PCI DSS Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 1.92% - 0.51%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.33% - 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £650
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £533 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £613 £425 £613
% change year-on-year +44.12% -30.61% +32.43%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 36 12 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 23.08% 13.04% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 8 26
10th Percentile £227 £324 £331
25th Percentile £364 £375 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £400 £481
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% -16.88% +13.24%
75th Percentile £536 £491 £547
90th Percentile £628 £766 £570
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £475 £520
% change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% +4.00%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PCI DSS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in Coventry

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing PCI DSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) IPv4
1 3 (100.00%) IPv6
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) MPLS
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) WLAN
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
2 2 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Network Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Network Design
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 3 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 2 (66.67%) Network Management
2 2 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (100.00%) CCIE
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) CCSP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CCIE Security
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) JNCIE
3 1 (33.33%) JNCIP
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) F5
1 3 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (100.00%) Meraki
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Forcepoint
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper