The first table below looks at the demand for Snort skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Snort over the 3 months to 21 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 System Software category for the London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sourcefire Snort
Rank 578 606 613
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +7
Permanent jobs citing Snort 29 32 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.066% 0.059% 0.019%
As % of the System Software category 0.714% 0.714% 0.293%
Number of salaries quoted 22 32 10
Average salary £57,750 £75,000 £27,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.00% +175.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £49,250 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £74,500 £80,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £39,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-4.45% -17.36%
All System Software
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4063 4480 3753
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 9.241% 8.317% 6.599%
Number of salaries quoted 3475 3937 3066
Average salary £46,500 £45,000 £43,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.33% +4.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £29,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,946 £39,000 £37,875
% change year-on-year
-0.13% +2.97%
Snort
England

Snort
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Snort across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

London Snort Jobs Demand Trend

Snort
Salary Trend

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

London Snort Salary Trend

Snort
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Snort across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London Snort Salary Histogram

Snort
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Snort within the London region over the 3 months to 21 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
City of London +9 6 £46,250 -38.33%
Canary Wharf -2 3 - -
Snort
England

Snort
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing Snort 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 Snort.

1 24 (50.00%) Firewall
2 21 (43.75%) Network Security
2 21 (43.75%) Windows
3 20 (41.67%) Linux
3 20 (41.67%) Information Security
4 19 (39.58%) Degree
5 17 (35.42%) UNIX
5 17 (35.42%) CISSP
6 15 (31.25%) Perl
6 15 (31.25%) Intrusion Detection
6 15 (31.25%) Management Information System
7 13 (27.08%) TCP/IP
8 12 (25.00%) Wireless
9 11 (22.92%) Law
9 11 (22.92%) IronPort
9 11 (22.92%) Symantec
9 11 (22.92%) McAfee
9 11 (22.92%) Websense
10 10 (20.83%) Wireless Security
10 10 (20.83%) Network Design
11 9 (18.75%) Sourcefire
11 9 (18.75%) Tripwire
11 9 (18.75%) Incident Management
11 9 (18.75%) Norton AntiVirus
11 9 (18.75%) Internet
11 9 (18.75%) Cisco
12 8 (16.67%) C
12 8 (16.67%) CEH
12 8 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 8 (16.67%) VMware

Snort
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing Snort 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 Snort. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (8.333%) Web Services
2 1 (2.083%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.083%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.167%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (4.167%) Apache
1 2 (4.167%) IIS
1 2 (4.167%) Office Communications Server
1 2 (4.167%) Lync
2 1 (2.083%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.083%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.083%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.083%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 24 (50.00%) Firewall
2 21 (43.75%) Network Security
3 15 (31.25%) Intrusion Detection
4 13 (27.08%) TCP/IP
5 12 (25.00%) Wireless
6 10 (20.83%) Wireless Security
7 9 (18.75%) Internet
8 6 (12.50%) SAN
8 6 (12.50%) Intranet
9 5 (10.42%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (10.42%) Wireshark
9 5 (10.42%) LDAP
10 4 (8.333%) BSS
10 4 (8.333%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (6.250%) SSL
12 2 (4.167%) NetScreen
12 2 (4.167%) H.323
12 2 (4.167%) VRRP
12 2 (4.167%) MPLS
12 2 (4.167%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.333%) MySQL
2 1 (2.083%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (22.92%) Law
2 7 (14.58%) Finance
3 5 (10.42%) Legal
4 4 (8.333%) Banking
5 2 (4.167%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.083%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.083%) Advertising
6 1 (2.083%) Games
Job Titles
1 23 (47.92%) Security Engineer
2 15 (31.25%) Analyst
3 13 (27.08%) Security Analyst
4 10 (20.83%) Information Analyst
4 10 (20.83%) Information Security Analyst
5 8 (16.67%) Information Security Engineer
5 8 (16.67%) Pre Sales Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Network Engineer
7 4 (8.333%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (6.250%) OSS Engineer
8 3 (6.250%) Network Security Engineer
9 2 (4.167%) Security Consultant
9 2 (4.167%) Consultant
9 2 (4.167%) Network Analyst
9 2 (4.167%) Senior Network Engineer
9 2 (4.167%) Network Security Analyst
10 1 (2.083%) IT Security Engineer
10 1 (2.083%) Linux Engineer
10 1 (2.083%) Provisioning Engineer
10 1 (2.083%) Trainee
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.25%) Management Information System
2 6 (12.50%) PKI
3 2 (4.167%) Blackberry
3 2 (4.167%) Clustering
3 2 (4.167%) Derivative
3 2 (4.167%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (4.167%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (4.167%) iPad
3 2 (4.167%) iPhone
4 1 (2.083%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 21 (43.75%) Windows
2 20 (41.67%) Linux
3 17 (35.42%) UNIX
4 2 (4.167%) MVS
4 2 (4.167%) Windows XP
4 2 (4.167%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (41.67%) Information Security
2 10 (20.83%) Network Design
3 9 (18.75%) Incident Management
4 8 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 8 (16.67%) SIEM
5 6 (12.50%) ITIL
5 6 (12.50%) Information Management
5 6 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (10.42%) Database Security
6 5 (10.42%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (8.333%) Risk Management
7 4 (8.333%) Change Management
8 3 (6.250%) Reverse Engineering
8 3 (6.250%) Cyber Security
8 3 (6.250%) Project Management
9 2 (4.167%) PRINCE2
9 2 (4.167%) Data Security
9 2 (4.167%) Computer Security
9 2 (4.167%) Network Architecture
10 1 (2.083%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.25%) Perl
2 8 (16.67%) C
3 6 (12.50%) PHP
3 6 (12.50%) SQL
3 6 (12.50%) Python
4 5 (10.42%) Ruby
5 1 (2.083%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.083%) Java
5 1 (2.083%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (39.58%) Degree
2 17 (35.42%) CISSP
3 8 (16.67%) CEH
3 8 (16.67%) CISM
4 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
5 3 (6.250%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.250%) GCIA
5 3 (6.250%) GCIH
5 3 (6.250%) GCFA
5 3 (6.250%) GIAC
6 2 (4.167%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.167%) CCNP
6 2 (4.167%) CISA
7 1 (2.083%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.083%) EnCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (14.58%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.333%) vSphere
4 2 (4.167%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Norton AntiVirus
2 6 (12.50%) Nessus
3 5 (10.42%) Splunk
3 5 (10.42%) Puppet
4 2 (4.167%) Nagios
4 2 (4.167%) CiscoWorks
4 2 (4.167%) Cisco UCCX
4 2 (4.167%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (2.083%) Cacti
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) IronPort
1 11 (22.92%) Symantec
1 11 (22.92%) McAfee
1 11 (22.92%) Websense
2 9 (18.75%) Sourcefire
2 9 (18.75%) Tripwire
2 9 (18.75%) Cisco
3 8 (16.67%) VMware
4 6 (12.50%) Sophos
5 4 (8.333%) CheckPoint
6 3 (6.250%) Oracle
6 3 (6.250%) Microsoft
6 3 (6.250%) Juniper
7 2 (4.167%) IBM
7 2 (4.167%) Citrix
7 2 (4.167%) Brocade
7 2 (4.167%) Qualys
7 2 (4.167%) Polycom
7 2 (4.167%) Tandberg
7 2 (4.167%) Riverbed
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