Penetration Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Penetration Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Penetration Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Penetration Testing over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 467 474
Rank change year-on-year -68 +7 -61
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 241 314 447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.51% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.54% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 163 173 339
10th Percentile £36,050 £41,332 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +7.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Penetration Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,360 58,686 66,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 95.63% 94.02%
Number of salaries quoted 41,074 30,149 41,547
10th Percentile £27,041 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London

Penetration Testing
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 Penetration Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 East +1 65 £43,750 -37.50% 19
South West -2 54 £57,500 +12.75% 19
North of England +12 51 £57,500 +9.00% 15
Midlands +6 51 £55,000 -8.33% 7
North West +18 38 £60,000 +12.15% 9
West Midlands -9 30 £55,000 -8.33% 2
East Midlands +3 21 £65,000 - 5
Yorkshire +63 12 £44,250 -15.71% 5
East of England +7 8 £41,250 -25.00%
Scotland -85 7 £60,000 +7.75% 3
Wales +10 3 £90,000 +50.00% 4
Northern Ireland +25 1 £80,000 +10.34% 2
North East -6 1 - - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -
Penetration Testing
UK

Penetration Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.41%) Apache
3 1 (0.41%) IIS
3 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 49 (20.33%) Azure
2 30 (12.45%) AWS
3 13 (5.39%) Cloud Computing
4 12 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (3.32%) Cloudflare
6 6 (2.49%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (1.66%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.66%) GCP
7 4 (1.66%) SaaS
8 3 (1.24%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.24%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.24%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.83%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (0.83%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.83%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 63 (26.14%) Firewall
2 34 (14.11%) Network Security
3 19 (7.88%) Intrusion Detection
4 18 (7.47%) Wireless
5 17 (7.05%) TCP/IP
6 13 (5.39%) DNS
7 12 (4.98%) VPN
8 10 (4.15%) Internet
9 9 (3.73%) SSL
10 7 (2.90%) Wireshark
11 6 (2.49%) BGP
11 6 (2.49%) LAN
11 6 (2.49%) SAN
12 5 (2.07%) HTTP
12 5 (2.07%) IPsec
12 5 (2.07%) NGFW
12 5 (2.07%) OSPF
12 5 (2.07%) VLAN
12 5 (2.07%) WAN
13 4 (1.66%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.07%) NoSQL
1 5 (2.07%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.24%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (4.15%) Burp Suite
2 7 (2.90%) Metasploit
3 4 (1.66%) Git
4 2 (0.83%) JIRA
5 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.41%) GitLab
5 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.41%) Selenium
5 1 (0.41%) Snyk
General
1 76 (31.54%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (11.20%) Finance
4 21 (8.71%) Aerospace
4 21 (8.71%) Legal
5 16 (6.64%) Telecoms
6 14 (5.81%) Military
7 13 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.56%) Games
8 11 (4.56%) Retail
9 10 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (4.15%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.32%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.90%) Automotive
11 7 (2.90%) Aviation
11 7 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (2.49%) Marketing
13 5 (2.07%) Law
14 3 (1.24%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 42 (17.43%) Analyst
2 38 (15.77%) Tester
3 37 (15.35%) Penetration Tester
4 31 (12.86%) Security Analyst
5 27 (11.20%) Lead
6 26 (10.79%) Senior
7 20 (8.30%) Security Manager
8 18 (7.47%) Consultant
9 17 (7.05%) Security Consultant
10 15 (6.22%) Architect
10 15 (6.22%) Security Architect
10 15 (6.22%) Security Engineer
11 13 (5.39%) Security Penetration Tester
11 13 (5.39%) Security Tester
12 12 (4.98%) Business Development Manager
12 12 (4.98%) Business Manager
12 12 (4.98%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 12 (4.98%) Development Manager
12 12 (4.98%) IT Manager
13 11 (4.56%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.73%) OAuth
2 8 (3.32%) Laravel
3 6 (2.49%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.66%) EDI
4 4 (1.66%) Web Services
5 2 (0.83%) OpenID
5 2 (0.83%) SAML
6 1 (0.41%) React
6 1 (0.41%) Spring
6 1 (0.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.52%) Cyber Threat
2 26 (10.79%) Security Posture
3 22 (9.13%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (8.30%) Operational Technology
5 19 (7.88%) Management Information System
6 15 (6.22%) Data Centre
7 14 (5.81%) Cyberattack
8 12 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (4.56%) Cyber Defence
9 11 (4.56%) Mobile App
10 10 (4.15%) IoT
11 7 (2.90%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (2.07%) Algorithms
12 5 (2.07%) Data Structures
12 5 (2.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.66%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.66%) Security Operations Centre
14 3 (1.24%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (1.24%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 42 (17.43%) Windows
2 21 (8.71%) Linux
3 10 (4.15%) Kali Linux
4 9 (3.73%) Android
4 9 (3.73%) Apple iOS
4 9 (3.73%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.24%) Mac OS X
5 3 (1.24%) Unix
6 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (76.35%) Cybersecurity
2 68 (28.22%) Incident Response
3 64 (26.56%) Information Security
4 51 (21.16%) Computer Science
5 42 (17.43%) Vulnerability Management
6 41 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (14.52%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 34 (14.11%) Application Security
9 32 (13.28%) SIEM
9 32 (13.28%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 30 (12.45%) OWASP
10 30 (12.45%) Red Team
11 29 (12.03%) Patch Management
11 29 (12.03%) Security Operations
12 26 (10.79%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 25 (10.37%) Mentoring
14 24 (9.96%) Risk Management
15 22 (9.13%) Software Engineering
16 19 (7.88%) Data Protection
17 18 (7.47%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (16.60%) Python
2 17 (7.05%) Bash
3 8 (3.32%) PHP
3 8 (3.32%) Rust
4 6 (2.49%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.07%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.66%) Java
7 3 (1.24%) C#
7 3 (1.24%) SQL
8 2 (0.83%) Ruby
9 1 (0.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 57 (23.65%) Degree
2 48 (19.92%) CISSP
3 35 (14.52%) OSCP
4 31 (12.86%) CISM
5 20 (8.30%) Security Cleared
6 19 (7.88%) CREST Certified
7 18 (7.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (5.39%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (5.39%) GIAC
9 12 (4.98%) CEH
9 12 (4.98%) CHECK Team Member
9 12 (4.98%) SC Cleared
10 11 (4.56%) CompTIA Security+
11 8 (3.32%) GPEN
12 7 (2.90%) DV Cleared
13 6 (2.49%) CISA
14 5 (2.07%) CCIE
14 5 (2.07%) CCNA
14 5 (2.07%) CCNP
14 5 (2.07%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (22.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (12.03%) NIST
3 26 (10.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 17 (7.05%) GRC
5 15 (6.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 12 (4.98%) GDPR
7 7 (2.90%) DO-254
7 7 (2.90%) NCSC
7 7 (2.90%) QA
8 6 (2.49%) NIST 800
8 6 (2.49%) PCI DSS
9 5 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (1.66%) SOC 2
11 3 (1.24%) HIPAA
11 3 (1.24%) JTAG
12 1 (0.41%) COBIT
12 1 (0.41%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.41%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (9.96%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.83%) Docker
4 2 (0.83%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (5.81%) Nessus
2 11 (4.56%) WSUS
3 7 (2.90%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 7 (2.90%) Nmap
4 6 (2.49%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.07%) Ansible
6 4 (1.66%) Suricata
7 3 (1.24%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.24%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.24%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.83%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.41%) Anchore
Vendors
1 37 (15.35%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.56%) Cisco
3 10 (4.15%) Qualys
4 9 (3.73%) Splunk
5 8 (3.32%) VMware
6 7 (2.90%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.49%) HubSpot
8 4 (1.66%) HP
8 4 (1.66%) Juniper
9 3 (1.24%) Lauterbach
9 3 (1.24%) Nimble Storage
9 3 (1.24%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.24%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.24%) Veeam
9 3 (1.24%) Veracode
10 2 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.41%) Aruba
11 1 (0.41%) Databricks
11 1 (0.41%) Meraki
11 1 (0.41%) SolarWinds