Burp Suite Jobs

PortSwigger Burp Suite
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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 688 858 869
Rank change year-on-year +170 +11 +270
Permanent jobs citing Burp Suite 21 50 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.045% 0.060%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.36% 0.52% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 12 41 23
10th Percentile £39,675 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,625 £67,500 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +50.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £112,500 £90,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £98,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,250 £60,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -11.25% +36.36% -41.33%

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 5,880 9,568 12,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.40% 8.56% 13.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,363 6,488 8,017
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 22 June 2025.

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 22 June 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 +144 16 £67,500 -10.00% 159
UK excluding London +196 11 £53,250 -11.25% 119
London +83 8 £75,000 - 59
Work from Home +101 4 £37,500 -65.91% 66
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 13
South East +99 3 £39,000 -62.86% 31
South West - 2 £67,500 - 13
Yorkshire +55 1 - - 9
North of England +47 1 - - 23
Scotland - 1 £37,500 - 10

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 4 (19.05%) AWS
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) GCP
2 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (38.10%) Wireshark
2 2 (9.52%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) Internet
2 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Power BI
2 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Metasploit
2 3 (14.29%) AppScan
3 2 (9.52%) Cypress.io
3 2 (9.52%) ESLint
3 2 (9.52%) Gatling
3 2 (9.52%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) JIRA
3 2 (9.52%) JMeter
3 2 (9.52%) SoapUI
4 1 (4.76%) Bugzilla
4 1 (4.76%) Postman
4 1 (4.76%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Legal
4 2 (9.52%) Aerospace
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.76%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Analyst
1 7 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 7 (33.33%) Tester
2 6 (28.57%) Penetration Tester
3 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Information Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Information Security Analyst
4 4 (19.05%) Senior
4 4 (19.05%) Senior Penetration Tester
4 4 (19.05%) Senior Tester
5 3 (14.29%) Lead
5 3 (14.29%) Security Tester
6 2 (9.52%) Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Security Penetration Tester
7 1 (4.76%) Junior Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) Junior Security Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Security Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
1 2 (9.52%) Jest
1 2 (9.52%) Node.js
2 1 (4.76%) JWT
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.76%) Prisma
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) RESTful
2 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 2 (9.52%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Linux
2 6 (28.57%) Windows
3 5 (23.81%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 11 (52.38%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (38.10%) Information Security
4 7 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 7 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 6 (28.57%) SIEM
5 6 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
5 6 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (23.81%) Data Loss Prevention
6 5 (23.81%) Ethical Hacking
6 5 (23.81%) Incident Response
6 5 (23.81%) OWASP
6 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (23.81%) Red Team
6 5 (23.81%) Security Monitoring
7 4 (19.05%) Agile
7 4 (19.05%) Security Testing
8 3 (14.29%) Project Management
8 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 3 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Bash
1 3 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Degree
1 9 (42.86%) OSCP
2 7 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (23.81%) GCFA
3 5 (23.81%) GCIA
3 5 (23.81%) GCIH
4 4 (19.05%) CISSP
4 4 (19.05%) CREST Certified
4 4 (19.05%) GIAC
5 3 (14.29%) CHECK Team Leader
5 3 (14.29%) CHECK Team Member
5 3 (14.29%) GPEN
5 3 (14.29%) GWAPT
5 3 (14.29%) Master's Degree
5 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
6 2 (9.52%) CEH
6 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
7 1 (4.76%) CISM
7 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
7 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (9.52%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (9.52%) GDPR
3 2 (9.52%) NCSC
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (4.76%) NIST
4 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Nessus
2 4 (19.05%) Nmap
3 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.76%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) VMware
2 3 (14.29%) Trustwave
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Qualys
4 1 (4.76%) Splunk