Glasgow Information Security Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Information Security (INFOSEC) skills within the Glasgow 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Security (INFOSEC)
Location Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	72
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching permanent IT job ads	7	27
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	0.855 %	2.657 %
Salaries quoted	6	9
Average minimum salary	£56,667	£40,000
Average salary	£67,292	£42,500
% change on same period last year	+58.33 %
Average maximum salary	£77,917	£45,000
UK excluding London average salary	£47,490	£48,277
% change on same period last year	-1.63 %
Processes & Methodologies Glasgow
Matching permanent IT job ads	819	1016
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.453 %	0.426 %
Salaries quoted	600	609
Average minimum salary	£38,742	£34,424
Average salary	£42,233	£36,975
% change on same period last year	+14.22 %
Average maximum salary	£45,724	£39,525
UK excluding London average salary	£42,540	£44,374
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
Information Security Scotland

Information Security
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Information Security across the Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Information Security
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Information Security across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

Information Security
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 6 (85.71 %) Finance 2 5 (71.43 %) CISSP 2 5 (71.43 %) CISM 2 5 (71.43 %) Risk Management 3 1 (14.29 %) UNIX 3 1 (14.29 %) Windows 3 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft 3 1 (14.29 %) EPoS 3 1 (14.29 %) Internet 3 1 (14.29 %) Legal 3 1 (14.29 %) Retail 3 1 (14.29 %) Computer Forensics

Information Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (14.29 %) Internet	General 1 6 (85.71 %) Finance 2 1 (14.29 %) Legal 2 1 (14.29 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 1 (14.29 %) Field Service Engineer 1 1 (14.29 %) Field Engineer 1 1 (14.29 %) Security Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 1 (14.29 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 1 (14.29 %) UNIX 1 1 (14.29 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (71.43 %) Risk Management 2 1 (14.29 %) Computer Forensics
Qualifications 1 5 (71.43 %) CISSP 1 5 (71.43 %) CISM	Vendors 1 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft