PCI DSS Contracts in Birmingham

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.77% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.97% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £539 - -
25th Percentile £578 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 - -
75th Percentile £624 - -
90th Percentile £632 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £600 - £600
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 67 108 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.84% 13.97% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 78 66
10th Percentile £300 £259 £263
25th Percentile £425 £264 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £419
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +4.48% -11.84%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £588
90th Percentile £620 £733 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +8.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 8
10th Percentile - £11.06 £10.96
25th Percentile - £12.30 £12.13
Median hourly rate £14.70 £13.50 £13.35
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +1.12% -33.25%
75th Percentile £29.00 £14.00 £20.85
90th Percentile £43.10 £55.00 £29.51
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £14.00 £16.10
% change year-on-year +101.29% -13.04% -5.29%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in Birmingham

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in Birmingham

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (50.00%) Akamai
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security Advisor
2 1 (25.00%) Security Advisor
2 1 (25.00%) Web Applications Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Web Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) OWASP
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) CEH
2 3 (75.00%) GIAC
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) CISA
3 1 (25.00%) CISM
3 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
2 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
3 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) F5
1 2 (50.00%) Imperva
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft