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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Security Administrator
Rank 858 894 870
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -24
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Administrator 4 5 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% 0.004% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.004% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 11
Average salary £19,500 £47,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-58.94% +48.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £17,100 £30,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £21,900 £57,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £16,500 - £40,000
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

IT Security Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

IT Security Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

IT Security Administrator
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing IT Security Administrator within the UK.

IT Security Administrator Salary Trend

IT Security Administrator
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Security Administrator within the UK 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
England +24 4 £19,500 -58.94%
London +48 1 £22,500 -52.63%
Coventry - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
South East - 1 £16,500 -
Docklands, London - 1 £22,500 -
Hampshire - 1 £16,500 -
Devon - 1 - -
Plymouth - 1 - -

IT Security Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited IT Security Administrator 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 IT Security Administrator in their job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (33.33%) Statistics
3 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (33.33%) BCP
3 2 (33.33%) Legal
3 2 (33.33%) Publishing
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) LDAP
3 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 2 (33.33%) SMTP
3 2 (33.33%) Ethernet
3 2 (33.33%) FTP
3 2 (33.33%) HTTP
3 2 (33.33%) Kerberos
3 2 (33.33%) SNMP
3 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) HTTPS
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
4 1 (16.67%) Change Control
4 1 (16.67%) Business Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory

IT Security Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited IT Security Administrator 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 IT Security Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) LDAP
1 2 (33.33%) SMTP
1 2 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 2 (33.33%) FTP
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
1 2 (33.33%) Kerberos
1 2 (33.33%) SNMP
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) HTTPS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
1 2 (33.33%) Publishing
2 1 (16.67%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (33.33%) BCP
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Change Control
3 1 (16.67%) Business Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Remedy
2 1 (16.67%) SAP