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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Rank 129 121 113
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -8
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 3 12 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.142% 0.531% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.216% 0.742% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
Average salary £60,000 - £32,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £47,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +35.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1389 1618 1199
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 65.95% 71.62% 64.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1082 1366 935
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,250 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
SIEM
Berkshire

SIEM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading SIEM Jobs Demand Trend

SIEM
Salary Trend

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

Reading SIEM Salary Trend

SIEM
Salary Histogram

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

Reading SIEM Salary Histogram

SIEM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing SIEM 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 SIEM.

1 13 (76.47%) Firewall
1 13 (76.47%) Network Security
2 8 (47.06%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (41.18%) Information Security
3 7 (41.18%) Windows
3 7 (41.18%) CISSP
4 5 (29.41%) Network Management
4 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
4 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
4 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
4 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2000
4 5 (29.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (23.53%) AIX
5 4 (23.53%) Solaris
5 4 (23.53%) Linux
5 4 (23.53%) UNIX
5 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
5 4 (23.53%) Ubuntu
5 4 (23.53%) Debian
6 3 (17.65%) Blue Coat
6 3 (17.65%) F5
6 3 (17.65%) CheckPoint
7 2 (11.76%) CISA
7 2 (11.76%) CISM
7 2 (11.76%) Cisco
7 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
7 2 (11.76%) ArcSight
7 2 (11.76%) Reverse Engineering

SIEM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing SIEM 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 SIEM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.882%) Regular Expression
Communications & Networking
1 13 (76.47%) Firewall
1 13 (76.47%) Network Security
2 8 (47.06%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.882%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
1 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2000
1 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Sales Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) IT Security Specialist
2 5 (29.41%) Security Specialist
3 3 (17.65%) Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Sales Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) Pre Sales Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Incident Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Pre Sales Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Sales Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) Security Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Client/Server
1 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.882%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) AIX
2 4 (23.53%) Solaris
2 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Debian
2 4 (23.53%) Ubuntu
2 4 (23.53%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Information Security
2 5 (29.41%) Network Management
3 2 (11.76%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Forensics
3 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (5.882%) Security Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Information Assurance
4 1 (5.882%) Project Management
4 1 (5.882%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.882%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Incident Management
4 1 (5.882%) Change Control
4 1 (5.882%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.882%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) CISSP
2 2 (11.76%) CISA
2 2 (11.76%) CISM
3 1 (5.882%) CCSE
3 1 (5.882%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.882%) CCNP
3 1 (5.882%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.882%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
2 3 (17.65%) CheckPoint
2 3 (17.65%) F5
2 3 (17.65%) Blue Coat
3 2 (11.76%) Sourcefire
3 2 (11.76%) ArcSight
3 2 (11.76%) Websense
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.882%) Juniper
4 1 (5.882%) LogLogic
4 1 (5.882%) Q1 Labs
4 1 (5.882%) Qualys