Network Mapper (Nmap)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Nmap skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Nmap over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 726 860 883
Rank change year-on-year +134 +23 +382
Permanent jobs citing Nmap 9 26 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.025% 0.020%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.15% 0.28% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 9 17 9
10th Percentile £39,250 £45,000 £35,750
25th Percentile - £67,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £110,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -58.18% +120.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £73,750 £120,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £74,500 - £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +33.33% -62.03%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Nmap falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,087 9,358 11,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.13% 9.07% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,352 6,526 8,453
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £45,110 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £87,419
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% -10.00% +4.35%

Nmap
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Nmap in the UK

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Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Nmap in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Nmap over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Nmap in the UK

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Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Nmap within the UK over the 6 months to 16 July 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 +132 8 £51,750 -52.95% 17
UK excluding London +159 7 £46,000 -8.00% 11
South East - 3 £46,000 - 3
Work from Home +90 2 £38,750 -64.77% 12
South West - 2 £67,500 - 3
North of England +52 1 £57,500 +15.00% 3
Yorkshire +46 1 £57,500 - 1
Scotland - 1 £37,500 -

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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 6 (66.67%) AWS
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Wireless
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) Internet
2 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 9 (100.00%) Metasploit
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Aerospace
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Penetration Tester
1 7 (77.78%) Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Penetration Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Ethical Hacker
3 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
1 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Cyberattack
2 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Kali Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Penetration Testing
1 8 (88.89%) Red Team
2 6 (66.67%) Security Testing
3 5 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (55.56%) OWASP
3 5 (55.56%) Purple Team
4 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
4 4 (44.44%) Social Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
5 3 (33.33%) Offensive Security
5 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 2 (22.22%) Cryptography
6 2 (22.22%) Ethical Hacking
6 2 (22.22%) Information Security
6 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 2 (22.22%) Project Management
6 2 (22.22%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Bash
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) OSCP
2 5 (55.56%) CREST Certified
3 2 (22.22%) CHECK Team Member
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
3 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) CEH
4 1 (11.11%) CHECK Team Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Cyber Scheme
4 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) GPEN
4 1 (11.11%) OSCE
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) NIST
2 2 (22.22%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Nessus