The first table below looks at the demand for the Security Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Security Specialist in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Surrey region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Specialist
Rank 214 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Specialist 7 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 0.133% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.140% - -
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
Average salary £45,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-13.63% +10.00%
All Job Titles
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5017 5743 5034
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 95.40% 95.84% 94.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4030 5057 4398
Average salary £42,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,750 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Security Specialist
South East

Security Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Security Specialist across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Surrey Security Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Security Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Surrey Security Specialist Salary Trend

Security Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Specialist within the Surrey 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
Reigate - 1 £47,500 -
Security Specialist
South East

Security Specialist
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey region that cited Security Specialist in their job title 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 with Security Specialist in their job title.

1 5 (71.43%) VPN
1 5 (71.43%) Information Security
2 4 (57.14%) Network Security
2 4 (57.14%) Data Protection
2 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
2 4 (57.14%) CISSP
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
4 2 (28.57%) CISA
4 2 (28.57%) ISEB
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) CISMP
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
5 1 (14.29%) IPsec
5 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 1 (14.29%) UMTS
5 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco
5 1 (14.29%) DWDM
5 1 (14.29%) MPLS
5 1 (14.29%) Firewall
5 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 1 (14.29%) LTE
5 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management

Security Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey region that cited Security Specialist in their job title 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 with Security Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) VPN
2 4 (57.14%) Network Security
2 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) LTE
3 1 (14.29%) UMTS
3 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
3 1 (14.29%) DWDM
3 1 (14.29%) MPLS
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) IPsec
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Information Security
2 4 (57.14%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CISSP
2 2 (28.57%) CISA
2 2 (28.57%) CISMP
2 2 (28.57%) ISEB
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
Surrey, South East
IT Security Skills/ Experience required: + CISSP certified or in progress. + Proven technical skills in the IT security area including networking, web application vulnerabilities, TCP/IP, VPN, network security...
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Pension/Bonus
Posted: 14 May 2013
Reigate, South East
Undertake detailed analysis of proposals from 3rd party bids from a data protection and information security perspective... + Assist with the data protection breach and data security incident management...
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + BONUS + BENEFITS
Posted: 14 May 2013