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Information Security - Interim Market Report 2009



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The information security recruitment market is currently a tough market with limited vacancies and significant numbers of redundant information security practitioners. Employers are in a strong bargaining position.

  • Vacancy generation is down across all sectors and is 57% lower compared to the same period in 2008
  • The number of candidate registrations is rising and is 36% higher than at the height of the recruitment market in June 2007
  • The number of redundancies has accelerated over the last 6 months and defensive registrations now account for over half of all new candidate registrations
  • Salary increase remain at just 4%


On the positive side, companies cannot freeze recruitment and keep important projects on hold indefinitely. The propensity to externally recruit will ultimately increase.

For a full analysis of the current Information Security recruitment market, complete with up to date salaries and predictions, click on the graphic to download the full report or choose from the following links to go straight to specific sections of the report:

  1. Executive summary
  2. Information Security – market analysis
  3. Information Security – salaries


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