Senior Penetration Tester Jobs in the Thames Valley

Senior Penetration Tester
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior Penetration Tester salary in the Thames Valley is £61,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 - 241
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Penetration Tester 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.027% - 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% - 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 - -
75th Percentile £61,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £61,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 3,274 6,376 4,684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.70% 94.39% 91.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,489 4,304 3,007
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,500 £38,895
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Senior Penetration Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Senior Penetration Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Penetration Tester in the Thames Valley

Senior Penetration Tester
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Penetration Tester in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Senior Penetration Tester in the Thames Valley

Senior Penetration Tester
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Penetration Tester within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Berkshire - 1 £61,000 -
Senior Penetration Tester
South East

Senior Penetration Tester Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, Senior Penetration Tester job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring Senior Penetration Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) OSINT
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) CHECK Team Leader
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable

Senior Penetration Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) OSINT
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CHECK Team Leader
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable