Kali Linux
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Kali Linux skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 705 630 836
Rank change year-on-year -75 +206 +104
Permanent jobs citing Kali Linux 9 6 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.014% 0.050%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.17% 0.094% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 42
10th Percentile £36,000 - £47,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £58,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 - £50,000

All Operating Systems
UK

Kali Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,423 6,350 13,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.26% 15.26% 14.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,954 4,382 11,008
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £25,759
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -5.56%

Kali Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Kali Linux job vacancy trend in the UK

Kali Linux
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kali Linux.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kali Linux

Kali Linux
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kali Linux over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Kali Linux in the UK

Kali Linux
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kali Linux within the UK over the 6 months to 18 April 2026. 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 -62 7 £42,500 -32.00% 3
London +8 4 - - 2
UK excluding London -69 4 £42,500 - 8
Midlands -33 3 £42,500 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £42,500 - 1
Work from Home +1 1 £90,000 +44.00% 3
Wales - 1 - - 2

Kali Linux
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 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) SaaS
3 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (11.11%) Google Workspace
5 1 (11.11%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
1 5 (55.56%) TCP/IP
2 4 (44.44%) DNS
2 4 (44.44%) HTTPS
3 1 (11.11%) Bluetooth
3 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (11.11%) Modbus
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security
3 1 (11.11%) VLAN
3 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
3 1 (11.11%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Metasploit
2 5 (55.56%) Burp Suite
3 4 (44.44%) Bitbucket
4 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
4 3 (33.33%) Cypress.io
4 3 (33.33%) Gatling
4 3 (33.33%) GitLab
4 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 3 (33.33%) JMeter
4 3 (33.33%) LoadRunner
4 3 (33.33%) Postman
4 3 (33.33%) REST Assured
4 3 (33.33%) Selenium
4 3 (33.33%) SonarQube
5 2 (22.22%) HP UFT
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 1 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Cyber Threat Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (44.44%) Cyber Defence
2 4 (44.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (11.11%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (11.11%) Blockchain
3 1 (11.11%) Blog
3 1 (11.11%) CAN bus
3 1 (11.11%) IoT
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 1 (11.11%) N-Tier
3 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
3 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) SCADA
3 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (11.11%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 4 (44.44%) Unix
4 2 (22.22%) Android
5 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
5 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (44.44%) Blue Team
3 4 (44.44%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (44.44%) Digital Forensics
3 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
3 4 (44.44%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 4 (44.44%) OWASP
3 4 (44.44%) Security Operations
3 4 (44.44%) SIEM
3 4 (44.44%) SOAR
3 4 (44.44%) Threat Detection
3 4 (44.44%) Threat Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) Tradecraft
4 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Java
3 4 (44.44%) Bash
3 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
4 2 (22.22%) C#
4 2 (22.22%) C++
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) C
5 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 1 (11.11%) JCL
5 1 (11.11%) Perl
5 1 (11.11%) R
5 1 (11.11%) Ruby
5 1 (11.11%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
4 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (11.11%) CISSP
4 1 (11.11%) GPEN
4 1 (11.11%) GWAPT
4 1 (11.11%) GXPN
4 1 (11.11%) OSCP
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Grafana
2 3 (33.33%) HP Fortify
3 2 (22.22%) Nessus
4 1 (11.11%) Nmap
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Veracode
2 2 (22.22%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) AppDynamics
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Qualtrics
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat