PCI DSS Contracts in Cambridgeshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.09% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 40.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £220 - -
25th Percentile £231 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £250 £400 £800
% change year-on-year -37.63% -50.00% +33.33%

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 25 38 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 7.72% 8.94% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 47
10th Percentile £246 £363 £203
25th Percentile £251 £373 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £461 £550 £531
90th Percentile £604 £587 £591
East of England median daily rate £500 £405 £475
% change year-on-year +23.46% -14.74% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - £17.99 £12.80
25th Percentile - £22.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.80 £41.25 £13.58
Median % change year-on-year -56.85% +203.76% +0.59%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £13.87
90th Percentile - - £16.77
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £24.50 £17.84
% change year-on-year +29.14% +37.37% +1.91%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in Cambridgeshire

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in Cambridgeshire

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in Cambridgeshire

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 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
Cambridge - 9 £250 - 1
Peterborough - 1 - - 1
PCI DSS
East of England

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
1 8 (80.00%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) DNS
2 5 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 5 (50.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) JIRA
2 8 (80.00%) GitLab
2 8 (80.00%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Administrator
2 6 (60.00%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (30.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (10.00%) Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Administrator
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Administrator
5 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 5 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) CentOS
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
1 5 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Containerisation
1 9 (90.00%) ITSM
2 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (40.00%) Data Science
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (10.00%) Compliance Audit
5 1 (10.00%) Forensic Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Security Operations
5 1 (10.00%) SIEM
5 1 (10.00%) Validation
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
1 9 (90.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) CEH
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Ansible
2 4 (40.00%) Progress Chef
2 4 (40.00%) Puppet
2 4 (40.00%) Salt
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) ServiceNow
2 6 (60.00%) VMware
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (10.00%) Tenable