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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 - 110
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 3 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.60% - 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% - 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £47,500
25th Percentile £71,250 - £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £62,500
90th Percentile - - £65,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £44,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +24.29% -15.71% -13.32%

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 397 1,286 1,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 79.08% 78.51% 98.34%
Number of salaries quoted 247 988 562
10th Percentile £25,267 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,956 £38,651 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,625 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,772 £70,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year -5.00% -8.90% +5.54%

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 23 June 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 - - 1
Sheffield - 1 £72,500 - 6
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 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 2 (66.67%) Security Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (33.33%) SCADA
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Fuzz Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Interactive Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) SOAR
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CEH
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft