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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 563 532
Rank change year-on-year +65 -31 +213
Permanent jobs citing Burp Suite 17 4 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.041% 0.011% 0.029%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.77% 0.11% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 13 2 5
10th Percentile £38,750 £53,500 -
25th Percentile £46,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.90% -20.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £60,450 £66,500 £82,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £66,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.43% -11.67% -11.76%

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 2,205 3,674 3,749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.26% 9.82% 12.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,394 2,105 2,914
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,563 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -5.98% +6.36%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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
Midlands +33 7 £51,058 - 13
East Midlands -1 7 £51,058 - 7
South East +33 4 £53,500 -10.83% 16
Wales - 4 - - 2
South West - 2 £47,500 - 7
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Google Workspace
2 4 (23.53%) SurveyMonkey
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) IaaS
4 1 (5.88%) OCI
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Wireshark
2 4 (23.53%) Bluetooth
2 4 (23.53%) Firewall
2 4 (23.53%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (23.53%) Modbus
2 4 (23.53%) Network Security
2 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
2 4 (23.53%) VLAN
2 4 (23.53%) ZigBee
3 3 (17.65%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 15 (88.24%) Metasploit
2 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Aerospace
2 6 (35.29%) Retail
3 4 (23.53%) Law
3 4 (23.53%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Security Specialist
1 6 (35.29%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
2 5 (29.41%) Penetration Tester
2 5 (29.41%) Tester
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Ethical Hacker
4 1 (5.88%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Penetration Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Tester
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Security Posture
2 6 (35.29%) Insider Threat
3 5 (29.41%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (23.53%) CAN bus
4 4 (23.53%) IoT
4 4 (23.53%) Operational Technology
4 4 (23.53%) SCADA
5 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
6 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) Kali Linux
3 5 (29.41%) Android
4 4 (23.53%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Penetration Testing
2 11 (64.71%) Red Team
3 10 (58.82%) Decision-Making
4 8 (47.06%) Cloud Security
4 8 (47.06%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (41.18%) Ethical Hacking
5 7 (41.18%) Offensive Security
6 6 (35.29%) Actionable Insight
6 6 (35.29%) Anomaly Detection
6 6 (35.29%) Information Security
6 6 (35.29%) Open Source
6 6 (35.29%) Threat Intelligence
7 5 (29.41%) AI
7 5 (29.41%) Data Science
7 5 (29.41%) User Experience
7 5 (29.41%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 4 (23.53%) Cryptography
8 4 (23.53%) Statistics
8 4 (23.53%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) Bash
2 4 (23.53%) C++
2 4 (23.53%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) R
2 4 (23.53%) Rust
3 2 (11.76%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) CREST Certified
1 10 (58.82%) Degree
1 10 (58.82%) OSCP
1 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) GPEN
3 6 (35.29%) CCNA
3 6 (35.29%) CEH
3 6 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (35.29%) CISMP
3 6 (35.29%) CISSP
3 6 (35.29%) CompTIA Security+
3 6 (35.29%) GIAC
3 6 (35.29%) MCP
3 6 (35.29%) MCSE
3 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (23.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.88%) CHECK Team Leader
5 1 (5.88%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) Actionable Recommendations
2 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (11.76%) GDPR
3 2 (11.76%) NIST
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (5.88%) GRC
4 1 (5.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (88.24%) Nmap
2 5 (29.41%) Nessus
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Cisco
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 4 (23.53%) Google
3 4 (23.53%) Qualtrics
3 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
3 4 (23.53%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Qualys
4 1 (5.88%) Tenable