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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Penetration Testing
Rank 118 125 122
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -3
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 1 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.059% 0.049% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% 0.071% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
Average salary £48,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+29.33% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,250 £44,000
% change year-on-year
+1.91% -10.79%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1198 1400 1406
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 70.26% 69.07% 67.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1033 1178 1258
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Penetration Testing
Cambridgeshire

Penetration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Penetration Testing Salary Trend

Penetration Testing
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 15 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 10 (66.67%) COBIT
2 10 (66.67%) ITIL
2 10 (66.67%) Firewall
2 10 (66.67%) Information Security Management
2 10 (66.67%) Security Management
2 10 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 10 (66.67%) Information Security
3 6 (40.00%) Cisco
3 6 (40.00%) CheckPoint
3 6 (40.00%) Network Security
3 6 (40.00%) Incident Management
4 5 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (33.33%) Finance
4 5 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (26.67%) SSCP
5 4 (26.67%) CISSP
5 4 (26.67%) CISM

Penetration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 10 (66.67%) Firewall
2 6 (40.00%) Network Security
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Security Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Analyst
2 5 (33.33%) Security Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Team Leader
3 4 (26.67%) IT Security Consultant
3 4 (26.67%) IT Consultant
3 4 (26.67%) Consultant
3 4 (26.67%) Security Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) Security Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) ITIL
1 10 (66.67%) Information Security Management
1 10 (66.67%) Security Management
1 10 (66.67%) Information Security
2 6 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 5 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SSCP
1 4 (26.67%) CISSP
1 4 (26.67%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 10 (66.67%) COBIT
3 5 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Cisco
1 6 (40.00%) CheckPoint