Penetration Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Penetration Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 482 483
Rank change year-on-year -63 +1 -61
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 235 293 444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.50% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.53% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 157 171 328
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,187
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +3.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,033 55,511 69,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.47% 95.56% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42,006 28,806 41,464
10th Percentile £27,336 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Penetration Testing in the UK excluding London

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East -4 65 £43,750 -30.00% 18
Midlands -6 53 £55,000 -8.33% 7
North of England +22 48 £60,000 +14.29% 25
South West -14 48 £63,750 +25.00% 13
North West +11 36 £60,000 +12.15% 18
West Midlands -7 30 £55,000 -8.33% 6
East Midlands +2 23 £65,000 - 1
Yorkshire +52 12 £44,250 -14.79% 6
Scotland -73 10 £60,000 +7.75% 9
East of England -17 7 £40,000 -27.27% 7
Wales 0 3 £90,000 +60.71% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -
Penetration Testing
UK

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.43%) Apache
2 1 (0.43%) IIS
2 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 48 (20.43%) Azure
2 29 (12.34%) AWS
3 16 (6.81%) Cloud Computing
4 10 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (3.40%) Cloudflare
6 6 (2.55%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (1.70%) GCP
7 4 (1.70%) SaaS
8 3 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.28%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.28%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (0.85%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (0.85%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (0.85%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.43%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 63 (26.81%) Firewall
2 33 (14.04%) Network Security
3 18 (7.66%) Intrusion Detection
4 16 (6.81%) TCP/IP
5 15 (6.38%) Wireless
6 12 (5.11%) DNS
7 11 (4.68%) VPN
8 10 (4.26%) Internet
9 9 (3.83%) SSL
10 7 (2.98%) NGFW
10 7 (2.98%) Wireshark
11 6 (2.55%) BGP
12 5 (2.13%) HTTP
12 5 (2.13%) IPsec
12 5 (2.13%) LAN
12 5 (2.13%) OSPF
12 5 (2.13%) VLAN
12 5 (2.13%) WAN
13 4 (1.70%) Bluetooth
13 4 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.13%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.70%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.28%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (2.98%) Burp Suite
2 5 (2.13%) Metasploit
3 4 (1.70%) Git
4 2 (0.85%) JIRA
5 1 (0.43%) Snyk
General
1 70 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (12.34%) Finance
4 21 (8.94%) Aerospace
5 20 (8.51%) Legal
6 16 (6.81%) Telecoms
7 14 (5.96%) Military
8 12 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (4.68%) Games
10 10 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (4.26%) Public Sector
10 10 (4.26%) Retail
11 8 (3.40%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.98%) Automotive
12 7 (2.98%) Aviation
12 7 (2.98%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (2.55%) Marketing
14 5 (2.13%) Electronics
15 3 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 44 (18.72%) Analyst
2 35 (14.89%) Penetration Tester
3 34 (14.47%) Tester
4 33 (14.04%) Security Analyst
5 26 (11.06%) Lead
6 24 (10.21%) Senior
7 20 (8.51%) Security Manager
8 18 (7.66%) Consultant
9 17 (7.23%) Security Consultant
10 16 (6.81%) Architect
10 16 (6.81%) Security Architect
11 14 (5.96%) Security Engineer
12 12 (5.11%) Business Development Manager
12 12 (5.11%) Business Manager
12 12 (5.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 12 (5.11%) Development Manager
12 12 (5.11%) Security Penetration Tester
12 12 (5.11%) Security Tester
13 11 (4.68%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 11 (4.68%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.40%) Laravel
1 8 (3.40%) OAuth
2 6 (2.55%) OAuth2
3 5 (2.13%) Web Services
4 4 (1.70%) EDI
5 2 (0.85%) OpenID
5 2 (0.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.19%) Cyber Threat
2 29 (12.34%) Security Posture
3 22 (9.36%) Management Information System
3 22 (9.36%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (8.51%) Operational Technology
5 17 (7.23%) Cyberattack
6 15 (6.38%) Data Centre
7 13 (5.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (4.68%) Cyber Defence
9 10 (4.26%) IoT
10 9 (3.83%) Mobile App
11 6 (2.55%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (2.13%) Algorithms
12 5 (2.13%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.70%) Onboarding
14 3 (1.28%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 3 (1.28%) Driving Licence
14 3 (1.28%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 37 (15.74%) Windows
2 19 (8.09%) Linux
3 10 (4.26%) Kali Linux
4 8 (3.40%) Android
4 8 (3.40%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.28%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.85%) Unix
8 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (78.30%) Cybersecurity
2 72 (30.64%) Incident Response
3 63 (26.81%) Information Security
4 53 (22.55%) Computer Science
5 44 (18.72%) Vulnerability Management
6 42 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (15.74%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 33 (14.04%) Application Security
8 33 (14.04%) SIEM
9 30 (12.77%) Patch Management
9 30 (12.77%) Security Operations
10 29 (12.34%) OWASP
10 29 (12.34%) Red Team
10 29 (12.34%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 26 (11.06%) Risk Management
11 26 (11.06%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 23 (9.79%) Mentoring
12 23 (9.79%) Software Engineering
13 21 (8.94%) Data Protection
14 20 (8.51%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (17.02%) Python
2 16 (6.81%) Bash
3 8 (3.40%) PHP
3 8 (3.40%) Rust
4 6 (2.55%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.28%) Java
6 3 (1.28%) SQL
7 2 (0.85%) C#
7 2 (0.85%) Ruby
8 1 (0.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 59 (25.11%) Degree
2 52 (22.13%) CISSP
3 35 (14.89%) CISM
3 35 (14.89%) OSCP
4 20 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (7.23%) CREST Certified
5 17 (7.23%) Security Cleared
6 16 (6.81%) CEH
7 15 (6.38%) GIAC
8 12 (5.11%) CHECK Team Member
8 12 (5.11%) SC Cleared
9 11 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (3.83%) CompTIA Security+
11 8 (3.40%) CISA
11 8 (3.40%) GPEN
12 5 (2.13%) CCIE
12 5 (2.13%) CCNA
12 5 (2.13%) CCNP
12 5 (2.13%) DV Cleared
12 5 (2.13%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (22.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (11.49%) NIST
3 23 (9.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 17 (7.23%) GRC
5 13 (5.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 13 (5.53%) GDPR
6 9 (3.83%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.98%) DO-254
7 7 (2.98%) NCSC
8 6 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 6 (2.55%) NIST 800
9 4 (1.70%) QA
10 3 (1.28%) HIPAA
10 3 (1.28%) JTAG
11 2 (0.85%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.43%) COBIT
12 1 (0.43%) FISMA
12 1 (0.43%) HITRUST
12 1 (0.43%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (8.94%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.85%) Docker
4 2 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (5.11%) Nessus
2 11 (4.68%) WSUS
3 7 (2.98%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (2.55%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.13%) Ansible
5 5 (2.13%) Nmap
5 5 (2.13%) Suricata
6 3 (1.28%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.28%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.28%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.85%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.43%) Anchore
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 37 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.68%) Cisco
2 11 (4.68%) Splunk
3 10 (4.26%) Qualys
4 9 (3.83%) Palo Alto
5 7 (2.98%) VMware
6 6 (2.55%) HubSpot
7 5 (2.13%) Juniper
8 3 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.28%) HP
8 3 (1.28%) Lauterbach
8 3 (1.28%) Nimble Storage
8 3 (1.28%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.28%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.28%) Veeam
8 3 (1.28%) Veracode
9 2 (0.85%) SonicWALL
10 1 (0.43%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.43%) SAP
10 1 (0.43%) Zscaler