The first table below looks at the demand for PCI DSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PCI DSS over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the East of England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Rank 111 123 125
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +2
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 10 12 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.446% 0.397% 0.255%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.329% 6.857% 3.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 3
Average daily rate £400 £363 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% +20.83%
UK excluding London average daily rate £421 £400 £440
% change year-on-year
+5.31% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £28.64 -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
158 175 200
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 7.054% 5.787% 7.275%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 85 80
Average daily rate £320 £350 £306
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £145 £93
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £575 £437
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 28
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £24.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% -28.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £15.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.50 £35.50 £37.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+10.64% -44.26%
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PCI DSS across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

East of England PCI DSS Jobs Demand Trend

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PCI DSS across the East of England region.

East of England PCI DSS Daily Rate Trend

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PCI DSS across the East of England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

East of England PCI DSS Daily Rate Histogram

PCI DSS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PCI DSS across the East of England region.

East of England PCI DSS Hourly Rate Trend

PCI DSS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PCI DSS within the East of England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridgeshire +11 6 £298 -15.00%
Hertfordshire +18 2 £450 +12.50% 1
Bedfordshire 0 2 £450 +20.00%
Essex - - - -
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 7 (31.82%) Cisco
2 6 (27.27%) Project Management
3 5 (22.73%) OSPF
3 5 (22.73%) Nagios
3 5 (22.73%) EPoS
3 5 (22.73%) Chip and PIN
3 5 (22.73%) PRINCE2
3 5 (22.73%) LAN
3 5 (22.73%) VoIP
3 5 (22.73%) WAN
3 5 (22.73%) SNMP
3 5 (22.73%) VPN
3 5 (22.73%) IPsec
3 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Retail
3 5 (22.73%) VLAN
3 5 (22.73%) Cacti
3 5 (22.73%) WhatsUp Gold
3 5 (22.73%) Cisco CUCM
3 5 (22.73%) HSRP
4 4 (18.18%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (18.18%) Risk Management
4 4 (18.18%) Oracle
5 3 (13.64%) SQL
5 3 (13.64%) Linux
5 3 (13.64%) ISEB
5 3 (13.64%) EFTPOS
5 3 (13.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (9.091%) Clustering

PCI DSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

Application Development
1 1 (4.545%) HTML
1 1 (4.545%) ASP
Applications
1 2 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) LAN
1 5 (22.73%) VoIP
1 5 (22.73%) WAN
1 5 (22.73%) SNMP
1 5 (22.73%) VPN
1 5 (22.73%) OSPF
1 5 (22.73%) IPsec
1 5 (22.73%) VLAN
1 5 (22.73%) HSRP
2 4 (18.18%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (9.091%) NFC
4 1 (4.545%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.091%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
1 5 (22.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Analyst
1 5 (22.73%) Network Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Project Manager
2 4 (18.18%) Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Systems Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Business Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (9.091%) DBA
4 2 (9.091%) Security Consultant
4 2 (9.091%) SQL Server DBA
4 2 (9.091%) SQL DBA
4 2 (9.091%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (9.091%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (9.091%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Security Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Security Project Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.545%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) EPoS
1 5 (22.73%) Chip and PIN
2 3 (13.64%) EFTPOS
3 2 (9.091%) Smartcard
3 2 (9.091%) Clustering
3 2 (9.091%) EMV
4 1 (4.545%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 1 (4.545%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Project Management
2 5 (22.73%) PRINCE2
3 4 (18.18%) Risk Management
4 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (9.091%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (9.091%) E-Commerce
5 2 (9.091%) PRINCE
5 2 (9.091%) TOGAF
5 2 (9.091%) Security Architecture
5 2 (9.091%) Waterfall
6 1 (4.545%) Computer Forensics
6 1 (4.545%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (4.545%) Business Analysis
6 1 (4.545%) Reverse Engineering
6 1 (4.545%) Service Delivery
6 1 (4.545%) Data Security
6 1 (4.545%) Information Security
6 1 (4.545%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) SQL
2 2 (9.091%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.545%) Python
3 1 (4.545%) Ruby
3 1 (4.545%) Perl
3 1 (4.545%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) ISEB
1 3 (13.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 2 (9.091%) CISM
2 2 (9.091%) CISSP
System Software
1 2 (9.091%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.091%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (9.091%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Nagios
1 5 (22.73%) Cacti
1 5 (22.73%) WhatsUp Gold
1 5 (22.73%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Cisco
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle
3 2 (9.091%) Microsoft
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