The first table below looks at the demand for CEH in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CEH 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 Qualifications currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
Rank 694 789 848
Rank change year-on-year
+95 +59
Permanent jobs citing CEH 168 110 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.155% 0.091% 0.027%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.562% 0.328% 0.101%
Number of salaries quoted 104 88 27
Average salary £47,000 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.50% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £27,795 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £61,000
UK excluding London average salary £43,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+8.75% -
All Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
29882 33504 32557
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.65% 27.76% 26.17%
Number of salaries quoted 24050 28534 27195
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £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 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%

CEH
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing CEH within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

CEH Jobs Demand Trend

CEH
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CEH within the UK.

CEH Salary Trend

CEH
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CEH over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

CEH Salary Histogram

CEH
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CEH within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +90 160 £47,000 +17.50%
London +72 47 £58,750 +38.23%
South East +9 46 £43,750 +9.37%
Yorkshire +32 31 £51,750 +135.22%
West Yorkshire +27 31 £51,750 +135.22%
West Midlands +9 29 £40,000 -
Hampshire +14 19 £47,000 -10.47%
City of London +18 18 £52,500 -
Birmingham -3 16 £40,000 -
Leeds -3 12 £41,250 +87.50%
M4 Corridor +1 10 £40,000 -
Basingstoke - 10 - -
Coventry - 9 £53,500 -
Berkshire -2 8 £47,000 +17.50%
Oxfordshire -19 8 £45,000 +61.89%
Surrey +11 6 £44,750 -14.76%
East of England 0 4 £47,500 +35.71%
Wallingford -6 4 £28,073 +1.00%
Southampton - 4 £47,500 -
Oxford - 4 £45,000 -
Farnborough +6 3 £47,000 -10.47%
Guildford -1 3 £47,000 -10.47%
Slough -6 3 £47,000 +14.63%
Bradford - 3 £43,500 -
Reading - 3 £47,000 -
Weybridge - 3 £42,500 -
Hertfordshire +6 2 £48,750 +39.28%
North West +2 2 £49,040 -16.52%
Welwyn Garden City -24 2 £48,750 -
Beckenham - 2 £37,500 -

CEH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing CEH 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 CEH.

1 263 (87.09%) CISSP
2 135 (44.70%) Firewall
3 134 (44.37%) CISM
4 123 (40.73%) Information Security
5 96 (31.79%) Windows
6 95 (31.46%) Penetration Testing
7 91 (30.13%) CISA
8 83 (27.48%) UNIX
9 75 (24.83%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 74 (24.50%) Vulnerability Management
11 73 (24.17%) Network Security
11 73 (24.17%) TCP/IP
12 72 (23.84%) Management Information System
13 71 (23.51%) Linux
14 70 (23.18%) Finance
15 68 (22.52%) Cisco Certification
16 67 (22.19%) Degree
17 59 (19.54%) Ethical Hacking
18 52 (17.22%) Security Testing
19 51 (16.89%) WAN
20 50 (16.56%) LAN
20 50 (16.56%) Cisco
20 50 (16.56%) Wireless
21 49 (16.23%) Risk Management
22 48 (15.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
23 46 (15.23%) Network Design
24 43 (14.24%) Security Cleared
25 39 (12.91%) PCI DSS
25 39 (12.91%) Security Architecture
25 39 (12.91%) Intrusion Detection

CEH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing CEH 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 CEH. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (6.954%) Web Services
2 8 (2.649%) JSP
3 4 (1.325%) .NET
4 2 (0.662%) ASP
5 1 (0.331%) Spring
5 1 (0.331%) J2EE
5 1 (0.331%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 26 (8.609%) IIS
2 22 (7.285%) Apache
3 8 (2.649%) MS Exchange
4 2 (0.662%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.331%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.331%) GroupWise
Applications
1 8 (2.649%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.331%) MS Office
2 1 (0.331%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (0.331%) SAP CRM
1 1 (0.331%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.331%) PeopleSoft Financials
Communications & Networking
1 135 (44.70%) Firewall
2 73 (24.17%) Network Security
2 73 (24.17%) TCP/IP
3 51 (16.89%) WAN
4 50 (16.56%) LAN
4 50 (16.56%) Wireless
5 39 (12.91%) Intrusion Detection
6 35 (11.59%) Internet
6 35 (11.59%) DNS
7 26 (8.609%) VPN
8 25 (8.278%) DHCP
9 16 (5.298%) MPLS
10 15 (4.967%) VoIP
11 13 (4.305%) VLAN
11 13 (4.305%) RIP
12 11 (3.642%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (3.642%) HTTP
13 10 (3.311%) SMTP
13 10 (3.311%) Wireshark
14 9 (2.980%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.278%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.325%) MySQL
2 4 (1.325%) GIS
3 3 (0.993%) DB2
4 1 (0.331%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.331%) MS Access
4 1 (0.331%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (1.325%) GitHub
2 2 (0.662%) Metasploit
General
1 70 (23.18%) Finance
2 25 (8.278%) German Language
3 21 (6.954%) Legal
4 17 (5.629%) Banking
4 17 (5.629%) Retail
5 15 (4.967%) French Language
5 15 (4.967%) Law
6 13 (4.305%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.311%) Electronics
7 10 (3.311%) Aerospace
7 10 (3.311%) Military
8 5 (1.656%) Advertising
9 4 (1.325%) Marketing
9 4 (1.325%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.331%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.331%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 61 (20.20%) Analyst
2 45 (14.90%) Penetration Tester
2 45 (14.90%) Tester
3 44 (14.57%) Security Analyst
4 37 (12.25%) Security Specialist
5 36 (11.92%) Support Engineer
6 32 (10.60%) Security Tester
7 31 (10.26%) Consultant
8 30 (9.934%) Security Engineer
9 29 (9.603%) Security Consultant
10 21 (6.954%) Technical Support
10 21 (6.954%) Technical Support Engineer
10 21 (6.954%) Technical Engineer
11 16 (5.298%) Information Security Consultant
12 14 (4.636%) Senior Security Consultant
12 14 (4.636%) Senior Consultant
12 14 (4.636%) Senior Information Security Consultant
13 13 (4.305%) Architect
13 13 (4.305%) Systems Tester
14 12 (3.974%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 72 (23.84%) Management Information System
2 24 (7.947%) Computer Science
3 21 (6.954%) SaaS
4 19 (6.291%) Open Source
5 11 (3.642%) CESG
6 10 (3.311%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.649%) Firmware
7 8 (2.649%) Client/Server
7 8 (2.649%) Fixed Income
7 8 (2.649%) Equities
8 6 (1.987%) Cryptography
9 4 (1.325%) Statistics
9 4 (1.325%) PMI
9 4 (1.325%) PKI
10 3 (0.993%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.993%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.662%) Kindle
11 2 (0.662%) Blog
11 2 (0.662%) SCADA
11 2 (0.662%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 96 (31.79%) Windows
2 83 (27.48%) UNIX
3 71 (23.51%) Linux
4 8 (2.649%) Solaris
5 5 (1.656%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (0.993%) Windows NT
6 3 (0.993%) Windows 2000 Server
7 2 (0.662%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.662%) Android
7 2 (0.662%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.331%) AIX
8 1 (0.331%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (40.73%) Information Security
2 95 (31.46%) Penetration Testing
3 75 (24.83%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 74 (24.50%) Vulnerability Management
5 59 (19.54%) Ethical Hacking
6 52 (17.22%) Security Testing
7 49 (16.23%) Risk Management
8 46 (15.23%) Network Design
9 39 (12.91%) Security Architecture
10 36 (11.92%) Security Management
11 33 (10.93%) Disaster Recovery
12 28 (9.272%) ITIL
12 28 (9.272%) Project Management
13 26 (8.609%) Data Protection
14 25 (8.278%) Risk Assessment
15 24 (7.947%) Digital Forensics
15 24 (7.947%) SIEM
16 21 (6.954%) OWASP
16 21 (6.954%) Business Continuity
17 20 (6.623%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (7.947%) Perl
2 23 (7.616%) PHP
2 23 (7.616%) Java
3 18 (5.960%) VB
4 12 (3.974%) SQL
5 8 (2.649%) C
6 6 (1.987%) Python
7 5 (1.656%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.662%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.662%) C++
8 2 (0.662%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.331%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.331%) R
Qualifications
1 263 (87.09%) CISSP
2 134 (44.37%) CISM
3 91 (30.13%) CISA
4 68 (22.52%) Cisco Certification
5 67 (22.19%) Degree
6 43 (14.24%) Security Cleared
7 38 (12.58%) GIAC
8 35 (11.59%) GCIH
9 31 (10.26%) SC Cleared
10 27 (8.940%) CCSP
11 26 (8.609%) SSCP
12 23 (7.616%) CHFI
13 21 (6.954%) CISMP
14 20 (6.623%) CCNP
15 19 (6.291%) GPEN
16 18 (5.960%) CRISC
17 17 (5.629%) GWAPT
17 17 (5.629%) OSCP
17 17 (5.629%) OSCE
18 14 (4.636%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (15.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (12.91%) PCI DSS
3 22 (7.285%) HIPAA
4 15 (4.967%) COBIT
5 12 (3.974%) QA
6 8 (2.649%) ISO/IEC 17799
7 7 (2.318%) JSP 440
8 5 (1.656%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (1.325%) SLA
10 2 (0.662%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.331%) BS7799
System Software
1 30 (9.934%) Nmap
2 18 (5.960%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.298%) Snort
Systems Management
1 13 (4.305%) Nessus
2 8 (2.649%) Norton AntiVirus
3 5 (1.656%) WebInspect
3 5 (1.656%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.662%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.331%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 50 (16.56%) Cisco
2 29 (9.603%) Oracle
3 21 (6.954%) McAfee
3 21 (6.954%) CheckPoint
4 19 (6.291%) Juniper
5 16 (5.298%) Microsoft
5 16 (5.298%) Qualys
6 13 (4.305%) Tripwire
7 12 (3.974%) Symantec
7 12 (3.974%) F5
8 10 (3.311%) Blue Coat
8 10 (3.311%) Websense
9 8 (2.649%) IronPort
10 5 (1.656%) VMware
10 5 (1.656%) Citrix
11 3 (0.993%) Sourcefire
11 3 (0.993%) Sybase
11 3 (0.993%) Novell
12 2 (0.662%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.662%) Fortinet
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