Information security specialists set for good year
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The annual Barclay Simpson market report on information security recruitment, released yesterday, shows an improvement in information security employment during the second half of last year.
The corporate governance recruitment firm's study suggests that the information security and business continuity recruitment market started 2010 with an early spike, mainly from the finance and retail industries, caused by demand deferred as a result of the recession.
It indicates less demand from the contract market in the first half of 2010 – although, as shortages developed in the permanent market, demand for contractors increased across the board.
Barclay Simpson now forecasts stable recruitment for information security practitioners in 2011. It also predicts that penetration testing will continue to be a problem area, fuelled by skills shortages.
As for salaries, increases experienced by IT security people changing employers rose to 12% in the first half of 2010, backing off only slightly to 11% by the end of 2010, and Barclay Simpson suggests that this year will peak at around 10%.
