Penetration Testing Jobs in the West Midlands

Penetration Testing
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 223 216 252
Rank change year-on-year -7 +36 -80
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 30 47 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.38% 0.77% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.80% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 21 28 20
10th Percentile £36,300 £41,250 £50,700
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% -19.64%
75th Percentile £81,250 £73,125 £67,813
90th Percentile £105,000 £85,375 £73,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,359 5,879 7,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.37% 96.79% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 4,664 3,160 4,800
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,592 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in the West Midlands

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in the West Midlands

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Penetration Testing in the West Midlands

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham -36 14 £77,500 +40.91% 1
Warwickshire - 4 - - 1
Staffordshire -20 2 - - 3
Walsall - 2 £39,649 -
Penetration Testing
England

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) AWS
1 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (3.33%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (3.33%) Azure
2 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Bluetooth
1 4 (13.33%) Ethernet
1 4 (13.33%) Firewall
1 4 (13.33%) FlexRay
1 4 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (13.33%) Wireless
2 2 (6.67%) Network Security
2 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.67%) Wireshark
3 1 (3.33%) 3GPP
3 1 (3.33%) 5G
3 1 (3.33%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (3.33%) HTTP
3 1 (3.33%) NGFW
3 1 (3.33%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
General
1 10 (33.33%) Legal
2 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Finance
4 5 (16.67%) Electronics
4 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 4 (13.33%) Automotive
5 4 (13.33%) Retail
6 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Tester
2 8 (26.67%) Penetration Tester
3 4 (13.33%) Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Lead
3 4 (13.33%) Senior
3 4 (13.33%) Team Leader
3 4 (13.33%) Test Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Test Team Leader
4 3 (10.00%) Security Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Incident Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) IT Security Officer
5 2 (6.67%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Security Officer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Integration Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Integration Test Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Security Tester
6 1 (3.33%) Systems Integration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) EDI
2 1 (3.33%) OAuth
2 1 (3.33%) OpenID
2 1 (3.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (13.33%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (13.33%) IoT
2 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 4 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (56.67%) Information Security
3 12 (40.00%) API Testing
3 12 (40.00%) Data Privacy
4 11 (36.67%) Data Protection
5 10 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
6 9 (30.00%) Computer Science
7 8 (26.67%) Agile
7 8 (26.67%) Test Strategy
8 7 (23.33%) Incident Response
8 7 (23.33%) Security Operations
8 7 (23.33%) Vulnerability Management
9 6 (20.00%) SIEM
10 5 (16.67%) Project Delivery
10 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
11 4 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
11 4 (13.33%) Creative Thinking
11 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
11 4 (13.33%) Service Catalogue
11 4 (13.33%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) OSCP
2 9 (30.00%) Degree
3 8 (26.67%) CISSP
4 6 (20.00%) CISM
4 6 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (13.33%) CEH
5 4 (13.33%) CREST Certified
6 3 (10.00%) CISA
7 2 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (6.67%) CRISC
7 2 (6.67%) DBS Check
7 2 (6.67%) GCFA
7 2 (6.67%) GCFE
7 2 (6.67%) GCIH
7 2 (6.67%) GIAC
7 2 (6.67%) GREM
7 2 (6.67%) SANS
7 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
8 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
8 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) GRC
2 7 (23.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (13.33%) QA
4 3 (10.00%) JTAG
5 2 (6.67%) NIST
5 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (3.33%) GDPR
6 1 (3.33%) NCSC
6 1 (3.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Lauterbach
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) SAP
2 1 (3.33%) Zscaler