The first table below looks at the demand for Penetration Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Penetration Testing over the 3 months to 18 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Penetration Testing
Rank 81 - 79
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 3 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.278% - 0.107%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.367% - 0.125%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
Average salary £37,000 - £25,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,500 £38,500 £43,000
% change year-on-year
+5.19% -10.46%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
818 648 797
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 75.88% 73.30% 85.15%
Number of salaries quoted 746 576 741
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £29,000 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £59,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Penetration Testing
East of England

Penetration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Penetration Testing Salary Trend

Penetration Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Luton - 2 £34,000 -
Penetration Testing
East of England

Penetration Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 7 (87.50%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (62.50%) LAN
2 5 (62.50%) WAN
2 5 (62.50%) DHCP
2 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
2 5 (62.50%) VPN
2 5 (62.50%) DNS
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco
2 5 (62.50%) CCNP
2 5 (62.50%) CCDP
2 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (62.50%) Citrix
2 5 (62.50%) Ethical Hacking
2 5 (62.50%) F5
3 4 (50.00%) CEH
3 4 (50.00%) Network Security
3 4 (50.00%) VLAN
3 4 (50.00%) Network Management
3 4 (50.00%) CISSP
3 4 (50.00%) RIP
3 4 (50.00%) VoIP
3 4 (50.00%) MPLS
3 4 (50.00%) CISA
3 4 (50.00%) CISM
3 4 (50.00%) Change Management
4 2 (25.00%) Security Management
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (25.00%) Information Security

Penetration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 7 (87.50%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) LAN
2 5 (62.50%) WAN
2 5 (62.50%) DHCP
2 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
2 5 (62.50%) VPN
2 5 (62.50%) DNS
3 4 (50.00%) MPLS
3 4 (50.00%) RIP
3 4 (50.00%) VoIP
3 4 (50.00%) VLAN
3 4 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Metasploit
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Test Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Server Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Security Officer
3 1 (12.50%) Penetration Test Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Ethical Hacking
2 4 (50.00%) Network Management
2 4 (50.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Security Management
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL V3
4 1 (12.50%) Network Design
4 1 (12.50%) OWASP
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (62.50%) CCNP
1 5 (62.50%) CCDP
2 4 (50.00%) CISSP
2 4 (50.00%) CISA
2 4 (50.00%) CISM
2 4 (50.00%) CEH
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Nessus
1 1 (12.50%) CORE IMPACT
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco
1 5 (62.50%) Citrix
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
1 5 (62.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft