The first table below looks at the demand for PCI DSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PCI DSS over the 3 months to 17 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Rank 84 75 68
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -7
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 11 9 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.015% 0.912% 1.181%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.209% 7.895% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10 8 10
Average salary £36,834 £60,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-38.61% +33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +10.52%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
134 114 94
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 12.36% 11.55% 11.10%
Number of salaries quoted 118 93 93
Average salary £38,000 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.58% +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,600 £31,350 £26,700
10% offered a salary of more than £57,950 £47,500 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
PCI DSS
East of England

PCI DSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire PCI DSS Jobs Demand Trend

PCI DSS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PCI DSS across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire PCI DSS Salary Trend

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PCI DSS across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Bedfordshire PCI DSS Salary Histogram

PCI DSS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PCI DSS within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Dunstable - 9 £36,834 -
Luton -3 1 £19,000 -68.33%
PCI DSS
East of England

PCI DSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PCI DSS.

1 14 (87.50%) Microsoft
1 14 (87.50%) Finance
2 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 13 (81.25%) LANDesk
2 13 (81.25%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (75.00%) Hyper-V
3 12 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (75.00%) XenServer
3 12 (75.00%) Windows 7
3 12 (75.00%) WSUS
3 12 (75.00%) VMware
3 12 (75.00%) Active Directory
4 11 (68.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (68.75%) Citrix
4 11 (68.75%) Firewall
5 10 (62.50%) MCTS
5 10 (62.50%) SQL Server 2005
5 10 (62.50%) MCITP
5 10 (62.50%) Network Load Balancing
5 10 (62.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 10 (62.50%) Network Security
5 10 (62.50%) iSCSI
5 10 (62.50%) Office Communications Server
5 10 (62.50%) XenDesktop
5 10 (62.50%) Lync
5 10 (62.50%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (62.50%) Exchange Server 2007
5 10 (62.50%) NAS
5 10 (62.50%) XenApp
5 10 (62.50%) SQL Server 2008

PCI DSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PCI DSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 10 (62.50%) MS Exchange
1 10 (62.50%) Exchange Server 2007
1 10 (62.50%) Office Communications Server
1 10 (62.50%) Lync
1 10 (62.50%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) Firewall
2 10 (62.50%) Network Security
2 10 (62.50%) iSCSI
2 10 (62.50%) NAS
2 10 (62.50%) DHCP
2 10 (62.50%) DNS
2 10 (62.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server 2005
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 14 (87.50%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Wintel Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Wintel Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Wintel Support
2 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) Security Specialist
3 1 (6.250%) Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) Support Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) Network Specialist
3 1 (6.250%) Senior Network Specialist
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
1 13 (81.25%) Windows Server 2008
2 12 (75.00%) Windows 7
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Network Load Balancing
2 5 (31.25%) Change Management
3 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
4 1 (6.250%) ITIL
4 1 (6.250%) Problem Management
4 1 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.250%) Data Security
4 1 (6.250%) Information Security
4 1 (6.250%) Asset Management
4 1 (6.250%) Incident Management
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (62.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 10 (62.50%) MCTS
2 10 (62.50%) MCITP
2 10 (62.50%) MCP
2 10 (62.50%) MCSE
2 10 (62.50%) MCSA
3 9 (56.25%) CCA
3 9 (56.25%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (6.250%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.250%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 12 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 12 (75.00%) Hyper-V
1 12 (75.00%) XenServer
2 10 (62.50%) XenDesktop
2 10 (62.50%) NFS
2 10 (62.50%) XenApp
2 10 (62.50%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 12 (75.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 13 (81.25%) LANDesk
3 12 (75.00%) VMware
4 11 (68.75%) Citrix
5 10 (62.50%) HP
5 10 (62.50%) EMC
5 10 (62.50%) CommVault
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco
7 1 (6.250%) VocaLink
7 1 (6.250%) Juniper