Metasploit Jobs

Rapid7 Metasploit
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Metasploit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Metasploit over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 757 752 1110
Rank change year-on-year -5 +358 -58
Permanent jobs citing Metasploit 33 9 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.016% 0.017%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.50% 0.12% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 20 8 15
10th Percentile £50,000 - £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £81,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -35.19% +24.62%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,313 £88,750
90th Percentile £78,875 £90,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% +9.52% -12.50%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Metasploit falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,570 7,627 28,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.65% 13.24% 20.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,491 5,759 13,750
10th Percentile £37,574 £42,399 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% +10.00%

Metasploit
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Metasploit in the UK

Metasploit
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Metasploit.

Salary trend for Metasploit in the UK

Metasploit
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metasploit over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Metasploit in the UK

Metasploit
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metasploit within the UK over the 6 months to 31 October 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 -13 30 £65,000 +30.00% 4
London +37 22 £65,000 +30.00% 2
Work from Home +39 19 £70,000 +40.00% 1
UK excluding London -18 7 £70,000 +21.74% 2
Midlands - 4 £77,500 -
South East - 2 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £77,500 -
East Midlands - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - - 1

Metasploit
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 (24.24%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) Azure
2 6 (18.18%) GCP
3 3 (9.09%) SaaS
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.06%) Serverless
4 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (48.48%) Wireless
2 11 (33.33%) Network Security
3 8 (24.24%) Broadband
3 8 (24.24%) VoIP
3 8 (24.24%) Wireshark
4 5 (15.15%) SSH
5 4 (12.12%) HTTP
5 4 (12.12%) SSL
6 1 (3.03%) FTP
6 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 33 (100.00%) Burp Suite
2 2 (6.06%) sqlmap
General
1 26 (78.79%) Social Skills
2 23 (69.70%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Games
3 8 (24.24%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (15.15%) Marketing
5 4 (12.12%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (9.09%) Banking
6 3 (9.09%) Finance
7 2 (6.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Penetration Tester
1 16 (48.48%) Tester
2 8 (24.24%) Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Lead
3 4 (12.12%) Penetration Test Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Security Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Test Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Test Leader
4 3 (9.09%) Consultant
4 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Security Consultant
4 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (6.06%) Security Penetration Tester
5 2 (6.06%) Security Tester
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Penetration Tester
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Tester
5 2 (6.06%) Testing Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) CSS
1 1 (3.03%) HTML
1 1 (3.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (39.39%) IoT
2 10 (30.30%) Cyber Threat
2 10 (30.30%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (24.24%) Blog
3 8 (24.24%) Cyberattack
4 5 (15.15%) Mobile App
5 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
6 2 (6.06%) Security Posture
7 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 20 (60.61%) Kali Linux
2 13 (39.39%) Linux
3 2 (6.06%) Windows
4 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (87.88%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (81.82%) Penetration Testing
3 23 (69.70%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (60.61%) Application Security
5 17 (51.52%) Red Team
6 16 (48.48%) Security Testing
6 16 (48.48%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 15 (45.45%) Computer Science
8 13 (39.39%) Offensive Security
9 11 (33.33%) Incident Response
9 11 (33.33%) Open Source
10 10 (30.30%) Threat Modelling
11 9 (27.27%) Strategic Thinking
12 8 (24.24%) Cloud Security
12 8 (24.24%) Creative Thinking
12 8 (24.24%) Programme Delivery
12 8 (24.24%) Security Architecture
12 8 (24.24%) Time Management
13 6 (18.18%) OWASP
13 6 (18.18%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 8 (24.24%) Bash
4 2 (6.06%) Go
4 2 (6.06%) Ruby
5 1 (3.03%) C
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) C++
5 1 (3.03%) Java
5 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.03%) Perl
Qualifications
1 27 (81.82%) OSCP
2 15 (45.45%) CREST Certified
3 14 (42.42%) Degree
4 12 (36.36%) GPEN
5 11 (33.33%) CEH
5 11 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (27.27%) Cyber Scheme
6 9 (27.27%) OSCE
7 8 (24.24%) GIAC
7 8 (24.24%) OSWP
8 7 (21.21%) CISSP
9 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
10 1 (3.03%) CHECK Team Leader
10 1 (3.03%) CHECK Team Member
10 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) QA
2 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (9.09%) Accessibility
4 2 (6.06%) NIST
4 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (72.73%) Nmap
2 17 (51.52%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Qualys
2 4 (12.12%) Google