Gloucestershire Information Security Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Information Security (INFOSEC) skills within the Gloucestershire 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 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Security (INFOSEC)
Location Aldershot Andover Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Daresbury Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dumfries and Galloway Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stranraer Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	63
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching permanent IT job ads	41	32
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	3.001 %	4.250 %
Salaries quoted	39	32
Average minimum salary	£58,595	£38,375
Average salary	£60,410	£43,516
% change on same period last year	+38.82 %
Average maximum salary	£62,226	£48,656
UK excluding London average salary	£48,468	£47,514
% change on same period last year	+2.00 %
Processes & Methodologies Gloucestershire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1366	753
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.719 %	0.309 %
Salaries quoted	1148	658
Average minimum salary	£37,075	£35,900
Average salary	£40,372	£38,880
% change on same period last year	+3.83 %
Average maximum salary	£43,670	£41,861
UK excluding London average salary	£42,575	£44,522
% change on same period last year	-4.37 %
Information Security South West

Information Security
Demand Trend

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

Information Security
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Information Security across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

Information Security
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 24 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.

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
Gloucester	-18	17	£61,833	+41.02 %
Cheltenham	-	7	£35,643	-
Tewkesbury	-	1	£40,000	-

Information Security South West

Information Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 31 (47.69 %) Internet 2 29 (44.62 %) Disaster Recovery 3 15 (23.08 %) Government 3 15 (23.08 %) Security Cleared 4 14 (21.54 %) MS Visio 5 12 (18.46 %) Project Management 5 12 (18.46 %) Marketing 6 11 (16.92 %) Configuration Management 6 11 (16.92 %) CISSP 7 10 (15.38 %) Finance 7 10 (15.38 %) Risk Management 7 10 (15.38 %) Firewall 8 8 (12.31 %) Risk Assessment 8 8 (12.31 %) Management Information System 8 8 (12.31 %) Windows

9 7 (10.77 %) CISM 9 7 (10.77 %) Auditing 9 7 (10.77 %) Network Security 10 6 (9.231 %) Risk Analysis 10 6 (9.231 %) ISO27001 10 6 (9.231 %) BT 10 6 (9.231 %) Solaris 10 6 (9.231 %) C 10 6 (9.231 %) C++ 10 6 (9.231 %) Java 10 6 (9.231 %) ITIL 10 6 (9.231 %) UNIX 11 5 (7.692 %) ISO17799 11 5 (7.692 %) Education 11 5 (7.692 %) Penetration Testing

Information Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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.

Applications 1 14 (21.54 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 31 (47.69 %) Internet 2 10 (15.38 %) Firewall 3 7 (10.77 %) Network Security 4 2 (3.077 %) Intrusion Detection 4 2 (3.077 %) SMTP 4 2 (3.077 %) DHCP 4 2 (3.077 %) HTTP 4 2 (3.077 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (3.077 %) VPN 4 2 (3.077 %) SNA 4 2 (3.077 %) DNS 4 2 (3.077 %) SSL
General 1 15 (23.08 %) Government 2 12 (18.46 %) Marketing 3 10 (15.38 %) Finance 4 7 (10.77 %) Auditing 5 5 (7.692 %) Education 6 2 (3.077 %) Telecoms 6 2 (3.077 %) Legal 7 1 (1.538 %) Manufacturing 7 1 (1.538 %) Local Government 7 1 (1.538 %) Health 7 1 (1.538 %) Electronics 7 1 (1.538 %) Aerospace	Job Titles 1 18 (27.69 %) Architect 2 14 (21.54 %) Enterprise Architect 3 9 (13.85 %) Team Leader 4 6 (9.231 %) Consultant 4 6 (9.231 %) Analyst 5 5 (7.692 %) IT Manager 5 5 (7.692 %) Security Consultant 5 5 (7.692 %) Security Manager 6 4 (6.154 %) Lead Architect 6 4 (6.154 %) Lead Technical Architect 6 4 (6.154 %) IT Security Manager 6 4 (6.154 %) Technical Architect 7 3 (4.615 %) Security Engineer 7 3 (4.615 %) Security Specialist 8 2 (3.077 %) Security Technical Consultant 8 2 (3.077 %) IT Security Specialist 8 2 (3.077 %) Pricing Analyst 8 2 (3.077 %) Financial Analyst 8 2 (3.077 %) Information Security Consultant 8 2 (3.077 %) IT Security Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 8 (12.31 %) Management Information System 2 4 (6.154 %) Data Protection Act 3 2 (3.077 %) CESG 3 2 (3.077 %) CESG CLAS 3 2 (3.077 %) RMADS 4 1 (1.538 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 8 (12.31 %) Windows 2 6 (9.231 %) Solaris 2 6 (9.231 %) UNIX 3 2 (3.077 %) Linux 3 2 (3.077 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 29 (44.62 %) Disaster Recovery 2 15 (23.08 %) Security Cleared 3 12 (18.46 %) Project Management 4 11 (16.92 %) Configuration Management 5 10 (15.38 %) Risk Management 6 8 (12.31 %) Risk Assessment 7 6 (9.231 %) Risk Analysis 7 6 (9.231 %) ITIL 8 5 (7.692 %) Penetration Testing 9 4 (6.154 %) Data Protection 9 4 (6.154 %) Security Testing 9 4 (6.154 %) Communications Security 9 4 (6.154 %) Service Management 10 3 (4.615 %) SC Cleared 11 2 (3.077 %) CRAMM 12 1 (1.538 %) GAP Analysis 12 1 (1.538 %) Information Security Management 12 1 (1.538 %) Security Management	Programming Languages 1 6 (9.231 %) C 1 6 (9.231 %) C++ 1 6 (9.231 %) Java
Qualifications 1 11 (16.92 %) CISSP 2 7 (10.77 %) CISM 3 3 (4.615 %) Degree 4 2 (3.077 %) Chartered Engineer 4 2 (3.077 %) SSCP 5 1 (1.538 %) CISA 5 1 (1.538 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (1.538 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (1.538 %) MCSE 5 1 (1.538 %) CCSP 5 1 (1.538 %) CCNA 5 1 (1.538 %) CCDA 5 1 (1.538 %) GIAC	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (9.231 %) ISO27001 2 5 (7.692 %) ISO17799 3 1 (1.538 %) PCI DSS
System Software 1 4 (6.154 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (3.077 %) MOM 1 2 (3.077 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 6 (9.231 %) BT 2 4 (6.154 %) Microsoft 3 2 (3.077 %) Nokia