Security Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Testing over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 681 527 528
Rank change year-on-year -154 +1 +75
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 202 528 1,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.52% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.55% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 178 253 361
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,332 £37,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £70,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +0.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £84,125 £106,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% -4.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Security Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -137 185 £61,206 -18.39% 63
UK excluding London -111 113 £50,000 -16.67% 35
London -68 72 £75,000 -8.46% 18
Work from Home +4 53 £61,206 -9.32% 72
North of England +40 45 £60,000 -11.11% 14
Midlands +1 33 £50,000 -23.08% 7
North West -8 30 £61,206 -18.39% 8
West Midlands +14 27 £50,000 -23.08% 5
South East -54 23 £45,000 -17.43% 7
Yorkshire +87 15 £50,000 +25.00% 6
South West -27 9 £72,500 +7.41% 5
East Midlands -1 6 £52,500 +26.02% 2
Scotland -77 2 £65,000 +46.07% 1
East of England +15 1 £65,000 - 3

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 (4.46%) Confluence
2 7 (3.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 42 (20.79%) Azure
2 39 (19.31%) AWS
3 13 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.95%) GCP
4 10 (4.95%) SaaS
5 5 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (2.48%) Amazon S3
5 5 (2.48%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (2.48%) Azure Pipelines
5 5 (2.48%) Serverless
6 4 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.49%) PaaS
7 3 (1.49%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (14.36%) Network Security
2 15 (7.43%) Firewall
3 14 (6.93%) Wireless
4 6 (2.97%) SD-WAN
4 6 (2.97%) WAN
5 2 (0.99%) 5G
5 2 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.99%) VoIP
5 2 (0.99%) WPA
6 1 (0.50%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.50%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.50%) HTTP
6 1 (0.50%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.94%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.95%) DynamoDB
2 10 (4.95%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.98%) InfluxDB
3 4 (1.98%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.50%) GIS
5 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (18.81%) Burp Suite
2 34 (16.83%) Metasploit
3 11 (5.45%) JIRA
3 11 (5.45%) SoapUI
4 10 (4.95%) MSTest
4 10 (4.95%) Postman
5 9 (4.46%) JUnit
6 7 (3.47%) IntelliJ
6 7 (3.47%) Mockito
7 5 (2.48%) Git
7 5 (2.48%) JMeter
8 4 (1.98%) Selenium
9 3 (1.49%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.49%) Gradle
10 2 (0.99%) Appium
10 2 (0.99%) TestNG
10 2 (0.99%) TestRail
10 2 (0.99%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.50%) eggPlant
General
1 73 (36.14%) Social Skills
2 58 (28.71%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (11.39%) Public Sector
3 23 (11.39%) Retail
4 21 (10.40%) Finance
5 11 (5.45%) Law
5 11 (5.45%) Legal
6 9 (4.46%) Marketing
7 8 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.48%) Automotive
9 5 (2.48%) Banking
10 4 (1.98%) Welsh Language
11 2 (0.99%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (0.99%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.50%) iGaming
12 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (30.69%) Tester
2 57 (28.22%) Penetration Tester
3 42 (20.79%) Senior
4 34 (16.83%) Consultant
5 33 (16.34%) Security Consultant
6 14 (6.93%) Senior Consultant
6 14 (6.93%) Senior Testing Consultant
6 14 (6.93%) Testing Consultant
7 13 (6.44%) Senior Security Consultant
8 12 (5.94%) Senior Penetration Tester
8 12 (5.94%) Senior Tester
9 11 (5.45%) Lead
9 11 (5.45%) Security Engineer
9 11 (5.45%) Test Engineer
10 10 (4.95%) Analyst
10 10 (4.95%) Information Security Consultant
10 10 (4.95%) Security Manager
10 10 (4.95%) Security Tester
11 9 (4.46%) Architect
11 9 (4.46%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.93%) XML
2 10 (4.95%) JSON
3 9 (4.46%) SOAP
4 8 (3.96%) .NET
4 8 (3.96%) REST
5 5 (2.48%) .NET Core
5 5 (2.48%) Blazor
6 4 (1.98%) OAuth
6 4 (1.98%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.49%) Gherkin
8 2 (0.99%) Playwright
9 1 (0.50%) EDI
9 1 (0.50%) Kafka
9 1 (0.50%) Ruby on Rails
9 1 (0.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.36%) Management Information System
2 25 (12.38%) Mobile App
3 21 (10.40%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (8.42%) Security Posture
5 14 (6.93%) Cyber Threat
5 14 (6.93%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.95%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (4.46%) Cyberattack
8 7 (3.47%) IoT
9 6 (2.97%) Cyber Security Posture
9 6 (2.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.98%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.98%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.49%) NHS
12 1 (0.50%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.50%) Media Streaming
12 1 (0.50%) Over-the-Top Content
12 1 (0.50%) STB
Operating Systems
1 34 (16.83%) Kali Linux
2 29 (14.36%) Linux
3 7 (3.47%) Android
3 7 (3.47%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.98%) Unix
4 4 (1.98%) Windows
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (45.05%) Information Security
2 86 (42.57%) Cybersecurity
3 84 (41.58%) Penetration Testing
4 67 (33.17%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (32.18%) Application Security
6 53 (26.24%) Agile
7 51 (25.25%) Test Automation
8 49 (24.26%) Computer Science
9 48 (23.76%) Red Team
10 46 (22.77%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 36 (17.82%) Mentoring
12 34 (16.83%) Reverse Engineering
13 28 (13.86%) Critical Thinking
13 28 (13.86%) Malware Analysis
14 26 (12.87%) SDLC
14 26 (12.87%) Software Testing
15 25 (12.38%) OWASP
16 22 (10.89%) Performance Testing
16 22 (10.89%) Regression Testing
16 22 (10.89%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 23 (11.39%) SQL
2 17 (8.42%) Java
3 14 (6.93%) C#
4 8 (3.96%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.47%) Python
6 5 (2.48%) Go
6 5 (2.48%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.98%) C
8 1 (0.50%) Bicep
8 1 (0.50%) C++
8 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 49 (24.26%) Degree
2 43 (21.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (20.79%) CREST Certified
4 25 (12.38%) CISSP
4 25 (12.38%) OSCP
4 25 (12.38%) Security Cleared
5 17 (8.42%) SC Cleared
6 12 (5.94%) CHECK Team Member
7 11 (5.45%) Cyber Scheme
8 9 (4.46%) CHECK Team Leader
9 8 (3.96%) CISM
10 7 (3.47%) CESG Certified Professional
10 7 (3.47%) CISMP
11 6 (2.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (2.97%) AWS Certification
11 6 (2.97%) Azure Certification
11 6 (2.97%) CCSK
11 6 (2.97%) OSCE
11 6 (2.97%) PCI QSA
11 6 (2.97%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (9.90%) GDPR
3 19 (9.41%) NIST
4 18 (8.91%) GRC
5 16 (7.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (6.44%) QA
7 12 (5.94%) PCI DSS
8 11 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 8 (3.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 8 (3.96%) SOC 2
10 7 (3.47%) Accessibility
10 7 (3.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (2.97%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (2.48%) COBIT
13 4 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (1.98%) ISO 9001
13 4 (1.98%) NCSC
14 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (4.95%) Docker
2 5 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (8.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.97%) Nessus
2 6 (2.97%) Nmap
2 6 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.98%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 4 (1.98%) Grafana
4 3 (1.49%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.50%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (16.83%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.47%) Adobe
2 7 (3.47%) MuleSoft
2 7 (3.47%) Salesforce
3 6 (2.97%) Qualys
4 4 (1.98%) Oracle
5 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.49%) Splunk
5 3 (1.49%) Veracode
6 2 (0.99%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (0.99%) Meraki
7 1 (0.50%) Darktrace
7 1 (0.50%) Google
7 1 (0.50%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.50%) SonicWALL
7 1 (0.50%) VMware