Threat of cyber crime drives higher salaries for security professionals

By Ian Barker
 
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Employers are offering salaries up by 14 percent on average for IT security specialists in the light of the growing threat posed by cyber crime.
A Global Salary Survey by UK specialist recruitment company Robert Walters also sees salaries for developers increasing as major employers look to overhaul their online presence.
 Developer salaries are set to grow nine percent this year as against five percent for the industry as a whole, thanks to digital transformation projects in large companies, many of them driven by a new emphasis on data security.
It's security roles that see the biggest increases though with heads of cyber security and security analyst roles seeing 18 percent increases. Even junior security support positions are set to have seven percent growth.
 
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