The first table below looks at the demand for SIEM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Slough 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 Slough region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Rank 64 59 53
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -6
Permanent jobs citing SIEM 8 11 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 1.170% 1.652% 0.839%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.468% 2.423% 1.067%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 2
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £44,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -16.20%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £37,500 £34,550
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £39,500 £54,950
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £47,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +35.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
Slough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
545 454 375
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 79.68% 68.17% 78.62%
Number of salaries quoted 453 341 303
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £31,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
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 Slough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough SIEM Salary Trend

SIEM
Salary Histogram

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

Slough SIEM Salary Histogram

SIEM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 20 (76.92%) Linux
2 16 (61.54%) Windows
2 16 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 16 (61.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 16 (61.54%) Firewall
2 16 (61.54%) Information Security
2 16 (61.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (57.69%) UNIX
4 11 (42.31%) Data Security
4 11 (42.31%) Management Information System
4 11 (42.31%) Finance
4 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
4 11 (42.31%) Banking
4 11 (42.31%) Nessus
4 11 (42.31%) Perl
4 11 (42.31%) PHP
4 11 (42.31%) Python
4 11 (42.31%) McAfee
4 11 (42.31%) Internet
4 11 (42.31%) Risk Analysis
4 11 (42.31%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 11 (42.31%) Penetration Testing
4 11 (42.31%) Ruby
4 11 (42.31%) Incident Management
4 11 (42.31%) PCI DSS
4 11 (42.31%) LogLogic
4 11 (42.31%) Vulnerability Management
5 10 (38.46%) CISSP
6 9 (34.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (30.77%) Network Security

SIEM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 (3.846%) Regular Expression
Communications & Networking
1 16 (61.54%) Firewall
2 11 (42.31%) Internet
3 8 (30.77%) Network Security
4 5 (19.23%) TCP/IP
4 5 (19.23%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) SQL Server
1 5 (19.23%) SQL Server 2000
1 5 (19.23%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 11 (42.31%) Finance
1 11 (42.31%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Analyst
1 12 (46.15%) Security Analyst
2 7 (26.92%) Technical Analyst
2 7 (26.92%) Technical Security Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Sales Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Security Operations Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Operations Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Junior Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Junior
4 4 (15.38%) Security Specialist
5 1 (3.846%) IT Security Consultant
5 1 (3.846%) IT Consultant
5 1 (3.846%) Consultant
5 1 (3.846%) Security Consultant
5 1 (3.846%) Operations Manager
5 1 (3.846%) Security Manager
5 1 (3.846%) Security Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Management Information System
2 6 (23.08%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 20 (76.92%) Linux
2 16 (61.54%) Windows
3 15 (57.69%) UNIX
4 4 (15.38%) AIX
4 4 (15.38%) Solaris
4 4 (15.38%) Debian
4 4 (15.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Information Security
2 11 (42.31%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 11 (42.31%) Penetration Testing
2 11 (42.31%) Incident Management
2 11 (42.31%) Risk Analysis
2 11 (42.31%) Data Security
2 11 (42.31%) Vulnerability Management
3 9 (34.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (19.23%) Network Management
4 5 (19.23%) Use Case
5 4 (15.38%) Performance Management
5 4 (15.38%) Capacity Management
6 1 (3.846%) Project Management
6 1 (3.846%) Digital Forensics
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) Perl
1 11 (42.31%) PHP
1 11 (42.31%) Python
1 11 (42.31%) Ruby
2 1 (3.846%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) CISSP
2 5 (19.23%) Degree
3 4 (15.38%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (61.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 16 (61.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (42.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 5 (19.23%) Snort
Systems Management
1 11 (42.31%) Nessus
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
1 11 (42.31%) McAfee
1 11 (42.31%) LogLogic
2 4 (15.38%) Red Hat