Security Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security 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 Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Testing over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 646 573 496
Rank change year-on-year -73 -77 +32
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 122 157 437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.28% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.30% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 99 105 157
10th Percentile £37,750 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £65,603 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £99,450 £88,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Security 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 63,849 53,205 71,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.12% 95.49% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 43,309 28,441 41,725
10th Percentile £27,500 £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 £80,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Security Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Security Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Testing in the UK excluding London

Security 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 Security Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
North of England +5 47 £60,000 -11.11% 17
Midlands -21 36 £50,000 -26.20% 8
West Midlands +6 29 £50,000 -29.08% 5
North West -19 29 £61,206 -19.73% 9
South East -30 27 £44,089 -11.82% 7
Yorkshire +74 18 £50,000 +21.21% 7
South West -37 9 £72,500 +11.97% 8
East Midlands -26 7 £52,500 +26.02% 3
Scotland -71 2 £65,000 +47.73% 3
East of England -13 1 £65,000 - 2
Security Testing
UK

Security 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 6 (4.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 6 (4.92%) Confluence
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 43 (35.25%) Azure
2 33 (27.05%) AWS
3 15 (12.30%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.56%) GCP
4 8 (6.56%) SaaS
5 5 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (4.10%) Amazon S3
5 5 (4.10%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.10%) Azure Pipelines
5 5 (4.10%) Serverless
6 3 (2.46%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.46%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.46%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.38%) Firewall
2 8 (6.56%) WAN
3 6 (4.92%) SD-WAN
4 5 (4.10%) Wireless
5 2 (1.64%) 5G
5 2 (1.64%) LAN
5 2 (1.64%) Network Security
5 2 (1.64%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (1.64%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.64%) VLAN
5 2 (1.64%) VoIP
5 2 (1.64%) VPN
5 2 (1.64%) WPA
6 1 (0.82%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.82%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.82%) HTTP
6 1 (0.82%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.82%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.30%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.20%) DynamoDB
2 10 (8.20%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.46%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.82%) GIS
4 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.20%) MSTest
2 7 (5.74%) IntelliJ
2 7 (5.74%) JUnit
2 7 (5.74%) Mockito
3 6 (4.92%) Burp Suite
3 6 (4.92%) JIRA
4 5 (4.10%) eggPlant
4 5 (4.10%) Git
4 5 (4.10%) Postman
4 5 (4.10%) SoapUI
5 3 (2.46%) Gradle
5 3 (2.46%) Metasploit
General
1 32 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 31 (25.41%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.84%) Retail
5 8 (6.56%) Finance
6 5 (4.10%) Aerospace
6 5 (4.10%) Automotive
7 4 (3.28%) Law
7 4 (3.28%) Legal
8 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.82%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (19.67%) Consultant
1 24 (19.67%) Security Consultant
2 13 (10.66%) Senior
3 12 (9.84%) Information Security Consultant
3 12 (9.84%) Tester
4 11 (9.02%) Test Engineer
5 9 (7.38%) Architect
5 9 (7.38%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 9 (7.38%) Security Architect
6 8 (6.56%) Analyst
6 8 (6.56%) Developer
6 8 (6.56%) Penetration Tester
7 7 (5.74%) Security Manager
8 6 (4.92%) Security Analyst
8 6 (4.92%) Security Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Senior Architect
8 6 (4.92%) Senior Security Architect
8 6 (4.92%) Service Owner
9 5 (4.10%) Lead
9 5 (4.10%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.20%) JSON
1 10 (8.20%) XML
2 8 (6.56%) REST
3 7 (5.74%) .NET
4 5 (4.10%) .NET Core
4 5 (4.10%) Blazor
4 5 (4.10%) SOAP
5 3 (2.46%) EDI
6 1 (0.82%) Playwright
6 1 (0.82%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.49%) Management Information System
2 21 (17.21%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (15.57%) Mobile App
4 14 (11.48%) Product Ownership
5 12 (9.84%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (8.20%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (4.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (4.92%) Security Posture
8 4 (3.28%) Operational Technology
9 3 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.46%) Cyberattack
9 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.46%) IoT
9 3 (2.46%) NHS
10 2 (1.64%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.82%) Cybercrime
11 1 (0.82%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.82%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.56%) Windows
2 5 (4.10%) Windows Server
2 5 (4.10%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (2.46%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.82%) Android
4 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (35.25%) Information Security
2 41 (33.61%) Agile
2 41 (33.61%) Cybersecurity
3 40 (32.79%) Test Automation
4 31 (25.41%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (24.59%) Software Testing
6 22 (18.03%) Computer Science
6 22 (18.03%) Mentoring
7 20 (16.39%) Test Scripting
8 19 (15.57%) Functional Testing
9 18 (14.75%) Penetration Testing
9 18 (14.75%) Regression Testing
9 18 (14.75%) Security Operations
10 17 (13.93%) SDLC
11 16 (13.11%) Incident Response
11 16 (13.11%) Vulnerability Management
11 16 (13.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 15 (12.30%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 15 (12.30%) DevOps
12 15 (12.30%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.93%) SQL
2 14 (11.48%) C#
3 10 (8.20%) Java
4 8 (6.56%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.10%) Python
5 5 (4.10%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.28%) C
7 2 (1.64%) Bash
7 2 (1.64%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (23.77%) Degree
2 23 (18.85%) Security Cleared
3 21 (17.21%) CISSP
4 16 (13.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (11.48%) SC Cleared
6 11 (9.02%) CREST Certified
7 8 (6.56%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (6.56%) CISM
7 8 (6.56%) DV Cleared
8 7 (5.74%) CESG Certified Professional
8 7 (5.74%) CISMP
9 6 (4.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (4.92%) AWS Certification
9 6 (4.92%) Azure Certification
9 6 (4.92%) CCSK
9 6 (4.92%) CCSP
10 5 (4.10%) OSCP
11 4 (3.28%) OSCE
11 4 (3.28%) PhD
12 3 (2.46%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (22.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (15.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (14.75%) GDPR
4 13 (10.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 13 (10.66%) NIST
5 11 (9.02%) QA
6 8 (6.56%) GRC
7 7 (5.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 7 (5.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (4.10%) COBIT
8 5 (4.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (4.10%) PCI DSS
9 4 (3.28%) ISO 9001
9 4 (3.28%) SOC 2
10 3 (2.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (7.38%) Docker
2 6 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.92%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.46%) HP Fortify
3 3 (2.46%) Nessus
3 3 (2.46%) Nmap
Vendors
1 37 (30.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.92%) Adobe
2 6 (4.92%) MuleSoft
2 6 (4.92%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.46%) Qualys
3 3 (2.46%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.46%) Splunk
3 3 (2.46%) Veracode
4 2 (1.64%) Barracuda Networks
4 2 (1.64%) Meraki
5 1 (0.82%) Google
5 1 (0.82%) SonicWALL