PCI DSS Contracts in Central London

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 123 121 162
Rank change year-on-year -2 +41 +26
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 6 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.30% 0.49% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.91% 2.84% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 10
10th Percentile £456 £653 £527
25th Percentile £465 £663 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £750 £613
Median % change year-on-year -24.73% +22.45% +11.36%
75th Percentile £647 £875 £754
90th Percentile £725 £888 £756
London median daily rate £550 £600 £605
% change year-on-year -8.33% -0.83% +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 314 422 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 15.72% 17.25% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 301 356
10th Percentile £360 £363 £375
25th Percentile £456 £463 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £663 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £838
London median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile £19.36 £17.96 £21.40
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.44 £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £23.40 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.43% -45.98%
75th Percentile £24.25 £25.92 £24.50
90th Percentile - £35.16 £24.80
London median hourly rate £34.75 £24.75 £30.75
% change year-on-year +40.40% -19.51% -30.90%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in Central London

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in Central London

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in Central London

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in Central London

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +2 5 £504 -32.80% 2
PCI DSS
London

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (16.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (16.67%) VLAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Law
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Back Office
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) SAS Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Team Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Blue Team
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Red Team
3 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Change
3 1 (16.67%) SOAR
3 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 2 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Dell
1 2 (33.33%) HP
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Pure Storage
2 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) VMware