Burp Suite Jobs

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UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Burp Suite skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Burp Suite over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 733 744 1097
Rank change year-on-year +11 +353 -76
Permanent jobs citing Burp Suite 45 20 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.059% 0.034% 0.048%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.68% 0.26% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 28 16 37
10th Percentile £51,750 £43,000 £65,558
25th Percentile £58,125 £49,375 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £52,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.19% -34.38% +10.34%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £79,125 £82,500 £98,874
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £45,000 £81,250
% change year-on-year +55.56% -44.62% +1.56%

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 6,643 7,792 29,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.78% 13.11% 20.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,542 5,866 13,775
10th Percentile £37,775 £42,450 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,290 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,793 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.53% +5.45% +10.00%

Burp Suite
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Burp Suite as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Burp Suite in the UK

Burp Suite
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Burp Suite.

Salary trend for Burp Suite in the UK

Burp Suite
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Burp Suite over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Burp Suite in the UK

Burp Suite
Top 10 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 23 October 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
England -5 42 £66,250 +32.50% 6
London +34 34 £66,250 +26.19% 4
Work from Home +54 23 £72,500 +45.00% 28
UK excluding London -42 7 £70,000 +55.56% 3
Midlands -26 4 £77,500 +72.22%
West Midlands -34 2 £77,500 +72.22%
South East - 2 £60,000 - 1
East Midlands - 2 - -
North of England -33 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Burp Suite
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) AWS
1 9 (20.00%) Azure
2 6 (13.33%) GCP
3 3 (6.67%) Cloudflare
3 3 (6.67%) GitHub
3 3 (6.67%) SaaS
3 3 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (35.56%) Wireless
2 15 (33.33%) Wireshark
3 11 (24.44%) Network Security
4 8 (17.78%) Broadband
4 8 (17.78%) VoIP
5 5 (11.11%) SSH
6 4 (8.89%) HTTP
6 4 (8.89%) SSL
7 3 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (2.22%) FTP
8 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 34 (75.56%) Metasploit
2 3 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.44%) sqlmap
General
1 29 (64.44%) Social Skills
2 26 (57.78%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (17.78%) Games
3 8 (17.78%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (17.78%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (13.33%) Banking
5 5 (11.11%) Marketing
6 4 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (6.67%) Finance
8 2 (4.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Analyst
1 16 (35.56%) Penetration Tester
1 16 (35.56%) Tester
2 12 (26.67%) Security Analyst
3 10 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Information Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Information Security Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Lead
5 4 (8.89%) Penetration Test Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Senior
5 4 (8.89%) Test Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Test Leader
6 3 (6.67%) Consultant
6 3 (6.67%) Security Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Security Tester
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Penetration Tester
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Security Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Tester
7 2 (4.44%) Testing Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) REST
2 1 (2.22%) CSS
2 1 (2.22%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.89%) IoT
1 13 (28.89%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (17.78%) Blog
3 8 (17.78%) Cyberattack
4 5 (11.11%) Mobile App
5 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
6 2 (4.44%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 23 (51.11%) Linux
2 20 (44.44%) Kali Linux
3 9 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (68.89%) Penetration Testing
3 26 (57.78%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (48.89%) Application Security
5 21 (46.67%) Incident Response
6 19 (42.22%) Security Testing
7 18 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
8 17 (37.78%) Red Team
9 16 (35.56%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 15 (33.33%) Computer Science
11 13 (28.89%) Offensive Security
12 12 (26.67%) Information Security
13 11 (24.44%) Open Source
14 10 (22.22%) OWASP
14 10 (22.22%) Security Monitoring
14 10 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
15 9 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
16 8 (17.78%) Cloud Security
16 8 (17.78%) Creative Thinking
16 8 (17.78%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.67%) Python
2 9 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (17.78%) Bash
4 2 (4.44%) Go
4 2 (4.44%) Ruby
5 1 (2.22%) C
5 1 (2.22%) C#
5 1 (2.22%) C++
5 1 (2.22%) Java
5 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 27 (60.00%) OSCP
2 15 (33.33%) CREST Certified
3 14 (31.11%) Degree
4 12 (26.67%) GPEN
5 11 (24.44%) CEH
5 11 (24.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (24.44%) GIAC
6 10 (22.22%) CISSP
7 9 (20.00%) Cyber Scheme
7 9 (20.00%) OSCE
8 8 (17.78%) OSWP
9 7 (15.56%) GCFA
9 7 (15.56%) GCIA
9 7 (15.56%) GCIH
10 3 (6.67%) GSEC
11 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
12 1 (2.22%) CHECK Team Leader
12 1 (2.22%) CHECK Team Member
12 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.78%) QA
2 5 (11.11%) PCI DSS
3 4 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
5 2 (4.44%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (57.78%) Nmap
2 17 (37.78%) Nessus
3 3 (6.67%) Ansible
3 3 (6.67%) Terraform
4 1 (2.22%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) VMware
2 5 (11.11%) Qualys
3 4 (8.89%) Google
4 3 (6.67%) New Relic