PCI DSS Contracts in the City of London

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring PCI DSS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PCI DSS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 116 168
Rank change year-on-year +2 +52 +13
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 5 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.50% 0.27%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.75% 2.89% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 10
10th Percentile - £653 £527
25th Percentile £456 £663 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £750 £613
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +22.45% +11.36%
75th Percentile £638 £875 £754
90th Percentile £735 £888 £756
Central London median daily rate £565 £750 £613
% change year-on-year -24.73% +22.45% +11.36%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 286 381 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.29% 17.34% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 276 342
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £462 £463 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £661 £725
90th Percentile £800 £763 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.61 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £23.40 £23.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.43% -45.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Law
2 2 (40.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) SAS Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Behavioural Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Blue Team
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Red Team
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Change
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (40.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dell
1 2 (40.00%) HP
1 2 (40.00%) Pure Storage
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) VMware