The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Security Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IT Security Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles advertised for the Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Security Engineer
Rank 205 212 172
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -40
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Engineer 12 9 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.230% 0.144% 0.331%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.244% 0.152% 0.351%
Number of salaries quoted 11 0 16
Average salary £40,000 - £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £43,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-8.57% -2.77%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4914 5915 4843
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 94.10% 94.50% 94.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3900 5047 4023
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +1.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
IT Security Engineer
South East

IT Security Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing IT Security Engineer across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Berkshire IT Security Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

IT Security Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire IT Security Engineer Salary Trend

IT Security Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IT Security Engineer across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Berkshire IT Security Engineer Salary Histogram

IT Security Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Security Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Bracknell -24 4 £34,500 -
Slough -3 3 £40,000 -
IT Security Engineer
South East

IT Security Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited IT Security Engineer in their job title 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 with IT Security Engineer in their job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Firewall
2 11 (73.33%) Network Security
2 11 (73.33%) Windows
2 11 (73.33%) Linux
2 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (60.00%) Cisco
3 9 (60.00%) Juniper
4 8 (53.33%) LAN
4 8 (53.33%) WAN
4 8 (53.33%) TCP/IP
4 8 (53.33%) CheckPoint
5 7 (46.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (46.67%) Websense
5 7 (46.67%) Red Hat
5 7 (46.67%) CISM
5 7 (46.67%) SQL
5 7 (46.67%) Oracle
5 7 (46.67%) CISSP
5 7 (46.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (46.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (46.67%) Wireless
6 6 (40.00%) Incident Management
6 6 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (40.00%) PCI DSS
7 4 (26.67%) Finance
7 4 (26.67%) Nokia
7 4 (26.67%) UNIX
7 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
7 4 (26.67%) VPN
7 4 (26.67%) RIP

IT Security Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited IT Security Engineer in their job title 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 with IT Security Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (100.00%) Firewall
2 11 (73.33%) Network Security
3 8 (53.33%) LAN
3 8 (53.33%) WAN
3 8 (53.33%) TCP/IP
4 7 (46.67%) Wireless
5 4 (26.67%) VPN
5 4 (26.67%) RIP
5 4 (26.67%) BGP
5 4 (26.67%) MPLS
5 4 (26.67%) OSPF
6 1 (6.667%) Junos
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Windows
1 11 (73.33%) Linux
2 7 (46.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (46.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (46.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (26.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (20.00%) Network Design
3 1 (6.667%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) CISM
1 7 (46.67%) CISSP
2 3 (20.00%) CCSA
2 3 (20.00%) CCSE
3 1 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.667%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (40.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (60.00%) Cisco
2 9 (60.00%) Juniper
3 8 (53.33%) CheckPoint
4 7 (46.67%) Websense
4 7 (46.67%) Red Hat
4 7 (46.67%) Oracle
5 4 (26.67%) Nokia
5 4 (26.67%) Symantec
6 3 (20.00%) F5
7 1 (6.667%) Fortinet
7 1 (6.667%) McAfee
7 1 (6.667%) IBM