Penetration Testing Jobs in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Related Skills

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

Location
 3 months to
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Penetration Testing
Rank 79 90 101
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +11
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 7 2 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.658% 0.146% 0.252%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.876% 0.200% 0.319%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 4
Average salary £38,750 - £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £37,750 - £34,750
10% offered a salary of more than £39,750 - £52,250
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -6.97%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 799 1001 1252
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 75.09% 73.23% 78.94%
Number of salaries quoted 468 697 879
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Penetration Testing
Scotland

Penetration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Penetration Testing Salary Trend

Penetration Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Network Security
3 6 (37.50%) Security Architecture
3 6 (37.50%) CCSA
3 6 (37.50%) CISSP
4 5 (31.25%) Linux
4 5 (31.25%) Python
4 5 (31.25%) Java
4 5 (31.25%) MySQL
4 5 (31.25%) Nagios
4 5 (31.25%) Project Management
4 5 (31.25%) Information Security
4 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (31.25%) Replication
4 5 (31.25%) Puppet
4 5 (31.25%) NoSQL
4 5 (31.25%) Redis
4 5 (31.25%) Django
4 5 (31.25%) Munin
4 5 (31.25%) Hadoop
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon AWS
4 5 (31.25%) Ruby
5 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (25.00%) CISM
5 4 (25.00%) Firewall
6 3 (18.75%) PHP
6 3 (18.75%) Internet
6 3 (18.75%) ITIL
6 3 (18.75%) Games
7 2 (12.50%) WebInspect

Penetration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 5 (31.25%) Django
2 2 (12.50%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) Network Security
2 4 (25.00%) Firewall
3 3 (18.75%) Internet
4 1 (6.250%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) MySQL
1 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (31.25%) NoSQL
1 5 (31.25%) Redis
1 5 (31.25%) Hadoop
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Games
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
1 5 (31.25%) Security Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Security Consultant
2 4 (25.00%) Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Security Architect
3 3 (18.75%) IT Security Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Security Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Information Security Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Information Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (6.250%) Sales Executive
5 1 (6.250%) Administrator
5 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) IT Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Replication
2 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Security Architecture
2 5 (31.25%) Project Management
2 5 (31.25%) Information Security
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) Information Management
4 2 (12.50%) Computer Forensics
4 2 (12.50%) Ethical Hacking
4 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 2 (12.50%) Data Security
4 2 (12.50%) Security Management
5 1 (6.250%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
1 5 (31.25%) Java
1 5 (31.25%) Ruby
2 3 (18.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) CCSA
1 6 (37.50%) CISSP
2 4 (25.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Nagios
1 5 (31.25%) Puppet
1 5 (31.25%) Munin
2 2 (12.50%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Tufin
1 2 (12.50%) Qualys
1 2 (12.50%) Symantec
Information Security Analyst
Edinburgh, Scotland
My client, a highly regarded financial services organisation in Edinburgh, is seeking an Information Security Analyst to join their growing team. The job falls under the Security Events...
Salary: £ Highly Competitive Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
About us| Contact us| Copyright| Disclaimer| Privacy Policy & Cookies
Last Updated Thursday 23 May 2013
IT Jobs Watch, Tracking the IT Job Market
Copyright © 2004-2013 Paradigm Software (UK) Limited. All rights reserved.