The first table below looks at the demand for the Security Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Security Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Specialist
Rank 189 207 181
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Specialist 19 20 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.358% 0.322% 0.483%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.382% 0.342% 0.511%
Number of salaries quoted 14 18 23
Average salary £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.09% +22.22%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +1.05%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4978 5853 5093
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 93.77% 94.30% 94.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3982 4924 4272
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +1.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Security Specialist
South East

Security Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Security Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Security Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Security Specialist Salary Trend

Security Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Security Specialist across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Berkshire Security Specialist Salary Histogram

Security Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Specialist within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Reading -1 7 £46,000 - 1
Slough - 3 £50,000 -
Bracknell - 3 - -
Maidenhead +7 1 £70,000 -
Security Specialist
South East

Security Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Security Specialist 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 Security Specialist in their job title.

1 32 (57.14%) CISSP
2 26 (46.43%) Degree
3 25 (44.64%) Computer Science
3 25 (44.64%) GIAC
4 14 (25.00%) Information Security
5 13 (23.21%) Security Management
6 12 (21.43%) Firewall
6 12 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (21.43%) Network Security
7 11 (19.64%) Microsoft
7 11 (19.64%) Windows
7 11 (19.64%) SIEM
8 9 (16.07%) ITIL
9 8 (14.29%) Linux
9 8 (14.29%) PCI DSS
9 8 (14.29%) Finance
10 7 (12.50%) UNIX
11 6 (10.71%) Management Information System
11 6 (10.71%) Juniper
12 5 (8.929%) Mac OS X
12 5 (8.929%) McAfee
12 5 (8.929%) Information Security Management
12 5 (8.929%) Telecoms
12 5 (8.929%) TACACS
12 5 (8.929%) Windows XP
12 5 (8.929%) Cisco
12 5 (8.929%) Risk Assessment
12 5 (8.929%) COBIT
12 5 (8.929%) SC Cleared
12 5 (8.929%) Security Cleared

Security Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Security Specialist 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 Security Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (3.571%) Middleware
2 1 (1.786%) Regular Expression
2 1 (1.786%) ODBC
2 1 (1.786%) Windows SharePoint Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.786%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (1.786%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.786%) MS Exchange
1 1 (1.786%) Apache
1 1 (1.786%) IIS
1 1 (1.786%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 3 (5.357%) MS Office
2 2 (3.571%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.43%) Firewall
1 12 (21.43%) Network Security
2 5 (8.929%) TACACS
3 4 (7.143%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.357%) VPN
4 3 (5.357%) SNMP
5 2 (3.571%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (3.571%) DNS
5 2 (3.571%) DHCP
5 2 (3.571%) Junos
6 1 (1.786%) BGP
6 1 (1.786%) MPLS
6 1 (1.786%) SAN
6 1 (1.786%) Wireless
6 1 (1.786%) IPsec
6 1 (1.786%) UMTS
6 1 (1.786%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.786%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.143%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.357%) SQL Server 2000
2 3 (5.357%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 8 (14.29%) Finance
2 5 (8.929%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.357%) Retail
4 1 (1.786%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 25 (44.64%) Computer Science
2 6 (10.71%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.143%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.357%) Thin Client
4 3 (5.357%) Fat Client
4 3 (5.357%) PKI
4 3 (5.357%) Open Source
5 1 (1.786%) Replication
5 1 (1.786%) CLARiiON
5 1 (1.786%) Symmetrix
5 1 (1.786%) Clustering
5 1 (1.786%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 11 (19.64%) Windows
2 8 (14.29%) Linux
3 7 (12.50%) UNIX
4 5 (8.929%) Mac OS X
4 5 (8.929%) Windows XP
4 5 (8.929%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.00%) Information Security
2 13 (23.21%) Security Management
3 11 (19.64%) SIEM
4 9 (16.07%) ITIL
5 5 (8.929%) Information Security Management
5 5 (8.929%) Risk Assessment
5 5 (8.929%) Data Protection
5 5 (8.929%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (8.929%) Information Management
5 5 (8.929%) Database Security
5 5 (8.929%) Mobile Device Management
6 4 (7.143%) Capacity Management
6 4 (7.143%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (7.143%) Performance Management
6 4 (7.143%) Load Balancing
6 4 (7.143%) Service Management
7 3 (5.357%) Security Testing
7 3 (5.357%) Digital Forensics
7 3 (5.357%) Data Analysis
8 2 (3.571%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.143%) PowerShell
1 4 (7.143%) Perl
1 4 (7.143%) SQL
2 3 (5.357%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.786%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (57.14%) CISSP
2 26 (46.43%) Degree
3 25 (44.64%) GIAC
4 5 (8.929%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.929%) Security Cleared
5 4 (7.143%) DV Cleared
6 3 (5.357%) CCIE
6 3 (5.357%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.571%) CCSA
7 2 (3.571%) CCSE
7 2 (3.571%) JNCIA
7 2 (3.571%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.786%) CRISC
8 1 (1.786%) OSCP
8 1 (1.786%) CISA
8 1 (1.786%) CISM
8 1 (1.786%) CCSP
8 1 (1.786%) CCDP
8 1 (1.786%) GCIA
8 1 (1.786%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (14.29%) PCI DSS
3 5 (8.929%) COBIT
4 4 (7.143%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (5.357%) QA
6 1 (1.786%) BS25999
System Software
1 3 (5.357%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.786%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 5 (8.929%) McAfee ePO
2 3 (5.357%) Netcool
2 3 (5.357%) Netcool/OMNIbus
2 3 (5.357%) Tivoli
2 3 (5.357%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 1 (1.786%) Splunk
3 1 (1.786%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.786%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 11 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.71%) Juniper
3 5 (8.929%) McAfee
3 5 (8.929%) Cisco
4 4 (7.143%) Citrix
5 3 (5.357%) Fujitsu
6 2 (3.571%) Blue Coat
6 2 (3.571%) HP
6 2 (3.571%) CheckPoint
6 2 (3.571%) F5
7 1 (1.786%) Nokia
7 1 (1.786%) Veritas
7 1 (1.786%) Radware
7 1 (1.786%) EMC
7 1 (1.786%) Nortel
7 1 (1.786%) Huawei
7 1 (1.786%) Redback
7 1 (1.786%) Aruba
Reading, Thames Valley
Strong conceptual understanding of SIEM technology and threat analysis tools such as Maltego, CIF, Splunk,etc... Knowledge of networking protocols and infrastructure designs; including routing, firewall functionality, host...
Salary: Excellent Salary & Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013