Penetration Testing Job Trends in Sunderland

Penetration Testing
Tyne and Wear > Sunderland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Sunderland requiring Penetration Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Sunderland 0.70% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 -
% change year-on-year +30.43% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sunderland

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 Sunderland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 97 44 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sunderland 67.83% 95.65% 91.33%
Number of salaries quoted 65 19 138
10th Percentile £28,350 £31,650 £35,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £40,177
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,123 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% -23.41% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £67,125
90th Percentile £58,000 £68,000 £77,150
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £52,065 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.13% +5.26% -9.52%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Sunderland

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

Penetration Testing job vacancy trend in Sunderland

Penetration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sunderland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust