PCI DSS Contracts in the City of London

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 167 181
Rank change year-on-year +52 +14 -46
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 11 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.50% 0.27% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.86% 2.14% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 7
10th Percentile £653 £527 £540
25th Percentile £663 £591 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% +11.36% +5.77%
75th Percentile £875 £754 £657
90th Percentile £888 £756 £730
Central London median daily rate £750 £613 £550
% change year-on-year +22.45% +11.36% +5.77%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

PCI DSS is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 384 467 673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.44% 12.81% 15.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 342 451
10th Percentile £363 £400 £350
25th Percentile £463 £499 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +6.02%
75th Percentile £661 £725 £638
90th Percentile £763 £838 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £17.18 - £19.13
25th Percentile £18.94 - £23.06
Median hourly rate £21.80 - £43.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +200.00%
75th Percentile £36.44 - £61.94
90th Percentile £58.83 - £62.28
Central London median hourly rate £23.80 £23.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year +1.28% -45.98% +200.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Advertising
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) International Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Consultant
1 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 3 (27.27%) Information Security Consultant
1 3 (27.27%) Security Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Information Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Information Security Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Security Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
3 1 (9.09%) Security Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (54.55%) Information Security
3 3 (27.27%) Business Agility
3 3 (27.27%) Security Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
4 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (18.18%) Due Diligence
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
4 2 (18.18%) Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) BCP
5 1 (9.09%) Identity Management
5 1 (9.09%) OOP
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.09%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Bicep
2 1 (9.09%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CISM
1 3 (27.27%) CISSP
1 3 (27.27%) CRISC
2 2 (18.18%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) NIST
2 6 (54.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (27.27%) ISO 31000
3 3 (27.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Kibana
1 1 (9.09%) logstash
1 1 (9.09%) Packer
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) IBM