The first table below looks at the demand for Penetration Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Penetration Testing over the 3 months to 23 May 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 Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Penetration Testing
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -6.97%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
202 167 132
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 81.12% 83.50% 79.04%
Number of salaries quoted 196 158 130
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £58,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Penetration Testing
Bedfordshire

Penetration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford 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 Bedford region.

Bedford Penetration Testing Salary Trend

Penetration Testing
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 6 (100.00%) WAN
1 6 (100.00%) LAN
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) CCNP
1 6 (100.00%) CCDP
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
1 6 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 5 (83.33%) CEH
2 5 (83.33%) VLAN
2 5 (83.33%) Network Security
2 5 (83.33%) Network Management
2 5 (83.33%) F5
2 5 (83.33%) MPLS
2 5 (83.33%) CISA
2 5 (83.33%) CISM
2 5 (83.33%) Change Management
2 5 (83.33%) CISSP
2 5 (83.33%) DNS
2 5 (83.33%) VoIP
2 5 (83.33%) DHCP
2 5 (83.33%) RIP
2 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Network Design

Penetration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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.

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) WAN
1 6 (100.00%) LAN
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) VLAN
2 5 (83.33%) Network Security
2 5 (83.33%) MPLS
2 5 (83.33%) DNS
2 5 (83.33%) VoIP
2 5 (83.33%) DHCP
2 5 (83.33%) RIP
2 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Security Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Network Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Officer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 5 (83.33%) Network Management
2 5 (83.33%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) CCNP
1 6 (100.00%) CCDP
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (83.33%) CEH
2 5 (83.33%) CISA
2 5 (83.33%) CISM
2 5 (83.33%) CISSP
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) F5