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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Rank 53 - 64
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 3 0 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 0.576% - 0.996%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.545% - 12.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 5
Average salary £57,500 - £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £46,250 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-11.90% +10.52%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
66 49 57
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 12.67% 9.839% 8.108%
Number of salaries quoted 58 46 39
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £37,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
PCI DSS
South East

PCI DSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex PCI DSS Salary Trend

PCI DSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 5 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (57.14%) SIEM
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (42.86%) Retail
3 3 (42.86%) Information Security
4 2 (28.57%) Brocade
4 2 (28.57%) VMware
4 2 (28.57%) AS400
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) IBM
4 2 (28.57%) Sun
4 2 (28.57%) HP
4 2 (28.57%) Dell
4 2 (28.57%) SAN
4 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
4 2 (28.57%) UNIX
4 2 (28.57%) Windows
4 2 (28.57%) AIX
4 2 (28.57%) Solaris
4 2 (28.57%) Linux
4 2 (28.57%) LAN
4 2 (28.57%) WAN
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle
4 2 (28.57%) COBIT
4 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle Linux

PCI DSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SAN
1 2 (28.57%) LAN
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
General
1 3 (42.86%) Retail
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Team Leader
1 2 (28.57%) UNIX Team Leader
1 2 (28.57%) Compliance Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) IT Operations Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Operations Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) UNIX
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) AIX
1 2 (28.57%) Solaris
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) SIEM
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Information Security
3 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL V3
4 1 (14.29%) ISMS
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Data Security
4 1 (14.29%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Brocade
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
1 2 (28.57%) IBM
1 2 (28.57%) Sun
1 2 (28.57%) HP
1 2 (28.57%) Dell
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Qualys