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 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 157 182
Rank change year-on-year +46 +25 -34
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 16 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.73% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.36% 1.89% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 5
10th Percentile £451 £576 £288
25th Percentile £499 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +22.00% +4.17% +15.38%
75th Percentile £881 £755 £701
90th Percentile £934 £757 £745
Central London median daily rate £675 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% +15.38%

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 367 477 628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.82% 13.92% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 350 397
10th Percentile £363 £363 £352
25th Percentile £463 £495 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £722 £678
90th Percentile £759 £825 £783
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £564
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.43% +7.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £16.78 - £20.00
25th Percentile £17.96 - £25.25
Median hourly rate £20.61 - £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +202.50%
75th Percentile £22.65 - £62.50
90th Percentile £23.46 - £64.45
Central London median hourly rate £23.40 £25.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -6.40% -50.98% +155.00%

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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 17 June 2024.

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 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (12.50%) AWS KMS
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 2 (12.50%) Twilio
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.25%) Miro
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) CTI
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) Internet
1 2 (12.50%) Kerberos
1 2 (12.50%) SSL
1 2 (12.50%) VoIP
1 2 (12.50%) WAN
1 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) SAP HANA
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Back Office
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) International Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 3 (18.75%) Information Security Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) Security Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Kafka
1 2 (12.50%) Middleware
1 2 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (6.25%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Cyber Threat
1 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) IVR
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Unix
4 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (37.50%) Information Security
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (18.75%) Business Agility
5 3 (18.75%) Data Privacy
5 3 (18.75%) Security Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 2 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
6 2 (12.50%) OWASP
6 2 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
6 2 (12.50%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 2 (12.50%) Python
1 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Bicep
2 1 (6.25%) C#
2 1 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) CISM
1 3 (18.75%) CISSP
1 3 (18.75%) CRISC
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) FFIEC
2 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (37.50%) NIST
2 4 (25.00%) GDPR
3 3 (18.75%) ISO 31000
3 3 (18.75%) NIST 800
4 2 (12.50%) COBIT
4 2 (12.50%) HIPAA
4 2 (12.50%) NCSC
4 2 (12.50%) SOC 2
5 1 (6.25%) ISO 20022
5 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Ansible
1 3 (18.75%) Packer
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) CASB
2 2 (12.50%) Grafana
2 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 2 (12.50%) SCCM
2 2 (12.50%) SCOrch
2 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (6.25%) Kibana
3 1 (6.25%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Google
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Avaya
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 2 (12.50%) Confluent
3 2 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (12.50%) Genesys
3 2 (12.50%) Imperva
3 2 (12.50%) Netskope
3 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.25%) CyberSource
4 1 (6.25%) IBM
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) SAP
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow