The first table below looks at the demand for the Security Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Security Specialist in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Reading region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Specialist
Rank 127 131 83
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Specialist 5 2 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.237% 0.089% 1.665%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.250% 0.093% 1.781%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 30
Average salary £40,000 £72,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-44.82% +52.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,000 £72,500 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £58,000 £72,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-13.63% +10.00%
All Job Titles
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1998 2150 1741
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 94.87% 95.17% 93.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1633 1856 1398
Average salary £42,500 £41,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.65% -3.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Security Specialist
Berkshire

Security Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Security Specialist across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Reading Security Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Security Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Reading Security Specialist Salary Trend

Security Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Security Specialist across the Reading region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Reading Security Specialist Salary Histogram

Security Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region that cited Security Specialist in their job title 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 with Security Specialist in their job title.

1 8 (44.44%) Finance
1 8 (44.44%) COBIT
2 7 (38.89%) Data Protection
2 7 (38.89%) Information Security
2 7 (38.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (33.33%) Information Management
3 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (33.33%) Firewall
3 6 (33.33%) Information Security Management
3 6 (33.33%) Security Management
3 6 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 6 (33.33%) Network Security
3 6 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (27.78%) SIEM
4 5 (27.78%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) Juniper
5 3 (16.67%) CheckPoint
5 3 (16.67%) PCI DSS
6 2 (11.11%) Junos
6 2 (11.11%) DHCP
6 2 (11.11%) SNMP
6 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
6 2 (11.11%) VPN
6 2 (11.11%) DNS
6 2 (11.11%) CCSA
6 2 (11.11%) Banking
6 2 (11.11%) Blue Coat
6 2 (11.11%) CCSE
6 2 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection

Security Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region that cited Security Specialist in their job title 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 with Security Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Firewall
1 6 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (11.11%) Junos
2 2 (11.11%) DHCP
2 2 (11.11%) SNMP
2 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) VPN
2 2 (11.11%) DNS
2 2 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.556%) Wireless
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 6 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Information Security
1 7 (38.89%) Data Protection
2 6 (33.33%) Information Management
2 6 (33.33%) Information Security Management
2 6 (33.33%) Security Management
2 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (27.78%) ITIL
3 5 (27.78%) SIEM
4 1 (5.556%) B2B
4 1 (5.556%) Business Development
4 1 (5.556%) Business Continuity
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) CCSA
1 2 (11.11%) CCSE
1 2 (11.11%) JNCIA
1 2 (11.11%) JNCIS
2 1 (5.556%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) COBIT
2 7 (38.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (16.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (5.556%) BS25999
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Juniper
1 3 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (11.11%) Blue Coat
3 1 (5.556%) Sourcefire
3 1 (5.556%) WatchGuard
3 1 (5.556%) Aruba
3 1 (5.556%) Cisco
3 1 (5.556%) Nortel