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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 102 153
Rank change year-on-year -13 +51 +53
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 7 22 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.36% 0.96% 0.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.89% 5.84% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 7
10th Percentile £434 £451 £553
25th Percentile £456 £491 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.46% +9.47%
75th Percentile £763 £664 £856
90th Percentile £805 £880 £1,010
London median daily rate £600 £550 £700
% change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% +16.67%

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 371 377 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.11% 16.48% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 219 378
10th Percentile £308 £360 £393
25th Percentile £413 £463 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £595
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -7.39% +2.59%
75th Percentile £706 £675 £700
90th Percentile £834 £753 £813
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 0
10th Percentile £22.60 £19.00 -
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.45 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £25.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.03% - -
75th Percentile £35.50 £32.89 -
90th Percentile £63.15 £35.00 -
London median hourly rate £34.00 £29.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +14.06% -14.83% +41.64%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -8 7 £600 +4.35% 3
PCI DSS
London

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (14.29%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Law
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Security Architect
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Architect
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Security Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Operational Security Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Service Management
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) PMI Certification
1 2 (28.57%) PMP
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) ISSMP
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Dell
1 2 (28.57%) HP
1 2 (28.57%) Pure Storage
2 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) VMware