Birmingham PCI DSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PCI DSS over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Location Basildon Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Cheshire City of London East Midlands East of England England Essex Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Luton Lytham St Annes Manchester North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Reading Somerset South East South West UK Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	16	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	34.04 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
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% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average daily rate	£433	£480
% change on same period last year	-9.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Quality Assurance & Compliance Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	47	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.063 %	0.047 %
Daily rates quoted	10	5
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£346
Average daily rate	£331	£367
% change on same period last year	-9.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£368	£371
% change on same period last year	-0.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.50	£11.62
Average hourly rate	£11.75	£12.38
% change on same period last year	-5.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.00	£13.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.31	£24.73
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
PCI DSS West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

PCI DSS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PCI DSS across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

PCI DSS
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing PCI DSS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PCI DSS.

1 17 (100.00 %) CISSP 1 17 (100.00 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 17 (100.00 %) Information Security 2 9 (52.94 %) Financial Institution 2 9 (52.94 %) Data Security 2 9 (52.94 %) Finance

PCI DSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing PCI DSS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PCI DSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 9 (52.94 %) Financial Institution 1 9 (52.94 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 11 (64.71 %) Consultant 1 11 (64.71 %) Security Consultant 2 6 (35.29 %) Security Specialist 2 6 (35.29 %) Information Security Specialist 3 2 (11.76 %) Analyst 3 2 (11.76 %) Information Security Consultant 3 2 (11.76 %) Information Security Analyst 3 2 (11.76 %) Security Analyst 3 2 (11.76 %) Information Analyst 4 1 (5.882 %) Project Analyst
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (100.00 %) Information Security 2 9 (52.94 %) Data Security	Qualifications 1 17 (100.00 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 17 (100.00 %) Sarbanes-Oxley