The first table below looks at the demand for Information Security skills in IT jobs advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Information Security 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Luton region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Security (INFOSEC)
Rank 46 42 24
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -18
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 4 7 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 1.047% 1.804% 4.762%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.290% 3.084% 5.340%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 11
Average salary £44,500 £53,750 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.20% +53.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,100 £42,250 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,900 £70,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.38%
All Processes & Methodologies
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
310 227 206
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 81.15% 58.51% 89.18%
Number of salaries quoted 269 188 180
Average salary £46,250 £46,500 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.53% +5.68%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Information Security
Bedfordshire

Information Security
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton Information Security Salary Trend

Information Security
Salary Histogram

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

Luton Information Security Salary Histogram

Information Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 7 (53.85%) Project Management
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Earned Value Management
3 3 (23.08%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
4 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Advertising
4 2 (15.38%) Security Management
4 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (7.692%) Degree
5 1 (7.692%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (7.692%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.692%) ISMS
5 1 (7.692%) Management Information System
5 1 (7.692%) CISA
5 1 (7.692%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (7.692%) Asset Management
5 1 (7.692%) Nessus
5 1 (7.692%) Firewall
5 1 (7.692%) Information Security Management
5 1 (7.692%) Data Security
5 1 (7.692%) ITIL
5 1 (7.692%) PRINCE2
5 1 (7.692%) UNIX
5 1 (7.692%) Windows
5 1 (7.692%) Linux
5 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
5 1 (7.692%) ISO/IEC 17799
5 1 (7.692%) DHCP

Information Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) Firewall
1 1 (7.692%) DHCP
1 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.692%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Metasploit
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Security Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Network Administrator
3 1 (7.692%) Security Specialist
3 1 (7.692%) Test Consultant
3 1 (7.692%) Information Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Security Administrator
3 1 (7.692%) Server Administrator
3 1 (7.692%) Consultant
3 1 (7.692%) Security Consultant
3 1 (7.692%) Penetration Test Consultant
3 1 (7.692%) IT Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.692%) Computer Science
1 1 (7.692%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) UNIX
1 1 (7.692%) Windows
1 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Project Management
2 6 (46.15%) Earned Value Management
3 3 (23.08%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
4 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Security Management
5 1 (7.692%) ISMS
5 1 (7.692%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (7.692%) Asset Management
5 1 (7.692%) Information Security Management
5 1 (7.692%) Data Security
5 1 (7.692%) ITIL
5 1 (7.692%) PRINCE2
5 1 (7.692%) Data Architecture
5 1 (7.692%) OWASP
5 1 (7.692%) ITIL V3
5 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Management
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.692%) Degree
2 1 (7.692%) CISA
2 1 (7.692%) CISSP
2 1 (7.692%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.692%) ISO/IEC 17799
2 1 (7.692%) SLA
2 1 (7.692%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) Nessus
1 1 (7.692%) CORE IMPACT
Vendors
1 1 (7.692%) Cisco
1 1 (7.692%) Microsoft