The first table below looks at the demand for Network Security skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheltenham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Security over the 3 months to 18 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the Cheltenham region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Security
Rank 32 45 28
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -17
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 6 5 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheltenham 2.703% 1.295% 3.404%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.54% 5.155% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 7
Average salary £25,500 £45,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-43.33% -18.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £28,200 £42,700
10% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £49,000 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £43,000
% change year-on-year
+5.88% -1.16%
All Communications & Networking
Cheltenham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
52 97 64
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheltenham 23.42% 25.13% 27.23%
Number of salaries quoted 51 61 49
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £28,100 £27,850
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Network Security
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Network Security
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham Network Security Salary Trend

Network Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheltenham 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 7 (70.00%) SQL
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) Degree
3 5 (50.00%) Wireshark
3 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (50.00%) tcpdump
3 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 5 (50.00%) Snort
4 4 (40.00%) Information Security
5 3 (30.00%) TELNET
5 3 (30.00%) LDAP
5 3 (30.00%) SMTP
5 3 (30.00%) DHCP
5 3 (30.00%) FTP
5 3 (30.00%) HTTP
5 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (30.00%) DNS
5 3 (30.00%) SSL
5 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (30.00%) Reverse Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (30.00%) Network Architecture
6 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Web Development
6 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
6 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (20.00%) Windows 8

Network Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheltenham 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.

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Office
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Wireshark
1 5 (50.00%) tcpdump
2 3 (30.00%) LDAP
2 3 (30.00%) SMTP
2 3 (30.00%) DHCP
2 3 (30.00%) FTP
2 3 (30.00%) HTTP
2 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (30.00%) DNS
2 3 (30.00%) SSL
2 3 (30.00%) TELNET
3 2 (20.00%) Firewall
4 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Network Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Trainee
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Support
4 1 (10.00%) Support Technician
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
1 2 (20.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Information Security
2 3 (30.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Web Development
4 1 (10.00%) Information Management
4 1 (10.00%) Cyber Security
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) C
2 2 (20.00%) C++
2 2 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) Degree
3 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Snort
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
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