Metasploit Jobs with Work from Home Options

Rapid7 Metasploit
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 Metasploit skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Metasploit 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 575 634 868
Rank change year-on-year +59 +234 -288
Permanent jobs citing Metasploit 18 4 18
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.052% 0.010% 0.024%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.47% 0.068% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 16 3 11
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £50,625 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £55,000 £57,100
Median % change year-on-year +68.18% -3.68% +3.82%
75th Percentile £120,000 £75,625 £70,900
90th Percentile - £85,750 £81,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -16.67% +30.91% +30.95%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Metasploit 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 WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,800 5,854 18,577
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.94% 15.22% 25.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,904 4,150 8,509
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £58,700 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.69% +4.00% +8.70%

Metasploit
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Metasploit trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Metasploit salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Metasploit salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (16.67%) Serverless
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Wireless
2 3 (16.67%) Wireshark
3 1 (5.56%) Firewall
3 1 (5.56%) Internet
3 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.56%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (83.33%) Burp Suite
2 3 (16.67%) sqlmap
General
1 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Analyst
1 8 (44.44%) Security Analyst
1 8 (44.44%) Senior
1 8 (44.44%) Senior Analyst
1 8 (44.44%) Senior Security Analyst
2 7 (38.89%) Penetration Tester
2 7 (38.89%) Tester
3 3 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Threat Hunter
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 3 (16.67%) IoT
2 3 (16.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Kali Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Unix
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Information Security
2 9 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 9 (50.00%) OWASP
3 8 (44.44%) DevSecOps
3 8 (44.44%) Visualisation
3 8 (44.44%) Vulnerability Management
4 7 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (38.89%) Penetration Testing
4 7 (38.89%) Red Team
5 6 (33.33%) Application Security
5 6 (33.33%) Benchmarking
6 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
6 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
7 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (16.67%) Offensive Security
7 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (16.67%) Social Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) OSCP
2 4 (22.22%) CREST Certified
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 3 (16.67%) CEH
3 3 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (16.67%) GIAC
3 3 (16.67%) GPEN
3 3 (16.67%) OSCE
3 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) CHECK Team Member
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (16.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) Nmap
2 6 (33.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 3 (16.67%) Qualys