Metasploit Jobs

Rapid7 Metasploit
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Metasploit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Metasploit over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 850 903 1231
Rank change year-on-year +53 +328 -301
Permanent jobs citing Metasploit 54 16 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.017% 0.019%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.57% 0.12% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 47 10 23
10th Percentile £62,500 £52,875 £34,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £69,375 £49,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £92,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% +22.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £82,500 £98,000 £81,000
90th Percentile £120,000 - £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 - £36,000
% change year-on-year - - -31.43%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Metasploit falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,534 12,866 40,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.68% 13.91% 23.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,498 8,121 16,018
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,772 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Metasploit
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Metasploit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Metasploit in the UK

Metasploit
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Metasploit.

Salary trend for Metasploit in the UK

Metasploit
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metasploit over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Metasploit in the UK

Metasploit
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metasploit within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +69 54 £75,000 -18.48% 7
London +124 46 £75,000 -18.48% 2
Work from Home +51 22 £80,000 +45.45% 7
UK excluding London - 8 £60,000 - 5
Midlands - 4 £75,000 - 3
West Midlands - 4 £75,000 - 3
North West - 3 £50,000 - 1
North of England - 3 £50,000 - 2
South West - 1 - -

Metasploit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (16.67%) AWS
2 4 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (7.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 4 (7.41%) Amazon S3
2 4 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (7.41%) AWS CloudTrail
2 4 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (7.41%) Serverless
2 4 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (5.56%) Azure
3 3 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 26 (48.15%) Network Security
2 11 (20.37%) Wireless
3 3 (5.56%) HTTP
3 3 (5.56%) SSH
3 3 (5.56%) SSL
3 3 (5.56%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.85%) Firewall
4 1 (1.85%) Internet
4 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.85%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 51 (94.44%) Burp Suite
2 4 (7.41%) sqlmap
General
1 34 (62.96%) Social Skills
2 29 (53.70%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Marketing
4 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Retail
6 2 (3.70%) Finance
7 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (64.81%) Penetration Tester
1 35 (64.81%) Tester
2 14 (25.93%) Senior
3 10 (18.52%) Analyst
3 10 (18.52%) Security Analyst
3 10 (18.52%) Senior Analyst
3 10 (18.52%) Senior Security Analyst
4 5 (9.26%) Consultant
4 5 (9.26%) Security Consultant
4 5 (9.26%) Testing Consultant
5 4 (7.41%) Vulnerability Analyst
5 4 (7.41%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Security Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Consultant
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Security Consultant
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Testing Consultant
6 3 (5.56%) Threat Hunter
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.37%) Mobile App
2 10 (18.52%) IoT
3 3 (5.56%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (68.52%) Kali Linux
2 26 (48.15%) Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Unix
3 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (74.07%) Penetration Testing
1 40 (74.07%) Red Team
2 39 (72.22%) Information Security
3 36 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
4 35 (64.81%) Security Testing
5 34 (62.96%) Application Security
6 32 (59.26%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (53.70%) Computer Science
7 29 (53.70%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 27 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
8 27 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
9 26 (48.15%) Critical Thinking
10 16 (29.63%) OWASP
11 11 (20.37%) Threat Modelling
12 10 (18.52%) Social Engineering
12 10 (18.52%) Visualisation
12 10 (18.52%) Vulnerability Management
13 9 (16.67%) DevSecOps
13 9 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 8 (14.81%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.81%) Python
2 3 (5.56%) Java
2 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.85%) Bash
3 1 (1.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 29 (53.70%) Degree
2 26 (48.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (25.93%) OSCP
4 11 (20.37%) CREST Certified
5 10 (18.52%) OSCE
6 4 (7.41%) AWS Certification
7 3 (5.56%) CEH
7 3 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (5.56%) GIAC
7 3 (5.56%) GPEN
7 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared
7 3 (5.56%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.85%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (7.41%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (38.89%) Nmap
2 13 (24.07%) Nessus
Vendors
1 10 (18.52%) Qualys
2 3 (5.56%) Google
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft