Reading Information Security Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Information Security (INFOSEC) skills within the Reading 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 8 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Security (INFOSEC)
Location Aldershot Andover Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire 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 Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	100	109
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching permanent IT job ads	38	51
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	2.522 %	2.411 %
Salaries quoted	38	33
Average minimum salary	£52,474	£52,909
Average salary	£56,289	£55,788
% change on same period last year	+0.89 %
Average maximum salary	£60,105	£58,667
UK excluding London average salary	£48,462	£47,889
% change on same period last year	+1.19 %
Processes & Methodologies Reading
Matching permanent IT job ads	1507	2115
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.794 %	0.865 %
Salaries quoted	1233	1537
Average minimum salary	£40,557	£42,378
Average salary	£44,653	£45,551
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Average maximum salary	£48,750	£48,724
UK excluding London average salary	£42,501	£44,488
% change on same period last year	-4.46 %
Information Security Berkshire

Information Security
Demand Trend

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

Information Security
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Information Security across the Reading region over the 3 months to 8 August 2008.

Information Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 August 2008, IT jobs across the Reading 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 26 (53.06 %) CISA 1 26 (53.06 %) CISM 2 24 (48.98 %) CISSP 3 23 (46.94 %) ITIL 4 21 (42.86 %) Risk Management 4 21 (42.86 %) Finance 5 19 (38.78 %) Change Management 5 19 (38.78 %) Six Sigma 6 12 (24.49 %) Network Security 7 8 (16.33 %) Firewall 7 8 (16.33 %) Network Security Management 7 8 (16.33 %) Security Management 8 7 (14.29 %) Government 9 5 (10.20 %) Penetration Testing 9 5 (10.20 %) Military

10 4 (8.163 %) Management Information System 10 4 (8.163 %) Linux 10 4 (8.163 %) Auditing 11 3 (6.122 %) Business Development 11 3 (6.122 %) Degree 11 3 (6.122 %) Windows Vista 11 3 (6.122 %) Windows XP 11 3 (6.122 %) Windows 11 3 (6.122 %) MOM 11 3 (6.122 %) DRM 11 3 (6.122 %) Mac OS X 11 3 (6.122 %) Vulnerability Assessment 12 2 (4.082 %) Service Delivery 12 2 (4.082 %) Information Security Management 12 2 (4.082 %) Risk Assessment

Information Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 August 2008, IT jobs across the Reading 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 (2.041 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 12 (24.49 %) Network Security 2 8 (16.33 %) Firewall 3 1 (2.041 %) Intrusion Detection 3 1 (2.041 %) LAN 3 1 (2.041 %) WAN 3 1 (2.041 %) TCP/IP
General 1 21 (42.86 %) Finance 2 7 (14.29 %) Government 3 5 (10.20 %) Military 4 4 (8.163 %) Auditing 5 1 (2.041 %) Retail 5 1 (2.041 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 11 (22.45 %) Consultant 1 11 (22.45 %) Security Officer 2 8 (16.33 %) Security Manager 3 7 (14.29 %) Security Consultant 3 7 (14.29 %) Analyst 3 7 (14.29 %) Security Analyst 4 6 (12.24 %) Security Investigator 4 6 (12.24 %) IT Security Officer 5 4 (8.163 %) Technical Support 6 3 (6.122 %) Technical Consultant 6 3 (6.122 %) Sales Director 7 2 (4.082 %) Senior Security Analyst 7 2 (4.082 %) Senior Analyst 8 1 (2.041 %) Field Engineer 8 1 (2.041 %) Field Service Engineer 8 1 (2.041 %) Development Manager 8 1 (2.041 %) Business Development Manager 8 1 (2.041 %) Team Leader 8 1 (2.041 %) Network Manager 8 1 (2.041 %) Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (8.163 %) Management Information System 2 1 (2.041 %) PKI 2 1 (2.041 %) Computer Science 2 1 (2.041 %) RMADS 2 1 (2.041 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 4 (8.163 %) Linux 2 3 (6.122 %) Windows XP 2 3 (6.122 %) Mac OS X 2 3 (6.122 %) Windows Vista 2 3 (6.122 %) Windows 3 2 (4.082 %) UNIX 4 1 (2.041 %) AIX 4 1 (2.041 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (46.94 %) ITIL 2 21 (42.86 %) Risk Management 3 19 (38.78 %) Change Management 3 19 (38.78 %) Six Sigma 4 8 (16.33 %) Network Security Management 4 8 (16.33 %) Security Management 5 5 (10.20 %) Penetration Testing 6 3 (6.122 %) Business Development 6 3 (6.122 %) Vulnerability Assessment 6 3 (6.122 %) DRM 7 2 (4.082 %) Project Management 7 2 (4.082 %) Service Delivery 7 2 (4.082 %) Information Security Management 7 2 (4.082 %) Risk Assessment 8 1 (2.041 %) Computer Forensics 8 1 (2.041 %) Problem Management 8 1 (2.041 %) Security Testing 8 1 (2.041 %) DV Cleared 8 1 (2.041 %) Security Cleared	Qualifications 1 26 (53.06 %) CISA 1 26 (53.06 %) CISM 2 24 (48.98 %) CISSP 3 3 (6.122 %) Degree 4 2 (4.082 %) CEH 5 1 (2.041 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (2.041 %) ITIL Certification 5 1 (2.041 %) HNC 5 1 (2.041 %) HND 5 1 (2.041 %) CCNP 5 1 (2.041 %) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.082 %) ISO17799 1 2 (4.082 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 2 (4.082 %) COBIT 1 2 (4.082 %) HIPAA	Systems Management 1 3 (6.122 %) MOM
Vendors 1 1 (2.041 %) Cisco 1 1 (2.041 %) IBM 1 1 (2.041 %) Microsoft 1 1 (2.041 %) Sun