The first table below looks at the demand for GIAC in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GIAC 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 Qualifications for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)
Rank 314 322 330
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +8
Permanent jobs citing GIAC 7 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.060% 0.008% 0.006%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.253% 0.034% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 1
Average salary £45,000 £60,000 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% -14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -11.11%
All Qualifications
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
2769 2932 3242
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 23.74% 22.44% 21.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2390 2668 2941
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
GIAC
London

GIAC
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing GIAC across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

City of London GIAC Jobs Demand Trend

GIAC
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing GIAC across the City of London region.

City of London GIAC Salary Trend

GIAC
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GIAC across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London GIAC Salary Histogram

GIAC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing GIAC 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 GIAC.

1 11 (100.00%) Information Security
2 10 (90.91%) CISSP
2 10 (90.91%) UNIX
3 9 (81.82%) SIEM
4 7 (63.64%) Degree
4 7 (63.64%) Vulnerability Management
4 7 (63.64%) Risk Management
5 6 (54.55%) Windows
5 6 (54.55%) GSEC
5 6 (54.55%) Network Design
5 6 (54.55%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (54.55%) PKI
6 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
6 4 (36.36%) CISM
7 3 (27.27%) CISA
7 3 (27.27%) Firewall
7 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
7 3 (27.27%) SQL
7 3 (27.27%) Internet
7 3 (27.27%) Linux
7 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
7 3 (27.27%) Asset Management
8 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
9 1 (9.091%) Penetration Testing
9 1 (9.091%) Investment Banking
9 1 (9.091%) Document Management
9 1 (9.091%) Computer Forensics
9 1 (9.091%) Ethical Hacking
9 1 (9.091%) CEH
9 1 (9.091%) GSNA

GIAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing GIAC 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 GIAC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) GroupWise
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
2 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (27.27%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) Internet
3 1 (9.091%) SMTP
3 1 (9.091%) DHCP
3 1 (9.091%) HTTP
3 1 (9.091%) SNMP
3 1 (9.091%) DNS
3 1 (9.091%) SSL
3 1 (9.091%) LDAP
3 1 (9.091%) Wireless
General
1 1 (9.091%) Investment Banking
1 1 (9.091%) Banking
1 1 (9.091%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Information Security Engineer
1 6 (54.55%) Security Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Security Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) IT Security Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Information Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) PKI
2 1 (9.091%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) UNIX
2 6 (54.55%) Windows
3 3 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Information Security
2 9 (81.82%) SIEM
3 7 (63.64%) Vulnerability Management
3 7 (63.64%) Risk Management
4 6 (54.55%) Network Design
5 3 (27.27%) Asset Management
6 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
7 1 (9.091%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (9.091%) Document Management
7 1 (9.091%) Computer Forensics
7 1 (9.091%) Ethical Hacking
7 1 (9.091%) Reverse Engineering
7 1 (9.091%) Network Architecture
7 1 (9.091%) Benchmarking
7 1 (9.091%) Security Management
7 1 (9.091%) Service Delivery
7 1 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (9.091%) Validation
7 1 (9.091%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 1 (9.091%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) CISSP
2 7 (63.64%) Degree
3 6 (54.55%) GSEC
4 4 (36.36%) CISM
5 3 (27.27%) CISA
6 1 (9.091%) CEH
6 1 (9.091%) GSNA
6 1 (9.091%) GCFA
6 1 (9.091%) GCED
6 1 (9.091%) GPEN
6 1 (9.091%) GISP
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) CheckPoint
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