PCI DSS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 268 341 464
Rank change year-on-year +73 +123 -85
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 73 127 151
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.51% 0.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.35% 4.14% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 99 99
10th Percentile £425 £415 £416
25th Percentile £488 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £545
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% +9.00%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £631
90th Percentile £823 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,178 3,067 5,831
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.45% 12.22% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,506 2,244 4,151
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £419 £420 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% +4.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 64 118
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.56 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £23.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.50 £39.80 £42.73
Median % change year-on-year -40.95% -6.85% +112.19%
75th Percentile £48.75 £60.94 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.28 £66.45
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £27.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +26.13% +31.99%

PCI DSS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PCI DSS trend for jobs with a WFH option

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PCI DSS.

PCI DSS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PCI DSS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

PCI DSS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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%) IIS
1 2 (2.74%) nginx
2 1 (1.37%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Chatbot
2 3 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (38.36%) Azure
2 19 (26.03%) AWS
3 10 (13.70%) GCP
4 7 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (9.59%) GitHub
5 5 (6.85%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.48%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (5.48%) Twilio
7 3 (4.11%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.74%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (2.74%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.74%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.74%) Datadog
8 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.74%) Miro
8 2 (2.74%) Stripe
9 1 (1.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.70%) Firewall
2 6 (8.22%) CTI
2 6 (8.22%) Network Security
3 5 (6.85%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.48%) VoIP
4 4 (5.48%) VPN
5 3 (4.11%) DNS
5 3 (4.11%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (4.11%) LAN
6 2 (2.74%) WAN
7 1 (1.37%) BGP
7 1 (1.37%) MPLS
7 1 (1.37%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.74%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (5.48%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.11%) JIRA
4 2 (2.74%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.74%) Postman
5 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.37%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.37%) Git
5 1 (1.37%) GitLab
5 1 (1.37%) Selenium
5 1 (1.37%) TestCafe
General
1 25 (34.25%) Finance
2 17 (23.29%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.96%) Back Office
4 7 (9.59%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (9.59%) Retail
5 6 (8.22%) Marketing
6 5 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.85%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.48%) Banking
7 4 (5.48%) Telecoms
8 3 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (4.11%) Manufacturing
8 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.74%) Advertising
9 2 (2.74%) Multimedia
10 1 (1.37%) Electronics
10 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.37%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (31.51%) Senior
2 19 (26.03%) Architect
3 8 (10.96%) Analyst
4 7 (9.59%) Consultant
4 7 (9.59%) Security Architect
4 7 (9.59%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (6.85%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 5 (6.85%) Developer
5 5 (6.85%) DOORS Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Integration Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Product Owner
5 5 (6.85%) Project Manager
5 5 (6.85%) Security Consultant
5 5 (6.85%) Senior Developer
5 5 (6.85%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Software Integration Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Systems Integration Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.48%) Middleware
1 4 (5.48%) Web Services
2 3 (4.11%) REST
2 3 (4.11%) SAML
3 2 (2.74%) .NET
3 2 (2.74%) FIDO
3 2 (2.74%) OAuth
3 2 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.74%) RESTful
3 2 (2.74%) SAP PI
3 2 (2.74%) Spring
3 2 (2.74%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.74%) Spring Security
3 2 (2.74%) Spring WebFlux
3 2 (2.74%) XML
4 1 (1.37%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.37%) JSON
4 1 (1.37%) JWT
4 1 (1.37%) LDAP
4 1 (1.37%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Management Information System
2 7 (9.59%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.48%) IVR
5 3 (4.11%) PKI
6 2 (2.74%) Contactless
6 2 (2.74%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.37%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.37%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.70%) Windows
2 5 (6.85%) Unix
2 5 (6.85%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.11%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.74%) Linux
4 2 (2.74%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (2.74%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (2.74%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.37%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (41.10%) Agile
2 24 (32.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (27.40%) DevOps
4 17 (23.29%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (17.81%) Risk Management
6 12 (16.44%) Information Security
7 8 (10.96%) Analytics
7 8 (10.96%) CRM
7 8 (10.96%) Vulnerability Management
8 7 (9.59%) CI/CD
8 7 (9.59%) Data Protection
8 7 (9.59%) Requirements Management
8 7 (9.59%) User Stories
8 7 (9.59%) Validation
9 6 (8.22%) Cloud Security
9 6 (8.22%) Customer Experience
9 6 (8.22%) Database Optimisation
9 6 (8.22%) Design Patterns
9 6 (8.22%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (8.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.70%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.33%) Java
2 9 (12.33%) SQL
3 6 (8.22%) C#
3 6 (8.22%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.11%) Python
5 1 (1.37%) Bash
5 1 (1.37%) Go
5 1 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 20 (27.40%) Degree
2 12 (16.44%) Master's Degree
3 6 (8.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.85%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.85%) CISSP
4 5 (6.85%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (5.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (5.48%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.48%) CISM
6 2 (2.74%) CEH
6 2 (2.74%) CREST Certified
6 2 (2.74%) CSSLP
7 1 (1.37%) CISA
7 1 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.37%) OSCP
7 1 (1.37%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.37%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (28.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (21.92%) NIST
3 15 (20.55%) GDPR
4 6 (8.22%) PSD2
5 5 (6.85%) HIPAA
5 5 (6.85%) SOC 2
6 3 (4.11%) COBIT
6 3 (4.11%) GRC
7 2 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (2.74%) ISO 20022
7 2 (2.74%) ISO 22301
7 2 (2.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (1.37%) COSO
8 1 (1.37%) ISO 9001
8 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 8 (10.96%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.11%) Docker
3 2 (2.74%) Squid
3 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.74%) XenApp
4 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (13.70%) Terraform
2 4 (5.48%) Kibana
2 4 (5.48%) Nessus
3 3 (4.11%) Ansible
4 2 (2.74%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (2.74%) Grafana
4 2 (2.74%) HAProxy
4 2 (2.74%) logstash
4 2 (2.74%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (2.74%) Packer
5 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.33%) Cisco
3 4 (5.48%) Avaya
3 4 (5.48%) Genesys
3 4 (5.48%) Google
4 3 (4.11%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.74%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.74%) Citrix
5 2 (2.74%) CyberSource
5 2 (2.74%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.74%) IBM
5 2 (2.74%) New Relic
5 2 (2.74%) PayPal
5 2 (2.74%) Qualys
5 2 (2.74%) SAP
5 2 (2.74%) Splunk
5 2 (2.74%) VMware
6 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.37%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.37%) Rapid7