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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 117 141
Rank change year-on-year +3 +24 +62
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 10 19 9
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.52% 0.80% 0.30%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.60% 5.12% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 6
10th Percentile £402 £431 £594
25th Percentile £405 £463 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £725
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -22.41% +22.11%
75th Percentile £725 £650 £906
90th Percentile £925 £727 £1,025
London median daily rate £530 £575 £654
% change year-on-year -7.83% -12.05% +8.96%

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 385 371 455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.93% 15.69% 15.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 205 346
10th Percentile £325 £343 £388
25th Percentile £415 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £584
Median % change year-on-year - -5.78% +0.65%
75th Percentile £676 £638 £700
90th Percentile £825 £745 £819
London median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £26.38 - -
25th Percentile £26.55 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £34.24 £35.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -51.72% +249.40%
75th Percentile £40.81 - £73.75
90th Percentile £66.35 - -
London median hourly rate £33.73 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.63% +7.69% +31.10%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 -5 10 £600 +4.35% 26
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 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Architect
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Security Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Payments Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Managing Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Operational Security Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Operations Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Security Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (20.00%) PMI
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (40.00%) Security Architecture
1 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (30.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (20.00%) Information Security
3 2 (20.00%) Kanban
3 2 (20.00%) KYC
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Use Case
3 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C#
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CBAP
1 2 (20.00%) CISSP
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CISM
2 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ISSMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (40.00%) GDPR
2 4 (40.00%) NIST
3 2 (20.00%) ISO 8583
3 2 (20.00%) PSD2
3 2 (20.00%) QA
4 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft