Penetration Testing Jobs in London

Penetration Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Penetration Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Penetration Testing over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 360 559
Rank change year-on-year +55 +199 -175
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 226 279 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.95% 0.83% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.87% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 205 223 255
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £81,928 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.56% +21.37% +3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £98,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.35% +7.60% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Penetration 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 advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,542 32,176 67,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.96% 95.34% 97.01%
Number of salaries quoted 15,908 23,258 34,113
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,224 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,488 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in London

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in London

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Penetration Testing in London

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Central London +80 44 £80,000 -18.37% 7
West London -4 4 £50,000 -11.89% 2
South London - 1 £46,250 -
Penetration Testing
England

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 51 (22.57%) Azure
2 38 (16.81%) AWS
3 36 (15.93%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (7.96%) GCP
5 11 (4.87%) Google Workspace
6 6 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.65%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.65%) IaaS
6 6 (2.65%) PaaS
6 6 (2.65%) SaaS
7 4 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.77%) Mimecast
8 3 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.88%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (0.88%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.44%) AWS CodeCommit
10 1 (0.44%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.44%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.44%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.44%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (26.99%) Firewall
2 39 (17.26%) Network Security
3 22 (9.73%) Wireless
4 19 (8.41%) DNS
5 16 (7.08%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (4.87%) Broadband
6 11 (4.87%) NAS
7 9 (3.98%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (1.77%) DKIM
9 3 (1.33%) LAN
9 3 (1.33%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.88%) VPN
10 2 (0.88%) WAN
11 1 (0.44%) DHCP
11 1 (0.44%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.21%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (15.49%) Metasploit
2 33 (14.60%) Burp Suite
3 9 (3.98%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.77%) Git
4 4 (1.77%) JIRA
5 3 (1.33%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.33%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.44%) GitLab
General
1 79 (34.96%) Social Skills
2 56 (24.78%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (18.58%) Finance
4 24 (10.62%) Law
5 22 (9.73%) Legal
6 19 (8.41%) Banking
7 16 (7.08%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (6.19%) Games
9 13 (5.75%) Marketing
9 13 (5.75%) Retail
10 9 (3.98%) Telecoms
11 8 (3.54%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.77%) International Banking
13 3 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.44%) iGaming
15 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 80 (35.40%) Tester
2 79 (34.96%) Penetration Tester
3 39 (17.26%) Senior
4 36 (15.93%) Lead
5 25 (11.06%) Analyst
6 24 (10.62%) Senior Penetration Tester
6 24 (10.62%) Senior Tester
6 24 (10.62%) Team Leader
7 18 (7.96%) Security Analyst
8 16 (7.08%) Consultant
8 16 (7.08%) Security Engineer
9 13 (5.75%) Test Team Leader
10 11 (4.87%) IT Consultant
10 11 (4.87%) Security Manager
11 10 (4.42%) Security Specialist
12 9 (3.98%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 8 (3.54%) Architect
13 8 (3.54%) Compliance Specialist
13 8 (3.54%) Security Tester
14 7 (3.10%) Information Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.33%) RESTful
1 3 (1.33%) WPF
2 2 (0.88%) Kafka
2 2 (0.88%) OAuth
2 2 (0.88%) OAuth2
2 2 (0.88%) OpenID
3 1 (0.44%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.44%) HTML
3 1 (0.44%) JSON
3 1 (0.44%) Loki
3 1 (0.44%) React
3 1 (0.44%) SignalR
3 1 (0.44%) Spring
3 1 (0.44%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.44%) Web Services
3 1 (0.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.29%) Onboarding
2 20 (8.85%) Cyber Threat
2 20 (8.85%) Mobile App
3 18 (7.96%) Management Information System
4 16 (7.08%) Cyberattack
5 11 (4.87%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (3.10%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.65%) Cyber Security Posture
7 6 (2.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.21%) IoT
8 5 (2.21%) PKI
9 4 (1.77%) CESG
9 4 (1.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.33%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.33%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.88%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 39 (17.26%) Linux
2 35 (15.49%) Windows
3 32 (14.16%) Kali Linux
4 16 (7.08%) Windows Server
5 12 (5.31%) Apple iOS
6 11 (4.87%) Android
6 11 (4.87%) Mac OS
7 9 (3.98%) Unix
8 2 (0.88%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.44%) VMS
9 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (70.80%) Cybersecurity
2 78 (34.51%) Information Security
3 69 (30.53%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (27.88%) Computer Science
5 53 (23.45%) Red Team
5 53 (23.45%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 51 (22.57%) Security Testing
7 48 (21.24%) Application Security
8 35 (15.49%) SIEM
9 33 (14.60%) Reverse Engineering
10 31 (13.72%) Incident Response
10 31 (13.72%) Mentoring
11 29 (12.83%) Critical Thinking
11 29 (12.83%) Malware Analysis
12 27 (11.95%) Project Management
13 25 (11.06%) Vulnerability Assessment
14 22 (9.73%) Presales
15 21 (9.29%) Data Protection
15 21 (9.29%) OWASP
16 19 (8.41%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (7.08%) Bash
2 10 (4.42%) Python
3 6 (2.65%) Java
4 4 (1.77%) C#
4 4 (1.77%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.33%) SQL
6 1 (0.44%) C++
6 1 (0.44%) Go
6 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 64 (28.32%) Degree
2 49 (21.68%) CREST Certified
3 48 (21.24%) CISSP
4 46 (20.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (11.06%) CISM
6 24 (10.62%) OSCP
7 20 (8.85%) CHECK Team Leader
7 20 (8.85%) CISA
8 18 (7.96%) CompTIA Security+
9 17 (7.52%) CEH
10 15 (6.64%) CompTIA CySA+
11 11 (4.87%) GIAC
12 10 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (3.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 9 (3.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (3.98%) CCSP
13 9 (3.98%) Master's Degree
13 9 (3.98%) Security Cleared
14 8 (3.54%) Cyber Scheme
14 8 (3.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (17.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (12.39%) NIST
3 23 (10.18%) Cyber Essentials
4 19 (8.41%) SOC 2
5 17 (7.52%) QA
6 16 (7.08%) PCI DSS
7 13 (5.75%) GRC
8 10 (4.42%) GDPR
9 7 (3.10%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (3.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (2.21%) COBIT
11 4 (1.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.88%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.88%) NCSC
13 1 (0.44%) GxP
13 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (10.62%) Active Directory
2 18 (7.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.21%) Docker
5 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (4.87%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (3.98%) QRadar
3 8 (3.54%) Nessus
4 7 (3.10%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.10%) SCCM
5 6 (2.65%) Ansible
5 6 (2.65%) CASB
6 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.21%) Nmap
7 4 (1.77%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 4 (1.77%) DatAdvantage
7 4 (1.77%) Terraform
8 2 (0.88%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.44%) Grafana
9 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (20.35%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.85%) Google
3 18 (7.96%) VMware
4 12 (5.31%) Qualys
5 11 (4.87%) Apple
6 9 (3.98%) Cisco
7 7 (3.10%) Rapid7
8 6 (2.65%) IBM
8 6 (2.65%) Kenna
9 5 (2.21%) Alibaba
10 4 (1.77%) Darktrace
10 4 (1.77%) Varonis
11 3 (1.33%) LogRhythm
11 3 (1.33%) Splunk
12 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.44%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.44%) OneTrust
12 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.44%) SonicWALL
12 1 (0.44%) Zscaler