The first table below looks at the demand for GPEN in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GPEN over the 3 months to 22 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 Qualifications for the England region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN)
Rank 823 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing GPEN 17 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.017% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.061% - -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
Average salary £45,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 - -
All Qualifications
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
27873 31613 30088
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 27.40% 27.44% 25.99%
Number of salaries quoted 22718 27099 25328
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.93%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
GPEN
UK

GPEN
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing GPEN across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

England GPEN Jobs Demand Trend

GPEN
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing GPEN across the England region.

England GPEN Salary Trend

GPEN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GPEN across the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England GPEN Salary Histogram

GPEN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GPEN within the England region over the 3 months to 22 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
Yorkshire - 12 - -
South East - 4 £45,000 -
London - 1 £120,000 -
GPEN
UK

GPEN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing GPEN 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 GPEN.

1 18 (94.74%) CEH
1 18 (94.74%) Penetration Testing
2 17 (89.47%) Security Testing
2 17 (89.47%) Reverse Engineering
2 17 (89.47%) GCIH
2 17 (89.47%) CISSP
2 17 (89.47%) Firewall
2 17 (89.47%) Wireless
2 17 (89.47%) Vulnerability Management
3 16 (84.21%) HIPAA
3 16 (84.21%) OSCP
3 16 (84.21%) OSCE
3 16 (84.21%) GWAPT
3 16 (84.21%) CISA
3 16 (84.21%) CISM
3 16 (84.21%) Network Design
3 16 (84.21%) Digital Forensics
3 16 (84.21%) Open Source
3 16 (84.21%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 16 (84.21%) Degree
3 16 (84.21%) Computer Science
4 12 (63.16%) Data Protection
5 3 (15.79%) Ethical Hacking
5 3 (15.79%) GIAC
5 3 (15.79%) Information Security
5 3 (15.79%) SSL
6 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
6 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
6 2 (10.53%) DNS
6 2 (10.53%) Computer Forensics

GPEN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing GPEN 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 GPEN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.263%) GroupWise
1 1 (5.263%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 17 (89.47%) Firewall
1 17 (89.47%) Wireless
2 3 (15.79%) SSL
3 2 (10.53%) DNS
4 1 (5.263%) Wireshark
4 1 (5.263%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (5.263%) tcpdump
4 1 (5.263%) IPsec
4 1 (5.263%) Internet
4 1 (5.263%) LDAP
4 1 (5.263%) LAN
4 1 (5.263%) WAN
4 1 (5.263%) SMTP
4 1 (5.263%) DHCP
4 1 (5.263%) HTTP
4 1 (5.263%) Kerberos
4 1 (5.263%) SNMP
4 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (5.263%) Finance
1 1 (5.263%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 17 (89.47%) Penetration Tester
1 17 (89.47%) Tester
2 16 (84.21%) Security Tester
3 1 (5.263%) Security Operations Analyst
3 1 (5.263%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (5.263%) Security Analyst
3 1 (5.263%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 16 (84.21%) Open Source
1 16 (84.21%) Computer Science
2 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.263%) PKI
3 1 (5.263%) CESG
3 1 (5.263%) Cryptography
3 1 (5.263%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.263%) UNIX
1 1 (5.263%) Windows
1 1 (5.263%) Solaris
1 1 (5.263%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Penetration Testing
2 17 (89.47%) Security Testing
2 17 (89.47%) Reverse Engineering
2 17 (89.47%) Vulnerability Management
3 16 (84.21%) Network Design
3 16 (84.21%) Digital Forensics
3 16 (84.21%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 12 (63.16%) Data Protection
5 3 (15.79%) Ethical Hacking
5 3 (15.79%) Information Security
6 2 (10.53%) Computer Forensics
6 2 (10.53%) Network Architecture
6 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
7 1 (5.263%) Business Continuity
7 1 (5.263%) Document Management
7 1 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (5.263%) Risk Management
7 1 (5.263%) Benchmarking
7 1 (5.263%) SIEM
7 1 (5.263%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.263%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (94.74%) CEH
2 17 (89.47%) GCIH
2 17 (89.47%) CISSP
3 16 (84.21%) OSCP
3 16 (84.21%) OSCE
3 16 (84.21%) GWAPT
3 16 (84.21%) CISA
3 16 (84.21%) CISM
3 16 (84.21%) Degree
4 3 (15.79%) GIAC
5 1 (5.263%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.263%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.263%) GCIA
5 1 (5.263%) GSNA
5 1 (5.263%) GCFA
5 1 (5.263%) GCED
5 1 (5.263%) GISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (84.21%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.263%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.263%) Snort
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.263%) Sourcefire