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 11 May 2025, 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 688 839 899
Rank change year-on-year +151 +60 +254
Permanent jobs citing Rapid7 18 59 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.059% 0.081%
As % of the Vendors category 0.089% 0.16% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 16 58 43
10th Percentile £43,125 £29,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,188 £39,375 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,375 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £73,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £82,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £48,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.06% -7.62% -2.33%

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 20,245 36,376 42,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.00% 36.66% 41.78%
Number of salaries quoted 11,996 24,993 24,141
10th Percentile £26,875 £26,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%

Rapid7
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Rapid7 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Rapid7 in the UK

Rapid7
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Rapid7.

Salary trend for Rapid7 in the UK

Rapid7
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rapid7 over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Rapid7 in the UK

Rapid7
Top 9 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 11 May 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 +119 18 £55,375 +5.48% 33
London +98 12 £90,000 +24.14% 15
UK excluding London +156 5 £49,500 +2.06% 28
Work from Home +135 5 £50,000 -11.50% 15
Midlands +53 2 £40,750 -22.38% 11
North of England +51 2 £62,500 +26.90% 1
East Midlands +34 2 £40,750 -22.38% 4
North West -3 2 £62,500 +145.10% 1
South East +96 1 £50,000 +28.21% 6

Rapid7
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 15 (83.33%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon ECR
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 3 (16.67%) IaaS
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (16.67%) PaaS
4 3 (16.67%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
5 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Firewall
2 5 (27.78%) VLAN
3 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 4 (22.22%) VPN
3 4 (22.22%) WAN
4 2 (11.11%) Network Security
5 1 (5.56%) DHCP
5 1 (5.56%) DNS
5 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
5 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (22.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
1 4 (22.22%) GitLab
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Lead
1 5 (27.78%) Network Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Team Leader
4 1 (5.56%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
1 3 (16.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
2 8 (44.44%) Linux
3 4 (22.22%) CentOS
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (22.22%) Architectural Design
2 4 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
2 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
2 4 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (22.22%) DevOps
2 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (22.22%) Low Latency
2 4 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
3 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) ITIL
3 3 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 3 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 2 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Bash
1 4 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) GSEC
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
2 3 (16.67%) GDPR
2 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) Firmware
3 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Ansible
1 4 (22.22%) Dell DRAC
1 4 (22.22%) Grafana
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 4 (22.22%) Nagios
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Cisco
2 5 (27.78%) Fortinet
3 4 (22.22%) Dell
3 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
3 4 (22.22%) Splunk
3 4 (22.22%) Veeam
3 4 (22.22%) Zerto
4 2 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (5.56%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (5.56%) Meraki
5 1 (5.56%) Nasuni
5 1 (5.56%) Qualys
5 1 (5.56%) Sophos
5 1 (5.56%) Tenable
5 1 (5.56%) VMware