The first table below looks at the demand for Penetration Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Penetration Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Penetration Testing
Rank 137 142 152
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +10
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 8 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.301% 0.070% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.434% 0.106% 0.147%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 1
Average salary £48,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+29.33% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1842 1891 2034
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 69.35% 66.65% 67.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1596 1610 1777
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £30,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
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 Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Cambridge +4 8 £48,500 +29.33%
Penetration Testing
East of England

Penetration Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 (65.22%) PCI DSS
2 10 (43.48%) COBIT
2 10 (43.48%) ITIL
2 10 (43.48%) Firewall
2 10 (43.48%) Information Security Management
2 10 (43.48%) Security Management
2 10 (43.48%) Management Information System
2 10 (43.48%) Information Security
3 8 (34.78%) TDD
3 8 (34.78%) Ajax
3 8 (34.78%) OO
3 8 (34.78%) SOA
3 8 (34.78%) HTTP
3 8 (34.78%) C#
3 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
3 8 (34.78%) SQL
3 8 (34.78%) .NET
3 8 (34.78%) CSS
3 8 (34.78%) XML
3 8 (34.78%) WCF
3 8 (34.78%) jQuery
3 8 (34.78%) Performance Testing
3 8 (34.78%) Load Testing
3 8 (34.78%) Security Testing
3 8 (34.78%) Multithreading
3 8 (34.78%) Git (software)
3 8 (34.78%) Network Architecture
3 8 (34.78%) HTML5
4 7 (30.43%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (26.09%) Incident Management

Penetration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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.

Application Development
1 8 (34.78%) .NET
1 8 (34.78%) CSS
1 8 (34.78%) XML
1 8 (34.78%) Ajax
1 8 (34.78%) WCF
1 8 (34.78%) jQuery
1 8 (34.78%) HTML5
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) Firewall
2 8 (34.78%) HTTP
3 6 (26.09%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Software Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Senior Software Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Security Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Network Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Security Analyst
4 5 (21.74%) Analyst
5 4 (17.39%) IT Consultant
5 4 (17.39%) Consultant
5 4 (17.39%) Security Consultant
5 4 (17.39%) Team Leader
5 4 (17.39%) IT Security Consultant
6 2 (8.696%) Security Administrator
6 2 (8.696%) Administrator
7 1 (4.348%) .NET Developer
7 1 (4.348%) Developer
7 1 (4.348%) .NET Software Engineer
7 1 (4.348%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (4.348%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Management Information System
2 7 (30.43%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (13.04%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) ITIL
1 10 (43.48%) Information Security Management
1 10 (43.48%) Security Management
1 10 (43.48%) Information Security
2 8 (34.78%) TDD
2 8 (34.78%) OO
2 8 (34.78%) SOA
2 8 (34.78%) Performance Testing
2 8 (34.78%) Load Testing
2 8 (34.78%) Security Testing
2 8 (34.78%) Multithreading
2 8 (34.78%) Network Architecture
3 6 (26.09%) Incident Management
4 5 (21.74%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (4.348%) Web Development
6 1 (4.348%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) C#
1 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
1 8 (34.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) CISSP
1 4 (17.39%) SSCP
1 4 (17.39%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (65.22%) PCI DSS
2 10 (43.48%) COBIT
3 5 (21.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Cisco
1 6 (26.09%) CheckPoint