Burp Suite Job Trends in the UK excluding London

PortSwigger Burp Suite
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Burp Suite skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 650 527 616
Rank change year-on-year -123 +89 -63
Permanent jobs citing Burp Suite 22 11 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.025% 0.032% 0.010%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.76% 0.47% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 21 5 4
10th Percentile £29,500 - £55,500
25th Percentile £32,500 - £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,743 £46,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -34.29% +55.56%
75th Percentile - £58,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £57,500 £60,400 £78,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £68,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year -19.12% +2.64% +26.19%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Burp Suite falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,888 2,318 3,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.32% 6.74% 7.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,821 1,278 2,172
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £69,563
90th Percentile £86,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%

Burp Suite
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Burp Suite relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Burp Suite job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Burp Suite
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Burp Suite.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Burp Suite

Burp Suite
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Burp Suite in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Burp Suite in the UK excluding London

Burp Suite
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Burp Suite within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 October 2026. 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
South West - 11 £42,500 - 3
Midlands - 7 £46,743 - 1
East Midlands - 4 £46,743 -
West Midlands - 3 £35,000 - 1
Scotland - 2 £62,500 -
South East -42 1 - - 4
Wales -73 1 £42,500 -
Burp Suite
UK

Burp Suite
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) AWS
3 6 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) Tricentis Tosca
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.55%) BrowserStack
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (68.18%) Metasploit
2 7 (31.82%) JMeter
3 5 (22.73%) Selenium
4 4 (18.18%) Cucumber
4 4 (18.18%) Cypress.io
4 4 (18.18%) Gatling
4 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
4 4 (18.18%) Postman
4 4 (18.18%) REST Assured
5 3 (13.64%) GitLab
5 3 (13.64%) HP UFT
5 3 (13.64%) LoadRunner
5 3 (13.64%) SonarQube
6 2 (9.09%) JIRA
7 1 (4.55%) Pa11y
7 1 (4.55%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (72.73%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Retail
4 4 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (13.64%) Aerospace
5 3 (13.64%) Finance
5 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
6 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Security Specialist
1 6 (27.27%) Tester
1 6 (27.27%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
2 5 (22.73%) Penetration Tester
3 4 (18.18%) Consultant
3 4 (18.18%) Graduate
3 4 (18.18%) Graduate Consultant
3 4 (18.18%) Security Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Senior QA Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Software Development Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Test Development Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Playwright
2 2 (9.09%) RESTful
3 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.55%) Node.js
3 1 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (59.09%) Security Posture
2 6 (27.27%) Insider Threat
3 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
4 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
5 2 (9.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Kali Linux
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (68.18%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (68.18%) Penetration Testing
3 13 (59.09%) Information Security
4 12 (54.55%) Offensive Security
5 11 (50.00%) Security Testing
6 10 (45.45%) Computer Science
6 10 (45.45%) Mentoring
7 9 (40.91%) Red Team
8 7 (31.82%) OWASP
8 7 (31.82%) Test Automation
9 6 (27.27%) Anomaly Detection
9 6 (27.27%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 6 (27.27%) Decision-Making
9 6 (27.27%) DevOps
9 6 (27.27%) Threat Intelligence
10 5 (22.73%) Agile
10 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (22.73%) Validation
10 5 (22.73%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Java
2 4 (18.18%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Degree
2 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
2 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
3 6 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (22.73%) CREST Certified
5 3 (13.64%) CHECK Team Member
5 3 (13.64%) ISTQB
5 3 (13.64%) Master's Degree
6 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
6 2 (9.09%) ISEB
6 2 (9.09%) OSCP
7 1 (4.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) QA
2 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (68.18%) Nmap
2 5 (22.73%) Grafana
3 3 (13.64%) HP Fortify
4 2 (9.09%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Veracode