PCI DSS Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	85	71	62
Rank change year-on-year	-14	-9	0
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS	6	4	4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands	0.43%	0.47%	0.52%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category	3.68%	2.67%	4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted	6	4	4
10^th Percentile	-	£355	-
25^th Percentile	£402	£357	£525
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£470	£379	£563
Median % change year-on-year	+23.94%	-32.62%	-11.76%
75^th Percentile	£581	£401	£591
90^th Percentile	£632	£401	£596
England median daily rate	£538	£500	£570
% change year-on-year	+7.50%	-12.28%	-8.80%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills	163	150	97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands	11.75%	17.67%	12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted	86	118	57
10^th Percentile	£233	£321	£258
25^th Percentile	£381	£361	£319
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£450	£420	£425
Median % change year-on-year	+7.14%	-1.18%	-7.36%
75^th Percentile	£575	£475	£575
90^th Percentile	£657	£594	£623
England median daily rate	£515	£500	£513
% change year-on-year	+3.00%	-2.44%	-5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted	29	7	3
10^th Percentile	£12.76	£15.12	£18.97
25^th Percentile	£13.50	£17.69	£27.14
Median hourly rate	£16.13	£20.83	£41.50
Median % change year-on-year	-22.56%	-49.81%	+102.34%
75^th Percentile	£16.46	£25.11	£48.63
90^th Percentile	£21.22	£29.88	£52.45
England median hourly rate	£32.40	£31.50	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+2.84%	-10.00%	-6.67%

PCI DSS Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

PCI DSS Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PCI DSS.

PCI DSS Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the East Midlands

PCI DSS Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Northamptonshire	+16	3	£402	+6.07%	2
Nottinghamshire	-	2	£623	-	2
Lincolnshire	-	1	£538	-
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PCI DSS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing PCI DSS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region with a requirement for PCI DSS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	High Availability	66.7%	4
2	Agile	50.0%	3
2	CRM	50.0%	3
2	GDPR	50.0%	3
2	Payment Gateway	50.0%	3
2	Problem-Solving	50.0%	3
2	Secure Coding	50.0%	3
2	Stakeholder Management	50.0%	3
9	AWS	33.3%	2
9	Azure	33.3%	2
9	B2C	33.3%	2
9	BASE24	33.3%	2
9	Change Control	33.3%	2
9	CI/CD	33.3%	2
9	Confluence	33.3%	2
9	Cost Management	33.3%	2
9	Cybersecurity	33.3%	2
9	Data Modelling	33.3%	2
9	E-Commerce	33.3%	2
9	ERP	33.3%	2
9	Escalation Management	33.3%	2
9	GAP Analysis	33.3%	2
9	Git	33.3%	2
9	JavaScript	33.3%	2
9	JIRA	33.3%	2
9	Matrix Organization	33.3%	2
9	Mentoring	33.3%	2
9	Microservices	33.3%	2
9	Microsoft	33.3%	2
9	Microsoft Project	33.3%	2

PCI DSS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Quality Assurance & Compliance

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	GDPR	50.0%	3
2	ISO 8583	16.7%	1
2	QA	16.7%	1