The first table below looks at the demand for Penetration Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Slough 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 Slough region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Penetration Testing
Rank 67 62 47
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -15
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 5 4 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 0.753% 0.608% 1.976%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.929% 0.877% 2.475%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 8
Average salary £50,000 £38,750 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+29.03% -29.54%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -6.97%
All Processes & Methodologies
Slough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
538 456 404
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 81.02% 69.30% 79.84%
Number of salaries quoted 450 341 331
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £31,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £62,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Penetration Testing
Berkshire

Penetration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough Penetration Testing Salary Trend

Penetration Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (85.00%) Microsoft
3 16 (80.00%) PHP
4 13 (65.00%) UNIX
4 13 (65.00%) Active Directory
4 13 (65.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 12 (60.00%) Windows
6 9 (45.00%) Perl
6 9 (45.00%) Python
6 9 (45.00%) McAfee
6 9 (45.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (45.00%) Firewall
6 9 (45.00%) Data Security
6 9 (45.00%) Management Information System
6 9 (45.00%) Finance
6 9 (45.00%) Internet
6 9 (45.00%) Information Security
6 9 (45.00%) Banking
6 9 (45.00%) Ruby
6 9 (45.00%) Incident Management
6 9 (45.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (45.00%) Nessus
6 9 (45.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 9 (45.00%) Risk Analysis
6 9 (45.00%) PCI DSS
6 9 (45.00%) LogLogic
6 9 (45.00%) SIEM
7 7 (35.00%) Exchange Server 2007
7 7 (35.00%) Red Hat
7 7 (35.00%) Apache

Penetration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 4 (20.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 7 (35.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 7 (35.00%) Apache
1 7 (35.00%) MS Exchange
1 7 (35.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (10.00%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) Firewall
1 9 (45.00%) Internet
2 7 (35.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (20.00%) LDAP
4 3 (15.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) MySQL
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.00%) dBASE
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
1 9 (45.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Linux Administrator
1 6 (30.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 6 (30.00%) Administrator
1 6 (30.00%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Technical Security Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (5.000%) Security Consultant
3 1 (5.000%) IT Security Consultant
3 1 (5.000%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (5.000%) IT Consultant
3 1 (5.000%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.000%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (65.00%) UNIX
3 12 (60.00%) Windows
4 4 (20.00%) SUSE
4 4 (20.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 9 (45.00%) Data Security
2 9 (45.00%) Information Security
2 9 (45.00%) Incident Management
2 9 (45.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 9 (45.00%) Risk Analysis
2 9 (45.00%) SIEM
3 7 (35.00%) OOD
4 6 (30.00%) E-Commerce
5 4 (20.00%) Scrum
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (15.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) PHP
2 9 (45.00%) Perl
2 9 (45.00%) Python
2 9 (45.00%) Ruby
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) CISSP
1 4 (20.00%) GIAC
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (45.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 9 (45.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (45.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Nessus
2 3 (15.00%) Nagios
3 1 (5.000%) Puppet
3 1 (5.000%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (45.00%) McAfee
2 9 (45.00%) LogLogic
3 7 (35.00%) Red Hat
4 6 (30.00%) Cisco
5 1 (5.000%) Rackspace