Penetration Testing Jobs in Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 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 212 249 236
Rank change year-on-year +37 -13 -26
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 11 40 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.17% 0.55% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.56% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 8 33 40
10th Percentile £34,675 - £37,148
25th Percentile £37,750 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,250 £52,500 £60,569
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% -13.32% +27.51%
75th Percentile £55,625 £58,750 £75,938
90th Percentile £59,750 £73,750 £94,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.17% -3.08% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,217 7,112 6,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 79.84% 97.84% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,842 3,358 4,405
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +6.57% +8.42%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Penetration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Penetration Testing in Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Penetration Testing in Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Penetration Testing in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Penetration Testing in Yorkshire

Penetration Testing
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the Yorkshire region 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
West Yorkshire +58 11 £44,250 -14.79% 3
Penetration Testing
England

Penetration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 6 (54.55%) AWS
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
1 6 (54.55%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
2 3 (27.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
1 3 (27.27%) Internet
1 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Security Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Security Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Security Penetration Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Security Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cyberattack
1 3 (27.27%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Mac OS X
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) SDLC
3 4 (36.36%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 3 (27.27%) Application Security
4 3 (27.27%) Blue Team
4 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
4 3 (27.27%) Coaching
4 3 (27.27%) Content Development
4 3 (27.27%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
4 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Protective Monitoring
4 3 (27.27%) Red Team
4 3 (27.27%) SIEM
4 3 (27.27%) SOAR
4 3 (27.27%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (27.27%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Splunk
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow