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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 111 106
Rank change year-on-year +24 -5 +23
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 10 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.83% 0.29% 0.51%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.41% 2.25% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £428 £775 £508
25th Percentile £500 £813 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £875 £538
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +62.79% -
75th Percentile £711 £938 £588
90th Percentile £774 £975 £610
South East median daily rate £650 £525 £730
% change year-on-year +23.81% -28.08% +62.22%

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 227 222 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.90% 12.76% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 91 153
10th Percentile £378 £313 £200
25th Percentile £450 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% +14.44%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 18
10th Percentile £18.87 £43.91 £15.58
25th Percentile £36.19 £60.88 £18.50
Median hourly rate £61.50 £63.43 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +111.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £87.38 £68.84 £70.82
90th Percentile £89.50 £73.11 £74.81
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £36.17 £49.00
% change year-on-year -31.81% -26.19% +145.00%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +29 6 £700 -30.00% 3
Windsor 0 1 £500 -33.33%
Slough - 1 £650 - 1
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 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) GCP
3 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
1 3 (30.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Metasploit
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
1 5 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Audit Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) EPoS Manager
2 1 (10.00%) EPoS Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) SOC Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (10.00%) EPoS
4 1 (10.00%) PMI
4 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (60.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 6 (60.00%) SIEM
2 6 (60.00%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Information Security
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (50.00%) Security Architecture
4 4 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (40.00%) Data Privacy
4 4 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 4 (40.00%) Security Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (40.00%) TOGAF
4 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (40.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) C
2 1 (10.00%) C++
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) CISSP
2 4 (40.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (40.00%) CCSP
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (20.00%) CISA
4 2 (20.00%) CISM
4 2 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
4 2 (20.00%) PMP
5 1 (10.00%) GCIA
5 1 (10.00%) GCIH
5 1 (10.00%) GIAC
5 1 (10.00%) GPEN
5 1 (10.00%) GWAPT
5 1 (10.00%) OSCE
5 1 (10.00%) OSCP
5 1 (10.00%) PgMP
5 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (90.00%) GDPR
2 7 (70.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (70.00%) NIST
3 5 (50.00%) PSD2
4 2 (20.00%) HIPAA
5 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (10.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk