Security Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 689 543 538
Rank change year-on-year -146 -5 +64
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 203 498 1,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.50% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.53% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 175 242 356
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,291 £37,642
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,188 £82,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £106,125 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% -4.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the UK

Security Testing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Testing in the UK

Security Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Testing over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Testing in the UK

Security Testing
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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 -129 186 £61,206 -18.39% 72
UK excluding London -120 115 £50,000 -16.67% 45
London -60 71 £75,000 -8.46% 21
Work from Home +3 54 £61,206 -9.32% 38
North of England +44 45 £60,000 -11.11% 17
Midlands -2 33 £50,000 -29.08% 7
North West -6 29 £61,206 -18.39% 6
West Midlands +14 27 £50,000 -29.08% 6
South East -61 25 £50,000 -3.85% 11
Yorkshire +88 16 £50,000 +25.00% 9
South West -36 9 £72,500 +7.41% 6
East Midlands -3 6 £52,500 +26.02% 1
Scotland -83 2 £65,000 +46.07% 2
East of England +2 1 £65,000 - 5

Security Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.94%) Confluence
2 6 (2.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 44 (21.67%) Azure
2 39 (19.21%) AWS
3 13 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.93%) GCP
4 10 (4.93%) SaaS
5 6 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (2.46%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.46%) AWS Fargate
6 5 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.46%) Azure Pipelines
6 5 (2.46%) Serverless
7 4 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.48%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.48%) IaaS
8 3 (1.48%) PaaS
8 3 (1.48%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (14.29%) Network Security
2 15 (7.39%) Firewall
2 15 (7.39%) Wireless
3 6 (2.96%) SD-WAN
3 6 (2.96%) WAN
4 2 (0.99%) 5G
4 2 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.99%) VoIP
4 2 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.99%) WPA
5 1 (0.49%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.49%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.49%) HTTP
5 1 (0.49%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.39%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.93%) DynamoDB
2 10 (4.93%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.97%) InfluxDB
3 4 (1.97%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.48%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.49%) GIS
5 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (18.23%) Burp Suite
2 34 (16.75%) Metasploit
3 11 (5.42%) SoapUI
4 10 (4.93%) JIRA
4 10 (4.93%) MSTest
4 10 (4.93%) Postman
5 9 (4.43%) JUnit
6 7 (3.45%) IntelliJ
6 7 (3.45%) Mockito
7 5 (2.46%) Git
7 5 (2.46%) JMeter
8 4 (1.97%) eggPlant
9 3 (1.48%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.48%) Gradle
9 3 (1.48%) Selenium
10 2 (0.99%) Appium
10 2 (0.99%) TestNG
10 2 (0.99%) TestRail
10 2 (0.99%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
General
1 72 (35.47%) Social Skills
2 57 (28.08%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (11.33%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.84%) Retail
5 18 (8.87%) Finance
6 9 (4.43%) Law
6 9 (4.43%) Legal
6 9 (4.43%) Marketing
7 8 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.46%) Automotive
9 5 (2.46%) Banking
10 4 (1.97%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.97%) Welsh Language
11 2 (0.99%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (0.99%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.49%) Games
12 1 (0.49%) iGaming
12 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (31.53%) Tester
2 59 (29.06%) Penetration Tester
3 40 (19.70%) Senior
4 35 (17.24%) Consultant
5 34 (16.75%) Security Consultant
6 14 (6.90%) Senior Consultant
6 14 (6.90%) Senior Testing Consultant
6 14 (6.90%) Test Engineer
6 14 (6.90%) Testing Consultant
7 13 (6.40%) Senior Penetration Tester
7 13 (6.40%) Senior Security Consultant
7 13 (6.40%) Senior Tester
8 11 (5.42%) Lead
8 11 (5.42%) Security Engineer
9 10 (4.93%) Analyst
9 10 (4.93%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 10 (4.93%) Information Security Consultant
9 10 (4.93%) Security Tester
10 9 (4.43%) Architect
10 9 (4.43%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.90%) XML
2 10 (4.93%) JSON
3 9 (4.43%) SOAP
4 8 (3.94%) REST
5 7 (3.45%) .NET
6 5 (2.46%) .NET Core
6 5 (2.46%) Blazor
7 4 (1.97%) OAuth
7 4 (1.97%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.48%) Gherkin
9 2 (0.99%) Playwright
10 1 (0.49%) EDI
10 1 (0.49%) Kafka
10 1 (0.49%) Ruby on Rails
10 1 (0.49%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 26 (12.81%) Mobile App
3 21 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (7.39%) Security Posture
5 14 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
5 14 (6.90%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.93%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (4.43%) Cyberattack
8 7 (3.45%) IoT
9 6 (2.96%) Cyber Security Posture
9 6 (2.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.97%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.97%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.48%) NHS
12 1 (0.49%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.49%) Media Streaming
12 1 (0.49%) Over-the-Top Content
12 1 (0.49%) STB
Operating Systems
1 34 (16.75%) Kali Linux
2 29 (14.29%) Linux
3 7 (3.45%) Android
3 7 (3.45%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.45%) Windows
4 4 (1.97%) Unix
4 4 (1.97%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.97%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (43.35%) Information Security
2 85 (41.87%) Cybersecurity
3 84 (41.38%) Penetration Testing
4 66 (32.51%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (31.53%) Application Security
6 56 (27.59%) Agile
7 53 (26.11%) Test Automation
8 50 (24.63%) Red Team
9 49 (24.14%) Computer Science
10 46 (22.66%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 37 (18.23%) Mentoring
12 34 (16.75%) Reverse Engineering
13 29 (14.29%) Software Testing
14 28 (13.79%) Critical Thinking
14 28 (13.79%) Malware Analysis
15 26 (12.81%) SDLC
16 24 (11.82%) OWASP
17 22 (10.84%) Performance Testing
17 22 (10.84%) Regression Testing
17 22 (10.84%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 23 (11.33%) SQL
2 17 (8.37%) Java
3 14 (6.90%) C#
4 8 (3.94%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.45%) Python
6 5 (2.46%) Go
6 5 (2.46%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.97%) C
8 1 (0.49%) C++
8 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 52 (25.62%) Degree
2 44 (21.67%) CREST Certified
3 43 (21.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 25 (12.32%) CISSP
6 24 (11.82%) OSCP
7 21 (10.34%) SC Cleared
8 13 (6.40%) CHECK Team Member
9 12 (5.91%) Cyber Scheme
10 11 (5.42%) CHECK Team Leader
11 8 (3.94%) CISM
12 7 (3.45%) CESG Certified Professional
12 7 (3.45%) CISMP
12 7 (3.45%) DV Cleared
13 6 (2.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (2.96%) Azure Certification
13 6 (2.96%) CCSK
13 6 (2.96%) OSCE
13 6 (2.96%) PCI QSA
13 6 (2.96%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (9.85%) GDPR
3 19 (9.36%) NIST
4 16 (7.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 16 (7.88%) GRC
4 16 (7.88%) QA
5 12 (5.91%) PCI DSS
6 11 (5.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 8 (3.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 7 (3.45%) Accessibility
8 7 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (2.96%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (2.96%) SOC 2
10 5 (2.46%) COBIT
11 4 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (1.97%) ISO 9001
11 4 (1.97%) NCSC
12 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (4.93%) Docker
2 5 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.49%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (8.37%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.96%) Nessus
2 6 (2.96%) Nmap
2 6 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.97%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 4 (1.97%) Grafana
4 3 (1.48%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 36 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.96%) Adobe
2 6 (2.96%) MuleSoft
2 6 (2.96%) Qualys
2 6 (2.96%) Salesforce
3 4 (1.97%) Oracle
4 3 (1.48%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.48%) Splunk
4 3 (1.48%) Veracode
5 2 (0.99%) Barracuda Networks
5 2 (0.99%) Meraki
6 1 (0.49%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.49%) Google
6 1 (0.49%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.49%) SonicWALL
6 1 (0.49%) VMware