Penetration Testing Jobs in England

Penetration Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 469 564
Rank change year-on-year +39 +95 -142
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 461 548 767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.62% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.65% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 362 378 562
10th Percentile £38,774 £43,750 £37,301
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,313 £51,492
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% +7.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,567 84,580 131,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.06% 95.60% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 53,896 50,324 73,626
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Penetration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in England

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in England

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Penetration Testing in England

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +66 226 £70,000 -14.56% 60
South East +5 65 £43,750 -25.21% 26
Midlands -9 53 £57,000 -5.00% 12
North of England +12 49 £57,500 +9.52% 22
South West -11 48 £63,750 +25.00% 16
North West +5 37 £60,000 +12.15% 14
West Midlands -5 30 £55,000 -8.33% 9
East Midlands -1 23 £65,000 - 3
Yorkshire +56 12 £44,250 -14.79% 5
East of England -9 7 £40,000 -27.27% 3
Penetration Testing
UK

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.22%) Apache
3 1 (0.22%) Confluence
3 1 (0.22%) IIS
3 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 100 (21.69%) Azure
2 68 (14.75%) AWS
3 46 (9.98%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (4.77%) Cloud Computing
4 22 (4.77%) GCP
5 11 (2.39%) Google Workspace
6 10 (2.17%) SaaS
7 8 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (1.74%) Cloudflare
7 8 (1.74%) Entra ID
8 7 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.52%) PaaS
9 6 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (1.30%) IaaS
10 4 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.87%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (0.87%) Mimecast
11 3 (0.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (0.65%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 119 (25.81%) Firewall
2 72 (15.62%) Network Security
3 37 (8.03%) Wireless
4 31 (6.72%) DNS
5 26 (5.64%) Intrusion Detection
6 20 (4.34%) Wi-Fi
7 16 (3.47%) TCP/IP
8 13 (2.82%) VPN
9 11 (2.39%) Broadband
9 11 (2.39%) NAS
10 10 (2.17%) Internet
10 10 (2.17%) Wireshark
11 9 (1.95%) SSL
12 8 (1.74%) LAN
13 7 (1.52%) WAN
14 6 (1.30%) BGP
14 6 (1.30%) NGFW
15 5 (1.08%) IPsec
15 5 (1.08%) OSPF
15 5 (1.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.95%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.30%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.65%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.43%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (8.68%) Burp Suite
1 40 (8.68%) Metasploit
2 9 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.74%) Git
4 6 (1.30%) JIRA
5 3 (0.65%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.65%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.22%) GitLab
7 1 (0.22%) Snyk
General
1 149 (32.32%) Social Skills
2 89 (19.31%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (15.18%) Finance
4 42 (9.11%) Legal
5 28 (6.07%) Presentation Skills
6 27 (5.86%) Law
7 25 (5.42%) Games
7 25 (5.42%) Telecoms
8 23 (4.99%) Retail
9 21 (4.56%) Aerospace
10 19 (4.12%) Banking
10 19 (4.12%) Marketing
11 18 (3.90%) Public Sector
12 14 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (3.04%) Military
13 12 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.52%) Automotive
14 7 (1.52%) Aviation
15 5 (1.08%) Electronics
15 5 (1.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 118 (25.60%) Penetration Tester
1 118 (25.60%) Tester
2 64 (13.88%) Lead
2 64 (13.88%) Senior
3 63 (13.67%) Analyst
4 45 (9.76%) Security Analyst
5 34 (7.38%) Consultant
6 32 (6.94%) Team Leader
7 30 (6.51%) Security Engineer
8 29 (6.29%) Security Manager
9 25 (5.42%) Senior Penetration Tester
9 25 (5.42%) Senior Tester
10 23 (4.99%) Architect
11 22 (4.77%) Security Consultant
12 21 (4.56%) Test Team Leader
13 20 (4.34%) Security Tester
14 19 (4.12%) Security Penetration Tester
15 18 (3.90%) Security Architect
16 17 (3.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 16 (3.47%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.17%) OAuth
2 8 (1.74%) Laravel
2 8 (1.74%) OAuth2
3 6 (1.30%) Web Services
4 4 (0.87%) EDI
4 4 (0.87%) OpenID
5 3 (0.65%) RESTful
5 3 (0.65%) WPF
6 2 (0.43%) Kafka
6 2 (0.43%) SAML
7 1 (0.22%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.22%) HTML
7 1 (0.22%) JSON
7 1 (0.22%) Loki
7 1 (0.22%) React
7 1 (0.22%) SignalR
7 1 (0.22%) Spring
7 1 (0.22%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (11.06%) Cyber Threat
2 40 (8.68%) Management Information System
3 36 (7.81%) Security Posture
4 33 (7.16%) Cyberattack
5 29 (6.29%) Mobile App
6 26 (5.64%) Onboarding
7 23 (4.99%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (4.12%) Operational Technology
9 15 (3.25%) Data Centre
9 15 (3.25%) IoT
10 14 (3.04%) Cyber Defence
11 13 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (2.39%) Video Conferencing
13 9 (1.95%) Cyber Security Posture
14 8 (1.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 7 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
16 6 (1.30%) Embedded Systems
17 5 (1.08%) Algorithms
17 5 (1.08%) Data Structures
17 5 (1.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 71 (15.40%) Windows
2 58 (12.58%) Linux
3 42 (9.11%) Kali Linux
4 21 (4.56%) Windows Server
5 20 (4.34%) Apple iOS
6 19 (4.12%) Android
7 12 (2.60%) Mac OS
8 11 (2.39%) Unix
9 3 (0.65%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.43%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.22%) VMS
11 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (73.97%) Cybersecurity
2 138 (29.93%) Information Security
3 116 (25.16%) Computer Science
4 112 (24.30%) Problem-Solving
5 100 (21.69%) Incident Response
6 89 (19.31%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 84 (18.22%) Red Team
8 83 (18.00%) Application Security
9 69 (14.97%) Security Testing
10 65 (14.10%) SIEM
11 63 (13.67%) Vulnerability Management
12 57 (12.36%) Mentoring
13 50 (10.85%) OWASP
14 49 (10.63%) Vulnerability Assessment
15 46 (9.98%) Security Operations
16 45 (9.76%) Risk Management
17 44 (9.54%) Patch Management
18 42 (9.11%) Malware Analysis
19 39 (8.46%) Data Protection
20 37 (8.03%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (10.85%) Python
2 32 (6.94%) Bash
3 12 (2.60%) PowerShell
4 9 (1.95%) Java
5 8 (1.74%) PHP
5 8 (1.74%) Rust
5 8 (1.74%) SQL
6 7 (1.52%) C#
6 7 (1.52%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.43%) Go
7 2 (0.43%) Ruby
8 1 (0.22%) C++
8 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 123 (26.68%) Degree
2 94 (20.39%) CISSP
3 71 (15.40%) CREST Certified
4 66 (14.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (13.02%) OSCP
6 54 (11.71%) CISM
7 33 (7.16%) CEH
8 32 (6.94%) Security Cleared
9 28 (6.07%) CompTIA Security+
10 26 (5.64%) CHECK Team Leader
10 26 (5.64%) GIAC
11 25 (5.42%) CISA
12 24 (5.21%) SC Cleared
13 22 (4.77%) CHECK Team Member
14 21 (4.56%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (3.69%) GPEN
16 16 (3.47%) CompTIA CySA+
17 10 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 10 (2.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 10 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (19.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 51 (11.06%) NIST
3 47 (10.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 30 (6.51%) GRC
5 25 (5.42%) PCI DSS
6 23 (4.99%) QA
7 21 (4.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 21 (4.56%) GDPR
7 21 (4.56%) SOC 2
8 9 (1.95%) NCSC
9 7 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (1.52%) DO-254
10 6 (1.30%) COBIT
10 6 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 6 (1.30%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.87%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.65%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.65%) JTAG
13 2 (0.43%) SLA
14 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (9.54%) Active Directory
2 25 (5.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.52%) Docker
5 2 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (4.34%) Nessus
2 13 (2.82%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.60%) WSUS
4 11 (2.39%) Ansible
4 11 (2.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 11 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (2.17%) Nmap
6 9 (1.95%) QRadar
7 7 (1.52%) SCCM
8 6 (1.30%) CASB
8 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.08%) HP Fortify
9 5 (1.08%) Suricata
10 4 (0.87%) DatAdvantage
10 4 (0.87%) Terraform
11 3 (0.65%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.65%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.43%) CSIRT
13 1 (0.22%) Anchore
13 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 83 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.42%) VMware
3 22 (4.77%) Qualys
4 20 (4.34%) Cisco
4 20 (4.34%) Google
5 13 (2.82%) Splunk
6 11 (2.39%) Apple
7 8 (1.74%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.52%) Rapid7
9 6 (1.30%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.30%) IBM
9 6 (1.30%) Kenna
10 5 (1.08%) Alibaba
10 5 (1.08%) Juniper
11 4 (0.87%) Darktrace
11 4 (0.87%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.87%) Varonis
11 4 (0.87%) Veeam
12 3 (0.65%) HP
12 3 (0.65%) LogRhythm