Penetration Testing Salary Guide
Live salary statistics for penetration testing, red team, and offensive security roles, computed directly from the active job listings we aggregate. Figures are in each region's dominant source currency and update as new postings arrive — no surveys, no self-reported data, just what employers are actually advertising.
USA
133 salary listings$125,000median
25th: $112,50075th: $169,005
Full USA analysis →UK
25 salary listings£52,500median
25th: £42,50075th: £67,500
Full UK analysis →Canada
10 salary listings$92,500median
25th: $56,80075th: $118,700
Full Canada analysis →Remote
3 salary listings$202,500median
25th: $166,30075th: $246,250
Full Remote analysis →Australia
1 salary listings$75,000median
25th: $75,00075th: $75,000
Full Australia analysis →Methodology: salaries are parsed from the original job posting where the source board states one. We compute the midpoint of each listed range and report the median and interquartile range across all active listings in a region. Only regions with enough salary-bearing listings to be meaningful are shown. Salaries are not normalised across currencies.