East Midlands Information Security Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Information Security (INFOSEC) skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Information Security over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Security (INFOSEC)
Location Aldershot Andover Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Daresbury Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dumfries and Galloway Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stranraer Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	153	175
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching permanent IT job ads	23	12
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.864 %	0.383 %
Salaries quoted	19	9
Average minimum salary	£41,273	£41,333
Average salary	£45,750	£41,333
% change on same period last year	+10.68 %
Average maximum salary	£50,227	£41,333
UK excluding London average salary	£48,617	£47,554
% change on same period last year	+2.23 %
Processes & Methodologies East Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	2662	3131
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.405 %	1.282 %
Salaries quoted	2282	2602
Average minimum salary	£36,146	£35,511
Average salary	£39,337	£38,344
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Average maximum salary	£42,529	£41,178
UK excluding London average salary	£42,567	£44,524
% change on same period last year	-4.39 %
Information Security England

Information Security
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Information Security across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Information Security
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Information Security across the East Midlands region.

Information Security
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Information Security across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Information Security
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Nottinghamshire	+7	8	£48,071	+34.77 %
Leicestershire	-	5	£32,500	-
Derbyshire	-	4	£56,875	-
Lincolnshire	-	2	£36,250	-
Northamptonshire	-	2	£55,000	-

Information Security England

Information Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands region citing Information 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 Information Security.

1 18 (51.43 %) CISSP 2 13 (37.14 %) Finance 3 8 (22.86 %) Data Protection 3 8 (22.86 %) Risk Management 4 7 (20.00 %) CISM 5 6 (17.14 %) Benchmarking 5 6 (17.14 %) Penetration Testing 6 5 (14.29 %) ITIL 7 4 (11.43 %) Project Management 7 4 (11.43 %) Computer Science 7 4 (11.43 %) Computer Forensics 7 4 (11.43 %) Risk Assessment 8 3 (8.571 %) Education 8 3 (8.571 %) IIS 8 3 (8.571 %) Banking

8 3 (8.571 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 3 (8.571 %) Data Protection Act 8 3 (8.571 %) CISA 8 3 (8.571 %) Service Delivery 8 3 (8.571 %) SSCP 8 3 (8.571 %) ISO17799 9 2 (5.714 %) NHS 9 2 (5.714 %) Intranet 9 2 (5.714 %) Workflow 9 2 (5.714 %) Data Security 9 2 (5.714 %) Intrusion Detection 10 1 (2.857 %) Retail 10 1 (2.857 %) Time Management 10 1 (2.857 %) Performance Management 10 1 (2.857 %) ISMS

Information Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands region citing Information 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 Information Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 3 (8.571 %) IIS 2 1 (2.857 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 1 (2.857 %) MS Excel 1 1 (2.857 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 2 (5.714 %) Intranet 1 2 (5.714 %) Intrusion Detection 2 1 (2.857 %) HTTP	General 1 13 (37.14 %) Finance 2 3 (8.571 %) Education 2 3 (8.571 %) Banking 3 1 (2.857 %) Retail 3 1 (2.857 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 9 (25.71 %) Security Manager 2 8 (22.86 %) Information Manager 2 8 (22.86 %) Information Security Manager 3 6 (17.14 %) Information Security Consultant 3 6 (17.14 %) Consultant 3 6 (17.14 %) Security Consultant 4 4 (11.43 %) Analyst 5 3 (8.571 %) Test Manager 5 3 (8.571 %) Senior Consultant 5 3 (8.571 %) Senior Security Consultant 5 3 (8.571 %) Senior Manager 6 2 (5.714 %) Network Specialist 6 2 (5.714 %) Delivery Manager 7 1 (2.857 %) Project Manager 7 1 (2.857 %) Systems Support 7 1 (2.857 %) Technical Support 7 1 (2.857 %) Services Delivery Manager 7 1 (2.857 %) Service Manager 7 1 (2.857 %) Senior Project Manager 7 1 (2.857 %) Support Manager	Miscellaneous 1 4 (11.43 %) Computer Science 2 3 (8.571 %) Data Protection Act 3 2 (5.714 %) NHS 4 1 (2.857 %) Management Information System 4 1 (2.857 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 1 (2.857 %) Windows 1 1 (2.857 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (22.86 %) Risk Management 1 8 (22.86 %) Data Protection 2 6 (17.14 %) Benchmarking 2 6 (17.14 %) Penetration Testing 3 5 (14.29 %) ITIL 4 4 (11.43 %) Risk Assessment 4 4 (11.43 %) Computer Forensics 4 4 (11.43 %) Project Management 5 3 (8.571 %) Service Delivery 5 3 (8.571 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (5.714 %) Workflow 6 2 (5.714 %) Data Security 7 1 (2.857 %) Security Management 7 1 (2.857 %) Change Management 7 1 (2.857 %) Information Security Management 7 1 (2.857 %) Time Management 7 1 (2.857 %) Performance Management 7 1 (2.857 %) ISMS 7 1 (2.857 %) Supplier Management 7 1 (2.857 %) Incident Management
Qualifications 1 18 (51.43 %) CISSP 2 7 (20.00 %) CISM 3 3 (8.571 %) SSCP 3 3 (8.571 %) CISA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (8.571 %) ISO17799 2 1 (2.857 %) SLA 2 1 (2.857 %) COBIT
System Software 1 1 (2.857 %) Active Directory