PCI DSS Contracts in London

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 360 484
Rank change year-on-year +55 +124 -105
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 91 137 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.51% 0.51% 0.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.66% 3.90% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 108 85
10th Percentile £400 £500 £438
25th Percentile £508 £563 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +11.36% +7.32%
75th Percentile £788 £700 £645
90th Percentile £875 £757 £700
England median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,488 3,516 5,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.97% 13.04% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,765 2,530 3,510
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £650
90th Percentile £800 £788 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 35 83
10th Percentile £13.09 £20.10 £21.00
25th Percentile £18.04 £21.24 £26.00
Median hourly rate £24.34 £26.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% -40.45% +122.50%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £53.68 £81.50 £68.50
England median hourly rate £22.34 £41.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year -45.84% +50.00% +30.95%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in London

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in London

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in London

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in London

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +42 12 £750 +22.45% 3
East London -2 6 £485 -11.82% 2
North London - 1 £320 -
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (2.20%) CMS
1 2 (2.20%) IIS
1 2 (2.20%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (39.56%) Azure
2 23 (25.27%) AWS
3 9 (9.89%) GCP
4 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.59%) Azure Service Bus
4 6 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (6.59%) GitHub
4 6 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.40%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (2.20%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (2.20%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.20%) Datadog
7 2 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.20%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.10%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.19%) Firewall
2 6 (6.59%) Network Security
3 3 (3.30%) DNS
3 3 (3.30%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.20%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (2.20%) VPN
5 1 (1.10%) DMZ
5 1 (1.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.40%) Burp Suite
2 4 (4.40%) JIRA
3 2 (2.20%) GitLab
3 2 (2.20%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.20%) Selenium
General
1 24 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.08%) Finance
3 13 (14.29%) Back Office
4 11 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.69%) Banking
6 6 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.40%) Legal
8 4 (4.40%) Retail
9 2 (2.20%) Advertising
9 2 (2.20%) International Banking
9 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.20%) Multimedia
10 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.10%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 23 (25.27%) Senior
2 16 (17.58%) Architect
3 13 (14.29%) Consultant
3 13 (14.29%) Security Consultant
4 12 (13.19%) Developer
5 11 (12.09%) Analyst
6 9 (9.89%) Lead
6 9 (9.89%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 7 (7.69%) Security Architect
8 6 (6.59%) Product Owner
8 6 (6.59%) Senior Software Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Software Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Technical Leader
9 5 (5.49%) Security Analyst
9 5 (5.49%) Security Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (5.49%) Technical Architect
9 5 (5.49%) Technical Consultant
9 5 (5.49%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.79%) .NET
2 6 (6.59%) REST
3 2 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.20%) Spring
3 2 (2.20%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.20%) Spring Security
3 2 (2.20%) Spring WebFlux
4 1 (1.10%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.10%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.10%) JWT
4 1 (1.10%) LDAP
4 1 (1.10%) OAuth
4 1 (1.10%) OpenID
4 1 (1.10%) SAML
4 1 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.19%) Cyber Threat
1 12 (13.19%) Management Information System
2 11 (12.09%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.30%) IoT
4 3 (3.30%) PKI
5 2 (2.20%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.10%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.40%) Linux
2 3 (3.30%) Kali Linux
2 3 (3.30%) Windows
3 2 (2.20%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (45.05%) Agile
2 29 (31.87%) Cybersecurity
3 22 (24.18%) DevOps
4 20 (21.98%) Information Security
5 17 (18.68%) Design Patterns
6 16 (17.58%) Cloud Security
7 15 (16.48%) Content Management
7 15 (16.48%) Database Optimisation
7 15 (16.48%) Software Engineering
8 12 (13.19%) Risk Management
8 12 (13.19%) Security Architecture
9 11 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (10.99%) Workflow
11 9 (9.89%) CI/CD
11 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (9.89%) SDLC
12 8 (8.79%) Requirements Gathering
12 8 (8.79%) SIEM
12 8 (8.79%) User Stories
12 8 (8.79%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.08%) Java
2 18 (19.78%) PowerShell
3 16 (17.58%) C#
3 16 (17.58%) JavaScript
3 16 (17.58%) SQL
4 7 (7.69%) Python
5 2 (2.20%) C
6 1 (1.10%) Bicep
6 1 (1.10%) C++
6 1 (1.10%) Perl
6 1 (1.10%) Ruby
6 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (19.78%) Degree
2 13 (14.29%) CISM
3 10 (10.99%) CISSP
4 7 (7.69%) CRISC
5 6 (6.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 6 (6.59%) CISA
5 6 (6.59%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.40%) OSCP
6 4 (4.40%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.40%) Security Cleared
7 3 (3.30%) CREST Certified
7 3 (3.30%) FFIEC
8 2 (2.20%) CEH
8 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.20%) CSSLP
8 2 (2.20%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.10%) GCIA
9 1 (1.10%) GCIH
9 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (29.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (26.37%) NIST
3 12 (13.19%) GDPR
4 7 (7.69%) ISO 31000
4 7 (7.69%) NIST 800
5 4 (4.40%) GRC
5 4 (4.40%) PSD2
6 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.20%) COBIT
6 2 (2.20%) HIPAA
6 2 (2.20%) ISO 22301
7 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.10%) NCSC
7 1 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (5.49%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.20%) Docker
2 2 (2.20%) Squid
Systems Management
1 13 (14.29%) Terraform
2 4 (4.40%) Ansible
2 4 (4.40%) Kibana
3 3 (3.30%) Nessus
4 2 (2.20%) CA Service Virtualization
4 2 (2.20%) Grafana
4 2 (2.20%) HAProxy
4 2 (2.20%) logstash
4 2 (2.20%) Packer
5 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.10%) Nmap
Vendors
1 14 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.30%) Google
2 3 (3.30%) Qualys
2 3 (3.30%) Splunk
3 2 (2.20%) CA
3 2 (2.20%) Cisco
3 2 (2.20%) Fortinet
3 2 (2.20%) IBM
3 2 (2.20%) Micro Focus
3 2 (2.20%) New Relic
3 2 (2.20%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.10%) AlienVault
4 1 (1.10%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.10%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.10%) OpenText
4 1 (1.10%) Ping Identity
4 1 (1.10%) SAP
4 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.10%) Veracode