PCI DSS Contracts in the South West

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

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 152 158
Rank change year-on-year +18 +6 -16
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 19 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.59% 0.29% 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.38% 2.52% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 5
10th Percentile £431 £438 £533
25th Percentile £500 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £540
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +20.37% -
75th Percentile £600 £700 -
90th Percentile - £753 £756
England median daily rate £550 £603 £550
% change year-on-year -8.71% +9.55% +7.16%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 562 397 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 17.31% 11.67% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 275 291
10th Percentile £263 £268 £190
25th Percentile £403 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £600 £661 £588
90th Percentile £700 £738 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 45 20
10th Percentile £12.24 £18.09 £38.69
25th Percentile £14.00 £51.37 £51.24
Median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £69.87
90th Percentile - £83.40 £79.25
England median hourly rate £23.80 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -44.00% +54.55% +30.95%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the South West

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the South West

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the South West over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the South West

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Bristol - 11 - - 1
Wiltshire +6 8 £550 -2.22%
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (5.26%) Network Security
1 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Burp Suite
General
1 8 (42.11%) Manufacturing
2 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Architect
2 8 (42.11%) Lead
2 8 (42.11%) Lead Architect
3 4 (21.05%) Security Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Consultant
4 3 (15.79%) Ethical Hacker
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Architect
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Security Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Security Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Data Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Data Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Information Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Information Security Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Penetration Tester
6 1 (5.26%) Security Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Security Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) JWT
1 1 (5.26%) Kafka
1 1 (5.26%) OAuth
1 1 (5.26%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) CESG
2 5 (26.32%) Security Posture
3 3 (15.79%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Kali Linux
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (47.37%) Information Security
2 9 (47.37%) Security Operations
3 8 (42.11%) Information Assurance
4 6 (31.58%) Agile
4 6 (31.58%) Cloud Security
5 5 (26.32%) Threat Modelling
6 4 (21.05%) Penetration Testing
7 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.79%) Ethical Hacking
7 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (15.79%) Purple Team
7 3 (15.79%) Security Architecture
8 2 (10.53%) Application Security
8 2 (10.53%) DevSecOps
8 2 (10.53%) Network Segmentation
8 2 (10.53%) OWASP
8 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.53%) Security Hardening
8 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) C
2 1 (5.26%) C++
2 1 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) Perl
2 1 (5.26%) Ruby
2 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) CISSP
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 10 (52.63%) CISM
2 10 (52.63%) CompTIA Security+
3 9 (47.37%) SC Cleared
4 8 (42.11%) CEH
4 8 (42.11%) CISA
4 8 (42.11%) CISMP
4 8 (42.11%) ISACA
4 8 (42.11%) SSCP
5 4 (21.05%) OSCP
6 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
6 2 (10.53%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (5.26%) CCNP
7 1 (5.26%) CCSP
7 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (5.26%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (63.16%) GDPR
2 11 (57.89%) NIST
3 10 (52.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (47.37%) HIPAA
5 2 (10.53%) COBIT
5 2 (10.53%) COSO
6 1 (5.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (5.26%) GRC
6 1 (5.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
1 1 (5.26%) Google
1 1 (5.26%) Splunk