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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Security (INFOSEC)
Rank 54 53 32
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -21
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 17 12 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 2.843% 2.105% 4.737%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.753% 3.008% 7.068%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 24
Average salary £50,000 £25,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+100.00% -37.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £25,000 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £56,250 £54,500 £41,750
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.38%
All Processes & Methodologies
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
453 399 382
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 75.75% 70.00% 67.02%
Number of salaries quoted 392 340 310
Average salary £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.75% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £61,750 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Information Security
West Midlands

Information Security
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Information Security across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Staffordshire Information Security Jobs Demand Trend

Information Security
Salary Trend

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

Staffordshire Information Security Salary Trend

Information Security
Salary Histogram

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

Staffordshire Information Security Salary Histogram

Information Security
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Burton-upon-Trent - 2 £42,500 -
Stoke-on-Trent -4 1 - -
Information Security
West Midlands

Information Security
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire region citing Information Security 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 Information Security.

1 19 (95.00%) PCI DSS
2 18 (90.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (80.00%) Integration Testing
3 16 (80.00%) Information Governance
3 16 (80.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (15.00%) COBIT
5 2 (10.00%) Time Management
5 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (10.00%) ArcSight
5 2 (10.00%) SolarWinds Orion
5 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (10.00%) Identity Management
5 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (10.00%) C
5 2 (10.00%) CA
5 2 (10.00%) CA SiteMinder
5 2 (10.00%) Project Management
5 2 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco
5 2 (10.00%) Business Continuity
5 2 (10.00%) Supplier Management
6 1 (5.000%) IT Governance
6 1 (5.000%) Java
6 1 (5.000%) .NET
6 1 (5.000%) OOP
6 1 (5.000%) OO
6 1 (5.000%) E-Commerce
6 1 (5.000%) ISO/IEC 17799
6 1 (5.000%) CISSP

Information Security
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire region citing Information Security 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 Information Security. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.000%) .NET
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Senior Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) Security Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) Security Manager
4 3 (15.00%) Compliance Manager
4 3 (15.00%) Risk Manager
4 3 (15.00%) IT Security Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) IT Security Manager
6 1 (5.000%) Junior
6 1 (5.000%) Risk Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Information Security Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Security Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Junior Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) IT Security Specialist
6 1 (5.000%) Security Risk Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Junior Information Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) IT Governance Manager
6 1 (5.000%) IT Risk Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Risk Consultant
6 1 (5.000%) Governance Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.000%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Risk Management
1 16 (80.00%) Integration Testing
1 16 (80.00%) Information Governance
2 2 (10.00%) Time Management
2 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (10.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (10.00%) Supplier Management
2 2 (10.00%) Project Management
2 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (10.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (5.000%) OOP
3 1 (5.000%) OO
3 1 (5.000%) E-Commerce
3 1 (5.000%) IT Governance
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) C
2 1 (5.000%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.000%) CISSP
1 1 (5.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (95.00%) PCI DSS
2 18 (90.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (15.00%) COBIT
4 2 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (5.000%) ISO/IEC 17799
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) CA SiteMinder
1 2 (10.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) CA
2 2 (10.00%) ArcSight
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
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