The first table below looks at the demand for GCIA in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GCIA over the 3 months to 24 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 Qualifications for the South East region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)
Rank 403 437 423
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -14
Permanent jobs citing GCIA 30 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.136% 0.008% 0.004%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.415% 0.025% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 26 2 1
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £27,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year
+81.81% -42.10%
All Qualifications
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
7229 7995 6365
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 32.66% 33.62% 27.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5836 6980 5456
Average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.75% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
GCIA
England

GCIA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing GCIA across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

South East GCIA Jobs Demand Trend

GCIA
Salary Trend

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

South East GCIA Salary Trend

GCIA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GCIA across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East GCIA Salary Histogram

GCIA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCIA within the South East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Hampshire - 29 £50,000 -
West Sussex - 1 £70,000 -
GCIA
England

GCIA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region citing GCIA 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 GCIA.

1 51 (98.08%) GIAC
1 51 (98.08%) Security Cleared
1 51 (98.08%) SC Cleared
2 50 (96.15%) SIEM
3 45 (86.54%) DV Cleared
4 40 (76.92%) Information Security
5 36 (69.23%) Incident Management
6 34 (65.38%) CESG
7 33 (63.46%) JSP 440
7 33 (63.46%) JSP
8 32 (61.54%) Internet
9 31 (59.62%) Management Information System
9 31 (59.62%) Change Control
10 30 (57.69%) tcpdump
10 30 (57.69%) Security Testing
11 28 (53.85%) Information Assurance
12 27 (51.92%) LAN
12 27 (51.92%) WAN
12 27 (51.92%) TCP/IP
13 25 (48.08%) Linux
13 25 (48.08%) Ethical Hacking
14 24 (46.15%) Windows
15 23 (44.23%) Solaris
15 23 (44.23%) LDAP
15 23 (44.23%) Client/Server
15 23 (44.23%) SMTP
15 23 (44.23%) FTP
15 23 (44.23%) HTTP
16 22 (42.31%) Firewall
16 22 (42.31%) Penetration Testing

GCIA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region citing GCIA 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 GCIA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 33 (63.46%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 9 (17.31%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 8 (15.38%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 32 (61.54%) Internet
2 30 (57.69%) tcpdump
3 27 (51.92%) LAN
3 27 (51.92%) WAN
3 27 (51.92%) TCP/IP
4 23 (44.23%) LDAP
4 23 (44.23%) SMTP
4 23 (44.23%) FTP
4 23 (44.23%) HTTP
5 22 (42.31%) Firewall
6 20 (38.46%) Wireshark
7 17 (32.69%) DNS
8 14 (26.92%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.923%) IPsec
9 1 (1.923%) SSL
9 1 (1.923%) Network Security
General
1 12 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (5.769%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 33 (63.46%) Analyst
2 32 (61.54%) Security Analyst
3 19 (36.54%) Security Manager
3 19 (36.54%) Operations Manager
3 19 (36.54%) Security Operations Manager
4 14 (26.92%) Systems Analyst
5 7 (13.46%) Security Engineer
6 5 (9.615%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (9.615%) Operations Analyst
6 5 (9.615%) Forensic Analyst
6 5 (9.615%) Security Operations Analyst
7 3 (5.769%) IT Security Analyst
8 1 (1.923%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (1.923%) Network Analyst
8 1 (1.923%) IT Operations Manager
8 1 (1.923%) Network Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 34 (65.38%) CESG
2 31 (59.62%) Management Information System
3 23 (44.23%) Client/Server
4 10 (19.23%) Firmware
5 5 (9.615%) Cryptography
6 1 (1.923%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (48.08%) Linux
2 24 (46.15%) Windows
3 23 (44.23%) Solaris
4 6 (11.54%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (96.15%) SIEM
2 40 (76.92%) Information Security
3 36 (69.23%) Incident Management
4 31 (59.62%) Change Control
5 30 (57.69%) Security Testing
6 28 (53.85%) Information Assurance
7 25 (48.08%) Ethical Hacking
8 22 (42.31%) Penetration Testing
9 15 (28.85%) Change Management
10 14 (26.92%) Service Management
11 12 (23.08%) Performance Management
12 11 (21.15%) Service Delivery
13 5 (9.615%) Computer Forensics
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.923%) C
Qualifications
1 51 (98.08%) GIAC
1 51 (98.08%) Security Cleared
1 51 (98.08%) SC Cleared
2 45 (86.54%) DV Cleared
3 14 (26.92%) GCIH
4 8 (15.38%) CEH
5 1 (1.923%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (63.46%) JSP 440
2 1 (1.923%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (32.69%) Snort
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.38%) Sourcefire
3 3 (5.769%) Sun