The first table below looks at the demand for PCI DSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Rank 271 279 292
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +13
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 48 37 45
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.395% 0.282% 0.284%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.576% 3.318% 3.676%
Number of salaries quoted 33 36 43
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £37,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £68,000 £68,750 £67,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-9.52% +10.52%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
1049 1115 1224
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 8.626% 8.489% 7.733%
Number of salaries quoted 915 1035 1133
Average salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £35,000 £34,000
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,500
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +1.23%
PCI DSS
London

PCI DSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London PCI DSS Salary Trend

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PCI DSS across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London PCI DSS Salary Histogram

PCI DSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PCI DSS.

1 44 (48.89%) VMware
2 42 (46.67%) DNS
2 42 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (42.22%) Cisco
4 35 (38.89%) Firewall
5 33 (36.67%) Finance
5 33 (36.67%) Linux
6 30 (33.33%) Juniper
7 29 (32.22%) Windows
8 28 (31.11%) OSPF
8 28 (31.11%) Cisco Certification
8 28 (31.11%) Cisco ASA
9 27 (30.00%) BGP
9 27 (30.00%) DHCP
10 25 (27.78%) SNMP
11 24 (26.67%) Solaris
11 24 (26.67%) CCIE
11 24 (26.67%) F5
11 24 (26.67%) Cisco Nexus
12 23 (25.56%) vSphere
12 23 (25.56%) Polycom
12 23 (25.56%) Video Conferencing
12 23 (25.56%) Fortinet
12 23 (25.56%) Active Directory
12 23 (25.56%) MPLS
12 23 (25.56%) TCP/IP
12 23 (25.56%) Wireless
13 21 (23.33%) Red Hat
13 21 (23.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 20 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001

PCI DSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PCI DSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (2.222%) ADSI
2 1 (1.111%) .NET
2 1 (1.111%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 11 (12.22%) Confluence
2 3 (3.333%) IIS
3 2 (2.222%) Apache
3 2 (2.222%) MS Exchange
3 2 (2.222%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (2.222%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (2.222%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.111%) Lync
4 1 (1.111%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.111%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.111%) MS Office
1 1 (1.111%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 42 (46.67%) DNS
2 35 (38.89%) Firewall
3 28 (31.11%) OSPF
3 28 (31.11%) Cisco ASA
4 27 (30.00%) BGP
4 27 (30.00%) DHCP
5 25 (27.78%) SNMP
6 24 (26.67%) Cisco Nexus
7 23 (25.56%) Wireless
7 23 (25.56%) TCP/IP
7 23 (25.56%) MPLS
8 20 (22.22%) Ethernet
8 20 (22.22%) IP Telephony
8 20 (22.22%) Junos
9 17 (18.89%) Network Security
9 17 (18.89%) VLAN
10 14 (15.56%) VPN
11 12 (13.33%) WAN
12 11 (12.22%) OpenLDAP
13 8 (8.889%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.333%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.222%) RDBMS
2 2 (2.222%) MySQL
2 2 (2.222%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.111%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.111%) Talend Open Studio
2 1 (1.111%) Subversion
General
1 33 (36.67%) Finance
2 15 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 7 (7.778%) Banking
4 3 (3.333%) Law
5 2 (2.222%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.111%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.111%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 29 (32.22%) Network Engineer
2 22 (24.44%) Systems Administrator
3 20 (22.22%) Firewall Engineer
4 19 (21.11%) Senior Network Engineer
5 14 (15.56%) Administrator
6 12 (13.33%) Senior Firewall Engineer
7 11 (12.22%) Security Engineer
8 8 (8.889%) Design Engineer
8 8 (8.889%) Network Design Engineer
8 8 (8.889%) Senior Design Engineer
8 8 (8.889%) Senior Network Design Engineer
9 7 (7.778%) Senior Security Engineer
10 6 (6.667%) Security Analyst
10 6 (6.667%) Architect
10 6 (6.667%) Analyst
10 6 (6.667%) Security Officer
10 6 (6.667%) Information Security Officer
11 5 (5.556%) Consultant
11 5 (5.556%) Team Leader
11 5 (5.556%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.56%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (5.556%) Visualisation
2 5 (5.556%) Clustering
3 4 (4.444%) Computer Science
4 3 (3.333%) IVR
5 2 (2.222%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.111%) RMADS
6 1 (1.111%) CESG
6 1 (1.111%) CESG CLAS
6 1 (1.111%) PKI
6 1 (1.111%) Open Source
6 1 (1.111%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (1.111%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 33 (36.67%) Linux
2 29 (32.22%) Windows
3 24 (26.67%) Solaris
4 21 (23.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (22.22%) Debian
6 5 (5.556%) UNIX
7 4 (4.444%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.444%) CentOS
8 2 (2.222%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.111%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (22.22%) Network Management
2 19 (21.11%) Migration
3 18 (20.00%) ITIL
4 17 (18.89%) Information Security
5 11 (12.22%) Configuration Management
6 10 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 8 (8.889%) Risk Management
8 7 (7.778%) Security Management
8 7 (7.778%) Project Management
8 7 (7.778%) Project Planning
8 7 (7.778%) Network Design
9 6 (6.667%) Penetration Testing
9 6 (6.667%) SIEM
9 6 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (6.667%) Information Security Management
9 6 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (5.556%) Change Management
11 3 (3.333%) Service Management
11 3 (3.333%) Quality Management
11 3 (3.333%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.444%) Java
2 3 (3.333%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.222%) Bash shell
3 2 (2.222%) PHP
4 1 (1.111%) SQL
4 1 (1.111%) Python
4 1 (1.111%) Ruby
4 1 (1.111%) Perl
Qualifications
1 28 (31.11%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (26.67%) CCIE
3 20 (22.22%) CISSP
3 20 (22.22%) JNCIE
4 15 (16.67%) CISM
5 7 (7.778%) CCSP
6 6 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (6.667%) Degree
6 6 (6.667%) CISA
7 5 (5.556%) MCSA
8 4 (4.444%) JNCIA
8 4 (4.444%) JNCIS
9 3 (3.333%) CCNP
9 3 (3.333%) CCIP
9 3 (3.333%) CCDP
9 3 (3.333%) Security Cleared
9 3 (3.333%) CCVP
10 2 (2.222%) CEH
10 2 (2.222%) Security+ Certification
11 1 (1.111%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (8.889%) COBIT
3 6 (6.667%) SLA
4 5 (5.556%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.111%) HIPAA
System Software
1 42 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (25.56%) Active Directory
2 23 (25.56%) vSphere
3 1 (1.111%) Gluster
3 1 (1.111%) VMware ESX
3 1 (1.111%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.111%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 20 (22.22%) FortiGate
2 12 (13.33%) Puppet
3 4 (4.444%) Cisco CUCM
3 4 (4.444%) NetBackup
4 3 (3.333%) Cisco UCCE
5 2 (2.222%) Nessus
5 2 (2.222%) WMI
5 2 (2.222%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.111%) Nagios
6 1 (1.111%) Cacti
6 1 (1.111%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 44 (48.89%) VMware
2 38 (42.22%) Cisco
3 30 (33.33%) Juniper
4 24 (26.67%) F5
5 23 (25.56%) Polycom
5 23 (25.56%) Fortinet
6 21 (23.33%) Red Hat
7 20 (22.22%) Sourcefire
7 20 (22.22%) HP
7 20 (22.22%) Aruba
8 12 (13.33%) Atlassian
9 5 (5.556%) Oracle
9 5 (5.556%) Microsoft
10 4 (4.444%) NETGEAR
10 4 (4.444%) EMC
10 4 (4.444%) CheckPoint
11 3 (3.333%) IBM
12 1 (1.111%) JBoss
12 1 (1.111%) CA
12 1 (1.111%) Sophos
City, London
PCI DSS Security Consultant / London / Up to 45K My client is a leading Security Consultancy who require a PCI DSS Consultant to provide on & off site consultancy support...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Up to 45K +
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
My client is a leading Security Consultancy who require a Managing Consultant to lead their team of consultants, liaise with the Project Management Office and conduct performance reviews...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Up to 70K + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Good understanding of PCI DSS, Cobit and ISO27001/2 standards... CISM,CISSP,MCSA, Security+ A flexible approach to working hours for projects & incidents extending outside normal office hours.
clearedgeconsulting
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 29 May 2013
City of London
You will be familiar with ITIL and ITSM, and have had relevant experience with PCI DSS compliance within an IT framework.The Compliance Manager will act as the...
360 Resourcing Solutions
Salary: £55k - 65k per year + Benefits
Posted: 31 May 2013
City of London
If you are a guru, and interested in essentially leading the LINUX & SECURITY TEAM within a well-established company, read on!We are seeking an individual that can...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
Truphone
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 1 June 2013
City of London
WorldPay
Salary: Competitive + Bens
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
The People Network
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 15 June 2013
City of London
WorldPay
Salary: Competitive + Bens
Posted: 3 June 2013