PCI DSS Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for PCI DSS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PCI DSS over the 3 months to 22 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) UK / England
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	371	329	380
Rank change year-on-year	-42	+51
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS	232	336	255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.54%	0.68%	0.50%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category	4.67%	6.04%	4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted	153	227	151
Median daily rate	£500	£430	£434
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+16.27%	-0.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£375	£329	£308
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£606	£575	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£475	£420	£425
% change year-on-year	+13.09%	-1.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	2	2
Median hourly rate	-	£24.23	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	-30.78%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	£24.23	-

PCI DSS is in the quality assurance and compliance skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance and compliance skills.

Contract Quality Assurance & Compliance Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance and compliance skills	4965	5561	5894
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	11.53%	11.23%	11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted	3221	3619	3848
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£407
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+4.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£250	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£613	£600	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£380	£375
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	+1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted	157	204	189
Median hourly rate	£22.50	£28.00	£21.78
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-19.64%	+28.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£12.50	£12.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£46.80	£47.50	£49.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£25.00	£28.50	£25.00
% change year-on-year	-12.28%	+14.00%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in England

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing PCI DSS in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for PCI DSS in England

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing PCI DSS in England over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in England

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing PCI DSS in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in England

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PCI DSS within the England region over the 3 months to 22 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	0	89	£525	+5.00%	34
South East	-25	60	£475	+5.55%	16
East of England	+5	28	£475	+18.75%	8
North West	+8	26	£525	+28.04%	15
South West	-6	14	£531	+41.66%	3
Yorkshire	+24	8	£225	-43.75%	6
West Midlands	+20	5	£394	+5.00%	10
East Midlands	-15	2	£425	+9.67%	4
North East	-	2	£500	-	1
PCI DSS UK

PCI DSS
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 22 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing PCI DSS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for PCI DSS.

1	208 (44.26%)	Information Security
2	162 (34.47%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	155 (32.98%)	CISSP
4	112 (23.83%)	Finance
5	106 (22.55%)	CISM
6	105 (22.34%)	Firewall
7	86 (18.30%)	GDPR
8	82 (17.45%)	Cybersecurity
9	71 (15.11%)	Linux
9	71 (15.11%)	SIEM
10	68 (14.47%)	Degree
11	67 (14.26%)	Windows
12	66 (14.04%)	Agile Software Development
13	65 (13.83%)	ITIL
14	62 (13.19%)	Microsoft

14	62 (13.19%)	Data Centre
15	61 (12.98%)	Data Protection
16	57 (12.13%)	Management Information System
17	54 (11.49%)	Amazon AWS
18	52 (11.06%)	Stakeholder Management
18	52 (11.06%)	Security Architecture
19	51 (10.85%)	Cisco
20	50 (10.64%)	Project Management
21	49 (10.43%)	Risk Management
22	48 (10.21%)	Microsoft Azure
23	47 (10.00%)	CISA
23	47 (10.00%)	Penetration Testing
24	43 (9.15%)	SQL
25	41 (8.72%)	Cisco Certification
26	38 (8.09%)	SQL Server

PCI DSS
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	22 (4.68%)	JBoss
2	20 (4.26%)	Apache
3	19 (4.04%)	Tomcat
4	13 (2.77%)	IIS
5	12 (2.55%)	WebSphere
6	9 (1.91%)	CMS
6	9 (1.91%)	SharePoint
7	7 (1.49%)	Mule
8	6 (1.28%)	Apache Solr
8	6 (1.28%)	Elasticsearch
9	5 (1.06%)	Apache Pig
9	5 (1.06%)	MS Exchange
9	5 (1.06%)	Oracle SOA Suite
9	5 (1.06%)	Skype for Business
9	5 (1.06%)	WebSphere Application Server
10	4 (0.85%)	Apache Spark
10	4 (0.85%)	Confluence
11	2 (0.43%)	Adobe Experience Manager
11	2 (0.43%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
11	2 (0.43%)	OpenStack

Applications
1	14 (2.98%)	Microsoft Office
2	9 (1.91%)	MS Visio
3	7 (1.49%)	Microsoft Excel
4	4 (0.85%)	Microsoft Project
5	2 (0.43%)	Spreadsheet
6	1 (0.21%)	Microsoft PowerPoint

Business Applications
1	1 (0.21%)	Dynamics NAV
1	1 (0.21%)	SAP ERP
1	1 (0.21%)	SAP Oil and Gas
1	1 (0.21%)	Sentinel

Cloud Services
1	54 (11.49%)	Amazon AWS
2	48 (10.21%)	Microsoft Azure
3	19 (4.04%)	Office 365
4	15 (3.19%)	Cloud Computing
5	14 (2.98%)	SaaS
6	8 (1.70%)	Mimecast
7	3 (0.64%)	IaaS
7	3 (0.64%)	IBM Cloud
7	3 (0.64%)	OpenShift
7	3 (0.64%)	SoftLayer
8	2 (0.43%)	Akamai
8	2 (0.43%)	Amazon CloudWatch
8	2 (0.43%)	Amazon EC2
8	2 (0.43%)	GitHub
8	2 (0.43%)	PaaS
9	1 (0.21%)	Amazon S3
9	1 (0.21%)	AWS CloudFormation
9	1 (0.21%)	AWS CloudTrail
9	1 (0.21%)	Google Cloud Platform
9	1 (0.21%)	Virtual Private Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	105 (22.34%)	Firewall
2	35 (7.45%)	Network Security
3	26 (5.53%)	Intrusion Detection
4	23 (4.89%)	LAN
4	23 (4.89%)	Wireless
5	22 (4.68%)	Cisco ASA
6	21 (4.47%)	Internet
6	21 (4.47%)	WAN
7	20 (4.26%)	DNS
7	20 (4.26%)	SSL
8	19 (4.04%)	VPN
9	15 (3.19%)	TCP/IP
10	11 (2.34%)	DHCP
11	9 (1.91%)	Cisco Nexus
12	8 (1.70%)	HTTP
12	8 (1.70%)	NetScaler
12	8 (1.70%)	SAN
13	7 (1.49%)	EIGRP
13	7 (1.49%)	IPsec
13	7 (1.49%)	TACACS

Database & Business Intelligence
1	38 (8.09%)	SQL Server
2	8 (1.70%)	Hadoop
3	7 (1.49%)	Oracle Database
4	6 (1.28%)	DataStax
4	6 (1.28%)	MongoDB
4	6 (1.28%)	Relational Database
5	5 (1.06%)	Apache Hive
5	5 (1.06%)	Data Warehouse
5	5 (1.06%)	HBase
5	5 (1.06%)	MySQL
5	5 (1.06%)	PostgreSQL
6	4 (0.85%)	Redis
6	4 (0.85%)	SQL Server 2016
6	4 (0.85%)	SQL Server Integration Services
6	4 (0.85%)	Sqoop
7	3 (0.64%)	Amazon RDS
7	3 (0.64%)	MariaDB
7	3 (0.64%)	NoSQL
7	3 (0.64%)	SQL Server 2012
7	3 (0.64%)	SQL Server 2014

Development Applications
1	7 (1.49%)	Git (software)
1	7 (1.49%)	JIRA
2	6 (1.28%)	Jenkins
2	6 (1.28%)	Maven
3	5 (1.06%)	Hudson
3	5 (1.06%)	Visual Studio
4	3 (0.64%)	Vagrant
5	2 (0.43%)	Rational DOORS
5	2 (0.43%)	Subversion
5	2 (0.43%)	Team Foundation Server
6	1 (0.21%)	Bitbucket
6	1 (0.21%)	Eclipse
6	1 (0.21%)	JUnit
6	1 (0.21%)	Mockito
6	1 (0.21%)	Octopus Deploy
6	1 (0.21%)	Selenium
6	1 (0.21%)	Talend Open Studio
6	1 (0.21%)	TeamCity
6	1 (0.21%)	TestPartner
6	1 (0.21%)	Visual Studio Team System

General
1	112 (23.83%)	Finance
2	37 (7.87%)	Retail
3	29 (6.17%)	Legal
4	26 (5.53%)	Telecoms
5	25 (5.32%)	Banking
6	13 (2.77%)	Financial Institution
7	5 (1.06%)	Local Government
8	3 (0.64%)	Back Office
8	3 (0.64%)	Marketing
8	3 (0.64%)	Wholesale Banking
9	2 (0.43%)	Billing
9	2 (0.43%)	Law
10	1 (0.21%)	Electronics
10	1 (0.21%)	Manufacturing
10	1 (0.21%)	Pharmaceutical

Job Titles
1	100 (21.28%)	Architect
2	76 (16.17%)	Consultant
3	75 (15.96%)	Analyst
4	58 (12.34%)	Security Consultant
5	53 (11.28%)	Security Analyst
6	50 (10.64%)	Security Architect
7	45 (9.57%)	Project Manager
8	35 (7.45%)	Security Manager
9	29 (6.17%)	Solutions Architect
10	27 (5.74%)	Information Security Consultant
11	26 (5.53%)	Security Engineer
12	24 (5.11%)	Developer
13	20 (4.26%)	Information Analyst
13	20 (4.26%)	Information Security Analyst
13	20 (4.26%)	Information Security Manager
14	17 (3.62%)	Security Project Manager
15	16 (3.40%)	Information Manager
16	15 (3.19%)	Cybersecurity Analyst
17	14 (2.98%)	Business Analyst
17	14 (2.98%)	Infrastructure Architect

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	18 (3.83%)	Middleware
1	18 (3.83%)	RESTful
1	18 (3.83%)	Web Services
2	17 (3.62%)	.NET
2	17 (3.62%)	REST
3	16 (3.40%)	SOAP
4	12 (2.55%)	Spring
5	10 (2.13%)	HTML
5	10 (2.13%)	jQuery
6	9 (1.91%)	CSS
7	8 (1.70%)	JMS
8	7 (1.49%)	Ajax
8	7 (1.49%)	AngularJS
8	7 (1.49%)	Hibernate
8	7 (1.49%)	HTML5
8	7 (1.49%)	JSP
9	6 (1.28%)	Elastic Stack
9	6 (1.28%)	JSON
9	6 (1.28%)	Struts
9	6 (1.28%)	WebSphere MQ

Miscellaneous
1	62 (13.19%)	Data Centre
2	57 (12.13%)	Management Information System
3	38 (8.09%)	Analytical Skills
4	35 (7.45%)	Data Protection Act
5	25 (5.32%)	Computer Science
6	17 (3.62%)	CESG
7	15 (3.19%)	PKI
8	11 (2.34%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
9	8 (1.70%)	Freedom of Information
9	8 (1.70%)	Freedom of Information Act
9	8 (1.70%)	Hybrid Cloud
10	7 (1.49%)	Driving Licence
10	7 (1.49%)	Mobile App
10	7 (1.49%)	RIA
10	7 (1.49%)	Security Operations Centre
11	6 (1.28%)	EPoS
11	6 (1.28%)	Private Cloud
12	5 (1.06%)	Contactless
12	5 (1.06%)	Enterprise Software
12	5 (1.06%)	IVR

Operating Systems
1	71 (15.11%)	Linux
2	67 (14.26%)	Windows
3	28 (5.96%)	Unix
4	23 (4.89%)	Windows Server
5	14 (2.98%)	Windows Server 2012
6	12 (2.55%)	Mac OS X
6	12 (2.55%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	9 (1.91%)	Mac OS
8	8 (1.70%)	AIX
9	5 (1.06%)	Oracle Linux
9	5 (1.06%)	Solaris
9	5 (1.06%)	Windows Server 2008
10	4 (0.85%)	CentOS
10	4 (0.85%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11	3 (0.64%)	Android
11	3 (0.64%)	Windows Server 2003
12	2 (0.43%)	Apple iOS
12	2 (0.43%)	Debian
12	2 (0.43%)	Ubuntu
12	2 (0.43%)	Windows 7

Processes & Methodologies
1	208 (44.26%)	Information Security
2	82 (17.45%)	Cybersecurity
3	71 (15.11%)	SIEM
4	66 (14.04%)	Agile Software Development
5	65 (13.83%)	ITIL
6	61 (12.98%)	Data Protection
7	52 (11.06%)	Security Architecture
7	52 (11.06%)	Stakeholder Management
8	50 (10.64%)	Project Management
9	49 (10.43%)	Risk Management
10	47 (10.00%)	Penetration Testing
11	34 (7.23%)	TOGAF
12	30 (6.38%)	PRINCE2
13	29 (6.17%)	Security Management
14	26 (5.53%)	Business Continuity
14	26 (5.53%)	DevOps
14	26 (5.53%)	Identity Access Management
14	26 (5.53%)	Security Operations
14	26 (5.53%)	Vulnerability Management
15	25 (5.32%)	Continuous Improvement

Programming Languages
1	43 (9.15%)	SQL
2	35 (7.45%)	Java
3	19 (4.04%)	Python
4	14 (2.98%)	Perl
5	10 (2.13%)	JavaScript
5	10 (2.13%)	PowerShell
6	8 (1.70%)	Bash Shell
7	7 (1.49%)	Ruby
8	6 (1.28%)	C#
9	5 (1.06%)	C
10	4 (0.85%)	C++
10	4 (0.85%)	PL/SQL
11	3 (0.64%)	Korn
12	2 (0.43%)	Shell Script
12	2 (0.43%)	T-SQL
13	1 (0.21%)	PHP
13	1 (0.21%)	Scala
13	1 (0.21%)	UniBasic
13	1 (0.21%)	VB
13	1 (0.21%)	VB6

Qualifications
1	155 (32.98%)	CISSP
2	106 (22.55%)	CISM
3	68 (14.47%)	Degree
4	47 (10.00%)	CISA
5	41 (8.72%)	Cisco Certification
6	38 (8.09%)	SANS
7	29 (6.17%)	Security Cleared
8	26 (5.53%)	SC Cleared
9	23 (4.89%)	CCSP
10	20 (4.26%)	CCNP
10	20 (4.26%)	Computer Science Degree
11	19 (4.04%)	(ISC)2 CCSP
11	19 (4.04%)	CESG Certified Professional
12	17 (3.62%)	GIAC
13	14 (2.98%)	CLAS
13	14 (2.98%)	SSCP
14	13 (2.77%)	PCI QSA
15	11 (2.34%)	CEH
15	11 (2.34%)	CRISC
16	9 (1.91%)	GCIH

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	162 (34.47%)	ISO/IEC 27001
2	86 (18.30%)	GDPR
3	32 (6.81%)	COBIT
4	28 (5.96%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
5	27 (5.74%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6	11 (2.34%)	Cyber Essentials
7	10 (2.13%)	FedRAMP
7	10 (2.13%)	GPG13
8	9 (1.91%)	ISO 22301
9	8 (1.70%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
9	8 (1.70%)	ISO/IEC 27005
9	8 (1.70%)	PA-DSS
9	8 (1.70%)	QA
9	8 (1.70%)	SLA
10	6 (1.28%)	JSP 440
10	6 (1.28%)	RMADS
11	5 (1.06%)	PMO
12	4 (0.85%)	Data Quality
12	4 (0.85%)	NIST 800
12	4 (0.85%)	WCAG

System Software
1	33 (7.02%)	Active Directory
2	18 (3.83%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	10 (2.13%)	Docker
3	10 (2.13%)	vSphere
4	8 (1.70%)	Hyper-V
5	6 (1.28%)	Apache Flume
5	6 (1.28%)	XenApp
6	5 (1.06%)	vCloud
7	4 (0.85%)	HDFS
7	4 (0.85%)	Virtual Machines
7	4 (0.85%)	VMware ESXi
8	3 (0.64%)	Oracle RAC
9	2 (0.43%)	Microsoft App-V
9	2 (0.43%)	Snort
9	2 (0.43%)	Virtual Servers
9	2 (0.43%)	Xen
10	1 (0.21%)	iptables
10	1 (0.21%)	KVM
10	1 (0.21%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
10	1 (0.21%)	Postfix

Systems Management
1	19 (4.04%)	Puppet
2	12 (2.55%)	Ansible
2	12 (2.55%)	SCCM
3	9 (1.91%)	McAfee ePO
4	8 (1.70%)	Opscode Chef
5	7 (1.49%)	Nagios
6	6 (1.28%)	FortiGate
6	6 (1.28%)	Kibana
6	6 (1.28%)	logstash
6	6 (1.28%)	Nessus
7	3 (0.64%)	Nexpose
7	3 (0.64%)	Red Hat Satellite
7	3 (0.64%)	vCenter Server
7	3 (0.64%)	vRealize
7	3 (0.64%)	WSUS
8	2 (0.43%)	Cisco UCCX
8	2 (0.43%)	Cobbler
8	2 (0.43%)	Data Guard
8	2 (0.43%)	Nmap
8	2 (0.43%)	Oracle RMAN

Vendors
1	62 (13.19%)	Microsoft
2	51 (10.85%)	Cisco
3	33 (7.02%)	VMware
4	32 (6.81%)	Splunk
5	27 (5.74%)	F5
6	25 (5.32%)	CheckPoint
7	23 (4.89%)	Oracle
8	21 (4.47%)	McAfee
8	21 (4.47%)	Palo Alto
9	19 (4.04%)	Rapid7
10	18 (3.83%)	Qualys
11	17 (3.62%)	Red Hat
12	16 (3.40%)	IBM
13	15 (3.19%)	LogRhythm
14	13 (2.77%)	Dell
14	13 (2.77%)	Tufin
15	11 (2.34%)	NetApp
16	10 (2.13%)	FireEye
16	10 (2.13%)	Juniper
17	9 (1.91%)	Citrix