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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Testing
Rank 317 327 315
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -12
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 3 1 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.026% 0.008% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.010% 0.102%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 12
Average salary £30,000 £50,000 £75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.00% -33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +42.85%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
9031 10009 11787
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 77.86% 76.60% 75.45%
Number of salaries quoted 7748 9078 10549
Average salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% -4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £36,300 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Security Testing
London

Security Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Security Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Security Testing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Security Testing across the City of London region.

City of London Security Testing Salary Trend

Security Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Security Testing across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Security Testing Salary Histogram

Security Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Security 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 Security Testing.

1 10 (76.92%) Test Automation
2 9 (69.23%) QA
2 9 (69.23%) Selenium
2 9 (69.23%) Performance Testing
3 7 (53.85%) Software Testing
3 7 (53.85%) C#
4 6 (46.15%) WebDriver
5 5 (38.46%) Open Source
5 5 (38.46%) SpecFlow
5 5 (38.46%) .NET
5 5 (38.46%) JMeter
5 5 (38.46%) Publishing
6 4 (30.77%) ISEB
6 4 (30.77%) Scrum
6 4 (30.77%) BDD
7 3 (23.08%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (23.08%) BSS
7 3 (23.08%) Test Scripting
7 3 (23.08%) Groovy
7 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
7 3 (23.08%) SQL
7 3 (23.08%) Visual Studio
8 2 (15.38%) CRM
8 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
8 2 (15.38%) XML
8 2 (15.38%) Windows
8 2 (15.38%) OO
8 2 (15.38%) C
8 2 (15.38%) C++
8 2 (15.38%) Java

Security Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Security 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 Security Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (38.46%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) XML
2 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
2 2 (15.38%) JSON
2 2 (15.38%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (15.38%) soapUI
2 2 (15.38%) RESTful
3 1 (7.692%) HTML5
3 1 (7.692%) Ajax
3 1 (7.692%) WPF
3 1 (7.692%) CSS
3 1 (7.692%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) BSS
2 2 (15.38%) HTTP
3 1 (7.692%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Selenium
2 6 (46.15%) WebDriver
3 5 (38.46%) SpecFlow
3 5 (38.46%) JMeter
4 3 (23.08%) Visual Studio
5 2 (15.38%) JIRA
5 2 (15.38%) Xcode
5 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
5 2 (15.38%) Robotium
5 2 (15.38%) Fiddler
6 1 (7.692%) WATIR
6 1 (7.692%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (7.692%) Eclipse
General
1 5 (38.46%) Publishing
2 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
3 2 (15.38%) Legal
4 1 (7.692%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Test Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) QA Tester
2 3 (23.08%) Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) QA Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Automation Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Test Specialist
4 1 (7.692%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Open Source
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
3 1 (7.692%) Digital Media
3 1 (7.692%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.692%) Video on Demand
3 1 (7.692%) STB
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Test Automation
2 9 (69.23%) Performance Testing
3 7 (53.85%) Software Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
4 4 (30.77%) BDD
5 3 (23.08%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (23.08%) Test Scripting
6 2 (15.38%) CRM
6 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
6 2 (15.38%) OO
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (15.38%) Manual Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Load Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
6 2 (15.38%) V-Model
6 2 (15.38%) User Stories
6 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
6 2 (15.38%) Automation Testing
7 1 (7.692%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) C#
2 3 (23.08%) Groovy
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) C
3 2 (15.38%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
3 2 (15.38%) Ruby
4 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.692%) Perl
4 1 (7.692%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) ISEB
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.692%) CRISC
3 1 (7.692%) CEH
3 1 (7.692%) CISSP
3 1 (7.692%) CISA
3 1 (7.692%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (69.23%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) VMware
2 1 (7.692%) Telerik
2 1 (7.692%) Microsoft