PCI DSS Contracts in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 119 135 164
Rank change year-on-year +16 +29 -37
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 18 17 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.67% 0.55% 0.30%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.88% 3.73% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 12
10th Percentile £425 £393 £407
25th Percentile £463 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £525 £583
Median % change year-on-year +16.19% -9.87% +15.35%
75th Percentile £644 £550 £633
90th Percentile £675 £568 £667
England median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +8.91%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 464 456 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.31% 14.69% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 292 396
10th Percentile £325 £300 £213
25th Percentile £425 £390 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £464
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.43% +3.06%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £594
90th Percentile £694 £650 £674
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 31 34
10th Percentile - £28.70 £10.35
25th Percentile £10.95 £30.54 £11.75
Median hourly rate £12.84 £39.60 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -67.58% +116.99% +21.67%
75th Percentile £26.66 £48.76 £35.31
90th Percentile £43.75 £80.00 £57.05
England median hourly rate £22.42 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -40.21% +36.36% +30.95%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the North West

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the North West.

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the North West

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the North West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the North West

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in the North West

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Manchester +31 15 £495 +13.79% 7
Cheshire - 3 £625 -
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.56%) IaaS
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) IPsec
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
2 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (11.11%) Big Data
1 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 2 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Burp Suite
2 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 2 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Postman
3 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) Selenium
3 1 (5.56%) TestCafe
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Consultant
1 4 (22.22%) Security Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Ethical Hacker
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Principal Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Principal Security Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Architect
4 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Information Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Team
3 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.56%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Kali Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Information Security
2 8 (44.44%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (27.78%) OWASP
5 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (22.22%) Risk Management
5 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
6 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 3 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
6 3 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
6 3 (16.67%) Data Migration
6 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 3 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
6 3 (16.67%) Identity Management
6 3 (16.67%) Migration
6 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) Purple Team
6 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.11%) Go
3 2 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) OSCP
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) CCNA
3 1 (5.56%) CCNP
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.56%) CISSP
3 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (66.67%) NIST
2 9 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (16.67%) GRC
5 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (5.56%) GDPR
6 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
6 1 (5.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Atlassian
1 2 (11.11%) Databricks
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) Rapid7
1 2 (11.11%) Teradata
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco
2 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (5.56%) Darktrace
2 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
2 1 (5.56%) Sophos
2 1 (5.56%) VMware