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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 115 133
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 +57
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 12 15 9
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.59% 0.65% 0.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.91% 4.29% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 7
10th Percentile £405 £494 £590
25th Percentile £463 £579 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £640 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% +17.89%
75th Percentile £766 £650 £738
90th Percentile £813 £677 £905
London median daily rate £563 £585 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% -10.00% +8.33%

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 413 350 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.42% 15.20% 16.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 190 312
10th Percentile £325 £313 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -3.48% -
75th Percentile £675 £669 £688
90th Percentile £825 £757 £788
London median daily rate £525 £525 £563
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile - £19.04 -
25th Percentile £26.11 £20.46 £71.25
Median hourly rate £26.34 £28.75 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% -60.34% +271.79%
75th Percentile £28.77 £35.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £32.50 - -
London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% +7.69% -7.80%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 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
City of London -9 12 £600 -6.25% 14
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (16.67%) AWS KMS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) OCI
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Banking
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
1 4 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Security Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Payments Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Managing Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Operational Security Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Programme Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) PMI
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Cloud Security
2 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 4 (33.33%) Security Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (25.00%) TOGAF
5 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
5 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) CISSP
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (16.67%) CBAP
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (16.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (8.33%) CCSP
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CISM
3 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) ISSMP
3 1 (8.33%) OSCP
3 1 (8.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) GDPR
2 6 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (33.33%) NIST
4 3 (25.00%) QA
5 2 (16.67%) ISO 8583
5 2 (16.67%) PSD2
5 2 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (8.33%) GRC
6 1 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (8.33%) Rapid7
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk