Penetration Testing Jobs with Work from Home Options

Penetration Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 359 488
Rank change year-on-year -41 +129 -75
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 200 307 459
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 0.80% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.83% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 180 191 331
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -4.41%
75th Percentile £75,313 £86,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,322 36,922 72,167
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.16% 96.00% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,561 26,118 41,820
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Penetration Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Penetration Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Penetration Testing.

Penetration Testing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Penetration Testing over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Penetration Testing salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (16.50%) Azure
2 28 (14.00%) AWS
3 21 (10.50%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (5.50%) Google Workspace
5 8 (4.00%) GCP
6 4 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.50%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.50%) IaaS
7 3 (1.50%) PaaS
7 3 (1.50%) SaaS
8 2 (1.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (1.00%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (1.00%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (1.00%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.00%) OCI
9 1 (0.50%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 54 (27.00%) Firewall
2 27 (13.50%) Wireless
3 20 (10.00%) Network Security
4 16 (8.00%) DNS
5 11 (5.50%) Broadband
5 11 (5.50%) NAS
5 11 (5.50%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (4.00%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.00%) NGFW
7 6 (3.00%) SSL
8 5 (2.50%) BGP
8 5 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (2.50%) IPsec
8 5 (2.50%) LAN
8 5 (2.50%) OSPF
8 5 (2.50%) VLAN
8 5 (2.50%) VPN
8 5 (2.50%) WAN
9 3 (1.50%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.50%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.50%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.00%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.50%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.00%) InfluxDB
5 2 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (3.50%) Metasploit
2 5 (2.50%) Postman
3 4 (2.00%) Burp Suite
3 4 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.00%) JMeter
3 4 (2.00%) SoapUI
4 3 (1.50%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.50%) Git
4 3 (1.50%) JIRA
4 3 (1.50%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 72 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.50%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.00%) Presentation Skills
4 25 (12.50%) Finance
5 22 (11.00%) Legal
6 15 (7.50%) Marketing
7 13 (6.50%) Games
8 12 (6.00%) Public Sector
9 11 (5.50%) Retail
9 11 (5.50%) Telecoms
10 10 (5.00%) Law
10 10 (5.00%) Military
11 7 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (2.50%) Manufacturing
13 4 (2.00%) Aerospace
13 4 (2.00%) Aviation
13 4 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (2.00%) Welsh Language
14 3 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (33.00%) Penetration Tester
1 66 (33.00%) Tester
2 28 (14.00%) Lead
3 27 (13.50%) Senior
4 18 (9.00%) Senior Penetration Tester
4 18 (9.00%) Senior Tester
5 16 (8.00%) Team Leader
5 16 (8.00%) Test Team Leader
6 15 (7.50%) Consultant
7 13 (6.50%) Security Manager
8 12 (6.00%) Business Development Manager
8 12 (6.00%) Business Manager
8 12 (6.00%) Development Manager
8 12 (6.00%) Security Engineer
9 11 (5.50%) IT Consultant
9 11 (5.50%) IT Manager
9 11 (5.50%) Vulnerability Manager
10 9 (4.50%) Analyst
11 8 (4.00%) Security Analyst
11 8 (4.00%) Security Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.00%) OAuth
2 4 (2.00%) OAuth2
2 4 (2.00%) SOAP
2 4 (2.00%) XML
3 3 (1.50%) RESTful
3 3 (1.50%) WPF
4 2 (1.00%) OpenID
4 2 (1.00%) SAML
5 1 (0.50%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.50%) JSON
5 1 (0.50%) SignalR
5 1 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.50%) Mobile App
1 17 (8.50%) Security Posture
2 14 (7.00%) Management Information System
2 14 (7.00%) Onboarding
3 11 (5.50%) Video Conferencing
4 10 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.00%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.50%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.50%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.50%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.50%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.00%) IoT
8 4 (2.00%) PKI
8 4 (2.00%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.50%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.00%) Anti-Spyware
10 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.50%) Windows
2 16 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 15 (7.50%) Android
3 15 (7.50%) Apple iOS
4 11 (5.50%) Mac OS
5 7 (3.50%) Unix
6 4 (2.00%) Kali Linux
7 2 (1.00%) AIX
7 2 (1.00%) Linux
7 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.50%) VMS
8 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (69.00%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (26.50%) Information Security
3 38 (19.00%) Mentoring
4 37 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (17.50%) Computer Science
6 31 (15.50%) Red Team
7 27 (13.50%) Security Testing
8 26 (13.00%) Data Privacy
8 26 (13.00%) Data Protection
9 24 (12.00%) Presales
10 22 (11.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 20 (10.00%) Application Security
11 20 (10.00%) Risk Management
11 20 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 19 (9.50%) Ethical Hacking
13 18 (9.00%) OWASP
14 17 (8.50%) Incident Response
14 17 (8.50%) Project Management
15 15 (7.50%) Asset Management
15 15 (7.50%) Offensive Security
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.00%) Bash
1 16 (8.00%) Python
2 8 (4.00%) SQL
3 5 (2.50%) C#
3 5 (2.50%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.50%) Java
6 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (24.50%) CREST Certified
2 35 (17.50%) Degree
3 32 (16.00%) OSCP
4 30 (15.00%) CISSP
4 30 (15.00%) Security Cleared
5 27 (13.50%) SC Cleared
6 22 (11.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (10.50%) CISM
8 17 (8.50%) CHECK Team Member
8 17 (8.50%) GIAC
9 13 (6.50%) Cyber Scheme
10 12 (6.00%) CHECK Team Leader
11 10 (5.00%) CEH
12 9 (4.50%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (4.50%) GPEN
13 8 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
14 7 (3.50%) CISA
14 7 (3.50%) PCI QSA
15 6 (3.00%) CCIE
15 6 (3.00%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (18.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (14.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 25 (12.50%) NIST
4 19 (9.50%) GRC
5 15 (7.50%) PCI DSS
5 15 (7.50%) SOC 2
6 13 (6.50%) QA
7 12 (6.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (4.50%) GDPR
9 7 (3.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (2.00%) Accessibility
10 4 (2.00%) COBIT
10 4 (2.00%) DO-254
10 4 (2.00%) NIST 800
11 3 (1.50%) JSP 440
12 2 (1.00%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.50%) GxP
13 1 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.50%) RMADS
13 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (5.50%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (5.00%) Nessus
3 9 (4.50%) Ansible
4 4 (2.00%) Grafana
4 4 (2.00%) Nmap
5 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (1.00%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.00%) Terraform
7 1 (0.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (20.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.50%) Apple
2 11 (5.50%) Google
2 11 (5.50%) VMware
3 6 (3.00%) HubSpot
3 6 (3.00%) Oracle
4 5 (2.50%) Qualys
5 4 (2.00%) Alibaba
6 2 (1.00%) ArcSight
6 2 (1.00%) Cisco
6 2 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.00%) Sophos
6 2 (1.00%) Splunk
6 2 (1.00%) Tripwire
7 1 (0.50%) arcserve
7 1 (0.50%) BMC
7 1 (0.50%) Remedy
7 1 (0.50%) SAP
7 1 (0.50%) Veeam