PCI DSS Contracts in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 80 109 122
Rank change year-on-year +29 +13 +16
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.21% 0.16% 0.048%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.38% 1.86% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £480 -
25th Percentile - £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +21.05% -8.65%
75th Percentile - £656 £488
90th Percentile - £690 -
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 145 161 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.46% 8.43% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 92 187
10th Percentile £310 £251 £185
25th Percentile £431 £363 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -8.89% +5.14%
75th Percentile £659 £538 £600
90th Percentile £689 £600 £729
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 30 25
10th Percentile £17.63 £14.16 £12.27
25th Percentile £22.65 £14.43 £13.29
Median hourly rate £33.32 £15.79 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.02% -9.77% -36.36%
75th Percentile £73.44 £25.00 £44.53
90th Percentile £86.70 £37.90 £69.50
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the East of England

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the East of England

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in the East of England

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bedfordshire +2 1 - - 4
Essex - 1 - - 4
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Fraud Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA