Metasploit Jobs in the UK excluding London

Rapid7 Metasploit
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Metasploit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Metasploit over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 574 763 736
Rank change year-on-year +189 -27 +107
Permanent jobs citing Metasploit 8 8 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.021% 0.011% 0.002%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.20% 0.12% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £41,250 - -
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -4.76% +45.83%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £58,750
90th Percentile - £73,000 -
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -16.67% +44.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Metasploit 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 4,013 6,681 7,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.31% 9.31% 13.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,460 4,587 4,354
10th Percentile £37,574 £33,750 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Metasploit
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Metasploit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Metasploit in the UK excluding London

Metasploit
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Metasploit in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Metasploit in the UK excluding London

Metasploit
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metasploit in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Metasploit in the UK excluding London

Metasploit
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 Metasploit within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 5
South West +102 2 £67,500 - 3
South East - 2 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £37,500 - 1
Metasploit
UK

Metasploit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (37.50%) Wireshark
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Internet
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Burp Suite
2 3 (37.50%) AppScan
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Legal
2 2 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
1 2 (25.00%) Senior Penetration Tester
1 2 (25.00%) Senior Tester
1 2 (25.00%) Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Information Security Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Junior
2 1 (12.50%) Junior Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Junior Security Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Security Posture
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Kali Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
4 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
5 3 (37.50%) Information Security
5 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 3 (37.50%) Red Team
5 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
6 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (25.00%) Cryptography
6 2 (25.00%) Project Management
6 2 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
7 1 (12.50%) Agile
7 1 (12.50%) Business Transformation
7 1 (12.50%) Coaching
7 1 (12.50%) Internal Audit
7 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) C#
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Degree
1 6 (75.00%) OSCP
2 5 (62.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (50.00%) CISSP
3 4 (50.00%) GIAC
4 3 (37.50%) GPEN
4 3 (37.50%) GWAPT
5 2 (25.00%) CEH
5 2 (25.00%) CHECK Team Member
5 2 (25.00%) CREST Certified
5 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
6 1 (12.50%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (12.50%) NIST
3 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Nessus
2 3 (37.50%) Nmap
3 1 (12.50%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Trustwave
2 1 (12.50%) Qualys