PCI DSS Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 33 43
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 +24
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 6 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.53% 1.53% 0.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.29% 10.87% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £248 £570 -
25th Percentile £300 £581 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £553 - -
East of England median daily rate £400 £588 £475
% change year-on-year -31.91% +23.68% -17.39%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 42 46 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.71% 14.11% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 20
10th Percentile £261 £401 £299
25th Percentile £335 £450 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £543
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +5.07% +14.21%
75th Percentile £580 £631 £594
90th Percentile £637 £650 £678
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - £20.16 -
25th Percentile £13.57 £24.72 £13.29
Median hourly rate £14.37 £33.63 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.28% +140.18% -16.96%
75th Percentile £15.16 £43.72 £14.16
90th Percentile - £48.99 -
East of England median hourly rate £18.50 £25.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.00% -43.82% +152.70%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in Cambridgeshire

PCI DSS
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Cambridge -13 4 £400 -33.33% 2
Peterborough - 1 - - 1
PCI DSS
East of England

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
1 3 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Security Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) CentOS
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) ITSM
2 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) SOAR
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
4 1 (16.67%) Compliance Audit
4 1 (16.67%) Forensic Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) RBAC
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CCSP
1 1 (16.67%) CEH
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (33.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 2 (33.33%) Puppet
2 2 (33.33%) Salt
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (16.67%) Tenable