England Information Security Consultant Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Information Security Consultant role in IT jobs within the England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Information Security Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Security Consultant
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Cheltenham City of London East Midlands East of England England Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton Middlesex North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Reading Rickmansworth Somerset South East South West Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon UK Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	817	929
Rank change on same period last year	+112
Matching permanent IT job ads	80	61
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.043 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	0.050 %	0.029 %
Salaries quoted	64	59
Average minimum salary	£45,697	£44,407
Average salary	£50,174	£48,568
% change on same period last year	+3.30 %
Average maximum salary	£54,652	£52,729
UK excluding London average salary	£49,562	£46,387
% change on same period last year	+6.84 %
Job Titles England
Matching permanent IT job ads	159951	208751
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	86.08 %	87.03 %
Salaries quoted	133102	167766
Average minimum salary	£38,946	£40,649
Average salary	£42,570	£44,406
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
Average maximum salary	£46,195	£48,162
UK excluding London average salary	£38,072	£39,428
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Information Security Consultant across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Information Security Consultant across the England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security Consultant within the England region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
London	+76	31	£51,875	+4.42 %
South East	+63	25	£45,000	-12.19 %
Yorkshire	-	14	£62,115	-
South West	-15	5	£46,600	+20.25 %
East Midlands	+10	3	£36,750	+5.00 %
West Midlands	+3	2	£40,000	-17.94 %
East of England	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the England region that cited Information Security Consultant in their job title 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 with Information Security Consultant in their job title.

1 193 (96.50 %) Information Security 2 116 (58.00 %) CISSP 3 91 (45.50 %) ISO27001 4 55 (27.50 %) PCI DSS 5 51 (25.50 %) CISM 6 48 (24.00 %) CISA 7 47 (23.50 %) Government 8 42 (21.00 %) BS7799 9 39 (19.50 %) Finance 10 28 (14.00 %) Legal 10 28 (14.00 %) Firewall 11 26 (13.00 %) Risk Management 12 25 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 13 23 (11.50 %) Risk Assessment 14 22 (11.00 %) Banking

15 21 (10.50 %) Degree 16 19 (9.500 %) Project Management 17 18 (9.000 %) PRINCE2 17 18 (9.000 %) CISMP 18 17 (8.500 %) PKI 18 17 (8.500 %) QA 18 17 (8.500 %) SOA 18 17 (8.500 %) VoIP 18 17 (8.500 %) Identity Management 19 15 (7.500 %) Pensions 20 14 (7.000 %) Investment Banking 21 13 (6.500 %) Management Information System 21 13 (6.500 %) Health 21 13 (6.500 %) Auditing 21 13 (6.500 %) French Language

Information Security Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the England region that cited Information Security Consultant in their job title 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 with Information Security Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (2.500 %) JSP 2 3 (1.500 %) .NET 2 3 (1.500 %) ASP 3 1 (0.500 %) Adobe Flex	Application Platforms 1 1 (0.500 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (0.500 %) MS Project 1 1 (0.500 %) MS Excel 1 1 (0.500 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 28 (14.00 %) Firewall 2 17 (8.500 %) VoIP 3 10 (5.000 %) Network Security 4 5 (2.500 %) Internet 5 4 (2.000 %) SAN 6 3 (1.500 %) VPN 7 1 (0.500 %) SSL 7 1 (0.500 %) WAN 7 1 (0.500 %) HTTP 7 1 (0.500 %) Intranet 7 1 (0.500 %) MPLS 7 1 (0.500 %) LAN 7 1 (0.500 %) IPsec 7 1 (0.500 %) VLAN 7 1 (0.500 %) Cisco PIX
General 1 47 (23.50 %) Government 2 39 (19.50 %) Finance 3 28 (14.00 %) Legal 4 22 (11.00 %) Banking 5 15 (7.500 %) Pensions 6 14 (7.000 %) Investment Banking 7 13 (6.500 %) Auditing 7 13 (6.500 %) Health 8 7 (3.500 %) Insurance 9 3 (1.500 %) Retail 9 3 (1.500 %) Corporate Banking 10 2 (1.000 %) Education 10 2 (1.000 %) Telecoms 11 1 (0.500 %) Financial Institution 11 1 (0.500 %) Law 11 1 (0.500 %) Military	Miscellaneous 1 17 (8.500 %) PKI 2 13 (6.500 %) Management Information System 2 13 (6.500 %) French Language 3 2 (1.000 %) German Language 3 2 (1.000 %) CESG 3 2 (1.000 %) CESG CLAS 3 2 (1.000 %) Data Protection Act 3 2 (1.000 %) Spanish Language 3 2 (1.000 %) Mainframe 4 1 (0.500 %) RMADS 4 1 (0.500 %) Freedom of Information Act 4 1 (0.500 %) Freedom of Information 4 1 (0.500 %) Greek Language 4 1 (0.500 %) Italian Language 4 1 (0.500 %) Polish Language 4 1 (0.500 %) Russian Language
Operating Systems 1 3 (1.500 %) Windows 2 2 (1.000 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 193 (96.50 %) Information Security 2 26 (13.00 %) Risk Management 3 25 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 4 23 (11.50 %) Risk Assessment 5 19 (9.500 %) Project Management 6 18 (9.000 %) PRINCE2 7 17 (8.500 %) SOA 7 17 (8.500 %) Identity Management 8 13 (6.500 %) Risk Analysis 9 11 (5.500 %) Penetration Testing 10 8 (4.000 %) Security Management 10 8 (4.000 %) GAP Analysis 10 8 (4.000 %) Security Testing 11 5 (2.500 %) Data Security 12 4 (2.000 %) Information Security Management 12 4 (2.000 %) Matrix Management 13 3 (1.500 %) Strategic Management 13 3 (1.500 %) ISMS 13 3 (1.500 %) Data Management 13 3 (1.500 %) Benchmarking
Programming Languages 1 3 (1.500 %) JavaScript 1 3 (1.500 %) PHP 2 1 (0.500 %) SQL 2 1 (0.500 %) C	Qualifications 1 116 (58.00 %) CISSP 2 51 (25.50 %) CISM 3 48 (24.00 %) CISA 4 21 (10.50 %) Degree 5 18 (9.000 %) CISMP 6 11 (5.500 %) Cisco Certification 6 11 (5.500 %) Microsoft Certification 6 11 (5.500 %) MCSE 6 11 (5.500 %) CCNA 7 5 (2.500 %) CEH 8 4 (2.000 %) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 91 (45.50 %) ISO27001 2 55 (27.50 %) PCI DSS 3 42 (21.00 %) BS7799 4 17 (8.500 %) QA 5 12 (6.000 %) ISO17799 6 5 (2.500 %) HMG Infosec 6 5 (2.500 %) JSP 440 7 2 (1.000 %) COBIT 7 2 (1.000 %) ISO9000 7 2 (1.000 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 8 1 (0.500 %) MiFID	Vendors 1 4 (2.000 %) Microsoft 1 4 (2.000 %) Oracle 2 3 (1.500 %) Cisco 3 1 (0.500 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (0.500 %) Remedy 3 1 (0.500 %) BT