Penetration Testing Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Penetration Testing
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 98 88
Rank change year-on-year +41 -10 0
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 0.22% 0.075% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.086% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,750 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +53.85%
75th Percentile £61,250 - £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £66,750 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +53.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 438 1,167 897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 95.01% 87.48% 96.87%
Number of salaries quoted 301 983 452
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £37,049 £38,644
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,772 £75,900
North East median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £48,125
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.30% +13.24%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Tyne and Wear

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in Tyne and Wear

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 8 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +39 1 £57,500 -
Penetration Testing
North East

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST