Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
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The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Burp Suite skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Burp Suite over the 6 months to 27 June 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

PortSwigger Burp Suite
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
27 Jun 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 820 590 309
Rank change year-on-year -230 -281 +16
Permanent jobs citing Burp Suite 52 8 1
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.067% 0.022% 0.011%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.27% 0.096% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 33 6 1
10th Percentile £53,400 £63,125 -
25th Percentile £66,250 £68,438 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 £83,750 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.28% +101.81% -30.83%
75th Percentile £97,290 £90,000 £43,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% +9.09% +1.73%

Burp Suite is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 18,923 8,353 1,912
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.51% 22.90% 21.79%
Number of salaries quoted 8,618 6,262 1,638
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £78,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - +7.84%

Burp Suite
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Burp Suite as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Burp Suite trend for jobs with a WFH option

Burp Suite
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Burp Suite.

Burp Suite salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Burp Suite
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Burp Suite over the 6 months to 27 June 2022.

Burp Suite salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 27 June 2022, Burp Suite job roles required the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Burp Suite.

1 40 (76.92%) DevOps
2 37 (71.15%) Penetration Testing
3 36 (69.23%) Agile
3 36 (69.23%) OWASP
4 34 (65.38%) Social Skills
5 24 (46.15%) CISSP
6 23 (44.23%) OSCP
6 23 (44.23%) Non-Functional Testing
7 22 (42.31%) Cybersecurity
7 22 (42.31%) AWS
7 22 (42.31%) Finance
8 19 (36.54%) Information Security
8 19 (36.54%) Node.js
9 18 (34.62%) DevSecOps
10 17 (32.69%) Kali Linux
10 17 (32.69%) Bash
11 16 (30.77%) Emacs
11 16 (30.77%) Test Automation
11 16 (30.77%) Kubernetes
11 16 (30.77%) NIST
11 16 (30.77%) Zero Trust
12 15 (28.85%) CI/CD
12 15 (28.85%) Power Platform
12 15 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (28.85%) Business Agility
12 15 (28.85%) GDPR
12 15 (28.85%) Innovative Thinking
12 15 (28.85%) Power BI
12 15 (28.85%) HIPAA
12 15 (28.85%) SCADA

Burp Suite
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 22 (42.31%) AWS
2 15 (28.85%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (28.85%) Power Platform
3 8 (15.38%) Sauce Labs
4 7 (13.46%) GCP
5 4 (7.69%) Azure
6 2 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.46%) HTTP
2 6 (11.54%) DNS
2 6 (11.54%) Firewall
2 6 (11.54%) HTTPS
3 2 (3.85%) Wireless
4 1 (1.92%) 4G
4 1 (1.92%) 5G
4 1 (1.92%) LTE
4 1 (1.92%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.92%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.92%) SSL
4 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.92%) WAN
4 1 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.85%) Power BI
2 1 (1.92%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.92%) MySQL
2 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (30.77%) Emacs
2 13 (25.00%) Metasploit
2 13 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 6 (11.54%) sqlmap
4 5 (9.62%) Appium
4 5 (9.62%) Cucumber
4 5 (9.62%) Gerrit
4 5 (9.62%) Git (software)
4 5 (9.62%) gulp
4 5 (9.62%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.77%) Cypress.io
5 3 (5.77%) JIRA
5 3 (5.77%) Pa11y
5 3 (5.77%) Postman
5 3 (5.77%) WebDriver
6 2 (3.85%) GitLab
7 1 (1.92%) Apktool
7 1 (1.92%) Cycript
7 1 (1.92%) Cydia Substrate
7 1 (1.92%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 34 (65.38%) Social Skills
2 22 (42.31%) Finance
3 9 (17.31%) Retail
4 6 (11.54%) Games
4 6 (11.54%) Legal
4 6 (11.54%) Marketing
5 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.62%) Banking
6 4 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.92%) Publishing
7 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (36.54%) Security Engineer
2 15 (28.85%) Security Specialist
3 10 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (15.38%) Senior Security Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Senior Applications Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Quality Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Ethical Hacker
9 3 (5.77%) Penetration Tester
10 2 (3.85%) Analyst
10 2 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.85%) Consultant
10 2 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 2 (3.85%) Security Analyst
10 2 (3.85%) Senior Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
10 2 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.85%) Senior Penetration Tester
10 2 (3.85%) Tester
10 2 (3.85%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (36.54%) Node.js
2 9 (17.31%) .NET
3 6 (11.54%) LAMP
4 5 (9.62%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (1.92%) iOS SDK
5 1 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.85%) SCADA
2 12 (23.08%) Public Cloud
3 8 (15.38%) Management Information System
4 7 (13.46%) Mobile App
5 6 (11.54%) User Experience
6 4 (7.69%) Cyberthreat
7 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.92%) Blog
8 1 (1.92%) PKI
8 1 (1.92%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 17 (32.69%) Kali Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Windows
3 1 (1.92%) Android
3 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (76.92%) DevOps
2 37 (71.15%) Penetration Testing
3 36 (69.23%) Agile
3 36 (69.23%) OWASP
4 23 (44.23%) Non-Functional Testing
5 22 (42.31%) Cybersecurity
6 19 (36.54%) Information Security
7 18 (34.62%) DevSecOps
8 16 (30.77%) Test Automation
8 16 (30.77%) Zero Trust
9 15 (28.85%) Business Agility
9 15 (28.85%) CI/CD
9 15 (28.85%) Innovative Thinking
9 15 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (26.92%) Security Testing
11 12 (23.08%) Application Security
11 12 (23.08%) Ethical Hacking
12 10 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (19.23%) Software Delivery
12 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.69%) Bash
2 13 (25.00%) Python
3 10 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 9 (17.31%) PowerShell
5 6 (11.54%) Java
5 6 (11.54%) PHP
6 2 (3.85%) SQL
7 1 (1.92%) Apple Swift
7 1 (1.92%) C
7 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.92%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.92%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (46.15%) CISSP
2 23 (44.23%) OSCP
3 10 (19.23%) CEH
4 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) CSSLP
5 2 (3.85%) ISSEP
6 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.92%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (30.77%) NIST
2 15 (28.85%) GDPR
2 15 (28.85%) HIPAA
3 7 (13.46%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 16 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.62%) Nmap
2 5 (9.62%) Terraform
3 1 (1.92%) Ansible
3 1 (1.92%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.92%) Nessus
3 1 (1.92%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Perfecto Mobile
2 4 (7.69%) Checkmarx
2 4 (7.69%) Veracode
3 3 (5.77%) CA
4 2 (3.85%) Acunetix
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.85%) Qualys
5 1 (1.92%) Coverity
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle
5 1 (1.92%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (1.92%) SAP