Penetration Testing Jobs in South Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 - 130
Rank change year-on-year - - -31
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 2 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.50% - 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% - 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £48,125
25th Percentile - - £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.68%
75th Percentile - - £70,625
90th Percentile - - £76,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £44,250 £51,933
% change year-on-year +24.29% -14.79% -13.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 362 1,139 1,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 90.50% 82.00% 98.74%
Number of salaries quoted 212 900 539
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,450 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,094 £37,000 £33,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £81,125 £75,772 £70,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.63% -9.09% +9.62%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in South Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in South Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 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
Doncaster - 1 - -
Penetration Testing
Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) Security Specialist
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Fuzz Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft