Metasploit Jobs

Rapid7 Metasploit
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Metasploit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Metasploit over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 810 877 1246
Rank change year-on-year +67 +369 -260
Permanent jobs citing Metasploit 32 10 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.012% 0.017%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.41% 0.091% 0.072%
Number of salaries quoted 24 7 20
10th Percentile £47,250 £46,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £90,000 £81,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +11.11% +35.00%
75th Percentile £120,000 £94,000 £91,250
90th Percentile - £98,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 - £36,000
% change year-on-year - - -34.55%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Metasploit 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 7,755 11,022 40,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.58% 13.66% 23.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,065 7,557 16,055
10th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Metasploit
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Metasploit in the UK

Metasploit
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Metasploit.

Salary trend for Metasploit in the UK

Metasploit
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metasploit over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Metasploit in the UK

Metasploit
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metasploit within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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 +57 32 £70,000 -22.22% 6
London +92 22 £93,750 +4.17% 4
Work from Home +64 20 £110,000 +100.00% 1
UK excluding London - 10 £60,000 - 4
West Midlands - 4 £75,000 -
Midlands - 4 £75,000 -
North of England - 4 £50,000 -
North West - 3 £50,000 -
South East - 2 £60,000 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Metasploit
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 12 (37.50%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) GCP
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 4 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (12.50%) Serverless
3 4 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) Wireless
2 5 (15.63%) SSH
3 4 (12.50%) HTTP
3 4 (12.50%) SSL
4 2 (6.25%) Network Security
5 1 (3.13%) FTP
5 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 31 (96.88%) Burp Suite
2 4 (12.50%) sqlmap
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Marketing
3 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.63%) Finance
5 4 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 3 (9.38%) Banking
6 3 (9.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Analyst
1 14 (43.75%) Senior
2 13 (40.63%) Security Analyst
3 10 (31.25%) Senior Analyst
3 10 (31.25%) Senior Security Analyst
4 7 (21.88%) Penetration Tester
4 7 (21.88%) Tester
5 6 (18.75%) Consultant
5 6 (18.75%) Security Consultant
6 5 (15.63%) Testing Consultant
7 4 (12.50%) Vulnerability Analyst
7 4 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
8 3 (9.38%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 3 (9.38%) Security Engineer
8 3 (9.38%) Senior Consultant
8 3 (9.38%) Senior Security Consultant
8 3 (9.38%) Senior Testing Consultant
9 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (6.25%) Security Penetration Tester
9 2 (6.25%) Security Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) REST
2 1 (3.13%) CSS
2 1 (3.13%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) IoT
1 11 (34.38%) Mobile App
2 3 (9.38%) Operational Technology
3 2 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.25%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (46.88%) Kali Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) OWASP
2 15 (46.88%) Penetration Testing
2 15 (46.88%) Red Team
2 15 (46.88%) Threat Modelling
3 14 (43.75%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (40.63%) Information Security
4 13 (40.63%) Security Testing
5 12 (37.50%) Social Engineering
6 11 (34.38%) Cloud Security
7 10 (31.25%) Application Security
7 10 (31.25%) Visualisation
7 10 (31.25%) Vulnerability Management
8 9 (28.13%) DevSecOps
9 8 (25.00%) Black-Box Testing
9 8 (25.00%) White-Box Testing
10 7 (21.88%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (18.75%) Computer Science
11 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (18.75%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) Python
2 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.38%) Java
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
4 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.13%) Go
5 1 (3.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (46.88%) OSCP
2 12 (37.50%) OSCE
3 11 (34.38%) CREST Certified
4 4 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 4 (12.50%) Degree
5 3 (9.38%) CEH
5 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
5 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
6 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (6.25%) GPEN
7 1 (3.13%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (3.13%) CHECK Team Member
7 1 (3.13%) CISSP
7 1 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (3.13%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (12.50%) NIST
3 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (75.00%) Nmap
2 15 (46.88%) Nessus
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Qualys
2 4 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft