Penetration Testing Jobs in Staffordshire

Penetration Testing
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 85 62
Rank change year-on-year +17 -23 -
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 2 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 0.31% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.24% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £45,869 - -
25th Percentile £47,172 - £37,539
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,844 - £39,078
75th Percentile £54,672 - £40,616
90th Percentile £54,869 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +22.73% -8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 450 842 497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 69.88% 81.75% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 228 590 361
10th Percentile £28,822 £23,500 £23,250
25th Percentile £30,580 £28,119 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% -
75th Percentile £53,688 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £73,250 £62,500 £67,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Staffordshire

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

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

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in Staffordshire

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Stafford - 1 £53,688 -
Penetration Testing
West Midlands

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware