The first table below looks at the demand for PCI DSS skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PCI DSS over the 3 months to 24 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 London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Rank 276 377 411
Rank change year-on-year
+101 +34
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 103 38 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.476% 0.141% 0.100%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.346% 1.808% 1.319%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 30 14
Average daily rate £510 £456 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.78% -1.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £273 £378
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £555 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £445
% change year-on-year
- -4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
1623 2102 2350
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.494% 7.803% 7.562%
Number of daily rates quoted 1115 1297 1543
Average daily rate £450 £463 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -2.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £650 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 65 52
Average hourly rate £32.00 £17.93 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.44% -0.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.97 £11.75 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £16.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+8.56% -46.39%
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 London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London +21 13 £525 +24.40%
Bromley - 6 £575 -
Hammersmith +4 2 £425 +70.00%
Hounslow - 1 £450 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £345 -
Docklands, London - 1 £488 -
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 84 (45.16%) Finance
2 45 (24.19%) Information Security
3 41 (22.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (18.28%) CISSP
4 34 (18.28%) Data Protection
5 26 (13.98%) Data Modelling
5 26 (13.98%) Data Architecture
6 25 (13.44%) Security Management
6 25 (13.44%) TOGAF
7 23 (12.37%) Firewall
7 23 (12.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 23 (12.37%) QA
8 22 (11.83%) Software Engineering
9 21 (11.29%) Microsoft
10 20 (10.75%) SOA
10 20 (10.75%) ITIL
10 20 (10.75%) Windows
10 20 (10.75%) UML
10 20 (10.75%) Data Protection Act
11 19 (10.22%) Data Integration
11 19 (10.22%) Oracle
11 19 (10.22%) Project Management
11 19 (10.22%) Risk Management
11 19 (10.22%) Banking
12 18 (9.677%) UNIX
12 18 (9.677%) Linux
13 17 (9.140%) IBM
13 17 (9.140%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (9.140%) Project Planning
14 15 (8.065%) Incident Management

PCI DSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 (3.763%) WebSphere
2 3 (1.613%) .NET
2 3 (1.613%) Spring
3 2 (1.075%) REST
3 2 (1.075%) Oracle ADF
3 2 (1.075%) Hibernate
3 2 (1.075%) JSP
4 1 (0.538%) SOAP
4 1 (0.538%) Struts
4 1 (0.538%) Web Services
4 1 (0.538%) XML
4 1 (0.538%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.538%) COM
4 1 (0.538%) HTML
4 1 (0.538%) J2EE
4 1 (0.538%) JMX
4 1 (0.538%) Middleware
4 1 (0.538%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.538%) RESTful
4 1 (0.538%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 9 (4.839%) Apache
2 7 (3.763%) IBM HTTP Server
3 3 (1.613%) IIS
4 2 (1.075%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.538%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.538%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.538%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.538%) CMS
5 1 (0.538%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (6.452%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.151%) MS Office
3 2 (1.075%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.538%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.075%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (1.075%) Documaker
2 1 (0.538%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.538%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.538%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.538%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 23 (12.37%) Firewall
2 13 (6.989%) OSPF
3 12 (6.452%) Wireless
3 12 (6.452%) LAN
3 12 (6.452%) TCP/IP
3 12 (6.452%) VPN
4 10 (5.376%) IP Telephony
4 10 (5.376%) Internet
4 10 (5.376%) BGP
5 9 (4.839%) WAN
5 9 (4.839%) VLAN
6 8 (4.301%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (4.301%) DNS
6 8 (4.301%) SNMP
7 7 (3.763%) MPLS
7 7 (3.763%) DHCP
7 7 (3.763%) Network Security
7 7 (3.763%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (3.226%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (2.688%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.452%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.763%) DB2
3 6 (3.226%) MySQL
4 4 (2.151%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (0.538%) Oracle 9i
5 1 (0.538%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.538%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.538%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (0.538%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (0.538%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.538%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.538%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (2.688%) AppScan
2 2 (1.075%) Selenium
2 2 (1.075%) Axure RP
2 2 (1.075%) Hudson
2 2 (1.075%) Maven
2 2 (1.075%) Subversion
3 1 (0.538%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.538%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.538%) Ant
3 1 (0.538%) JUnit
3 1 (0.538%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.538%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.538%) JIRA
General
1 84 (45.16%) Finance
2 19 (10.22%) Banking
3 14 (7.527%) Retail
4 8 (4.301%) Legal
5 6 (3.226%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.151%) Games
7 1 (0.538%) Back Office
7 1 (0.538%) Billing
7 1 (0.538%) Local Government
7 1 (0.538%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (29.57%) Architect
2 37 (19.89%) Analyst
3 32 (17.20%) Solutions Architect
4 28 (15.05%) Consultant
5 26 (13.98%) Project Manager
6 21 (11.29%) Security Consultant
7 19 (10.22%) Business Analyst
8 17 (9.140%) Security Architect
9 15 (8.065%) Security Analyst
10 11 (5.914%) Security Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.839%) Information Security Consultant
12 8 (4.301%) Administrator
12 8 (4.301%) Technical Architect
12 8 (4.301%) Network Engineer
13 7 (3.763%) DBA
13 7 (3.763%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (3.763%) Security Specialist
13 7 (3.763%) Firewall Engineer
13 7 (3.763%) Senior Security Analyst
13 7 (3.763%) Risk Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.75%) Data Protection Act
2 19 (10.22%) Data Integration
3 14 (7.527%) Freedom of Information
4 8 (4.301%) Freedom of Information Act
4 8 (4.301%) Mainframe
5 7 (3.763%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.763%) IBM Mainframe
6 4 (2.151%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.613%) Replication
7 3 (1.613%) PKI
7 3 (1.613%) Mobile Banking
7 3 (1.613%) DataPower
7 3 (1.613%) Online Games
8 2 (1.075%) Mathematics
8 2 (1.075%) CESG
8 2 (1.075%) CESG CLAS
8 2 (1.075%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.538%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.538%) Blackberry
9 1 (0.538%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.75%) Windows
2 18 (9.677%) UNIX
2 18 (9.677%) Linux
3 8 (4.301%) AIX
4 3 (1.613%) Android
5 2 (1.075%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.538%) Solaris
6 1 (0.538%) zOS
6 1 (0.538%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.538%) CentOS
6 1 (0.538%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (24.19%) Information Security
2 34 (18.28%) Data Protection
3 26 (13.98%) Data Modelling
3 26 (13.98%) Data Architecture
4 25 (13.44%) Security Management
4 25 (13.44%) TOGAF
5 22 (11.83%) Software Engineering
6 20 (10.75%) SOA
6 20 (10.75%) ITIL
6 20 (10.75%) UML
7 19 (10.22%) Project Management
7 19 (10.22%) Risk Management
8 17 (9.140%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (9.140%) Project Planning
9 15 (8.065%) Incident Management
10 14 (7.527%) Migration
11 13 (6.989%) Change Management
11 13 (6.989%) Data Security
11 13 (6.989%) Security Architecture
11 13 (6.989%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (6.452%) SQL
2 8 (4.301%) C
3 7 (3.763%) Java
4 2 (1.075%) C#
5 1 (0.538%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.538%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.538%) Perl
5 1 (0.538%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.538%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (18.28%) CISSP
2 14 (7.527%) CISA
3 11 (5.914%) Degree
4 10 (5.376%) CCIE
4 10 (5.376%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (4.839%) CISM
6 7 (3.763%) JNCIE
6 7 (3.763%) PCI QSA
7 5 (2.688%) Security Cleared
8 3 (1.613%) CCNP
8 3 (1.613%) GIAC
8 3 (1.613%) JNCIP
8 3 (1.613%) CRISC
8 3 (1.613%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.075%) BC Cleared
9 2 (1.075%) CITP
9 2 (1.075%) GCIA
9 2 (1.075%) GCIH
9 2 (1.075%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.075%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (22.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (12.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 23 (12.37%) QA
3 8 (4.301%) COBIT
4 7 (3.763%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.688%) COSO
6 3 (1.613%) ISO 9001
7 2 (1.075%) BS7799
8 1 (0.538%) SLA
8 1 (0.538%) ISO/IEC 17799
8 1 (0.538%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.538%) BS25999
System Software
1 9 (4.839%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.226%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.075%) Nmap
4 1 (0.538%) Snort
4 1 (0.538%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.538%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (3.763%) FortiGate
2 5 (2.688%) WebInspect
3 2 (1.075%) Nagios
3 2 (1.075%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (0.538%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.538%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.538%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (0.538%) Cacti
4 1 (0.538%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (0.538%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.538%) WSUS
4 1 (0.538%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.22%) Oracle
3 17 (9.140%) IBM
4 14 (7.527%) VMware
4 14 (7.527%) Juniper
5 12 (6.452%) HP
5 12 (6.452%) Cisco
6 11 (5.914%) Symantec
6 11 (5.914%) Fortinet
7 10 (5.376%) F5
8 9 (4.839%) Remedy
9 7 (3.763%) Sourcefire
10 4 (2.151%) Polycom
10 4 (2.151%) Aruba
10 4 (2.151%) Citrix
11 3 (1.613%) Nokia
11 3 (1.613%) Brocade
12 2 (1.075%) Qualys
12 2 (1.075%) McAfee
13 1 (0.538%) SAP
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