The first table below looks at the demand for Penetration Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Penetration Testing over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Basingstoke region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Penetration Testing
Rank 52 49 62
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +13
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 23 12 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 3.485% 2.058% 0.163%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.863% 2.791% 0.211%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 1
Average salary £45,000 £70,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-35.71% +21.73%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,250 £44,000
% change year-on-year
+1.91% -10.79%
All Processes & Methodologies
Basingstoke
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
473 430 473
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 71.67% 73.76% 77.04%
Number of salaries quoted 356 326 355
Average salary £42,500 £43,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.16% -2.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £31,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £57,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Penetration Testing
Hampshire

Penetration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Penetration Testing across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Basingstoke Penetration Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Penetration Testing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Penetration Testing across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Penetration Testing Salary Trend

Penetration Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Penetration Testing across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Basingstoke Penetration Testing Salary Histogram

Penetration Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Penetration Testing also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Penetration Testing.

1 22 (59.46%) Security Testing
2 19 (51.35%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 19 (51.35%) Cyber Security
3 18 (48.65%) Electronics
4 15 (40.54%) Chip and PIN
5 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
6 11 (29.73%) SC Cleared
6 11 (29.73%) Telecoms
6 11 (29.73%) Finance
6 11 (29.73%) Linux
7 9 (24.32%) Security Management
7 9 (24.32%) Management Information System
7 9 (24.32%) Ethical Hacking
8 8 (21.62%) CESG
8 8 (21.62%) Change Management
8 8 (21.62%) Military
8 8 (21.62%) Wireless
8 8 (21.62%) Legal
8 8 (21.62%) Cisco
8 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
9 6 (16.22%) HP
9 6 (16.22%) Nessus
9 6 (16.22%) Nmap
9 6 (16.22%) Wireshark
9 6 (16.22%) Metasploit
10 5 (13.51%) OWASP
10 5 (13.51%) Degree
10 5 (13.51%) WebInspect
10 5 (13.51%) CISSP
10 5 (13.51%) Juniper

Penetration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Penetration Testing also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Penetration Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (8.108%) HTML
1 3 (8.108%) CSS
1 3 (8.108%) JSP
1 3 (8.108%) LAMP
2 2 (5.405%) CSS3
2 2 (5.405%) HTML5
2 2 (5.405%) .NET
2 2 (5.405%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.108%) CMS
1 3 (8.108%) Drupal
1 3 (8.108%) Magento
Applications
1 3 (8.108%) Fireworks
1 3 (8.108%) Photoshop
2 2 (5.405%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.62%) Wireless
2 6 (16.22%) Wireshark
3 5 (13.51%) SSL
4 4 (10.81%) Firewall
5 3 (8.108%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (5.405%) Network Security
6 2 (5.405%) SSH
6 2 (5.405%) WAN
6 2 (5.405%) VPN
7 1 (2.703%) ATM
7 1 (2.703%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.108%) MySQL
1 3 (8.108%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Metasploit
2 3 (8.108%) Subversion
2 3 (8.108%) Rational DOORS
General
1 18 (48.65%) Electronics
2 11 (29.73%) Telecoms
2 11 (29.73%) Finance
3 8 (21.62%) Military
3 8 (21.62%) Legal
4 3 (8.108%) Aerospace
4 3 (8.108%) Marketing
5 1 (2.703%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Tester
1 13 (35.14%) Penetration Tester
2 8 (21.62%) Team Leader
3 7 (18.92%) Security Specialist
4 4 (10.81%) Security Consultant
4 4 (10.81%) Consultant
5 3 (8.108%) Developer
5 3 (8.108%) Web Developer
5 3 (8.108%) PHP Developer
5 3 (8.108%) PHP Web Developer
5 3 (8.108%) Front-End Developer
5 3 (8.108%) Front-End Web Developer
6 2 (5.405%) Lead Tester
6 2 (5.405%) Security Tester
6 2 (5.405%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.405%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.405%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (5.405%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.703%) Architect
7 1 (2.703%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 15 (40.54%) Chip and PIN
2 9 (24.32%) Management Information System
3 8 (21.62%) CESG
4 2 (5.405%) Mathematics
4 2 (5.405%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (29.73%) Linux
2 5 (13.51%) UNIX
3 2 (5.405%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) Security Testing
2 19 (51.35%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 19 (51.35%) Cyber Security
3 9 (24.32%) Security Management
3 9 (24.32%) Ethical Hacking
4 8 (21.62%) Change Management
5 5 (13.51%) OWASP
5 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (10.81%) Information Security
6 4 (10.81%) ITIL
7 3 (8.108%) E-Commerce
7 3 (8.108%) OOP
7 3 (8.108%) OO
7 3 (8.108%) DoDAF
7 3 (8.108%) MODAF
7 3 (8.108%) Release Management
7 3 (8.108%) Network Management
8 2 (5.405%) Business Development
8 2 (5.405%) Network Design
8 2 (5.405%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.108%) C++
1 3 (8.108%) Java
1 3 (8.108%) JavaScript
1 3 (8.108%) PHP
1 3 (8.108%) PHP5
2 1 (2.703%) C
2 1 (2.703%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 11 (29.73%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) Degree
3 5 (13.51%) CISSP
4 1 (2.703%) CEH
4 1 (2.703%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.108%) COBIT
1 3 (8.108%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (8.108%) HMG Infosec
1 3 (8.108%) JSP 440
1 3 (8.108%) PCI DSS
1 3 (8.108%) COSO
2 2 (5.405%) QA
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Nmap
2 2 (5.405%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Nessus
2 5 (13.51%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Cisco
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.22%) HP
3 5 (13.51%) Juniper
4 3 (8.108%) Oracle
5 2 (5.405%) VMware
5 2 (5.405%) Nokia
Basingstoke, South East
Based in Basingstoke, the role requires a solid foundation in operational security management, incident response, change management, web application security assessments, vulnerability assessments, forensic investigation and ethical hacking /...
Hudson
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + Car Allow+ Bens
Posted: 28 May 2013