The first table below looks at the demand for Snort skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Snort 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 of the System Software category.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sourcefire Snort
Rank 796 848 851
Rank change year-on-year
+52 +3
Permanent jobs citing Snort 66 51 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.061% 0.042% 0.024%
As % of the System Software category 0.637% 0.483% 0.317%
Number of salaries quoted 57 51 29
Average salary £45,000 £75,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.00% +57.89%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £39,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-5.06% -16.84%
All System Software
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
10354 10549 9467
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 9.580% 8.741% 7.609%
Number of salaries quoted 8721 9090 7789
Average salary £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.61% +3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%

Snort
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Snort within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Snort Jobs Demand Trend

Snort
Salary Trend

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

Snort Salary Trend

Snort
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Snort over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Snort Salary Histogram

Snort
Top 25 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Snort 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 +40 66 £45,000 -40.00%
London +50 31 £58,000 -22.66%
South East +31 30 £42,500 +8.97%
Hampshire +16 21 £45,000 +12.50%
Southampton - 18 £45,000 -
Berkshire +8 8 £33,000 -15.38%
City of London +5 6 £45,625 -39.16%
Reading - 5 £33,000 -
Canary Wharf +5 4 - -
Cheltenham +16 3 £37,500 +1.35%
Gloucestershire +8 3 £37,500 +1.35%
South West -11 3 £37,500 -21.05%
Fareham - 3 £50,000 -
Slough - 3 £30,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £37,500 -
West Yorkshire - 1 £37,500 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £37,500 -
North Yorkshire - 1 £37,500 -
Kent - 1 £45,000 -
York - 1 £37,500 -
Wakefield - 1 £37,500 -
Sheffield - 1 £37,500 -
Leeds - 1 £37,500 -
Harrogate - 1 £37,500 -
Doncaster - 1 £37,500 -

Snort
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Snort 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 Snort.

1 65 (63.73%) Linux
2 57 (55.88%) Firewall
3 54 (52.94%) Windows
4 50 (49.02%) TCP/IP
5 47 (46.08%) SIEM
6 41 (40.20%) Network Security
7 37 (36.27%) Information Security
8 36 (35.29%) Security Cleared
9 33 (32.35%) Wireshark
9 33 (32.35%) UNIX
10 32 (31.37%) Internet
11 31 (30.39%) WAN
11 31 (30.39%) SC Cleared
12 30 (29.41%) LDAP
12 30 (29.41%) DNS
13 29 (28.43%) Management Information System
13 29 (28.43%) LAN
13 29 (28.43%) Incident Management
14 28 (27.45%) Intrusion Detection
14 28 (27.45%) DV Cleared
14 28 (27.45%) tcpdump
15 26 (25.49%) Solaris
16 25 (24.51%) HTTP
17 24 (23.53%) FTP
17 24 (23.53%) SMTP
17 24 (23.53%) Sourcefire
18 23 (22.55%) Degree
19 21 (20.59%) Penetration Testing
19 21 (20.59%) CESG
19 21 (20.59%) Perl

Snort
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Snort 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 Snort. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (7.843%) JSP
2 5 (4.902%) Web Services
3 1 (0.980%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.980%) CSS
3 1 (0.980%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 17 (16.67%) MS Exchange
2 3 (2.941%) Apache
2 3 (2.941%) IIS
3 2 (1.961%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (1.961%) Lync
3 2 (1.961%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (0.980%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.980%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (12.75%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 57 (55.88%) Firewall
2 50 (49.02%) TCP/IP
3 41 (40.20%) Network Security
4 33 (32.35%) Wireshark
5 32 (31.37%) Internet
6 31 (30.39%) WAN
7 30 (29.41%) LDAP
7 30 (29.41%) DNS
8 29 (28.43%) LAN
9 28 (27.45%) Intrusion Detection
9 28 (27.45%) tcpdump
10 25 (24.51%) HTTP
11 24 (23.53%) FTP
11 24 (23.53%) SMTP
12 12 (11.76%) Wireless
13 11 (10.78%) SSL
14 10 (9.804%) Wireless Security
15 7 (6.863%) SAN
15 7 (6.863%) IPsec
16 6 (5.882%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.902%) MySQL
2 1 (0.980%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (11.76%) Law
2 10 (9.804%) Finance
3 5 (4.902%) Legal
4 4 (3.922%) Banking
5 3 (2.941%) Military
6 2 (1.961%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.980%) Advertising
7 1 (0.980%) Games
7 1 (0.980%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 59 (57.84%) Analyst
2 51 (50.00%) Security Analyst
3 30 (29.41%) Security Engineer
4 13 (12.75%) Pre Sales Engineer
5 10 (9.804%) Security Operations Analyst
5 10 (9.804%) Information Security Analyst
5 10 (9.804%) Information Analyst
5 10 (9.804%) Operations Analyst
5 10 (9.804%) Systems Analyst
6 8 (7.843%) Information Security Engineer
7 7 (6.863%) Network Engineer
8 6 (5.882%) Network Analyst
8 6 (5.882%) IT Security Analyst
9 5 (4.902%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.902%) Forensic Analyst
9 5 (4.902%) Junior Analyst
9 5 (4.902%) Network Security Engineer
9 5 (4.902%) Junior
10 4 (3.922%) OSS Engineer
11 3 (2.941%) Network Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 29 (28.43%) Management Information System
2 21 (20.59%) CESG
3 16 (15.69%) Client/Server
4 11 (10.78%) PKI
5 10 (9.804%) Firmware
5 10 (9.804%) Cryptography
6 2 (1.961%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.961%) Clustering
6 2 (1.961%) iPad
6 2 (1.961%) iPhone
6 2 (1.961%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.961%) Derivative
6 2 (1.961%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.980%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 65 (63.73%) Linux
2 54 (52.94%) Windows
3 33 (32.35%) UNIX
4 26 (25.49%) Solaris
5 2 (1.961%) MVS
5 2 (1.961%) Windows XP
5 2 (1.961%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (46.08%) SIEM
2 37 (36.27%) Information Security
3 29 (28.43%) Incident Management
4 21 (20.59%) Penetration Testing
5 19 (18.63%) Information Assurance
6 17 (16.67%) Change Control
7 15 (14.71%) Ethical Hacking
8 12 (11.76%) Security Testing
9 11 (10.78%) Network Design
10 8 (7.843%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 8 (7.843%) Change Management
11 7 (6.863%) ITIL
12 6 (5.882%) Information Management
12 6 (5.882%) Vulnerability Management
12 6 (5.882%) Cyber Security
12 6 (5.882%) Use Case
12 6 (5.882%) Reverse Engineering
13 5 (4.902%) Network Architecture
13 5 (4.902%) Database Security
13 5 (4.902%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 21 (20.59%) Perl
2 14 (13.73%) C
3 12 (11.76%) SQL
4 7 (6.863%) PHP
4 7 (6.863%) Python
5 6 (5.882%) Ruby
6 1 (0.980%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.980%) Java
6 1 (0.980%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 31 (30.39%) SC Cleared
3 28 (27.45%) DV Cleared
4 23 (22.55%) Degree
5 20 (19.61%) GCIA
5 20 (19.61%) GIAC
6 17 (16.67%) CISSP
7 16 (15.69%) GCIH
7 16 (15.69%) CEH
8 8 (7.843%) CISM
9 3 (2.941%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.941%) CCNP
9 3 (2.941%) GCFA
10 2 (1.961%) CISA
11 1 (0.980%) EnCE
11 1 (0.980%) GPEN
11 1 (0.980%) CCSP
11 1 (0.980%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.843%) JSP 440
2 5 (4.902%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (6.863%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.902%) vSphere
4 2 (1.961%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.980%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (8.824%) Norton AntiVirus
2 8 (7.843%) Nessus
3 6 (5.882%) Splunk
3 6 (5.882%) Puppet
4 2 (1.961%) CiscoWorks
4 2 (1.961%) Nagios
4 2 (1.961%) Cisco UCCX
4 2 (1.961%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.980%) Cacti
Vendors
1 24 (23.53%) Sourcefire
2 20 (19.61%) Microsoft
3 16 (15.69%) Cisco
3 16 (15.69%) McAfee
4 11 (10.78%) Websense
4 11 (10.78%) Symantec
4 11 (10.78%) IronPort
5 10 (9.804%) Tripwire
6 9 (8.824%) VMware
7 8 (7.843%) Q1 Labs
8 7 (6.863%) ArcSight
9 6 (5.882%) Sophos
10 5 (4.902%) CheckPoint
10 5 (4.902%) Oracle
11 3 (2.941%) Qualys
11 3 (2.941%) Riverbed
11 3 (2.941%) LogLogic
11 3 (2.941%) Juniper
11 3 (2.941%) Sun
12 2 (1.961%) IBM
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