The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Security Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IT Security Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Security Specialist
Rank - 152 -
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Specialist 0 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland - 0.029% -
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.030% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £62,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-24.00% +47.05%
All Job Titles
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3021 3308 3235
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 94.67% 94.51% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1807 2408 2435
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
IT Security Specialist
UK

IT Security Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland IT Security Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

IT Security Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Scotland IT Security Specialist Salary Trend

IT Security Specialist
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region that cited IT 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 IT Security Specialist in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) CISM
1 3 (100.00%) CCSA
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) ISO 9001
2 2 (66.67%) ISO 9002
2 2 (66.67%) CISSP
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security

IT Security Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region that cited IT 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 IT Security Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISM
1 3 (100.00%) CCSA
2 2 (66.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) ISO 9001
1 2 (66.67%) ISO 9002