The first table below looks at the demand for Information Assurance skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Information Assurance 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
Information Assurance
Rank 153 148 158
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +10
Permanent jobs citing Information Assurance 2 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.063% 0.086% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.085% 0.123% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £42,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year
-4.34% +9.52%
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%
Information Assurance
UK

Information Assurance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Information Assurance Jobs Demand Trend

Information Assurance
Salary Trend

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

Scotland Information Assurance Salary Trend

Information Assurance
Top 13 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) RMADS
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft

Information Assurance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) IT Security Officer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Officer
2 1 (25.00%) Information Assurance Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Information Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) RMADS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
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