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More than half of those surveyed reported raises in 2013, and close to one-third received bonuses.

The salary survey was conducted in the third quarter of 2013. The information was based on the responses of 350 security practitioners, gleaned from a larger sample of 1,711 IT professionals. Titles in the security group ranged from chief security officer and chief information officer (10%) to security manager (22%), senior IT executive (19%), IT staff (10%) and IT manager (9%).

More than half of the IT security respondents (51%) had been in their current jobs for 1 to 5 years; 22% had been in their positions 6 to 10 years, while 10% had served for 11 to 20 years. A significant number of those surveyed (16%) had worked in their current positions for less than one year. Of that group, one-quarter said they recently changed jobs because they wanted a new challenge, and a smaller number (14%) said they wanted more money.

When asked about the top three technology areas that occupied most of their time, 100% of those surveyed listed security, followed by compliance (39%), general IT management (28%), wide area and local area networking (17%), disaster recovery and business continuity (14%) and server management (11%). All other technology areas ranked less than 10%, including application security and design, business process management and mobile technology (8%); data analysis and analytics and cloud computing (7%); application management (6%); and data center management, data management and help desk (5%).

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