The first table below looks at the demand for Security 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 Security Testing over the 3 months to 20 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Testing
Rank 61 61 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 16 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 2.392% 0.175% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.347% 0.236% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
Average salary £45,000 £70,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-35.71% -
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- +17.64%
All Processes & Methodologies
Basingstoke
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
478 423 465
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 71.45% 73.82% 76.61%
Number of salaries quoted 361 316 354
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 £63,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Security Testing
Hampshire

Security Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke Security Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Security Testing
Salary Trend

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

Basingstoke Security Testing Salary Trend

Security Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Security Testing across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Basingstoke Security Testing Salary Histogram

Security Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Security 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 Security Testing.

1 22 (84.62%) Penetration Testing
2 17 (65.38%) Electronics
3 16 (61.54%) Cyber Security
4 14 (53.85%) Chip and PIN
5 12 (46.15%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 10 (38.46%) Telecoms
6 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
6 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
7 8 (30.77%) Legal
7 8 (30.77%) CESG
7 8 (30.77%) Wireless
7 8 (30.77%) Linux
8 7 (26.92%) Management Information System
8 7 (26.92%) Military
9 6 (23.08%) Finance
9 6 (23.08%) Nessus
9 6 (23.08%) Nmap
9 6 (23.08%) Wireshark
9 6 (23.08%) Cisco
9 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
9 6 (23.08%) Degree
9 6 (23.08%) Metasploit
10 5 (19.23%) HP
10 5 (19.23%) Juniper
11 4 (15.38%) Security Management
11 4 (15.38%) Change Management
11 4 (15.38%) ITIL
11 4 (15.38%) Ethical Hacking
11 4 (15.38%) Information Security
12 3 (11.54%) Intrusion Detection

Security Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Security 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 Security Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (7.692%) .NET
1 2 (7.692%) Web Services
1 2 (7.692%) WCF
1 2 (7.692%) HTML5
1 2 (7.692%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.692%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (7.692%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) Wireless
2 6 (23.08%) Wireshark
3 3 (11.54%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (7.692%) Firewall
4 2 (7.692%) WAN
5 1 (3.846%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.692%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Metasploit
2 2 (7.692%) JMeter
2 2 (7.692%) WATIR
2 2 (7.692%) Selenium
2 2 (7.692%) FitNesse
2 2 (7.692%) Firebug
2 2 (7.692%) Fiddler
2 2 (7.692%) Git (software)
2 2 (7.692%) WebDriver
2 2 (7.692%) SpecFlow
2 2 (7.692%) GitHub
General
1 17 (65.38%) Electronics
2 10 (38.46%) Telecoms
3 8 (30.77%) Legal
4 7 (26.92%) Military
5 6 (23.08%) Finance
6 2 (7.692%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Penetration Tester
1 11 (42.31%) Tester
2 10 (38.46%) Team Leader
3 3 (11.54%) Security Specialist
4 2 (7.692%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.692%) Test Team Leader
4 2 (7.692%) Security Manager
5 1 (3.846%) Test Consultant
5 1 (3.846%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Security Consultant
5 1 (3.846%) Consultant
5 1 (3.846%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Network Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (53.85%) Chip and PIN
2 8 (30.77%) CESG
3 7 (26.92%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.692%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) UNIX
3 2 (7.692%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) Penetration Testing
2 16 (61.54%) Cyber Security
3 12 (46.15%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 4 (15.38%) Security Management
4 4 (15.38%) Change Management
4 4 (15.38%) ITIL
4 4 (15.38%) Ethical Hacking
4 4 (15.38%) Information Security
5 2 (7.692%) PRINCE
5 2 (7.692%) Risk Management
5 2 (7.692%) SOA
5 2 (7.692%) Network Design
5 2 (7.692%) Resource Management
5 2 (7.692%) Performance Testing
5 2 (7.692%) Integration Testing
5 2 (7.692%) Manual Testing
5 2 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (7.692%) Information Management
5 2 (7.692%) Validation
5 2 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.692%) Python
1 2 (7.692%) C
1 2 (7.692%) C#
1 2 (7.692%) C++
1 2 (7.692%) Java
1 2 (7.692%) Perl
1 2 (7.692%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
1 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) Degree
3 2 (7.692%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.846%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.692%) QA
1 2 (7.692%) COBIT
1 2 (7.692%) PCI DSS
1 2 (7.692%) COSO
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Nmap
2 2 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Nessus
2 2 (7.692%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Cisco
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) HP
2 5 (19.23%) Juniper
3 2 (7.692%) VMware
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