Red Team
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Nmap