The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cryptography in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cryptography 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cryptography (Cryptology)
Rank 79 88 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Permanent jobs citing Cryptography 7 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 0.828% 0.108% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.280% 0.260% -
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 0
Average salary £45,000 £37,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £37,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year
+33.33% -31.81%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
307 384 206
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 36.33% 41.51% 33.55%
Number of salaries quoted 281 365 201
Average salary £39,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.33% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £23,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £53,750 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Cryptography
Hampshire

Cryptography
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Cryptography across the Southampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Southampton Cryptography Jobs Demand Trend

Cryptography
Salary Trend

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

Southampton Cryptography Salary Trend

Cryptography
Salary Histogram

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

Southampton Cryptography Salary Histogram

Cryptography
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton region citing Cryptography 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 Cryptography.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Solaris
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) LAN
1 7 (100.00%) WAN
1 7 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
1 7 (100.00%) CESG
1 7 (100.00%) Snort
1 7 (100.00%) SIEM
2 5 (71.43%) Change Control
2 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 5 (71.43%) IPsec
2 5 (71.43%) PKI
2 5 (71.43%) Incident Management
2 5 (71.43%) Client/Server
2 5 (71.43%) MS Exchange
2 5 (71.43%) SSL
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Internet
3 4 (57.14%) Information Assurance
4 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) tcpdump
4 3 (42.86%) Wireshark
4 3 (42.86%) GCIA
4 3 (42.86%) Sourcefire
4 3 (42.86%) GIAC
5 2 (28.57%) UNIX

Cryptography
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 5 (71.43%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) LAN
1 7 (100.00%) WAN
1 7 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 5 (71.43%) IPsec
2 5 (71.43%) SSL
2 5 (71.43%) Internet
3 3 (42.86%) tcpdump
3 3 (42.86%) Wireshark
4 2 (28.57%) SMTP
4 2 (28.57%) FTP
4 2 (28.57%) HTTP
4 2 (28.57%) LDAP
5 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Analyst
1 7 (100.00%) Security Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Systems Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Forensic Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) CESG
2 5 (71.43%) PKI
2 5 (71.43%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Solaris
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) SIEM
2 5 (71.43%) Change Control
2 5 (71.43%) Incident Management
3 4 (57.14%) Information Assurance
4 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Forensics
4 1 (14.29%) Ethical Hacking
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) GCIA
1 3 (42.86%) GIAC
2 2 (28.57%) GCIH
3 1 (14.29%) GPEN
3 1 (14.29%) CEH
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Snort
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Sourcefire