PCI DSS Contract Job Trends in Central London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 121 115
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 +49
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 10 5 17
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.40% 0.26% 0.71%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.19% 1.55% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 12
10th Percentile - - £451
25th Percentile £550 £456 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £504 £688
Median % change year-on-year +24.01% -26.69% +12.24%
75th Percentile £765 £638 £875
90th Percentile £789 £735 £898
London median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -14.06%

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 456 322 413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.41% 16.87% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 212 294
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +3.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £651 £713 £650
90th Percentile £758 £825 £771
London median daily rate £520 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.80% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 6
10th Percentile £20.12 £19.36 £17.96
25th Percentile £23.78 £21.25 £20.44
Median hourly rate £26.11 £22.50 £23.40
Median % change year-on-year +16.04% -3.85% -6.40%
75th Percentile £27.34 £24.25 £25.92
90th Percentile £52.25 - £35.16
London median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £24.18
% change year-on-year -18.84% +42.68% -30.91%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in Central London

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in Central London over the 6 months to 22 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in Central London

PCI DSS
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PCI DSS

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 22 May 2026. 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 -10 10 £625 +24.01% 4
PCI DSS
London

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (10.00%) MPLS
1 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
1 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Network Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Security Technical Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
1 4 (40.00%) Architectural Design
1 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
1 4 (40.00%) Migration
1 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (30.00%) AI
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (30.00%) Digital Strategy
2 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) ITSM
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Release Management
3 2 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CISSP
2 3 (30.00%) CISM
3 2 (20.00%) CRISC
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (10.00%) CISA
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (10.00%) IISP
4 1 (10.00%) OSCP
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (30.00%) GDPR
2 3 (30.00%) NIST
2 3 (30.00%) NIST 800
3 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (20.00%) QA
3 2 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (10.00%) COBIT
4 1 (10.00%) GRC
4 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk