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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Security Specialist
Rank 828 875 829
Rank change year-on-year
+47 -46
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Specialist 32 12 42
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.029% 0.010% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.010% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 19 6 17
Average salary £50,000 £40,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -27.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £37,500 £34,140
10% offered a salary of more than £61,200 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -27.27%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102582 114838 114977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 85352 98508 97090
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%

Network Security Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Network Security Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Network Security Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Network Security Specialist Salary Trend

Network Security Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Network Security Specialist over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

Network Security Specialist Salary Histogram

Network Security Specialist
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +29 32 £50,000 +25.00%
London - 12 £53,500 -
City of London - 9 £52,500 -
Birmingham - 8 £40,000 -
West Midlands - 8 £40,000 -
Warrington +24 5 - -
Cheshire +12 5 - -
South East -3 5 £50,000 -16.66%
North West -6 5 - -
Crewe - 5 - -
Berkshire +13 4 £50,000 -16.66%
Slough - 4 £50,000 -
East of England +9 2 £52,500 -12.50%
West Sussex - 1 £45,000 -
Hertfordshire - 1 £52,500 -
Bedfordshire - 1 £52,500 -
Luton - 1 £52,500 -
Crawley - 1 £45,000 -

Network Security Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Network 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 Network Security Specialist in their job title.

1 55 (96.49%) Network Security
2 37 (64.91%) Firewall
2 37 (64.91%) Cisco
3 35 (61.40%) CheckPoint
4 31 (54.39%) Juniper
5 24 (42.11%) Blue Coat
6 23 (40.35%) Cisco Certification
7 20 (35.09%) Retail
8 19 (33.33%) Finance
9 18 (31.58%) Windows
10 17 (29.82%) Cisco ASA
11 16 (28.07%) CISSP
12 14 (24.56%) CCSP
13 13 (22.81%) VPN
13 13 (22.81%) F5
13 13 (22.81%) Cisco Nexus
14 12 (21.05%) IronPort
14 12 (21.05%) SSL
14 12 (21.05%) Change Management
15 11 (19.30%) DMZ
15 11 (19.30%) CCNP
15 11 (19.30%) DNA
15 11 (19.30%) MS Office
15 11 (19.30%) Tufin
15 11 (19.30%) Aruba
16 10 (17.54%) MS Excel
17 9 (15.79%) Symantec
17 9 (15.79%) McAfee
17 9 (15.79%) Websense
17 9 (15.79%) MIMEsweeper

Network Security Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Network 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 Network Security Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (3.509%) Web Services
1 2 (3.509%) XML
Applications
1 11 (19.30%) MS Office
2 10 (17.54%) MS Excel
3 9 (15.79%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 55 (96.49%) Network Security
2 37 (64.91%) Firewall
3 17 (29.82%) Cisco ASA
4 13 (22.81%) VPN
4 13 (22.81%) Cisco Nexus
5 12 (21.05%) SSL
6 11 (19.30%) DMZ
7 9 (15.79%) Wireless
7 9 (15.79%) DHCP
7 9 (15.79%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (10.53%) LAN
8 6 (10.53%) WAN
9 5 (8.772%) TACACS
9 5 (8.772%) HTTP
9 5 (8.772%) TCP/IP
10 4 (7.018%) Wireshark
11 3 (5.263%) BGP
11 3 (5.263%) OSPF
11 3 (5.263%) FTP
11 3 (5.263%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.509%) MySQL
General
1 20 (35.09%) Retail
2 19 (33.33%) Finance
3 9 (15.79%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.263%) Advertising
5 1 (1.754%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.754%) Banking
5 1 (1.754%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.772%) Computer Science
2 3 (5.263%) PKI
3 2 (3.509%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 18 (31.58%) Windows
2 9 (15.79%) Windows 2000
3 6 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.05%) Change Management
2 11 (19.30%) DNA
3 9 (15.79%) Service Management
3 9 (15.79%) Migration
4 5 (8.772%) SIEM
5 4 (7.018%) Load Testing
5 4 (7.018%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (7.018%) Change Control
5 4 (7.018%) Network Management
5 4 (7.018%) Configuration Management
6 3 (5.263%) Risk Management
6 3 (5.263%) Information Security
6 3 (5.263%) Knowledge Management
7 2 (3.509%) Computer Security
7 2 (3.509%) Incident Management
7 2 (3.509%) Network Design
7 2 (3.509%) Security Architecture
7 2 (3.509%) ITIL
8 1 (1.754%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (1.754%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.509%) C#
1 2 (3.509%) Java
1 2 (3.509%) PHP
1 2 (3.509%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (40.35%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (28.07%) CISSP
3 14 (24.56%) CCSP
4 11 (19.30%) CCNP
5 7 (12.28%) Degree
6 6 (10.53%) CEH
7 5 (8.772%) GIAC
8 4 (7.018%) CCIE
9 3 (5.263%) Security Cleared
10 2 (3.509%) JNCIA
10 2 (3.509%) SCSA
10 2 (3.509%) CCSE
10 2 (3.509%) CCNA
10 2 (3.509%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.263%) SLA
1 3 (5.263%) PCI DSS
1 3 (5.263%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.018%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 9 (15.79%) MIMEsweeper
Vendors
1 37 (64.91%) Cisco
2 35 (61.40%) CheckPoint
3 31 (54.39%) Juniper
4 24 (42.11%) Blue Coat
5 13 (22.81%) F5
6 12 (21.05%) IronPort
7 11 (19.30%) Tufin
7 11 (19.30%) Aruba
8 9 (15.79%) Symantec
8 9 (15.79%) McAfee
8 9 (15.79%) Websense
8 9 (15.79%) Infoblox
8 9 (15.79%) Fujitsu
9 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
10 4 (7.018%) HP
10 4 (7.018%) Dell
11 3 (5.263%) Citrix
11 3 (5.263%) Riverbed
12 2 (3.509%) Oracle
12 2 (3.509%) VMware
Warrington, Cheshire
The specialist should be experienced in supporting 2 or more of the following Security Products: RSA Envision, Logrhythm, Symantec Endpoint Security, Web and Email security technologies such as...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: offer competitive package
Posted: 17 May 2013