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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Penetration Testing
Rank 90 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Penetration Testing 2 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 0.162% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.233% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
857 829 749
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 69.39% 71.10% 71.74%
Number of salaries quoted 761 742 701
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,750 £48,400
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Penetration Testing
UK

Penetration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales Penetration Testing Salary Trend

Penetration Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Penetration Testing within the Wales region 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
South Wales - 2 - -
Penetration Testing
UK

Penetration Testing
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales 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%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
1 2 (100.00%) BCP
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Document Management
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) PHP5

Penetration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales 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%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Lead Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) BCP
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree