Penetration Testing Jobs in South London

Penetration Testing
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South London 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 87 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 2 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 0.28% 0.11% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.12% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £68,875 - -
25th Percentile £69,063 £45,625 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £46,250 -
Median % change year-on-year +59.46% - -
75th Percentile £79,063 £46,875 -
90th Percentile £79,625 - -
London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £82,214
% change year-on-year - -11.82% +21.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 685 837 675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 96.48% 94.79% 92.59%
Number of salaries quoted 156 390 361
10th Percentile £32,250 £27,965 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,875 £37,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £76,563 £73,438 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,125 £83,750 £87,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,073 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.03% -6.57% +7.14%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in South London

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in South London

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the South London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Croydon - 2 £73,750 -
Penetration Testing
London

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) NAS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) BCP
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) SonicWALL
1 2 (100.00%) VMware