The first table below looks at the demand for GIAC in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GIAC over the 3 months to 24 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 Qualifications for the Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)
Rank 138 144 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Permanent jobs citing GIAC 2 6 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.081% 0.238% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.261% 0.826% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
Average salary £48,750 £60,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.75% -
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -11.11%
All Qualifications
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
767 726 1062
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 31.12% 28.82% 31.49%
Number of salaries quoted 602 585 881
Average salary £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.03% +3.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £28,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
GIAC
East of England

GIAC
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing GIAC across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Hertfordshire GIAC Jobs Demand Trend

GIAC
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire GIAC Salary Trend

GIAC
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GIAC within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Welwyn Garden City -24 2 £48,750 -
GIAC
East of England

GIAC
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing GIAC 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 GIAC.

1 11 (100.00%) CISSP
1 11 (100.00%) Information Security
1 11 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 8 (72.73%) Vulnerability Management
2 8 (72.73%) Nessus
3 7 (63.64%) CEH
3 7 (63.64%) COBIT
3 7 (63.64%) Security Management
3 7 (63.64%) CISA
3 7 (63.64%) CISM
3 7 (63.64%) Risk Management
4 4 (36.36%) Finance
4 4 (36.36%) Publishing
4 4 (36.36%) Games
4 4 (36.36%) J2EE
4 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
4 4 (36.36%) Retail
4 4 (36.36%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (36.36%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 4 (36.36%) Nmap
4 4 (36.36%) Penetration Testing
4 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (36.36%) Qualys
4 4 (36.36%) Data Protection
5 3 (27.27%) Degree
5 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
5 3 (27.27%) Data Security

GIAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing GIAC 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 GIAC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (36.36%) J2EE
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Publishing
1 4 (36.36%) Games
1 4 (36.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Security Specialist
2 5 (45.45%) Security Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) Analyst
3 4 (36.36%) Information Security Analyst
3 4 (36.36%) Information Analyst
3 4 (36.36%) IT Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
1 4 (36.36%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Information Security
2 8 (72.73%) Vulnerability Management
3 7 (63.64%) Security Management
3 7 (63.64%) Risk Management
4 4 (36.36%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 4 (36.36%) Penetration Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Data Protection
5 3 (27.27%) Data Security
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) CISSP
2 7 (63.64%) CEH
2 7 (63.64%) CISA
2 7 (63.64%) CISM
3 3 (27.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 7 (63.64%) COBIT
3 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Nessus
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Qualys