Rapid7 Job Trends

Rapid7
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Rapid7 products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Rapid7 over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Rapid7 LLC.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 633 680 684
Rank change year-on-year +47 +4 +278
Permanent jobs citing Rapid7 18 31 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.056% 0.056%
As % of the Vendors category 0.094% 0.15% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 16 27 27
10th Percentile £43,125 £47,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £49,750 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,750 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.64% +40.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £92,750 £61,684
90th Percentile £106,875 £107,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +22.40% +1.05% -17.39%

All Vendors
UK

Rapid7 falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 19,213 20,443 20,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.48% 37.02% 40.48%
Number of salaries quoted 10,903 10,602 15,911
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,750 £77,250 £73,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +2.04% -2.00%

Rapid7
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Rapid7 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Rapid7 job vacancy trend in the UK

Rapid7
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Rapid7.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Rapid7

Rapid7
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rapid7 over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Rapid7 in the UK

Rapid7
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rapid7 within the UK over the 6 months to 1 January 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 +63 18 £90,750 +29.64% 5
London +21 12 £95,000 +35.71% 3
Work from Home +67 6 £95,000 +35.71%
UK excluding London +63 6 £58,750 +22.40% 2
South East +28 3 £86,500 +80.21% 1
North of England +26 3 £45,000 -
North West +26 2 £46,250 -
Yorkshire - 1 £37,500 -

Rapid7
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:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (16.67%) Cloudflare
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
5 1 (5.56%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
3 2 (11.11%) WAN
4 1 (5.56%) DMZ
4 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (5.56%) NetScaler
4 1 (5.56%) Network Security
4 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Burp Suite
1 3 (16.67%) Metasploit
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Advertising
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Security Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Information Security Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Principal Security Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Head of Infrastructure
4 2 (11.11%) Head of Security
4 2 (11.11%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Head of Architecture
5 1 (5.56%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 8 (44.44%) Information Security
2 8 (44.44%) Vulnerability Management
3 7 (38.89%) Data Loss Prevention
4 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (33.33%) SIEM
5 5 (27.78%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 5 (27.78%) Security Architecture
6 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
6 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (22.22%) Security Operations
7 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 3 (16.67%) DevOps
7 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 3 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
7 3 (16.67%) Red Team
7 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
7 3 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Bash
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) CISSP
2 4 (22.22%) CEH
3 3 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (16.67%) CCSP
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (16.67%) GCIH
4 2 (11.11%) CISM
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (22.22%) GDPR
3 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (16.67%) NIST
4 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
5 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Nessus
2 3 (16.67%) Nmap
3 2 (11.11%) QRadar
4 1 (5.56%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.56%) Nagios
4 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (16.67%) CyberArk
3 3 (16.67%) Extreme Networks
3 3 (16.67%) iManage
3 3 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 3 (16.67%) Qualys
3 3 (16.67%) Splunk
4 2 (11.11%) ArcSight
4 2 (11.11%) Aruba
4 2 (11.11%) Carbon Black
4 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
4 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 2 (11.11%) Tenable
4 2 (11.11%) Thales
4 2 (11.11%) VMware
5 1 (5.56%) Censornet
5 1 (5.56%) Forcepoint
5 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.56%) Netskope