PSD2 Contracts in Berkshire

EU Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring PSD2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PSD2 over the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PSD2 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.33% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.73% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £729 - -
25th Percentile £736 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £760 - -
75th Percentile £774 - -
90th Percentile £775 - -
South East median daily rate £760 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Berkshire

PSD2 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 231 245 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.30% 13.57% 14.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 99 143
10th Percentile £380 £313 £258
25th Percentile £450 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% +12.88%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £690 £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 7 17
10th Percentile £18.87 £43.91 £15.35
25th Percentile £44.84 £60.88 £18.50
Median hourly rate £61.50 £63.43 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +175.78% +9.52%
75th Percentile £87.31 £68.84 £53.15
90th Percentile £89.00 £73.11 £73.59
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year -8.55% -40.54% +131.25%

PSD2
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing PSD2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for PSD2 in Berkshire

PSD2
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 PSD2 within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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 - 3 £760 - 1
PSD2
South East

PSD2
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (75.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (75.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 4 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (75.00%) Architectural Design
2 3 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Secrets Management
2 3 (75.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (75.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (100.00%) CCSP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
1 4 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes