Penetration Testing Jobs in the Thames Valley

Penetration Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Penetration Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Penetration Testing over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 204 246
Rank change year-on-year -30 +42 -45
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 17 43 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.23% 0.77% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.82% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 29
10th Percentile - £50,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,188 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -5.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,813 £78,750
90th Percentile £101,500 £90,000 £92,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £58,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -18.80% -10.00% +6.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Penetration Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,117 5,275 7,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 82.61% 94.70% 93.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,005 2,984 3,915
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in the Thames Valley

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Penetration Testing in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in the Thames Valley

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Penetration Testing in the Thames Valley

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Berkshire -5 16 £72,500 -10.77% 1
Buckinghamshire -20 1 - - 3
Penetration Testing
South East

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (41.18%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (94.12%) Network Security
2 8 (47.06%) Firewall
3 6 (35.29%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (29.41%) Internet
4 5 (29.41%) VPN
5 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.88%) BGP
6 1 (5.88%) DNS
General
1 9 (52.94%) Telecoms
2 8 (47.06%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Retail
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Security Assurance Manager
1 8 (47.06%) Security Manager
2 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 5 (29.41%) Architect
3 5 (29.41%) Security Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Security Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Security Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Telecoms Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) IT Security Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Junior
6 1 (5.88%) Junior Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Junior Security Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Security Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Senior IT Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Management Information System
1 8 (47.06%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (29.41%) Data Centre
2 5 (29.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (29.41%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (88.24%) Application Security
2 15 (88.24%) Computer Science
2 15 (88.24%) Vulnerability Management
3 13 (76.47%) OWASP
3 13 (76.47%) Security Operations
3 13 (76.47%) Software Engineering
4 8 (47.06%) Content Development
4 8 (47.06%) DevSecOps
4 8 (47.06%) Purple Team
4 8 (47.06%) Red Team
4 8 (47.06%) Risk Management
4 8 (47.06%) Security Management
4 8 (47.06%) SIEM
4 8 (47.06%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (35.29%) Security Architecture
6 5 (29.41%) Dashboard Development
6 5 (29.41%) Patch Management
6 5 (29.41%) Secure Coding
6 5 (29.41%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
1 5 (29.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (94.12%) Degree
2 15 (88.24%) CISSP
3 8 (47.06%) CISM
3 8 (47.06%) GIAC
3 8 (47.06%) GPEN
4 5 (29.41%) AWS Certification
4 5 (29.41%) Azure Certification
5 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (11.76%) CCNA
6 2 (11.76%) CCNP
6 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (11.76%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (11.76%) GCIA
6 2 (11.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (70.59%) NIST
2 8 (47.06%) GRC
2 8 (47.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (35.29%) GDPR
3 6 (35.29%) NIST 800
4 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 5 (29.41%) PCI DSS
5 2 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (5.88%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 6 (35.29%) Nessus
2 5 (29.41%) Suricata
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Qualys
2 5 (29.41%) Cisco
2 5 (29.41%) Juniper
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) Palo Alto
2 5 (29.41%) Splunk