Security Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Testing over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 648 562
Rank change year-on-year +290 -86 -65
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 223 117 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.16% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.19% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 48 98 104
10th Percentile £50,000 £37,750 £38,875
25th Percentile £55,000 £41,250 £41,915
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -14.89% -9.62%
75th Percentile £84,250 £65,603 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,625 £85,000 £99,525
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -20.00% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Security 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Security Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Security Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Security 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 Security Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Midlands +159 148 £45,000 -10.00% 27
West Midlands +131 98 - - 18
East Midlands +82 50 £45,000 -14.29% 8
South East +102 38 £64,000 +28.00% 38
North of England +18 22 £60,000 - 35
Yorkshire +62 16 £80,000 +60.00% 15
Scotland +129 7 £66,250 +1.92% 7
South West +115 6 £76,250 +5.17% 29
North West -22 6 £55,000 -10.14% 18
East of England +44 2 £71,500 +10.00% 16
Security Testing
UK

Security 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 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (2.24%) Appian
2 4 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.90%) TPMS
4 1 (0.45%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 44 (19.73%) Azure
2 28 (12.56%) AWS
3 24 (10.76%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (6.73%) PaaS
5 8 (3.59%) Amazon S3
5 8 (3.59%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.24%) MinIO
7 4 (1.79%) GCP
8 3 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.90%) GitHub
9 2 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.90%) Serverless
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.45%) IaaS
10 1 (0.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.38%) Firewall
2 4 (1.79%) Network Security
3 2 (0.90%) VPN
4 1 (0.45%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.45%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.79%) MySQL
2 3 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.35%) Power BI
3 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.45%) Airbyte
4 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (5.38%) Selenium
2 7 (3.14%) JIRA
2 7 (3.14%) Postman
3 6 (2.69%) JMeter
4 5 (2.24%) LoadRunner
4 5 (2.24%) Robot Framework
4 5 (2.24%) Snyk
5 4 (1.79%) Appium
5 4 (1.79%) Fiddler
5 4 (1.79%) Git
5 4 (1.79%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.35%) GitLab
7 2 (0.90%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.45%) TestRail
8 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.45%) WebDriver
General
1 27 (12.11%) Finance
2 12 (5.38%) Social Skills
3 9 (4.04%) Law
4 8 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (1.79%) Cantonese Language
5 4 (1.79%) Financial Institution
5 4 (1.79%) Mandarin Language
6 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.90%) Aerospace
7 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.45%) Aviation
8 1 (0.45%) Games
8 1 (0.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 167 (74.89%) Security Engineer
2 147 (65.92%) Principal Engineer
2 147 (65.92%) Principal Security Engineer
3 93 (41.70%) Analyst
4 91 (40.81%) Security Analyst
5 87 (39.01%) Principal Security Analyst
5 87 (39.01%) Product Analyst
6 60 (26.91%) Product Engineer
7 22 (9.87%) Lead
8 9 (4.04%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 9 (4.04%) Security Specialist
9 8 (3.59%) Senior
10 7 (3.14%) Architect
10 7 (3.14%) Consultant
10 7 (3.14%) Information Security Consultant
10 7 (3.14%) Security Consultant
11 5 (2.24%) Applications Architect
11 5 (2.24%) Developer
12 4 (1.79%) QA Tester
12 4 (1.79%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.73%) YAML
2 5 (2.24%) Apache NiFi
2 5 (2.24%) Kafka
3 3 (1.35%) .NET
3 3 (1.35%) .NET Framework
3 3 (1.35%) Playwright
4 2 (0.90%) FIDO
4 2 (0.90%) JWT
4 2 (0.90%) Node.js
4 2 (0.90%) OAuth
4 2 (0.90%) OAuth2
4 2 (0.90%) OpenID
4 2 (0.90%) SAML
5 1 (0.45%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.45%) CSS
5 1 (0.45%) HTML
5 1 (0.45%) pytest
5 1 (0.45%) REST
5 1 (0.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.73%) Security Posture
2 8 (3.59%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (2.69%) Cyberattack
3 6 (2.69%) Low-Code
4 5 (2.24%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.24%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.35%) SCADA
6 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.90%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.45%) CCTV
7 1 (0.45%) IoT
7 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.48%) Windows
2 7 (3.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (79.37%) Cybersecurity
2 159 (71.30%) Information Security
3 154 (69.06%) Risk Management
4 147 (65.92%) Cyber Resilience
4 147 (65.92%) Project Management
5 34 (15.25%) Vulnerability Management
6 33 (14.80%) Agile
7 32 (14.35%) CI/CD
7 32 (14.35%) Test Automation
8 28 (12.56%) Application Security
9 27 (12.11%) DevOps
10 24 (10.76%) DevSecOps
11 21 (9.42%) Incident Response
11 21 (9.42%) Penetration Testing
11 21 (9.42%) Threat Modelling
12 20 (8.97%) OWASP
13 19 (8.52%) Coaching
14 18 (8.07%) Creative Thinking
14 18 (8.07%) SDLC
14 18 (8.07%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 15 (6.73%) PowerShell
2 11 (4.93%) Python
3 8 (3.59%) JavaScript
4 7 (3.14%) Java
5 5 (2.24%) C#
6 4 (1.79%) SQL
7 3 (1.35%) X++
8 2 (0.90%) Bash
8 2 (0.90%) C++
8 2 (0.90%) Rust
8 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 164 (73.54%) Degree
2 157 (70.40%) CISSP
3 152 (68.16%) CISM
4 147 (65.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 147 (65.92%) CESG Certified Professional
5 15 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (6.73%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.59%) Security Cleared
7 6 (2.69%) SANS
8 5 (2.24%) CEH
8 5 (2.24%) ISTQB
8 5 (2.24%) SC Cleared
9 4 (1.79%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.79%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.90%) GIAC
10 2 (0.90%) ISSAP
11 1 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.45%) CISA
11 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (77.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 168 (75.34%) NIST
3 147 (65.92%) JSP 440
3 147 (65.92%) RMADS
4 16 (7.17%) NCSC
5 11 (4.93%) GDPR
6 10 (4.48%) QA
7 9 (4.04%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 6 (2.69%) PCI DSS
9 5 (2.24%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.79%) SLA
11 2 (0.90%) COBIT
11 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.90%) Docker
3 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (3.14%) Ansible
1 7 (3.14%) Terraform
2 2 (0.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
2 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (15.70%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.24%) BiZZdesign
2 5 (2.24%) Black Duck
2 5 (2.24%) UiPath
2 5 (2.24%) VMware
3 4 (1.79%) Oracle
4 2 (0.90%) ForgeRock
4 2 (0.90%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.45%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.45%) Coverity