The first table below looks at the demand for PCI DSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 22 May 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Rank 333 421 474
Rank change year-on-year
+88 +53
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 188 150 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.445% 0.276% 0.162%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.307% 3.698% 2.258%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 79 46
Average daily rate £475 £425 £433
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.76% -1.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £261 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £520 £563
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £440
% change year-on-year
- -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
2981 4056 3985
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 7.062% 7.476% 7.195%
Number of daily rates quoted 1826 2154 2204
Average daily rate £413 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £613
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 216 224
Average hourly rate £20.00 £16.72 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.61% -39.20%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £116.25 £37.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
PCI DSS
UK

PCI DSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 England region.

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 England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

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 England region.

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 England region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
London +97 105 £520 +13.97%
South East +19 49 £450 +28.57%
East of England +16 11 £350 -17.64%
South West +16 9 £424 -10.78%
Yorkshire +6 8 £250 -35.06%
West Midlands +4 2 - -
North East +14 1 £800 -
North West -11 1 £475 +11.76%
PCI DSS
UK

PCI DSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 128 (38.32%) Finance
2 77 (23.05%) Information Security
3 60 (17.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 47 (14.07%) CISSP
5 45 (13.47%) Project Management
6 43 (12.87%) Firewall
6 43 (12.87%) Data Protection
7 37 (11.08%) TOGAF
8 36 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 35 (10.48%) Oracle
10 33 (9.880%) ITIL
10 33 (9.880%) Cisco
11 31 (9.281%) Microsoft
11 31 (9.281%) Windows
11 31 (9.281%) Risk Management
12 30 (8.982%) Security Management
12 30 (8.982%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 30 (8.982%) SOA
12 30 (8.982%) Retail
13 29 (8.683%) Banking
14 28 (8.383%) Data Security
14 28 (8.383%) Incident Management
15 27 (8.084%) Linux
15 27 (8.084%) UNIX
16 26 (7.784%) Data Modelling
16 26 (7.784%) Data Architecture
16 26 (7.784%) Security Architecture
17 24 (7.186%) LAN
17 24 (7.186%) PRINCE2
17 24 (7.186%) Cisco Certification

PCI DSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 7 (2.096%) .NET
1 7 (2.096%) WebSphere
1 7 (2.096%) Spring
2 6 (1.796%) Hibernate
2 6 (1.796%) J2EE
2 6 (1.796%) HTML
3 4 (1.198%) Memcached
3 4 (1.198%) Django
4 2 (0.599%) REST
4 2 (0.599%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.599%) Oracle ADF
4 2 (0.599%) JSP
4 2 (0.599%) Web Services
4 2 (0.599%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.299%) ASP
5 1 (0.299%) COM
5 1 (0.299%) CSS
5 1 (0.299%) XML
5 1 (0.299%) SOAP
5 1 (0.299%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 11 (3.293%) Apache
2 7 (2.096%) IBM HTTP Server
3 5 (1.497%) IIS
4 2 (0.599%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.599%) Lotus Notes
4 2 (0.599%) Lotus Domino
4 2 (0.599%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.299%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.299%) CMS
5 1 (0.299%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.299%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.299%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.299%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 22 (6.587%) MS Excel
2 6 (1.796%) MS PowerPoint
2 6 (1.796%) MS Project
2 6 (1.796%) MS Office
3 4 (1.198%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.599%) Documaker
1 2 (0.599%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.299%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.299%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.299%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.299%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.299%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 43 (12.87%) Firewall
2 24 (7.186%) LAN
3 23 (6.886%) Network Security
3 23 (6.886%) WAN
4 20 (5.988%) OSPF
5 19 (5.689%) Internet
5 19 (5.689%) Intrusion Detection
6 18 (5.389%) VPN
7 17 (5.090%) VLAN
8 15 (4.491%) Cisco ASA
9 14 (4.192%) TCP/IP
10 13 (3.892%) SNMP
11 12 (3.593%) Wireless
12 11 (3.293%) BGP
13 10 (2.994%) IP Telephony
14 9 (2.695%) MPLS
15 8 (2.395%) DNS
16 7 (2.096%) VoIP
16 7 (2.096%) DHCP
16 7 (2.096%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.790%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.395%) DB2
3 6 (1.796%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.796%) MySQL
4 5 (1.497%) Oracle 11g
5 4 (1.198%) Redis
6 3 (0.898%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (0.599%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.599%) SQL Server 2005
7 2 (0.599%) Oracle 10g
8 1 (0.299%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.299%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.299%) Oracle 9i
8 1 (0.299%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.299%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.299%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 5 (1.497%) Eclipse
1 5 (1.497%) AppScan
2 2 (0.599%) Axure RP
2 2 (0.599%) Hudson
2 2 (0.599%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (0.599%) Maven
2 2 (0.599%) Subversion
2 2 (0.599%) Selenium
2 2 (0.599%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.299%) Ant
3 1 (0.299%) JUnit
3 1 (0.299%) ClearCase
3 1 (0.299%) JIRA
3 1 (0.299%) ReSharper
3 1 (0.299%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.299%) FxCop
3 1 (0.299%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 128 (38.32%) Finance
2 30 (8.982%) Retail
3 29 (8.683%) Banking
4 16 (4.790%) Telecoms
5 11 (3.293%) Legal
6 4 (1.198%) Games
7 2 (0.599%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.299%) Back Office
8 1 (0.299%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.299%) International Banking
8 1 (0.299%) Local Government
8 1 (0.299%) Billing
Job Titles
1 78 (23.35%) Architect
2 66 (19.76%) Analyst
3 63 (18.86%) Project Manager
4 43 (12.87%) Consultant
5 38 (11.38%) Solutions Architect
6 34 (10.18%) Business Analyst
7 29 (8.683%) Security Consultant
8 25 (7.485%) Security Analyst
9 24 (7.186%) Security Architect
10 23 (6.886%) Network Engineer
11 13 (3.892%) Information Security Consultant
12 12 (3.593%) Technical Architect
13 11 (3.293%) Security Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.994%) Security Manager
14 10 (2.994%) Security Specialist
14 10 (2.994%) Developer
15 9 (2.695%) Infrastructure Project Manager
15 9 (2.695%) DBA
15 9 (2.695%) Senior Analyst
15 9 (2.695%) Cisco Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.186%) Data Protection Act
2 22 (6.587%) Management Information System
3 19 (5.689%) Data Integration
4 14 (4.192%) Freedom of Information
4 14 (4.192%) CESG
5 8 (2.395%) Freedom of Information Act
5 8 (2.395%) Mainframe
6 7 (2.096%) CESG CLAS
6 7 (2.096%) IBM Mainframe
7 6 (1.796%) Mathematics
7 6 (1.796%) PMI
8 5 (1.497%) EPoS
8 5 (1.497%) Chip and PIN
8 5 (1.497%) Computer Science
9 4 (1.198%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.198%) Mobile Payment
10 3 (0.898%) Mobile Banking
10 3 (0.898%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.898%) EFTPOS
10 3 (0.898%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.281%) Windows
2 27 (8.084%) Linux
2 27 (8.084%) UNIX
3 8 (2.395%) AIX
4 3 (0.898%) Solaris
4 3 (0.898%) Android
4 3 (0.898%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.599%) Windows 8
5 2 (0.599%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (0.599%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.599%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.299%) zOS
6 1 (0.299%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.299%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.299%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (23.05%) Information Security
2 45 (13.47%) Project Management
3 43 (12.87%) Data Protection
4 37 (11.08%) TOGAF
5 36 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 33 (9.880%) ITIL
7 31 (9.281%) Risk Management
8 30 (8.982%) Security Management
8 30 (8.982%) SOA
9 28 (8.383%) Data Security
9 28 (8.383%) Incident Management
10 26 (7.784%) Data Modelling
10 26 (7.784%) Data Architecture
10 26 (7.784%) Security Architecture
11 24 (7.186%) PRINCE2
12 22 (6.587%) E-Commerce
12 22 (6.587%) Software Engineering
13 20 (5.988%) UML
14 19 (5.689%) Project Planning
15 18 (5.389%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (4.790%) SQL
2 14 (4.192%) Java
3 8 (2.395%) C
4 5 (1.497%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.497%) Python
5 4 (1.198%) C#
6 3 (0.898%) T-SQL
6 3 (0.898%) Ruby
7 2 (0.599%) Perl
8 1 (0.299%) PHP
8 1 (0.299%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.299%) C++
Qualifications
1 47 (14.07%) CISSP
2 24 (7.186%) Cisco Certification
3 22 (6.587%) CISM
4 21 (6.287%) CISA
5 17 (5.090%) Security Cleared
6 15 (4.491%) Degree
7 12 (3.593%) SC Cleared
7 12 (3.593%) CCIE
7 12 (3.593%) CCNP
8 9 (2.695%) PCI QSA
9 7 (2.096%) JNCIE
10 6 (1.796%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.796%) CCNA
11 5 (1.497%) CCSA
12 4 (1.198%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (1.198%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.898%) ISEB
13 3 (0.898%) GIAC
13 3 (0.898%) JNCIP
13 3 (0.898%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (17.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (8.982%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 24 (7.186%) QA
4 9 (2.695%) COBIT
5 7 (2.096%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.497%) COSO
7 3 (0.898%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.599%) BS7799
9 1 (0.299%) SLA
9 1 (0.299%) ISO/IEC 17799
9 1 (0.299%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.299%) BS25999
9 1 (0.299%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (3.892%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.994%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.898%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.599%) Nmap
4 2 (0.599%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.299%) VMware ESX
5 1 (0.299%) Snort
5 1 (0.299%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (2.695%) Tivoli
2 7 (2.096%) Nagios
2 7 (2.096%) FortiGate
3 6 (1.796%) Cisco CUCM
3 6 (1.796%) Cacti
3 6 (1.796%) WhatsUp Gold
4 5 (1.497%) WebInspect
5 2 (0.599%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (0.299%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.299%) OpenView
6 1 (0.299%) WSUS
6 1 (0.299%) SCCM
6 1 (0.299%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.299%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.299%) Puppet
6 1 (0.299%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 35 (10.48%) Oracle
2 33 (9.880%) Cisco
3 31 (9.281%) Microsoft
4 18 (5.389%) IBM
5 16 (4.790%) VMware
6 14 (4.192%) Juniper
7 13 (3.892%) HP
7 13 (3.892%) F5
8 12 (3.593%) Symantec
9 11 (3.293%) Fortinet
10 10 (2.994%) CA
11 9 (2.695%) Remedy
12 8 (2.395%) Qualys
13 7 (2.096%) Sourcefire
14 6 (1.796%) Citrix
15 4 (1.198%) Aruba
15 4 (1.198%) Polycom
15 4 (1.198%) CheckPoint
15 4 (1.198%) Nokia
15 4 (1.198%) Red Hat
South West
The network engineer needs to be CCNA or ideally CCNP qualified and the key skills for the network engineer are Cisco Firewalls experience ASA / PIX Routers and Switches...
CPS Group UK
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
You will be working with a leading telecoms company in a key role monitoring and upkeeping assets within the PCI area. 3-6 Month Contract Role Experience Required:...
Networking People
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Skills: CISSP, Financial Services... This is a business critical role where the successful Security Solution Architect will be responsible for designing highly creative technology solutions in a hybrid...
ComputAppoint
Posted: 17 May 2013
Warwickshire
Test Analyst - PCI DSSContract - 7 WeeksWarwickshireMUST BE AVAILABLE TO START IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS!We are currently looking for a Test Analyst who has experience working in...
Jumar Solutions
Posted: 1 May 2013
North Yorkshire
We are seeking a CCNA qualified Network and Security specialist to work on my clients Checkpoint Firewall upgrade. Candidates must have the following experience: Proven track record of...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £280.00 - £320.00 per day
Posted: 4 May 2013
West Yorkshire
You will be providing support for over 700 users, as such you must have previous 2nd line and 3rd line experience, with evidence of project work, migrations, rollouts...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £450 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Crawley, West Sussex
Infrastructure Project Manager / Prince2 / MSP / Airline / Infrastructure / Databases / Applications / Agile / Scrum / Technical / PCI-DSS / Crawley - £300 - £325 per day required to run projects with stakeholders and teams based...
Reflex Computer Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £325 per day + Potential to extend
Posted: 21 May 2013
West Sussex
Project Manager with PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry) experience currently required by my extremely well known, West Sussex based client. I am currently looking for an experienced Infrastructure /...
Reflex Computer Recruitment
Rate: £325 - £350 per day + Excellent chance of extension.
Posted: 17 May 2013