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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Security
Rank 79 84 67
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -17
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 6 2 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 0.765% 0.261% 0.811%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.00% 1.786% 4.396%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 4
Average salary £28,750 £20,000 £23,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+43.75% -13.04%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
- -5.55%
All Communications & Networking
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
60 112 91
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 7.653% 14.64% 18.46%
Number of salaries quoted 54 98 86
Average salary £28,250 £45,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-37.22% +50.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £27,500 £18,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,250 £38,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Network Security
East Sussex

Network Security
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Network Security Salary Trend

Network Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (66.67%) vSphere
3 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (66.67%) VPN
3 4 (66.67%) LAN
3 4 (66.67%) WAN
3 4 (66.67%) DHCP
3 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 4 (66.67%) IIS
4 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
4 3 (50.00%) VMware ESX
4 3 (50.00%) Ubuntu
5 2 (33.33%) Xen
5 2 (33.33%) Puppet
5 2 (33.33%) Ruby
5 2 (33.33%) BGP
5 2 (33.33%) Debian
5 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (33.33%) Python
5 2 (33.33%) UNIX
5 2 (33.33%) Java
5 2 (33.33%) Perl
5 2 (33.33%) MySQL

Network Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
2 4 (66.67%) VPN
2 4 (66.67%) LAN
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 4 (66.67%) DHCP
3 2 (33.33%) BGP
3 2 (33.33%) HTTP
3 2 (33.33%) SMTP
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Systems Administrator
1 5 (83.33%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) UNIX Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (33.33%) Debian
4 2 (33.33%) UNIX
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Ruby
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Perl
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (66.67%) vSphere
3 3 (50.00%) VMware ESX
4 2 (33.33%) Xen
5 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat