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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ethical Hacking
Rank 115 108 91
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -17
Permanent jobs citing Ethical Hacking 6 1 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.333% 0.060% 0.290%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.447% 0.086% 0.435%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 2
Average salary £45,000 £22,000 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+104.54% -68.57%
UK excluding London average salary £51,000 £35,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year
+45.71% -28.57%
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1343 1167 920
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 74.61% 70.60% 66.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1151 1017 783
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Ethical Hacking
West Midlands

Ethical Hacking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Ethical Hacking Salary Trend

Ethical Hacking
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ethical Hacking across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Birmingham Ethical Hacking Salary Histogram

Ethical Hacking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 5 (83.33%) CISSP
1 5 (83.33%) Network Security
2 3 (50.00%) CEH
2 3 (50.00%) CCSE
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) CCSP
2 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (50.00%) FortiGate
3 2 (33.33%) CISM
3 2 (33.33%) Cryptography
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Google
4 1 (16.67%) PKI
4 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
4 1 (16.67%) Qualys
4 1 (16.67%) Firebug
4 1 (16.67%) Fiddler
4 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Nmap
4 1 (16.67%) Paros
4 1 (16.67%) Nessus
4 1 (16.67%) CISA

Ethical Hacking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Network Security
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
3 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Firebug
1 1 (16.67%) Fiddler
1 1 (16.67%) Paros
1 1 (16.67%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Security Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Web Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Security Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) CESG
2 1 (16.67%) CESG CLAS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Security
3 1 (16.67%) OWASP
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
1 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) CISSP
2 3 (50.00%) CEH
2 3 (50.00%) CCSE
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) CCSP
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) CISM
4 1 (16.67%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (16.67%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Qualys
2 1 (16.67%) Acunetix
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