The first table below looks at the demand for SIEM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SIEM over the 3 months to 17 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Rank 88 - 90
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 4 0 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.378% - 0.713%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.508% - 0.902%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 11
Average salary £19,000 - £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £47,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +35.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
787 965 1220
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 74.46% 72.01% 79.12%
Number of salaries quoted 463 681 859
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -2.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £61,700 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SIEM
Scotland

SIEM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SIEM across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Edinburgh SIEM Jobs Demand Trend

SIEM
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh SIEM Salary Trend

SIEM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing SIEM 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 SIEM.

1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Unified Communications
3 6 (42.86%) Information Security
4 5 (35.71%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (28.57%) Security Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
5 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
6 2 (14.29%) Juniper
6 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
6 2 (14.29%) Service Management
6 2 (14.29%) Network Security
6 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
6 2 (14.29%) Degree
6 2 (14.29%) Blue Coat
6 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 2 (14.29%) Q1 Labs
6 2 (14.29%) F5
6 2 (14.29%) ArcSight
6 2 (14.29%) LogLogic
7 1 (7.143%) Bash shell
7 1 (7.143%) Security Architecture
7 1 (7.143%) Regular Expression
7 1 (7.143%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (7.143%) CESG
7 1 (7.143%) CESG CLAS
7 1 (7.143%) Banking
7 1 (7.143%) COBIT
7 1 (7.143%) Computer Science
7 1 (7.143%) PCI QSA
7 1 (7.143%) Digital Forensics

SIEM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing SIEM 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 SIEM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.143%) .NET
1 1 (7.143%) Regular Expression
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (14.29%) Network Security
4 1 (7.143%) Firewall
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.143%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Consultant
2 5 (35.71%) Security Consultant
2 5 (35.71%) Security Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Graduate
4 2 (14.29%) Junior
4 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Operations Team Leader
4 2 (14.29%) Team Leader
4 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) IT Operations Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Security Operations Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Principal Security Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) Principal Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) Junior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.143%) CESG
2 1 (7.143%) CESG CLAS
2 1 (7.143%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.143%) UNIX
1 1 (7.143%) Windows
1 1 (7.143%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Information Security
2 5 (35.71%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (28.57%) Security Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Service Management
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.143%) Change Management
5 1 (7.143%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (7.143%) Information Security Management
5 1 (7.143%) Security Management
5 1 (7.143%) Risk Management
5 1 (7.143%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (7.143%) Data Protection
5 1 (7.143%) Digital Forensics
5 1 (7.143%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.143%) SQL
1 1 (7.143%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.143%) PCI QSA
2 1 (7.143%) CISSP
2 1 (7.143%) CISA
2 1 (7.143%) CISM
2 1 (7.143%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.143%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (7.143%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.143%) COBIT
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Juniper
1 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
1 2 (14.29%) Blue Coat
1 2 (14.29%) F5
1 2 (14.29%) ArcSight
1 2 (14.29%) LogLogic
1 2 (14.29%) Q1 Labs
2 1 (7.143%) Dell