Security Testing Jobs

Security Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Security Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Testing 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 657 595 619
Rank change year-on-year -62 +24 +33
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 186 308 851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.38% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.40% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 149 229 364
10th Percentile £39,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £64,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -22.78% +7.92% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Security Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the UK

Security Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Testing.

Salary trend for Security Testing in the UK

Security Testing
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Security Testing in the UK

Security Testing
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Testing 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 -63 173 £55,000 -26.67% 18
UK excluding London -64 107 £50,000 -22.78% 16
London +13 66 £70,000 -12.50% 5
Work from Home -29 45 £53,750 -28.33% 8
Midlands -4 38 £50,000 -29.08% 3
West Midlands +7 31 £50,000 -29.08% 3
North of England -14 29 £55,000 -20.00% 5
South East -3 26 £50,000 -3.85% 4
North West -29 16 £50,000 -35.48% 2
Yorkshire +58 13 £55,000 +29.41% 3
South West -10 11 £80,000 +15.20%
East Midlands -21 7 £52,500 +26.02%
Wales - 2 £95,000 - 1
East of England -9 1 £52,500 -27.59% 2

Security Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.84%) Confluence
2 5 (2.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 47 (25.27%) Azure
2 35 (18.82%) AWS
3 16 (8.60%) GCP
4 12 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.84%) SaaS
6 6 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.69%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.69%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.69%) Azure Pipelines
7 5 (2.69%) Serverless
8 4 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.61%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.08%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.08%) PaaS
10 2 (1.08%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.83%) Wireless
2 13 (6.99%) Network Security
3 9 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (4.30%) HTTP
5 7 (3.76%) Firewall
6 5 (2.69%) SSL
7 4 (2.15%) SSH
7 4 (2.15%) VPN
8 3 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (1.61%) LAN
8 3 (1.61%) VLAN
8 3 (1.61%) WAN
9 2 (1.08%) 5G
10 1 (0.54%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.54%) Diameter Protocol
10 1 (0.54%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.54%) FlexRay
10 1 (0.54%) SCTP
10 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.06%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.38%) DynamoDB
2 10 (5.38%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.15%) InfluxDB
3 4 (2.15%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.08%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (6.99%) Burp Suite
1 13 (6.99%) Metasploit
1 13 (6.99%) Postman
2 12 (6.45%) JIRA
2 12 (6.45%) SoapUI
3 10 (5.38%) MSTest
4 9 (4.84%) Git
5 8 (4.30%) JMeter
6 5 (2.69%) eggPlant
7 4 (2.15%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.15%) Selenium
8 3 (1.61%) Gatling
8 3 (1.61%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.61%) JUnit
8 3 (1.61%) Locust
8 3 (1.61%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.08%) Appium
9 2 (1.08%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.08%) GitLab
9 2 (1.08%) TestRail
General
1 60 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (13.44%) Finance
4 22 (11.83%) Retail
5 17 (9.14%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.45%) Law
7 8 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.76%) Banking
8 7 (3.76%) Legal
8 7 (3.76%) Marketing
9 6 (3.23%) Automotive
10 5 (2.69%) Aerospace
11 4 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.15%) Welsh Language
12 3 (1.61%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.08%) Fire and Rescue
13 2 (1.08%) Games
13 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (22.58%) Consultant
1 42 (22.58%) Security Consultant
2 30 (16.13%) Tester
3 25 (13.44%) Senior
4 22 (11.83%) Penetration Tester
5 18 (9.68%) Testing Consultant
6 17 (9.14%) Security Engineer
6 17 (9.14%) Test Engineer
7 11 (5.91%) Analyst
7 11 (5.91%) Lead
8 10 (5.38%) Information Security Consultant
8 10 (5.38%) Senior Consultant
8 10 (5.38%) Senior Security Consultant
9 9 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (4.84%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 9 (4.84%) Security Analyst
9 9 (4.84%) Security Manager
10 8 (4.30%) Senior Testing Consultant
11 7 (3.76%) Senior Test Engineer
11 7 (3.76%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.53%) XML
2 10 (5.38%) .NET
2 10 (5.38%) JSON
2 10 (5.38%) SOAP
3 6 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (3.23%) REST
4 5 (2.69%) .NET Core
4 5 (2.69%) Blazor
5 4 (2.15%) EDI
5 4 (2.15%) OAuth
5 4 (2.15%) OAuth2
6 3 (1.61%) CSS
6 3 (1.61%) HTML
6 3 (1.61%) React
7 2 (1.08%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.08%) Kafka
7 2 (1.08%) Node.js
8 1 (0.54%) Playwright
8 1 (0.54%) Spring
8 1 (0.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 40 (21.51%) Mobile App
2 27 (14.52%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (11.83%) Management Information System
4 19 (10.22%) Cyber Threat
5 17 (9.14%) Security Posture
6 13 (6.99%) Product Ownership
7 10 (5.38%) Cyberattack
7 10 (5.38%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (5.38%) IoT
8 7 (3.76%) Cloud Native
9 6 (3.23%) Cyber Security Posture
10 4 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.15%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.15%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.61%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.08%) Cybercrime
12 2 (1.08%) Driving Licence
12 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.45%) Kali Linux
2 8 (4.30%) Windows
3 7 (3.76%) Android
3 7 (3.76%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.23%) Linux
5 5 (2.69%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.69%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (2.15%) Unix
7 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (38.71%) Cybersecurity
2 62 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 60 (32.26%) Penetration Testing
4 55 (29.57%) Agile
5 47 (25.27%) Information Security
6 42 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (17.20%) Mentoring
8 31 (16.67%) SDLC
9 30 (16.13%) Application Security
10 29 (15.59%) Red Team
11 26 (13.98%) Software Testing
12 25 (13.44%) Performance Testing
12 25 (13.44%) Regression Testing
13 22 (11.83%) Computer Science
13 22 (11.83%) Disaster Recovery
13 22 (11.83%) Security Operations
13 22 (11.83%) Test Scripting
13 22 (11.83%) Threat Modelling
14 21 (11.29%) Risk Management
14 21 (11.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.22%) C#
1 19 (10.22%) SQL
2 16 (8.60%) Python
3 15 (8.06%) Java
4 10 (5.38%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.76%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.69%) Bash
6 5 (2.69%) Go
6 5 (2.69%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.15%) C
8 1 (0.54%) C++
8 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (23.12%) CREST Certified
2 38 (20.43%) Security Cleared
3 29 (15.59%) CISSP
3 29 (15.59%) Degree
4 28 (15.05%) SC Cleared
5 27 (14.52%) OSCP
6 16 (8.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (6.45%) OSCE
8 11 (5.91%) CHECK Team Leader
9 10 (5.38%) DV Cleared
10 9 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (3.76%) CESG Certified Professional
11 7 (3.76%) CISMP
12 6 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (3.23%) CCSP
12 6 (3.23%) CHECK Team Member
12 6 (3.23%) Cyber Scheme
12 6 (3.23%) GIAC
13 4 (2.15%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (18.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (10.75%) QA
3 19 (10.22%) GDPR
4 18 (9.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (5.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 11 (5.91%) NIST
6 10 (5.38%) SOC 2
7 8 (4.30%) GRC
8 7 (3.76%) Accessibility
8 7 (3.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 7 (3.76%) PCI DSS
9 6 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (2.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (2.15%) ISO 9001
11 4 (2.15%) NCSC
12 3 (1.61%) COBIT
13 1 (0.54%) Automotive SPICE
13 1 (0.54%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 10 (5.38%) Docker
2 4 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (8.60%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.45%) Nessus
3 11 (5.91%) Nmap
4 5 (2.69%) Grafana
5 4 (2.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (1.08%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.54%) Ansible
7 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.54%) Puppet
7 1 (0.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.38%) Qualys
3 8 (4.30%) Splunk
4 6 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.69%) Adobe
5 5 (2.69%) Google
5 5 (2.69%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.15%) Oracle
7 3 (1.61%) Veracode
8 2 (1.08%) Darktrace
8 2 (1.08%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.54%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.54%) New Relic
9 1 (0.54%) Progress
9 1 (0.54%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.54%) VMware