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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 162 182
Rank change year-on-year +54 +20 -42
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 16 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.73% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.28% 2.21% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 7
10th Percentile £523 £527 £540
25th Percentile £651 £591 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.37% +11.36% +5.77%
75th Percentile £875 £754 £657
90th Percentile £898 £756 £730
Central London median daily rate £725 £613 £550
% change year-on-year +18.37% +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 374 453 659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.11% 12.79% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 333 438
10th Percentile £363 £400 £356
25th Percentile £463 £500 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +8.17%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £647
90th Percentile £758 £838 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +6.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £16.78 - £19.13
25th Percentile £17.96 - £23.06
Median hourly rate £20.61 - £43.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +200.00%
75th Percentile £22.65 - £61.94
90th Percentile £23.46 - £62.28
Central London median hourly rate £23.40 £25.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -6.40% -39.76% +186.21%

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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 9 May 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 (6.25%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (12.50%) Twilio
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (6.25%) AWS KMS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.25%) Miro
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) CTI
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) VoIP
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
2 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) SAP HANA
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Advertising
2 2 (12.50%) Back Office
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) International Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Analyst
1 3 (18.75%) Architect
1 3 (18.75%) Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 3 (18.75%) Information Security Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) Security Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Information Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Information Security Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Security Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Middleware
1 2 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (6.25%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) IVR
3 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (37.50%) Information Security
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Business Agility
5 3 (18.75%) Security Architecture
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (12.50%) Business Continuity
6 2 (12.50%) Conversational UI
6 2 (12.50%) CRM
6 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
6 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (12.50%) Due Diligence
6 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
6 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (12.50%) Project Management
6 2 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Bicep
2 1 (6.25%) C#
2 1 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) CISM
1 3 (18.75%) CISSP
1 3 (18.75%) CRISC
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) FFIEC
2 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) NIST
2 6 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (18.75%) ISO 31000
3 3 (18.75%) NIST 800
4 2 (12.50%) GDPR
4 2 (12.50%) HIPAA
4 2 (12.50%) SOC 2
5 1 (6.25%) ISO 20022
5 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Packer
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Kibana
2 1 (6.25%) logstash
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Avaya
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco
2 2 (12.50%) Genesys
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Confluent
3 1 (6.25%) CyberSource
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.25%) SAP