The first table below looks at the demand for PCI DSS skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PCI DSS over the 3 months to 21 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Rank 231 225 203
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -22
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 23 20 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.319% 0.282% 0.428%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.381% 3.559% 6.502%
Number of salaries quoted 12 13 26
Average salary £47,500 £52,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.52% +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,250 £32,500 £30,750
10% offered a salary of more than £68,500 £69,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +10.52%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
525 562 446
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 7.279% 7.931% 6.589%
Number of salaries quoted 436 469 396
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £59,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West PCI DSS Salary Trend

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PCI DSS across the North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Cheshire +21 14 £52,500 -16.00%
Manchester -23 6 £40,000 -11.11%
Lancashire - 2 £57,500 -
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 40 (72.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 36 (65.45%) Risk Management
3 32 (58.18%) Information Security
4 22 (40.00%) Finance
5 15 (27.27%) Microsoft
6 13 (23.64%) CISSP
6 13 (23.64%) CISM
6 13 (23.64%) Firewall
6 13 (23.64%) Integration Testing
6 13 (23.64%) High Availability
6 13 (23.64%) Information Governance
7 12 (21.82%) Database Security
7 12 (21.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (21.82%) MS Excel
7 12 (21.82%) SQL Server
8 11 (20.00%) Windows
8 11 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (20.00%) Banking
9 10 (18.18%) CISA
9 10 (18.18%) CCNA
9 10 (18.18%) ITIL
10 8 (14.55%) Clustering
10 8 (14.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (14.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (14.55%) Cisco
10 8 (14.55%) SQL
10 8 (14.55%) SQL Server 2008
10 8 (14.55%) Network Security
11 7 (12.73%) LAN
11 7 (12.73%) VoIP

PCI DSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 6 (10.91%) .NET
2 5 (9.091%) ASP.NET
3 4 (7.273%) WinForms
3 4 (7.273%) WSDL
3 4 (7.273%) Web Services
3 4 (7.273%) XML
4 1 (1.818%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.636%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (3.636%) MS Exchange
2 1 (1.818%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (1.818%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (21.82%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (23.64%) Firewall
2 8 (14.55%) Network Security
3 7 (12.73%) LAN
3 7 (12.73%) VoIP
3 7 (12.73%) WAN
3 7 (12.73%) MPLS
4 6 (10.91%) Wireless
5 5 (9.091%) TCP/IP
5 5 (9.091%) DNS
5 5 (9.091%) SAN
5 5 (9.091%) DSL
5 5 (9.091%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (3.636%) Internet
7 1 (1.818%) Extranet
7 1 (1.818%) DMZ
7 1 (1.818%) TACACS
7 1 (1.818%) ADSL
7 1 (1.818%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.818%) VPN
7 1 (1.818%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.82%) SQL Server
2 8 (14.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 8 (14.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 8 (14.55%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.818%) MySQL
General
1 22 (40.00%) Finance
2 11 (20.00%) Banking
3 4 (7.273%) Legal
3 4 (7.273%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 13 (23.64%) Analyst
2 10 (18.18%) Architect
3 9 (16.36%) Consultant
3 9 (16.36%) Security Consultant
4 8 (14.55%) SQL DBA
4 8 (14.55%) Senior DBA
4 8 (14.55%) Security Manager
4 8 (14.55%) Senior SQL DBA
4 8 (14.55%) DBA
5 7 (12.73%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (10.91%) Security Analyst
6 6 (10.91%) Information Security Consultant
7 5 (9.091%) Security Architect
7 5 (9.091%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (7.273%) .NET Developer
8 4 (7.273%) Developer
9 3 (5.455%) IT Security Analyst
9 3 (5.455%) Information Security Manager
9 3 (5.455%) Information Manager
9 3 (5.455%) Lead Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Clustering
2 5 (9.091%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (7.273%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.00%) Windows
2 7 (12.73%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (5.455%) Linux
4 1 (1.818%) Windows XP
4 1 (1.818%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.818%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.818%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (65.45%) Risk Management
2 32 (58.18%) Information Security
3 13 (23.64%) Integration Testing
3 13 (23.64%) High Availability
3 13 (23.64%) Information Governance
4 12 (21.82%) Database Security
5 10 (18.18%) ITIL
6 6 (10.91%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (10.91%) E-Commerce
6 6 (10.91%) Capacity Management
7 5 (9.091%) Portfolio Management
7 5 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (9.091%) Business Development
7 5 (9.091%) B2C
7 5 (9.091%) SOA
7 5 (9.091%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (9.091%) Service Management
7 5 (9.091%) ITSM
7 5 (9.091%) Identity Management
7 5 (9.091%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.55%) SQL
2 5 (9.091%) VB.NET
3 4 (7.273%) C#
4 1 (1.818%) Java
4 1 (1.818%) PHP
4 1 (1.818%) VB
4 1 (1.818%) VB6
Qualifications
1 13 (23.64%) CISSP
1 13 (23.64%) CISM
2 12 (21.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (18.18%) CISA
4 10 (18.18%) CCNA
5 5 (9.091%) CCIE
6 3 (5.455%) CEH
7 1 (1.818%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.818%) CCNP
7 1 (1.818%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.818%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (72.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (10.91%) COBIT
3 5 (9.091%) COSO
4 1 (1.818%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.818%) QA
System Software
1 6 (10.91%) Active Directory
1 6 (10.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.818%) ISA Server
2 1 (1.818%) ProxySG
2 1 (1.818%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.818%) Nagios
1 1 (1.818%) MAILsweeper
1 1 (1.818%) Nessus
1 1 (1.818%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 15 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.55%) Cisco
3 6 (10.91%) VMware
4 2 (3.636%) Symantec
4 2 (3.636%) CheckPoint
4 2 (3.636%) HP
5 1 (1.818%) Citrix
5 1 (1.818%) Avaya
5 1 (1.818%) Juniper
5 1 (1.818%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.818%) McAfee
5 1 (1.818%) Blue Coat
5 1 (1.818%) AppSense
5 1 (1.818%) Qualys
5 1 (1.818%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.818%) Acronis
5 1 (1.818%) F5
5 1 (1.818%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.818%) Fredhopper
5 1 (1.818%) Lumension
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