Penetration Testing Jobs in West London

Penetration Testing
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West London requiring Penetration Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Penetration Testing over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 97 91
Rank change year-on-year +34 -6 +55
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 2 4 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West London 0.39% 0.41% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.44% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile - £44,350 £42,063
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,375 £47,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.89% -1.30%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £81,928
% change year-on-year - -11.51% +26.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West London

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 West London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 509 919 878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West London 99.41% 93.11% 92.52%
Number of salaries quoted 121 351 549
10th Percentile £29,688 £31,250 £32,475
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £85,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% +7.14%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West London.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in West London

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in West London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in West London.

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in West London

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the West London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Hillingdon - 2 £55,000 -
Penetration Testing
London

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) IT Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) IT Security Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Case
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST