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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 113 129
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 +54
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 13 10 10
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.62% 0.48% 0.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.95% 2.98% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 8
10th Percentile £411 £466 £599
25th Percentile £463 £528 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £613 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +19.15%
75th Percentile £679 £664 £800
90th Percentile £767 £688 £894
London median daily rate £556 £563 £650
% change year-on-year -1.11% -13.46% +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 441 336 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.99% 16.19% 16.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 188 311
10th Percentile £363 £322 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £669 £651 £675
90th Percentile £808 £775 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 2
10th Percentile £21.85 £19.04 £25.05
25th Percentile - £20.46 £32.75
Median hourly rate £26.11 £28.75 £46.55
Median % change year-on-year -9.18% -38.24% +124.35%
75th Percentile £27.75 £35.00 £60.64
90th Percentile £30.70 - £68.50
London median hourly rate £27.04 £39.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year -30.68% +23.81% +10.53%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -6 13 £613 +6.52% 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 (7.69%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (15.38%) AWS KMS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (7.69%) IaaS
5 1 (7.69%) OCI
5 1 (7.69%) PaaS
5 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Architect
1 4 (30.77%) Security Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Architect
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Security Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Payments Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Operational Security Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Operations Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Payments Programme Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Principal Security Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Programme Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Security Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) Spring
1 1 (7.69%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 2 (15.38%) PMI
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
1 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
3 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (30.77%) Data Protection
3 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
3 4 (30.77%) TOGAF
4 3 (23.08%) AI
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
4 3 (23.08%) Security Architecture
4 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (23.08%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (15.38%) KYC
5 2 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Java
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) CISSP
2 3 (23.08%) CISM
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 2 (15.38%) CBAP
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
3 2 (15.38%) PMI Certification
4 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (7.69%) CCSP
4 1 (7.69%) CISA
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (7.69%) CRISC
4 1 (7.69%) ISSMP
4 1 (7.69%) OSCP
4 1 (7.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (69.23%) GDPR
2 6 (46.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (30.77%) NIST
4 3 (23.08%) QA
5 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (15.38%) GRC
5 2 (15.38%) ISO 8583
5 2 (15.38%) PSD2
5 2 (15.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (7.69%) NCSC
6 1 (7.69%) NIST 800
6 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (7.69%) Rapid7
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk