The first table below looks at the demand for Penetration Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Penetration Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 Liverpool region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Penetration Testing
Rank 51 69 55
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -14
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 2 2 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 0.546% 0.395% 0.633%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.641% 0.517% 0.943%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 2
Average salary £40,000 £67,500 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.74% -3.57%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
312 387 212
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 85.25% 76.48% 67.09%
Number of salaries quoted 269 332 172
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,000 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Penetration Testing
Merseyside

Penetration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool Penetration Testing Salary Trend

Penetration Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Flash
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) SNMP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) PHP

Penetration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) Flash
1 2 (100.00%) XHTML
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) SNMP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle