PortSwigger Burp Suite
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 853 925 1061
Rank change year-on-year +72 +136 -204
Permanent jobs citing Burp Suite 58 74 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.059% 0.071% 0.097%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.61% 0.50% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 51 24 93
10th Percentile £51,250 - £53,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £41,250 £63,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £51,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +46.34% -31.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £93,375 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £98,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £44,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +33.52% -41.33% +25.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,574 14,863 35,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.72% 14.35% 22.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,738 9,098 15,951
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,210 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Burp Suite
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Burp Suite as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Burp Suite in the UK

Burp Suite
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Burp Suite.

Salary trend for Burp Suite in the UK

Burp Suite
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Burp Suite over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Burp Suite in the UK

Burp Suite
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Burp Suite within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +96 56 £75,000 -16.67% 11
London +137 42 £75,000 -20.63% 5
Work from Home +83 16 £110,000 +120.00% 32
UK excluding London -27 16 £58,750 +33.52% 7
North of England +35 7 £50,000 -4.76% 1
North West +11 5 £50,000 -9.09%
South West -19 3 - - 1
Yorkshire +90 2 £38,500 -18.95% 1
South East +16 2 £105,000 +68.00% 1
West Midlands - 2 £70,000 - 3
Midlands - 2 £70,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £68,750 - 1

Burp Suite
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (13.79%) AWS
2 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (3.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
2 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (3.45%) Azure
2 2 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (3.45%) GCP
2 2 (3.45%) SaaS
2 2 (3.45%) Serverless
2 2 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (1.72%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 28 (48.28%) Network Security
2 10 (17.24%) Wireless
3 5 (8.62%) Firewall
4 3 (5.17%) Internet
4 3 (5.17%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.17%) Wireless Security
5 1 (1.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
1 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
1 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 50 (86.21%) Metasploit
2 2 (3.45%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.45%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) Selenium
2 2 (3.45%) SoapUI
2 2 (3.45%) sqlmap
2 2 (3.45%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.72%) AppScan
General
1 34 (58.62%) Social Skills
2 28 (48.28%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.17%) Finance
3 3 (5.17%) Marketing
3 3 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.72%) Law
4 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (62.07%) Penetration Tester
1 36 (62.07%) Tester
2 16 (27.59%) Senior
3 9 (15.52%) Analyst
3 9 (15.52%) Security Analyst
3 9 (15.52%) Senior Analyst
3 9 (15.52%) Senior Security Analyst
4 5 (8.62%) Security Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Consultant
5 4 (6.90%) Security Consultant
5 4 (6.90%) Senior Consultant
5 4 (6.90%) Senior Security Consultant
5 4 (6.90%) Vulnerability Analyst
5 4 (6.90%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Senior Testing Consultant
6 3 (5.17%) Testing Consultant
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Development Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.24%) REST
2 2 (3.45%) .NET
2 2 (3.45%) Jest
2 2 (3.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Mobile App
2 6 (10.34%) IoT
3 3 (5.17%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.17%) Operational Technology
3 3 (5.17%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.45%) NHS
4 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.72%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 38 (65.52%) Kali Linux
2 29 (50.00%) Linux
3 4 (6.90%) Windows
4 3 (5.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (74.14%) Information Security
2 41 (70.69%) Penetration Testing
3 40 (68.97%) Application Security
4 38 (65.52%) Cybersecurity
4 38 (65.52%) Security Testing
5 37 (63.79%) Red Team
6 31 (53.45%) Computer Science
6 31 (53.45%) Malware Analysis
6 31 (53.45%) Reverse Engineering
6 31 (53.45%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 29 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
7 29 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (24.14%) OWASP
9 12 (20.69%) DevSecOps
10 11 (18.97%) Vulnerability Management
11 9 (15.52%) Visualisation
12 6 (10.34%) Benchmarking
12 6 (10.34%) Social Engineering
13 5 (8.62%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 5 (8.62%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.79%) Python
2 5 (8.62%) C#
2 5 (8.62%) JavaScript
2 5 (8.62%) SQL
3 3 (5.17%) Bash
3 3 (5.17%) Java
4 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (56.90%) Degree
2 29 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (20.69%) OSCP
4 10 (17.24%) CREST Certified
5 6 (10.34%) OSCE
6 3 (5.17%) CHECK Team Member
6 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
6 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.72%) CGEIT
8 1 (1.72%) CISA
8 1 (1.72%) CISM
8 1 (1.72%) CISSP
8 1 (1.72%) CRISC
8 1 (1.72%) GPEN
8 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.72%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.45%) NIST
2 2 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (34.48%) Nmap
2 8 (13.79%) Nessus
3 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Qualys
2 4 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.72%) Splunk
4 1 (1.72%) Trustwave