Penetration Testing Job Trends in Warrington

Penetration Testing
Cheshire > Warrington

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Warrington requiring Penetration Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - -15
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Warrington 0.26% - 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £44,350
25th Percentile £66,250 - £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £59,125
90th Percentile - - £61,450
Cheshire median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +22.73% -8.33% +9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Warrington

Penetration 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 in Warrington.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 297 130 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Warrington 76.15% 87.25% 92.37%
Number of salaries quoted 149 66 231
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,750 £24,807
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,979 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.11% - +21.79%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,500 £79,000 £78,500
Cheshire median annual salary £45,000 £48,306 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.84% +1.70% -

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Penetration Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Warrington.

Penetration Testing job vacancy trend in Warrington

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Warrington

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Penetration Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) RxJS
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
1 1 (100.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) DevExpress
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft