Burp Suite Job Trends

PortSwigger Burp Suite
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Burp Suite skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 612 706 693
Rank change year-on-year +94 -13 +324
Permanent jobs citing Burp Suite 31 36 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.057% 0.056% 0.036%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.87% 0.60% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 22 25 13
10th Percentile £46,000 £51,000 £43,500
25th Percentile £48,165 £56,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -37.89%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £71,500 £79,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -21.45% +13.04% -32.35%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,547 6,023 6,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.54% 9.42% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,278 3,465 5,335
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £42,439
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -4.55% -7.60% +8.23%

Burp Suite
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Burp Suite job vacancy trend in the UK

Burp Suite
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Burp Suite

Burp Suite
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Burp Suite over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Burp Suite in the UK

Burp Suite
Top 12 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 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
England +96 20 £54,279 -18.07% 10
UK excluding London +101 15 £51,058 -21.45% 7
Work from Home +87 15 £60,000 - 8
London +53 8 £95,000 +43.40% 5
South East +40 5 £46,000 -23.33% 1
Wales - 4 - - 1
Midlands +49 3 £51,058 -36.18% 1
East Midlands +25 3 £51,058 - 1
North of England +43 1 £57,500 - 1
Yorkshire +3 1 £57,500 -
South West - 1 £47,500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Burp Suite
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 14 (45.16%) AWS
1 14 (45.16%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) GCP
3 4 (12.90%) Google Workspace
3 4 (12.90%) SurveyMonkey
4 3 (9.68%) Cloudflare
5 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.23%) IaaS
5 1 (3.23%) OCI
5 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (32.26%) TCP/IP
2 6 (19.35%) Wireless
3 5 (16.13%) Firewall
3 5 (16.13%) Network Security
4 4 (12.90%) Bluetooth
4 4 (12.90%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (12.90%) Modbus
4 4 (12.90%) VLAN
4 4 (12.90%) Wireshark
4 4 (12.90%) ZigBee
5 3 (9.68%) DNS
Development Applications
1 26 (83.87%) Metasploit
2 2 (6.45%) JMeter
2 2 (6.45%) LoadRunner
2 2 (6.45%) NeoLoad
3 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 14 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
3 6 (19.35%) Finance
3 6 (19.35%) Law
4 5 (16.13%) Aerospace
5 4 (12.90%) Manufacturing
5 4 (12.90%) Telecoms
6 3 (9.68%) Retail
7 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Penetration Tester
1 14 (45.16%) Tester
2 4 (12.90%) Security Specialist
2 4 (12.90%) Senior
3 3 (9.68%) Information Security Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Lead
3 3 (9.68%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Principal Security Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Security Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
4 2 (6.45%) Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Digital Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) IT Director
4 2 (6.45%) IT Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Quality Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Security Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Senior IT Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Senior Quality Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Security Penetration Tester
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Security Posture
2 5 (16.13%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (16.13%) Operational Technology
3 4 (12.90%) CAN bus
3 4 (12.90%) IoT
3 4 (12.90%) SCADA
4 3 (9.68%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (9.68%) Insider Threat
4 3 (9.68%) Mobile App
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
5 2 (6.45%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (3.23%) CMDB
6 1 (3.23%) Cyberattack
6 1 (3.23%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 14 (45.16%) Linux
2 9 (29.03%) Kali Linux
3 5 (16.13%) Windows
4 4 (12.90%) Android
4 4 (12.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) Penetration Testing
2 15 (48.39%) Red Team
3 12 (38.71%) Cloud Security
4 9 (29.03%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (29.03%) Security Testing
5 8 (25.81%) Offensive Security
6 7 (22.58%) AI
6 7 (22.58%) Decision-Making
6 7 (22.58%) Ethical Hacking
6 7 (22.58%) Information Security
6 7 (22.58%) OWASP
6 7 (22.58%) Purple Team
6 7 (22.58%) User Experience
7 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (16.13%) Data Science
8 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
8 5 (16.13%) Risk Management
8 5 (16.13%) Threat Modelling
8 5 (16.13%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 4 (12.90%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (51.61%) Python
2 12 (38.71%) Bash
3 11 (35.48%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.90%) C++
4 4 (12.90%) Java
4 4 (12.90%) R
4 4 (12.90%) Rust
5 1 (3.23%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (48.39%) CREST Certified
2 12 (38.71%) OSCP
3 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
4 9 (29.03%) CHECK Team Member
5 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
6 7 (22.58%) CISSP
6 7 (22.58%) Cyber Scheme
6 7 (22.58%) Degree
7 6 (19.35%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (16.13%) CHECK Team Leader
9 4 (12.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (12.90%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (12.90%) GPEN
10 3 (9.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (9.68%) CEH
10 3 (9.68%) CISMP
10 3 (9.68%) GCIH
10 3 (9.68%) GIAC
10 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (16.13%) GDPR
2 5 (16.13%) NIST
3 3 (9.68%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (6.45%) QA
5 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (3.23%) NCSC
5 1 (3.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (74.19%) Nmap
2 13 (41.94%) Nessus
3 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (3.23%) CSIRT
4 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Cisco
2 4 (12.90%) Google
2 4 (12.90%) Qualtrics
2 4 (12.90%) Red Hat
2 4 (12.90%) Splunk
3 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.68%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Tenable