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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 672 832 963
Rank change year-on-year +160 +131 +232
Permanent jobs citing Metasploit 12 53 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.054% 0.023%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.22% 0.55% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 6 46 12
10th Percentile £41,000 £62,500 £47,375
25th Percentile £49,625 £67,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -16.67% +44.00%
75th Percentile £89,688 £82,500 £98,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £53,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +25.58% +2.38% +45.83%

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 5,498 9,566 15,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.54% 9.73% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,807 6,755 9,183
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Metasploit in the UK

Metasploit
Top 8 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 30 April 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
UK excluding London +204 8 £67,500 +25.58% 4
England +146 8 £67,500 -10.00% 5
London +66 4 £90,000 +20.00% 4
Work from Home +165 3 £90,000 +20.00% 9
Northern Ireland +37 3 - - 2
South West +113 2 £67,500 - 1
South East - 2 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £37,500 -

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 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (8.33%) GCP
1 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Wireshark
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) Internet
2 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Burp Suite
2 3 (25.00%) AppScan
3 1 (8.33%) Postman
3 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
3 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
1 3 (25.00%) Legal
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Automotive
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Tester
2 3 (25.00%) Penetration Tester
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Penetration Tester
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Security Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Security Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Information Security Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Junior
4 1 (8.33%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Junior Security Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Security Penetration Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) JWT
1 1 (8.33%) OAuth
1 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Kali Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 6 (50.00%) Red Team
2 6 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
3 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (41.67%) Ethical Hacking
4 4 (33.33%) Offensive Security
5 3 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (25.00%) Information Security
5 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
6 2 (16.67%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) Application Security
6 2 (16.67%) Blue Team
6 2 (16.67%) Cryptography
6 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 2 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Bash
1 2 (16.67%) C#
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) OSCP
2 6 (50.00%) Degree
3 5 (41.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (41.67%) CREST Certified
4 4 (33.33%) CISSP
4 4 (33.33%) GIAC
5 3 (25.00%) GPEN
5 3 (25.00%) GWAPT
6 2 (16.67%) CCSAS
6 2 (16.67%) CEH
6 2 (16.67%) CHECK Team Member
6 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
7 1 (8.33%) CISM
7 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
7 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (8.33%) NCSC
3 1 (8.33%) NIST
3 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Nessus
2 3 (25.00%) Nmap
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Trustwave
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Qualys
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk