Midlands Penetration Testing Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Penetration Testing skills within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Penetration Testing over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Gatwick Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle North East North West Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Somerset South East South West Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	67	88
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching permanent IT job ads	1	7
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.169 %	0.614 %
Salaries quoted	1	5
Average minimum salary	£38,000	£73,000
Average salary	£41,500	£73,000
% change on same period last year	-43.15 %
Average maximum salary	£45,000	£73,000
UK excluding London average salary	£52,659	£51,450
% change on same period last year	+2.34 %
Processes & Methodologies Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	593	1140
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.324 %	0.479 %
Salaries quoted	456	871
Average minimum salary	£46,453	£47,198
Average salary	£51,691	£54,584
% change on same period last year	-5.29 %
Average maximum salary	£56,930	£61,969
UK excluding London average salary	£42,478	£44,432
% change on same period last year	-4.39 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Penetration Testing across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Penetration Testing across the Midlands region.

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Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 1 (100.00 %) CISSP 1 1 (100.00 %) Benchmarking 1 1 (100.00 %) Risk Management 1 1 (100.00 %) Finance 1 1 (100.00 %) Risk Assessment 1 1 (100.00 %) Information Security 1 1 (100.00 %) Time Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands 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.

General 1 1 (100.00 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Consultant 1 1 (100.00 %) Security Consultant
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) Benchmarking 1 1 (100.00 %) Risk Management 1 1 (100.00 %) Risk Assessment 1 1 (100.00 %) Information Security 1 1 (100.00 %) Time Management	Qualifications 1 1 (100.00 %) CISSP