The first table below looks at the demand for Information Security skills in IT jobs advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Information Security over the 3 months to 17 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 Halifax region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Security (INFOSEC)
Rank - - 21
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 0 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax - - 0.901%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 1.282%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.38%
All Processes & Methodologies
Halifax
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
115 148 78
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax 71.88% 73.27% 70.27%
Number of salaries quoted 79 125 57
Average salary £32,500 £33,325 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.47% -11.13%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Information Security
West Yorkshire

Information Security
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax Information Security Salary Trend

Information Security
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) VB6
2 1 (50.00%) ASP
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) HPUX
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET

Information Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) IT Security Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) HPUX
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VB
1 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (50.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle