The first table below looks at the demand for GCIH in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GCIH 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing GCIH 9 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 1.079% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 3.557% - -
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
Average salary £50,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £27,500 -
% change year-on-year
+63.63% -
All Qualifications
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
253 374 195
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 30.34% 40.65% 31.25%
Number of salaries quoted 235 354 185
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £26,300
10% offered a salary of more than £63,500 £61,750 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
GCIH
Hampshire

GCIH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton GCIH Jobs Demand Trend

GCIH
Salary Trend

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

Southampton GCIH Salary Trend

GCIH
Salary Histogram

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

Southampton GCIH Salary Histogram

GCIH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton region citing GCIH 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 GCIH.

1 13 (100.00%) Windows
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
1 13 (100.00%) LAN
1 13 (100.00%) WAN
1 13 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 13 (100.00%) DNS
1 13 (100.00%) GCIA
1 13 (100.00%) Snort
1 13 (100.00%) Wireshark
1 13 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 13 (100.00%) SIEM
2 12 (92.31%) Intrusion Detection
2 12 (92.31%) GIAC
2 12 (92.31%) SMTP
2 12 (92.31%) FTP
2 12 (92.31%) HTTP
2 12 (92.31%) LDAP
2 12 (92.31%) Solaris
3 11 (84.62%) Information Security
3 11 (84.62%) Ethical Hacking
3 11 (84.62%) Internet
3 11 (84.62%) Penetration Testing
3 11 (84.62%) Security Testing
3 11 (84.62%) Incident Management
3 11 (84.62%) Change Control
4 10 (76.92%) Information Assurance
4 10 (76.92%) Management Information System

GCIH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (53.85%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 8 (61.54%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 7 (53.85%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) LAN
1 13 (100.00%) WAN
1 13 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 13 (100.00%) DNS
1 13 (100.00%) Wireshark
1 13 (100.00%) tcpdump
2 12 (92.31%) Intrusion Detection
2 12 (92.31%) SMTP
2 12 (92.31%) FTP
2 12 (92.31%) HTTP
2 12 (92.31%) LDAP
3 11 (84.62%) Internet
4 8 (61.54%) Firewall
5 1 (7.692%) Network Security
5 1 (7.692%) IPsec
5 1 (7.692%) SSL
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Analyst
2 12 (92.31%) Security Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Operations Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Security Operations Analyst
4 3 (23.08%) IT Security Analyst
4 3 (23.08%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) Forensic Analyst
6 1 (7.692%) Network Security Analyst
6 1 (7.692%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (7.692%) Network Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Management Information System
2 9 (69.23%) CESG
3 8 (61.54%) Client/Server
4 7 (53.85%) Firmware
5 2 (15.38%) Cryptography
6 1 (7.692%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (92.31%) Solaris
3 2 (15.38%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) SIEM
2 11 (84.62%) Information Security
2 11 (84.62%) Ethical Hacking
2 11 (84.62%) Penetration Testing
2 11 (84.62%) Security Testing
2 11 (84.62%) Incident Management
2 11 (84.62%) Change Control
3 10 (76.92%) Information Assurance
4 4 (30.77%) Computer Forensics
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.692%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) GCIA
1 13 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (92.31%) GIAC
3 8 (61.54%) CEH
4 1 (7.692%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) JSP 440
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Snort
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) Sourcefire
3 3 (23.08%) Sun