PCI DSS Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 46 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.62% 0.27% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.94% 2.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £493 - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £480 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.79% - -
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile £638 - -
South East median daily rate £563 £545 £735
% change year-on-year +3.21% -25.85% +63.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 68 47 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 20.92% 12.81% 11.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 30 63
10th Percentile £260 £189 £258
25th Percentile £349 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £520
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -6.16% +9.37%
75th Percentile £512 £558 £743
90th Percentile £532 £632 £1,133
South East median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £13.25 £17.26 -
25th Percentile £15.12 £20.31 -
Median hourly rate £15.25 £26.18 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.74% - -
75th Percentile £15.38 £31.85 -
90th Percentile - £34.79 -
South East median hourly rate £17.00 £54.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -68.52% +8.00% +163.16%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in Buckinghamshire

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 29 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in Buckinghamshire

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 29 September 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
Milton Keynes +4 2 £575 +19.79% 3
PCI DSS
South East

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) ISMS
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Personalization
1 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISA
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) GRC
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) RSA Archer