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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 121 114
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +50
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 12 6 16
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.49% 0.30% 0.67%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.60% 1.84% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 11
10th Percentile - £456 £511
25th Percentile £550 £465 £643
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £565 £700
Median % change year-on-year +9.83% -19.36% +16.67%
75th Percentile £725 £647 £875
90th Percentile £768 £725 £900
London median daily rate £595 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +3.48% - -8.00%

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 461 326 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.81% 16.55% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 211 292
10th Percentile £345 £375 £363
25th Percentile £431 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £702 £650
90th Percentile £763 £823 £774
London median daily rate £515 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -2.83% -3.64% -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 15 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 15 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 -5 12 £620 +23.02% 2
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 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (25.00%) Serverless
4 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (8.33%) AWS KMS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (8.33%) IaaS
5 1 (8.33%) PaaS
5 1 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (8.33%) MPLS
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
1 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
1 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) AWS Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Security Architect
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Security Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Network Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) Security Technical Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Security Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) Spring
1 1 (8.33%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) IoT
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Architectural Design
1 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (41.67%) Migration
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) AI
2 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (25.00%) Digital Strategy
3 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) ITSM
4 2 (16.67%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) CISSP
2 3 (25.00%) CISM
3 2 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (16.67%) CRISC
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) OSCP
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (8.33%) CCSP
4 1 (8.33%) CISA
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (8.33%) IISP
4 1 (8.33%) SANS
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (41.67%) GDPR
3 4 (33.33%) NIST
4 3 (25.00%) NIST 800
5 2 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (16.67%) GRC
5 2 (16.67%) QA
5 2 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (8.33%) COBIT
6 1 (8.33%) NCSC
6 1 (8.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Google
1 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (8.33%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Rapid7
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk