The first table below looks at the demand for Ethical Hacking skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ethical Hacking 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ethical Hacking
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing Ethical Hacking 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -15.78%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
839 658 742
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 78.12% 69.05% 83.00%
Number of salaries quoted 759 572 694
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +9.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £27,500 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £58,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Ethical Hacking
East of England

Ethical Hacking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire Ethical Hacking Jobs Demand Trend

Ethical Hacking
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Ethical Hacking across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Ethical Hacking Salary Trend

Ethical Hacking
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Ethical Hacking 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 Ethical Hacking.

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%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (83.33%) VLAN
2 5 (83.33%) Network Security
2 5 (83.33%) CEH
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%) Network Design
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning

Ethical Hacking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Ethical Hacking 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 Ethical Hacking. 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%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Network Management
2 5 (83.33%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Network Design
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
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