PCI DSS Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PCI DSS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PCI DSS over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 320 428
Rank change year-on-year +2 +108 -49
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 73 116 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.51% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.43% 3.45% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 91 61
10th Percentile £450 £413 £130
25th Percentile £484 £500 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +38.89% -
75th Percentile £641 £700 £600
90th Percentile £686 £838 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £545
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% +6.86%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

PCI DSS falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,999 3,360 4,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.10% 14.80% 14.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,723 2,195 3,101
10th Percentile £250 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £363 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £455
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +6.81% +7.06%
75th Percentile £582 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 197 198
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.50
25th Percentile £12.66 £18.00 £15.13
Median hourly rate £19.09 £37.50 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -49.11% +67.45% +7.67%
75th Percentile £47.81 £65.00 £48.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.40 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £23.09 £38.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -39.24% +37.04% +32.05%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the UK excluding London

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the UK excluding London

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the UK excluding London

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in the UK excluding London

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East -8 23 £525 -25.00% 10
North of England +12 22 £500 -1.96% 7
South West +15 18 £500 -23.08% 4
North West +13 16 £560 +35.76% 3
Scotland +33 6 £650 +51.52%
Yorkshire -12 5 £395 -24.76% 3
Midlands +14 4 £588 +2.17% 18
East Midlands +12 4 £588 -6.00% 7
East of England +2 2 £675 -15.63% 2
PCI DSS
UK

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (2.74%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (17.81%) AWS
2 9 (12.33%) Azure
3 3 (4.11%) GCP
3 3 (4.11%) GitHub
4 2 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.74%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.74%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (2.74%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.74%) SaaS
4 2 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.37%) IaaS
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.96%) Firewall
2 5 (6.85%) Network Security
2 5 (6.85%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.85%) VPN
3 4 (5.48%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (4.11%) BGP
4 3 (4.11%) LAN
4 3 (4.11%) MPLS
4 3 (4.11%) OSPF
4 3 (4.11%) SAN
4 3 (4.11%) WAN
5 2 (2.74%) DNS
6 1 (1.37%) CTI
6 1 (1.37%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.37%) IPsec
6 1 (1.37%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (2.74%) Big Data
1 2 (2.74%) Hadoop
1 2 (2.74%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (9.59%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (2.74%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.74%) Capybara
2 2 (2.74%) GitLab
2 2 (2.74%) Gradle
2 2 (2.74%) JIRA
2 2 (2.74%) Maven
2 2 (2.74%) Postman
3 1 (1.37%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.37%) Selenium
3 1 (1.37%) TestCafe
General
1 20 (27.40%) Finance
2 14 (19.18%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.33%) Manufacturing
4 8 (10.96%) Marketing
5 7 (9.59%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.85%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Back Office
7 2 (2.74%) Banking
7 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.74%) Retail
7 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.37%) Electronics
8 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.37%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (28.77%) Architect
2 15 (20.55%) Lead
3 13 (17.81%) Senior
4 11 (15.07%) Consultant
5 9 (12.33%) Lead Architect
6 7 (9.59%) Security Architect
6 7 (9.59%) Security Consultant
6 7 (9.59%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 7 (9.59%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) Analyst
8 5 (6.85%) DOORS Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Senior Integration Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Software Integration Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Systems Integration Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Compliance Analyst
9 4 (5.48%) Head of Operations
9 4 (5.48%) Head of Security
9 4 (5.48%) IT Architect
9 4 (5.48%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.74%) React
1 2 (2.74%) SAML
1 2 (2.74%) Spring Boot
1 2 (2.74%) WebKit
2 1 (1.37%) JWT
2 1 (1.37%) Kafka
2 1 (1.37%) OAuth
2 1 (1.37%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.70%) Management Information System
2 8 (10.96%) CESG
3 7 (9.59%) Security Posture
4 4 (5.48%) Virtual Team
5 3 (4.11%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.74%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.37%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.37%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.37%) Replication
7 1 (1.37%) Smart Energy
7 1 (1.37%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.55%) Windows
2 8 (10.96%) Linux
3 7 (9.59%) Unix
4 3 (4.11%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.37%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (39.73%) Information Security
2 23 (31.51%) Cybersecurity
3 19 (26.03%) Risk Management
4 17 (23.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (20.55%) Security Operations
6 12 (16.44%) Agile
7 10 (13.70%) Customer Requirements
8 9 (12.33%) Decision-Making
8 9 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (12.33%) Security Architecture
9 8 (10.96%) Information Assurance
9 8 (10.96%) ITIL
10 7 (9.59%) Customer Engagement
10 7 (9.59%) OWASP
10 7 (9.59%) Process Improvement
10 7 (9.59%) Requirements Analysis
10 7 (9.59%) Requirements Management
10 7 (9.59%) SIEM
10 7 (9.59%) UML
10 7 (9.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.85%) Java
1 5 (6.85%) Python
2 3 (4.11%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.11%) Ruby
3 2 (2.74%) Go
3 2 (2.74%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.37%) C
4 1 (1.37%) C++
4 1 (1.37%) Perl
4 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (23.29%) Degree
2 14 (19.18%) CISSP
3 12 (16.44%) CISM
4 11 (15.07%) CompTIA Security+
5 10 (13.70%) Master's Degree
6 9 (12.33%) CISA
6 9 (12.33%) SC Cleared
6 9 (12.33%) Security Cleared
6 9 (12.33%) SSCP
7 8 (10.96%) CEH
7 8 (10.96%) CISMP
7 8 (10.96%) ISACA
7 8 (10.96%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.74%) CCNP
9 2 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.74%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (2.74%) OSCP
9 2 (2.74%) PhD
10 1 (1.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (36.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (31.51%) NIST
3 17 (23.29%) GDPR
4 13 (17.81%) HIPAA
5 6 (8.22%) GRC
6 5 (6.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (5.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (4.11%) COBIT
9 2 (2.74%) COSO
9 2 (2.74%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (1.37%) NCSC
10 1 (1.37%) PSD2
10 1 (1.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (8.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.11%) Docker
4 2 (2.74%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.48%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 4 (5.48%) Terraform
3 3 (4.11%) Nessus
4 2 (2.74%) Ansible
4 2 (2.74%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (1.37%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.37%) SCCM
5 1 (1.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (8.22%) Microsoft
1 6 (8.22%) VMware
2 4 (5.48%) Cisco
3 3 (4.11%) Splunk
4 2 (2.74%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.74%) CheckPoint
4 2 (2.74%) Citrix
4 2 (2.74%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (2.74%) CyberArk
4 2 (2.74%) Databricks
4 2 (2.74%) Rapid7
4 2 (2.74%) Teradata
5 1 (1.37%) Darktrace
5 1 (1.37%) EMC
5 1 (1.37%) Google
5 1 (1.37%) McAfee
5 1 (1.37%) Netskope
5 1 (1.37%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.37%) Sophos
5 1 (1.37%) Veritas