The first table below looks at the demand for Information Security skills in IT jobs advertised for the Farnborough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Information Security over the 3 months to 20 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 Farnborough region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Security (INFOSEC)
Rank 14 11 28
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +17
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 25 29 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 13.81% 12.61% 0.840%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.45% 17.06% 0.990%
Number of salaries quoted 25 28 1
Average salary £60,000 £53,750 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.62% +19.44%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.38%
All Processes & Methodologies
Farnborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
152 170 101
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 83.98% 73.91% 84.87%
Number of salaries quoted 137 158 100
Average salary £42,500 £43,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.29% +8.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £34,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £69,000 £53,250 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Information Security
Hampshire

Information Security
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Farnborough Information Security Jobs Demand Trend

Information Security
Salary Trend

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

Farnborough Information Security Salary Trend

Information Security
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Information Security across the Farnborough region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Farnborough Information Security Salary Histogram

Information Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 24 (53.33%) CISSP
2 21 (46.67%) Degree
3 17 (37.78%) CISM
4 16 (35.56%) Management Information System
5 14 (31.11%) Finance
6 12 (26.67%) Business Continuity
6 12 (26.67%) Security Management
6 12 (26.67%) MySQL
6 12 (26.67%) Linux
6 12 (26.67%) QA
6 12 (26.67%) Information Assurance
7 11 (24.44%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (20.00%) PCI DSS
9 9 (20.00%) CISA
10 8 (17.78%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 7 (15.56%) Scrum
11 7 (15.56%) Extreme Programming
11 7 (15.56%) Risk Management
11 7 (15.56%) PHP
11 7 (15.56%) SQL
11 7 (15.56%) CentOS
11 7 (15.56%) Vulnerability Management
11 7 (15.56%) Software Testing
11 7 (15.56%) Test Scripting
12 6 (13.33%) Perl
12 6 (13.33%) UNIX
12 6 (13.33%) ISEB
12 6 (13.33%) Penetration Testing
13 5 (11.11%) Cryptography

Information Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 Development
1 1 (2.222%) XML
1 1 (2.222%) DOM
1 1 (2.222%) LAMP
1 1 (2.222%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (2.222%) Kohana
1 1 (2.222%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.444%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.889%) VoIP
1 4 (8.889%) WAN
1 4 (8.889%) TCP/IP
1 4 (8.889%) DNS
2 3 (6.667%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (4.444%) Firewall
4 1 (2.222%) Internet
4 1 (2.222%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.67%) MySQL
General
1 14 (31.11%) Finance
2 3 (6.667%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Information Manager
1 16 (35.56%) Information Security Manager
1 16 (35.56%) Security Manager
2 9 (20.00%) IT Security Manager
3 7 (15.56%) QA Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Forensic Investigator
5 4 (8.889%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 4 (8.889%) IT Security Analyst
5 4 (8.889%) Security Engineer
5 4 (8.889%) Analyst
5 4 (8.889%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.889%) Security Analyst
6 3 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (6.667%) Administrator
6 3 (6.667%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (6.667%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 2 (4.444%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.444%) IT Project Manager
8 1 (2.222%) Information Analyst
8 1 (2.222%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (35.56%) Management Information System
2 5 (11.11%) Cryptography
2 5 (11.11%) SCADA
2 5 (11.11%) Mathematics
2 5 (11.11%) iPhone
2 5 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (4.444%) RMADS
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.67%) Linux
2 7 (15.56%) CentOS
3 6 (13.33%) UNIX
4 5 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.67%) Security Management
1 12 (26.67%) Business Continuity
1 12 (26.67%) Information Assurance
2 11 (24.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (17.78%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 7 (15.56%) Software Testing
4 7 (15.56%) Risk Management
4 7 (15.56%) Scrum
4 7 (15.56%) Extreme Programming
4 7 (15.56%) Test Scripting
4 7 (15.56%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (13.33%) Penetration Testing
6 5 (11.11%) Database Security
6 5 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 5 (11.11%) Reverse Engineering
7 3 (6.667%) Security Architecture
7 3 (6.667%) Change Management
7 3 (6.667%) ISMS
7 3 (6.667%) Information Security Management
7 3 (6.667%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) PHP
1 7 (15.56%) SQL
2 6 (13.33%) Perl
3 5 (11.11%) C#
3 5 (11.11%) C++
3 5 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (2.222%) XPath
4 1 (2.222%) PHP5
4 1 (2.222%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 24 (53.33%) CISSP
2 21 (46.67%) Degree
3 17 (37.78%) CISM
4 9 (20.00%) CISA
5 6 (13.33%) ISEB
6 4 (8.889%) CISMP
7 3 (6.667%) Security Cleared
7 3 (6.667%) Security+ Certification
7 3 (6.667%) CEH
8 2 (4.444%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (2.222%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (2.222%) CCNP
9 1 (2.222%) CCNA
9 1 (2.222%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (26.67%) QA
2 10 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (20.00%) PCI DSS
4 4 (8.889%) BS25999