Salary survey of information security professionals in India

2. Information Security salary and market confidence survey was conducted between Dec 14, 2009 and January 08, 2010 A total of 212 professionals participated in the salary survey from different “Enterprise Risk Services” business lines The percentage of population who participated in the survey is as follows- Security Strategy & Management (35%) Technical Security (18%) IAM (17%) ERP Security (15%) & Others- BCP, DP, Infra Sec (15%) Information Security professionals stated that the top 2 medium for job search are Job portal s and LinkedIn Executive Summary

3. Executive Summary- Cont. Top two reasons stated for job changes are “Lack of growth opportunities (35%) followed by “Salary” (33%) 78% professionals responded with a confidence level of 4 & above on the scale of 5 for job market revival 61% people change job in less than 3 and 80% people change job in less than 4 years 60% people will be looking for a job change in next one years time Information Security professionals are expecting an average of 21.6% hike this year (far above then even our expectation)

4. Executive Summary- Cont Average Salary with respect to no of years of experience is 1.6 times People are getting an average of 1.1 times their salary up to 5 years (especially 3-5) of experience while between 5 and 12 years, the salary increases exponentially and jumps to 1.8 times the number of years of experience.

5. Expectation of salary hike

6. Average years in one job Around 80% people leave jobs within 4 years.

7. Top 2 Security Certifications Top 2 certifications that security professionals value are CISSP and CISA

8. Editor- A Brief Note Our experience shows that candidates change jobs far too in a hurry without realizing that there career spans for 25 plus years and an year of non-event, less satisfactory appraisal and lack of appreciation by immediate supervisor is not the right reason to jump job. Companies also do not oftenly realize their star performers early and reward them appropriately and keep them engaged considering their ambitions and providing them mentorship support Though candidates claim “salary” as a third or fourth reason for job change, it is financials which is a key decision making driver rather then any other thing. Candidates often overrate themselves and over estimate their own capabilities and does not understand that their company, people and opportunities in the company have helped them reach and develop and be successful in projects and in their career

9. About iRisk Placement & Editor iRisk Placement is a premier recruitment firm specialized in the recruitment of middle and senior professionals in information technology, networking , information security and information risk management domain. It is a unit of CPA iRisk Advisors Pvt Ltd with interest in Offline Recruitment, Knowledge Portal and Corporate Training in Enterprise Risk Management Chandra Prakash Suryawanshi, conducted and analyzed the results, who is certified CISSP, CISA, CEH, SANS, ISO 27001 LI, BS 25999 LA, CCNA and is working with iRisk in the capacity of partner. He has over a decade of experience including with Big 4 consulting firm and executed several projects in India and overseas.