PCI DSS Contracts in Reading

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 84 91
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 -25
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 5 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.42% 0.58% 0.52%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.82% 4.96% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £525 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,000 £588 £450
Median % change year-on-year +70.21% +30.56% -
75th Percentile - £628 £580
90th Percentile - £634 £720
Berkshire median daily rate £875 £563 £444
% change year-on-year +55.56% +26.76% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 177 121 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.90% 11.78% 15.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 75 109
10th Percentile £313 £363 £297
25th Percentile £448 £428 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £491
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +7.03% +5.48%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £600
90th Percentile - £688 £683
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +16.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £23.80 £10.60
25th Percentile - £31.75 £11.88
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - +221.43% -49.09%
75th Percentile - £60.38 £20.25
90th Percentile - £69.60 £24.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £65.00 £20.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year +217.07% -2.61% -

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in Reading

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in Reading

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) 5G
2 1 (20.00%) Broadband
General
1 1 (20.00%) Law
1 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Head of Operations
1 4 (80.00%) Head of Security
2 3 (60.00%) Head of Information
2 3 (60.00%) Head of Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Head of IT
3 1 (20.00%) Head of IT Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Head of IT Security
3 1 (20.00%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Security Penetration Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Security Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Testing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (80.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) Information Security
2 3 (60.00%) Security Monitoring
2 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (40.00%) Line Management
4 1 (20.00%) Application Security
4 1 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (20.00%) OWASP
4 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (20.00%) GIAC
1 1 (20.00%) GPEN
1 1 (20.00%) OSCP
1 1 (20.00%) SANS
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (60.00%) Nessus
3 2 (40.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Citrix
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Virgin Media