The first table below looks at the demand for Data Protection skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Protection 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Protection (Data Privacy)
Rank 145 136 148
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +12
Permanent jobs citing Data Protection 10 15 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.316% 0.430% 0.323%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.425% 0.613% 0.424%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 9
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £45,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year
+4.39% -4.21%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2355 2445 2592
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 74.34% 70.08% 76.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1398 1742 1882
Average salary £41,500 £40,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.75% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Data Protection
UK

Data Protection
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Data Protection Jobs Demand Trend

Data Protection
Salary Trend

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

Scotland Data Protection Salary Trend

Data Protection
Salary Histogram

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

Scotland Data Protection Salary Histogram

Data Protection
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -20 4 £40,000 -11.11%
Edinburgh - 3 £46,000 -
Stirling - 2 £38,000 -
Data Protection
UK

Data Protection
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Data Protection 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 Data Protection.

1 6 (33.33%) HTML
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Service Delivery
2 5 (27.78%) Change Management
2 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) IBM
2 5 (27.78%) Replication
2 5 (27.78%) NetBackup
2 5 (27.78%) Banking
2 5 (27.78%) Sun
2 5 (27.78%) StorageTek
2 5 (27.78%) Firmware
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle
2 5 (27.78%) UNIX
2 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Incident Management
2 5 (27.78%) QA
2 5 (27.78%) Customer Engagement
2 5 (27.78%) Analytics
2 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (22.22%) Cocoa Touch
3 4 (22.22%) Mobile App
3 4 (22.22%) HTML5
3 4 (22.22%) iPad
3 4 (22.22%) Memory Management
3 4 (22.22%) Apple iOS
3 4 (22.22%) Symmetrix DMX
3 4 (22.22%) Core Animation

Data Protection
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (33.33%) HTML
2 4 (22.22%) Cocoa Touch
2 4 (22.22%) HTML5
2 4 (22.22%) Core Animation
2 4 (22.22%) JSON
2 4 (22.22%) Web Services
2 4 (22.22%) XML
3 2 (11.11%) jQuery
3 2 (11.11%) Spring
3 2 (11.11%) CSS
3 2 (11.11%) Struts
3 2 (11.11%) J2EE
3 2 (11.11%) Hibernate
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) NAS
1 4 (22.22%) SAN
2 1 (5.556%) Firewall
2 1 (5.556%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.556%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQLite
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.556%) Data Mining
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Xcode
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
1 5 (27.78%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (5.556%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.556%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.556%) Retail Banking
3 1 (5.556%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Technical Leader
3 4 (22.22%) Applications Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Security Officer
4 3 (16.67%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Information Security Officer
5 2 (11.11%) Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Consultant
6 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Security Consultant
6 1 (5.556%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Security Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) IT Security Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Compliance Manager
6 1 (5.556%) IT Security Officer
6 1 (5.556%) Senior Information Security Officer
6 1 (5.556%) Risk Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Replication
1 5 (27.78%) Firmware
2 4 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 4 (22.22%) iPad
2 4 (22.22%) Symmetrix DMX
2 4 (22.22%) iPhone
2 4 (22.22%) Animation
2 4 (22.22%) Symmetrix
3 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
4 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.556%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) UNIX
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Apple iOS
2 4 (22.22%) Android
2 4 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Service Delivery
1 5 (27.78%) Change Management
1 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (27.78%) Incident Management
1 5 (27.78%) Customer Engagement
1 5 (27.78%) Analytics
1 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (22.22%) Memory Management
2 4 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (22.22%) Information Security
3 3 (16.67%) MVC
3 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Static Code Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 2 (11.11%) Information Management
4 2 (11.11%) Information Security Management
4 2 (11.11%) Security Management
5 1 (5.556%) Service Management
5 1 (5.556%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) C++
2 4 (22.22%) Objective-C
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (5.556%) CISA
2 1 (5.556%) CISM
2 1 (5.556%) QiCA
2 1 (5.556%) GIAC
2 1 (5.556%) SSCP
2 1 (5.556%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
2 3 (16.67%) COBIT
3 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (5.556%) COSO
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) IBM
2 5 (27.78%) Sun
2 5 (27.78%) StorageTek
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle
3 4 (22.22%) Brocade
3 4 (22.22%) Symantec
3 4 (22.22%) NetApp
3 4 (22.22%) EMC
3 4 (22.22%) Cisco
4 3 (16.67%) Apple