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This section looks at the demand for Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) in IT jobs within the England region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CISSP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkCertified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank367457
Rank change on same period last yearUp+90
Matching permanent IT job ads823690
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.434 %0.283 %
As % of the category below2.203 %1.469 %
Salaries quoted669572
Average minimum salary£48,281£48,544
Average salary£52,689£53,669
% change on same period last year-1.82 %
Average maximum salary£57,097£58,793
UK excluding London average salary£50,508£51,795
% change on same period last year-2.48 %
England IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
England
Matching permanent IT job ads3735946983
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled19.72 %19.24 %
Salaries quoted3181138304
Average minimum salary£37,589£39,006
Average salary£40,955£42,523
% change on same period last year-3.68 %
Average maximum salary£44,321£46,040
UK excluding London average salary£37,731£38,242
% change on same period last year-1.33 %
CISSP UKCISSP
UK

CISSP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing CISSP across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

England CISSP Demand Trend

CISSP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CISSP across the England region.

England CISSP Salary Trend

CISSP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CISSP across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

England CISSP Salary Histogram

CISSP
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the England 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.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonUp+99333£56,181-1.43 %
South EastUp+22217£50,921-5.18 %
YorkshireUp+3867£41,736-10.08 %
South WestUp+2562£51,320+17.59 %
North WestUp+5354£53,645+13.07 %
East of EnglandUp+2045£58,039+38.43 %
West MidlandsDown-326£51,846-20.90 %
East MidlandsUp+1714£44,438+4.80 %
North EastNew entry-8£36,375-
MidlandsUp+176£41,083-15.00 %
CISSP UKCISSP
UK

CISSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing CISSP 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 CISSP.

1715 (45.48 %)Information Security
2487 (30.98 %)CISM
3468 (29.77 %)Finance
4422 (26.84 %)ISO27001
5366 (23.28 %)CISA
6308 (19.59 %)Firewall
7305 (19.40 %)Risk Management
8252 (16.03 %)ITIL
9203 (12.91 %)Banking
10199 (12.66 %)Degree
11193 (12.28 %)Cisco
12183 (11.64 %)Cisco Certification
13176 (11.20 %)BS7799
14174 (11.07 %)UNIX
14174 (11.07 %)Windows
15162 (10.31 %)Penetration Testing
16160 (10.18 %)Government
17159 (10.11 %)PCI DSS
18149 (9.478 %)Risk Assessment
19138 (8.779 %)Network Security
20126 (8.015 %)Pensions
21124 (7.888 %)Security Management
22117 (7.443 %)CCNA
23112 (7.125 %)CheckPoint
24110 (6.997 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
25109 (6.934 %)VPN
25109 (6.934 %)Auditing
26102 (6.489 %)Microsoft
27100 (6.361 %)Project Management
2887 (5.534 %)Microsoft Certification

CISSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing CISSP 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 CISSP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

England IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
136 (2.290 %).NET
226 (1.654 %)Middleware
315 (0.954 %)WebSphere
410 (0.636 %)JSP
56 (0.382 %)J2EE
63 (0.191 %)ASP.NET
72 (0.127 %)CGI
81 (0.064 %)OLE
81 (0.064 %)Lucene
81 (0.064 %)Servlets
England IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
137 (2.354 %)IIS
218 (1.145 %)Lotus Notes
39 (0.573 %)MS Exchange
47 (0.445 %)Apache
53 (0.191 %)SharePoint
62 (0.127 %)Office Communications Server
62 (0.127 %)Tomcat
62 (0.127 %)JBoss
62 (0.127 %)WebLogic
71 (0.064 %)WebSphere Application Server
71 (0.064 %)Lotus Domino
71 (0.064 %)SAS
71 (0.064 %)WebSphere MQ
71 (0.064 %)LiveLink
71 (0.064 %)Exchange Server 5.5
71 (0.064 %)Exchange Server 2000
71 (0.064 %)Exchange Server 2003
England IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
156 (3.562 %)MS Excel
218 (1.145 %)MS Office
317 (1.081 %)MS Visio
41 (0.064 %)MS PowerPoint
England IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
16 (0.382 %)SAP Oil and Gas
23 (0.191 %)Remedy ITSM
23 (0.191 %)Remedy AR System
England IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1308 (19.59 %)Firewall
2138 (8.779 %)Network Security
3109 (6.934 %)VPN
470 (4.453 %)WAN
569 (4.389 %)TCP/IP
664 (4.071 %)LAN
761 (3.880 %)Internet
761 (3.880 %)NetScreen
761 (3.880 %)Intrusion Detection
857 (3.626 %)SSL
946 (2.926 %)SAN
1042 (2.672 %)Cisco PIX
1136 (2.290 %)VoIP
1223 (1.463 %)DNS
1223 (1.463 %)IPsec
1321 (1.336 %)X.509
1419 (1.209 %)SSH
1419 (1.209 %)HTTP
1517 (1.081 %)MPLS
1517 (1.081 %)H.323
England IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
115 (0.954 %)GIS
214 (0.891 %)SQL Server
37 (0.445 %)DB2
45 (0.318 %)OLTP
53 (0.191 %)Crystal Reports
61 (0.064 %)Oracle Reports
61 (0.064 %)Oracle 8/8i
England IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
117 (1.081 %)Paros
23 (0.191 %)Synon
England IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1468 (29.77 %)Finance
2203 (12.91 %)Banking
3160 (10.18 %)Government
4126 (8.015 %)Pensions
5109 (6.934 %)Auditing
677 (4.898 %)Health
767 (4.262 %)Telecoms
860 (3.817 %)Legal
940 (2.545 %)FMCG
1034 (2.163 %)Retail
1131 (1.972 %)Investment Banking
1131 (1.972 %)Insurance
1227 (1.718 %)Education
1311 (0.700 %)Military
147 (0.445 %)Law
147 (0.445 %)Back Office
156 (0.382 %)Financial Institution
156 (0.382 %)Retail Banking
165 (0.318 %)Construction
165 (0.318 %)Manufacturing
England IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1465 (29.58 %)Consultant
2361 (22.96 %)Security Consultant
3205 (13.04 %)Security Manager
4195 (12.40 %)Analyst
5167 (10.62 %)Security Analyst
6146 (9.288 %)Security Specialist
7112 (7.125 %)Information Security Consultant
893 (5.916 %)IT Manager
990 (5.725 %)Information Manager
1083 (5.280 %)Information Security Manager
1171 (4.517 %)Senior Consultant
1262 (3.944 %)IT Security Manager
1359 (3.753 %)IT Consultant
1455 (3.499 %)Architect
1551 (3.244 %)Security Engineer
1650 (3.181 %)Senior Security Consultant
1747 (2.990 %)IT Security Consultant
1846 (2.926 %)Security Officer
1936 (2.290 %)Information Analyst
2034 (2.163 %)Security Architect
England IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
181 (5.153 %)PKI
279 (5.025 %)Management Information System
357 (3.626 %)RMADS
454 (3.435 %)Cryptography
540 (2.545 %)Data Protection Act
625 (1.590 %)Mainframe
724 (1.527 %)SecurID
820 (1.272 %)Smartcard
919 (1.209 %)Computer Science
1017 (1.081 %)CESG
1116 (1.018 %)Client/Server
1116 (1.018 %)French Language
1214 (0.891 %)German Language
1313 (0.827 %)CESG CLAS
1412 (0.763 %)Spanish Language
157 (0.445 %)Video Conferencing
157 (0.445 %)Russian Language
166 (0.382 %)Italian Language
175 (0.318 %)Biometrics
184 (0.254 %)Equities
England IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1174 (11.07 %)UNIX
1174 (11.07 %)Windows
276 (4.835 %)Linux
346 (2.926 %)Solaris
426 (1.654 %)Windows 2000
524 (1.527 %)AIX
615 (0.954 %)Windows NT
79 (0.573 %)Windows Server 2003
84 (0.254 %)Windows XP
93 (0.191 %)HPUX
101 (0.064 %)OpenVMS
101 (0.064 %)OS/400
England IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1715 (45.48 %)Information Security
2305 (19.40 %)Risk Management
3252 (16.03 %)ITIL
4162 (10.31 %)Penetration Testing
5149 (9.478 %)Risk Assessment
6124 (7.888 %)Security Management
7100 (6.361 %)Project Management
875 (4.771 %)Security Cleared
974 (4.707 %)PRINCE2
1073 (4.644 %)Disaster Recovery
1171 (4.517 %)Data Protection
1270 (4.453 %)Business Continuity
1366 (4.198 %)Risk Analysis
1464 (4.071 %)Data Security
1563 (4.008 %)Vulnerability Assessment
1640 (2.545 %)ISMS
1739 (2.481 %)SC Cleared
1739 (2.481 %)Service Management
1836 (2.290 %)Service Delivery
1836 (2.290 %)Information Security Management
England IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
159 (3.753 %)C
241 (2.608 %)Java
337 (2.354 %)C++
422 (1.399 %)JCL
422 (1.399 %)Perl
521 (1.336 %)SQL
614 (0.891 %)Python
710 (0.636 %)C#
86 (0.382 %)PHP
86 (0.382 %)PL/SQL
86 (0.382 %)VB.NET
94 (0.254 %)VB
103 (0.191 %)JavaScript
103 (0.191 %)Shell Script
England IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1487 (30.98 %)CISM
2366 (23.28 %)CISA
3199 (12.66 %)Degree
4183 (11.64 %)Cisco Certification
5117 (7.443 %)CCNA
687 (5.534 %)Microsoft Certification
782 (5.216 %)MCSE
867 (4.262 %)CEH
964 (4.071 %)CCNP
1060 (3.817 %)CCSE
1159 (3.753 %)CCSA
1250 (3.181 %)CCSP
1250 (3.181 %)CISMP
1341 (2.608 %)ISEB
1436 (2.290 %)GIAC
1535 (2.226 %)CCIE
1632 (2.036 %)QiCA
1632 (2.036 %)ITIL Certification
1731 (1.972 %)SSCP
1823 (1.463 %)CCDP
England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1422 (26.84 %)ISO27001
2176 (11.20 %)BS7799
3159 (10.11 %)PCI DSS
4110 (6.997 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
584 (5.344 %)COBIT
665 (4.135 %)ISO17799
739 (2.481 %)PCI QSA
822 (1.399 %)BS25999
822 (1.399 %)QA
914 (0.891 %)JSP 440
1013 (0.827 %)HMG Infosec
1111 (0.700 %)SLA
124 (0.254 %)CESG Infosec
133 (0.191 %)Basel II
133 (0.191 %)ISO9000
141 (0.064 %)BS15000
England IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
125 (1.590 %)Active Directory
221 (1.336 %)RACF
319 (1.209 %)Nmap
45 (0.318 %)ISA Server
53 (0.191 %)VMware Infrastructure
53 (0.191 %)Snort
61 (0.064 %)MetaFrame
61 (0.064 %)Citrix Presentation Server
England IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
124 (1.527 %)Nessus
210 (0.636 %)MOM
36 (0.382 %)MIMEsweeper
45 (0.318 %)MAILsweeper
45 (0.318 %)WSUS
52 (0.127 %)EMC NetWorker
52 (0.127 %)Nagios
52 (0.127 %)MIIS
61 (0.064 %)Legato
England IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1193 (12.28 %)Cisco
2112 (7.125 %)CheckPoint
3102 (6.489 %)Microsoft
480 (5.089 %)Oracle
567 (4.262 %)Juniper
638 (2.417 %)Nokia
735 (2.226 %)IBM
735 (2.226 %)SAP
829 (1.845 %)Blue Coat
923 (1.463 %)Sun
1021 (1.336 %)HP
1118 (1.145 %)Lotus
1216 (1.018 %)Symantec
1315 (0.954 %)Crossbeam
1414 (0.891 %)EMC
1512 (0.763 %)Siebel
1611 (0.700 %)Websense
1710 (0.636 %)McAfee Security
187 (0.445 %)Nortel
187 (0.445 %)Citrix
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