PCI DSS Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 88 105
Rank change year-on-year -28 +17 -4
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 1 9 5
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.053% 0.76% 0.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.30% 3.86% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - £410 £528
25th Percentile - £538 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £650 £750
Median % change year-on-year -42.31% -13.33% +39.53%
75th Percentile - £742 £881
90th Percentile - £774 £953
South East median daily rate £398 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -38.85% +23.81% -28.08%

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 335 233 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.59% 19.73% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 128 85
10th Percentile £375 £386 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £529 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% +5.70% -2.68%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £575
90th Percentile £738 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 7 7
10th Percentile £24.25 £18.87 £43.91
25th Percentile £41.25 £36.19 £60.88
Median hourly rate £81.50 £61.50 £63.43
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% -3.05% +81.23%
75th Percentile £83.00 £87.38 £68.84
90th Percentile £85.00 £89.50 £73.11
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £36.17
% change year-on-year +108.75% -30.46% -27.67%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PCI DSS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in Berkshire

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PCI DSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PCI DSS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PCI DSS

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 19 August 2026. 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 -31 1 £375 -50.00% 1
PCI DSS
South East

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk