Penetration Testing Job Trends in Stockport

Penetration Testing
Manchester > Stockport

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stockport requiring Penetration Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Stockport 1.37% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £66,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £71,250 £67,192 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.04% +11.99% +14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stockport

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 Stockport.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 70 64 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stockport 95.89% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 36 20 48
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,575 -
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,938 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,375 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.34% -29.25% +53.85%
75th Percentile £63,125 £51,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,375 £58,125 £66,500
Manchester median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Penetration Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Stockport.

Penetration Testing job vacancy trend in Stockport

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Stockport

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stockport citing Penetration Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stockport citing Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless Security
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (100.00%) PMI
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef