Security Testing Jobs

Security Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Testing 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 699 559 535
Rank change year-on-year -140 -24 +73
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 210 432 1,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.46% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.48% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 182 236 354
10th Percentile £38,600 £41,250 £37,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £77,188 £94,063 £82,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £106,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% -4.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Security 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the UK

Security Testing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Testing in the UK

Security Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Testing over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Testing in the UK

Security Testing
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 -135 194 £61,206 -18.39% 68
UK excluding London -91 118 £50,000 -16.67% 44
London -22 76 £70,000 -14.56% 22
Work from Home -19 55 £61,206 -11.07% 55
North of England +24 46 £60,000 -11.11% 16
Midlands +1 34 £50,000 -29.08% 7
North West -15 29 £61,206 -21.02% 9
West Midlands -6 27 £50,000 -29.08% 4
South East -51 26 £44,089 -11.82% 10
Yorkshire +67 17 £50,000 +21.21% 6
South West -31 9 £72,500 +9.64% 9
East Midlands -12 7 £52,500 +26.02% 3
Scotland -80 2 £65,000 +46.07% 2
East of England -3 1 £65,000 - 1

Security Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.81%) Confluence
2 6 (2.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 48 (22.86%) Azure
2 41 (19.52%) AWS
3 15 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (5.71%) GCP
5 11 (5.24%) SaaS
6 7 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.38%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.38%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.38%) Azure Pipelines
7 5 (2.38%) Serverless
8 4 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.90%) IaaS
8 4 (1.90%) PaaS
9 3 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.43%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (14.76%) Network Security
2 18 (8.57%) Wireless
3 17 (8.10%) Firewall
4 7 (3.33%) WAN
5 6 (2.86%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.95%) 5G
7 2 (0.95%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.95%) VoIP
7 2 (0.95%) VPN
7 2 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.95%) WPA
8 1 (0.48%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.48%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.48%) HTTP
8 1 (0.48%) LAN
8 1 (0.48%) SCTP
8 1 (0.48%) SSL
8 1 (0.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.62%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.76%) DynamoDB
2 10 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.90%) InfluxDB
3 4 (1.90%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.43%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.48%) GIS
5 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (17.62%) Burp Suite
2 34 (16.19%) Metasploit
3 11 (5.24%) SoapUI
4 10 (4.76%) JIRA
4 10 (4.76%) MSTest
4 10 (4.76%) Postman
5 9 (4.29%) JUnit
6 7 (3.33%) IntelliJ
6 7 (3.33%) Mockito
7 6 (2.86%) Git
8 5 (2.38%) eggPlant
8 5 (2.38%) JMeter
9 4 (1.90%) Selenium
10 3 (1.43%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.43%) Gradle
11 2 (0.95%) Appium
11 2 (0.95%) TestNG
11 2 (0.95%) TestRail
11 2 (0.95%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
General
1 73 (34.76%) Social Skills
2 58 (27.62%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.48%) Retail
5 19 (9.05%) Finance
6 9 (4.29%) Law
6 9 (4.29%) Legal
6 9 (4.29%) Marketing
7 8 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.38%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.38%) Automotive
8 5 (2.38%) Banking
9 4 (1.90%) Welsh Language
10 3 (1.43%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.95%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (0.95%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.48%) Games
12 1 (0.48%) iGaming
12 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (29.52%) Tester
2 58 (27.62%) Penetration Tester
3 37 (17.62%) Senior
4 36 (17.14%) Consultant
4 36 (17.14%) Security Consultant
5 15 (7.14%) Test Engineer
6 14 (6.67%) Testing Consultant
7 13 (6.19%) Senior Penetration Tester
7 13 (6.19%) Senior Tester
8 11 (5.24%) Analyst
8 11 (5.24%) Information Security Consultant
8 11 (5.24%) Lead
8 11 (5.24%) Security Engineer
8 11 (5.24%) Senior Consultant
8 11 (5.24%) Senior Security Consultant
8 11 (5.24%) Senior Testing Consultant
9 10 (4.76%) Architect
9 10 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 10 (4.76%) Security Architect
9 10 (4.76%) Security Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.67%) XML
2 10 (4.76%) JSON
3 9 (4.29%) SOAP
4 8 (3.81%) .NET
4 8 (3.81%) REST
5 5 (2.38%) .NET Core
5 5 (2.38%) Blazor
6 4 (1.90%) OAuth
6 4 (1.90%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.43%) Gherkin
8 2 (0.95%) EDI
8 2 (0.95%) Playwright
9 1 (0.48%) Kafka
9 1 (0.48%) Node.js
9 1 (0.48%) React
9 1 (0.48%) Ruby on Rails
9 1 (0.48%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.81%) Management Information System
1 29 (13.81%) Mobile App
2 21 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (7.62%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (7.14%) Security Posture
5 14 (6.67%) Product Ownership
6 11 (5.24%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.86%) Cyber Security Posture
7 6 (2.86%) Cyberattack
7 6 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (2.86%) IoT
8 4 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.90%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.43%) NHS
10 2 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.48%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.48%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 34 (16.19%) Kali Linux
2 29 (13.81%) Linux
3 7 (3.33%) Android
3 7 (3.33%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.33%) Windows
4 5 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.38%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (1.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (41.90%) Cybersecurity
1 88 (41.90%) Information Security
2 80 (38.10%) Penetration Testing
3 66 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
4 65 (30.95%) Application Security
5 57 (27.14%) Agile
6 56 (26.67%) Test Automation
7 49 (23.33%) Computer Science
8 47 (22.38%) Red Team
8 47 (22.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 34 (16.19%) Mentoring
9 34 (16.19%) Reverse Engineering
10 31 (14.76%) Software Testing
11 28 (13.33%) Critical Thinking
11 28 (13.33%) Malware Analysis
12 27 (12.86%) SDLC
13 24 (11.43%) OWASP
14 22 (10.48%) Performance Testing
14 22 (10.48%) Risk Management
14 22 (10.48%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.95%) SQL
2 17 (8.10%) Java
3 15 (7.14%) C#
4 9 (4.29%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.81%) Python
6 5 (2.38%) Go
6 5 (2.38%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.90%) C
8 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.48%) Bash
9 1 (0.48%) C++
9 1 (0.48%) Ruby
9 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (25.71%) Degree
2 43 (20.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (19.52%) CREST Certified
4 31 (14.76%) Security Cleared
5 23 (10.95%) OSCP
5 23 (10.95%) SC Cleared
6 22 (10.48%) CISSP
7 12 (5.71%) CHECK Team Member
7 12 (5.71%) Cyber Scheme
8 10 (4.76%) CHECK Team Leader
9 8 (3.81%) CISM
9 8 (3.81%) DV Cleared
10 7 (3.33%) CESG Certified Professional
10 7 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (3.33%) CISMP
11 6 (2.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (2.86%) AWS Certification
11 6 (2.86%) Azure Certification
11 6 (2.86%) CCSK
11 6 (2.86%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (10.00%) GDPR
3 19 (9.05%) NIST
4 17 (8.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (7.62%) GRC
5 16 (7.62%) QA
6 12 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 12 (5.71%) PCI DSS
7 8 (3.81%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 7 (3.33%) Accessibility
8 7 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (2.86%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (2.86%) SOC 2
10 5 (2.38%) COBIT
11 4 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (1.90%) ISO 9001
11 4 (1.90%) NCSC
12 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (5.24%) Docker
2 5 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (9.05%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.86%) Nessus
2 6 (2.86%) Nmap
2 6 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (2.38%) Grafana
4 4 (1.90%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 3 (1.43%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.48%) Ansible
6 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.48%) Puppet
6 1 (0.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.86%) Adobe
2 6 (2.86%) MuleSoft
2 6 (2.86%) Qualys
2 6 (2.86%) Salesforce
3 4 (1.90%) Oracle
3 4 (1.90%) Splunk
4 3 (1.43%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.43%) Veracode
5 2 (0.95%) Barracuda Networks
5 2 (0.95%) Meraki
6 1 (0.48%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.48%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.48%) Google
6 1 (0.48%) New Relic
6 1 (0.48%) SonicWALL
6 1 (0.48%) VMware