The first table below looks at the demand for PCI DSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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 - 59 -
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow - 0.127% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 2.041% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
68 49 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 7.091% 6.242% 3.348%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 27 14
Average daily rate £275 £338 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.51% +27.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £425 £401
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
Average hourly rate £9.25 £9.50 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
PCI DSS
Scotland

PCI DSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow PCI DSS Daily Rate Trend

PCI DSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 4 (100.00%) EPoS
1 4 (100.00%) Smartcard
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Retail
1 4 (100.00%) Retail Banking
2 3 (75.00%) EMV
3 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) Back Office
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (50.00%) Marketing
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Insight
4 1 (25.00%) HSRP
4 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
4 1 (25.00%) SonicWALL
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (25.00%) NAS
4 1 (25.00%) Network Management
4 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL V3
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) Wireless
4 1 (25.00%) ADSL

PCI DSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HSRP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (25.00%) NAS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
1 1 (25.00%) ADSL
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WLAN
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Retail
1 4 (100.00%) Retail Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Back Office
2 2 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) EPoS
1 4 (100.00%) Smartcard
2 3 (75.00%) EMV
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Insight
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL V3
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SonicWALL
1 1 (25.00%) VMware
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft