PCI DSS Contracts in Berkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 113 101
Rank change year-on-year +28 -12 +25
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 4 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.34% 0.25% 0.55%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.86% 1.84% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £374 £775 £450
25th Percentile £455 £813 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £875 £550
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +59.09% +70.54%
75th Percentile £538 £938 £625
90th Percentile £605 £975 £633
South East median daily rate £513 £525 £700
% change year-on-year -2.38% -25.00% +47.37%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 215 272 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.27% 13.78% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 119 136
10th Percentile £325 £270 £316
25th Percentile £450 £363 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £518
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -8.21% +8.95%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £678 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 17
10th Percentile £18.87 £35.46 £15.35
25th Percentile £44.84 £60.90 £18.50
Median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% +209.52% -
75th Percentile £87.31 £70.18 £53.15
90th Percentile £89.00 £74.57 £73.59
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £27.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year -10.33% -40.54% +131.25%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in Berkshire

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in Berkshire

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in Berkshire

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 3 July 2025. 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
Reading +32 1 £500 -50.00% 7
Windsor -9 1 £500 -33.33% 2
Slough - 1 £650 - 16
PCI DSS
South East

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Audit Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (25.00%) SOC Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) PMI
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
3 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISA
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) GCIA
2 1 (25.00%) GCIH
2 1 (25.00%) GIAC
2 1 (25.00%) GPEN
2 1 (25.00%) GWAPT
2 1 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) OSCE
2 1 (25.00%) OSCP
2 1 (25.00%) PgMP
2 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (25.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
2 2 (50.00%) HIPAA
2 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (25.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk