The first table below looks at the demand for Network Security skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Security over the 3 months to 17 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 Communications & Networking category for the Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Security
Rank 48 62 73
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +11
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 47 22 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 4.336% 2.229% 0.590%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.60% 9.053% 4.630%
Number of salaries quoted 46 21 5
Average salary £55,000 £45,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.22% +38.46%
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-2.35% -5.55%
All Communications & Networking
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
267 243 108
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 24.63% 24.62% 12.75%
Number of salaries quoted 241 196 100
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £31,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
Network Security
East of England

Network Security
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Network Security across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Bedfordshire Network Security Jobs Demand Trend

Network Security
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Network Security across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Network Security Salary Trend

Network Security
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Network Security across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Bedfordshire Network Security Salary Histogram

Network Security
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Dunstable - 15 £36,834 -
Bedford -16 8 £39,000 -13.33%
Luton - 3 £37,500 -
Leighton Buzzard - 1 £67,500 -
Network Security
East of England

Network Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Network Security 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 Network Security.

1 68 (80.95%) Firewall
2 62 (73.81%) DNS
3 61 (72.62%) Cisco
4 40 (47.62%) Finance
5 38 (45.24%) Cisco Certification
6 36 (42.86%) Change Management
6 36 (42.86%) VMware
7 32 (38.10%) Disaster Recovery
7 32 (38.10%) DHCP
7 32 (38.10%) Windows
8 31 (36.90%) Microsoft
9 30 (35.71%) CCNP
9 30 (35.71%) Intrusion Detection
10 28 (33.33%) Active Directory
10 28 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
10 28 (33.33%) Windows 7
11 27 (32.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 27 (32.14%) MS Exchange
12 26 (30.95%) SQL Server
12 26 (30.95%) Citrix
12 26 (30.95%) Exchange Server 2010
13 24 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2007
13 24 (28.57%) Juniper
14 23 (27.38%) Supplier Management
14 23 (27.38%) Cisco IOS
14 23 (27.38%) SQL Server 2008
15 22 (26.19%) Load Balancing
15 22 (26.19%) Telecoms
15 22 (26.19%) VPN
16 21 (25.00%) TCP/IP

Network Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Network Security 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 Network Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (2.381%) Web Services
2 1 (1.190%) XML
Application Platforms
1 27 (32.14%) MS Exchange
2 26 (30.95%) Exchange Server 2010
3 24 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2007
4 17 (20.24%) Lync
5 15 (17.86%) Office Communications Server
6 13 (15.48%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (9.524%) SharePoint
8 7 (8.333%) IIS
9 4 (4.762%) Windows Azure
10 1 (1.190%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (1.190%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 14 (16.67%) MS Office
2 9 (10.71%) MS Excel
3 6 (7.143%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 68 (80.95%) Firewall
2 62 (73.81%) DNS
3 32 (38.10%) DHCP
4 30 (35.71%) Intrusion Detection
5 23 (27.38%) Cisco IOS
6 22 (26.19%) VPN
7 21 (25.00%) TCP/IP
8 20 (23.81%) SAN
9 17 (20.24%) WAN
9 17 (20.24%) VLAN
10 15 (17.86%) NAS
10 15 (17.86%) iSCSI
10 15 (17.86%) LAN
10 15 (17.86%) VoIP
11 14 (16.67%) MPLS
12 13 (15.48%) RIP
13 10 (11.90%) Cisco PIX
14 9 (10.71%) HTTP
14 9 (10.71%) HTTPS
15 8 (9.524%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (30.95%) SQL Server
2 23 (27.38%) SQL Server 2008
3 21 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.190%) MySQL
General
1 40 (47.62%) Finance
2 22 (26.19%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.381%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 24 (28.57%) Network Manager
2 19 (22.62%) Wintel Engineer
3 13 (15.48%) Network Engineer
4 10 (11.90%) Support Engineer
5 9 (10.71%) Network Security Engineer
5 9 (10.71%) Security Engineer
6 8 (9.524%) Security Officer
7 7 (8.333%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 6 (7.143%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 6 (7.143%) Data Centre Specialist
8 6 (7.143%) 3rd Line Support
9 5 (5.952%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.762%) Data Centre Engineer
11 3 (3.571%) Wintel Server Engineer
11 3 (3.571%) Server Engineer
11 3 (3.571%) Support Analyst
11 3 (3.571%) Analyst
12 2 (2.381%) Technical Support
12 2 (2.381%) Senior Analyst
12 2 (2.381%) Senior Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.190%) Firmware
1 1 (1.190%) Blackberry
1 1 (1.190%) Replication
1 1 (1.190%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (38.10%) Windows
2 28 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 27 (32.14%) Windows Server 2008
4 12 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
5 10 (11.90%) Windows XP
6 8 (9.524%) Windows Vista
7 1 (1.190%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (42.86%) Change Management
2 32 (38.10%) Disaster Recovery
3 23 (27.38%) Supplier Management
4 22 (26.19%) Load Balancing
5 16 (19.05%) Network Design
6 15 (17.86%) Network Load Balancing
7 14 (16.67%) Network Management
8 8 (9.524%) Capacity Planning
8 8 (9.524%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 5 (5.952%) Penetration Testing
9 5 (5.952%) Ethical Hacking
10 2 (2.381%) ITIL
11 1 (1.190%) PRINCE
11 1 (1.190%) Configuration Management
11 1 (1.190%) Project Management
11 1 (1.190%) Change Control
11 1 (1.190%) Incident Management
11 1 (1.190%) Requirements Analysis
11 1 (1.190%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.190%) PHP
1 1 (1.190%) SQL
1 1 (1.190%) VBScript
1 1 (1.190%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (45.24%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (35.71%) CCNP
3 18 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (20.24%) MCP
5 16 (19.05%) MCSE
6 14 (16.67%) MCSA
6 14 (16.67%) CCSP
7 13 (15.48%) CISSP
7 13 (15.48%) CCNA
7 13 (15.48%) CISA
7 13 (15.48%) CISM
7 13 (15.48%) CEH
7 13 (15.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 12 (14.29%) MCTS
9 11 (13.10%) MCITP
9 11 (13.10%) CCA
9 11 (13.10%) Citrix Certification
10 10 (11.90%) CCIE
11 8 (9.524%) CCSA
12 7 (8.333%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.90%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.190%) QA
System Software
1 28 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 28 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (22.62%) Hyper-V
2 19 (22.62%) XenServer
3 18 (21.43%) XenApp
4 16 (19.05%) XenDesktop
5 15 (17.86%) NFS
6 14 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (5.952%) ISA Server
7 5 (5.952%) Forefront TMG
7 5 (5.952%) UAG
8 4 (4.762%) Terminal Services
9 2 (2.381%) VMware ESX
9 2 (2.381%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (2.381%) vSphere
10 1 (1.190%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 19 (22.62%) WSUS
2 1 (1.190%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 61 (72.62%) Cisco
2 36 (42.86%) VMware
3 31 (36.90%) Microsoft
4 26 (30.95%) Citrix
5 24 (28.57%) Juniper
6 19 (22.62%) LANDesk
7 17 (20.24%) Infoblox
7 17 (20.24%) HP
8 14 (16.67%) CommVault
9 13 (15.48%) EMC
10 9 (10.71%) CheckPoint
11 6 (7.143%) F5
12 2 (2.381%) Twitter
13 1 (1.190%) Oracle
13 1 (1.190%) Symantec
13 1 (1.190%) FalconStor
13 1 (1.190%) VocaLink
13 1 (1.190%) AirMagnet
13 1 (1.190%) Mitel
13 1 (1.190%) Blue Coat
Bedford, Bedfordshire
The Ideal skill set will include DNS Services, Microsoft Exchange 2007 /2010 and SharePoint services 2007 / 2010. You will have ideally had experience in installing, usage and/or...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013