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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 95 116
Rank change year-on-year +21 +21 +15
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 18 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.43% 0.50% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.57% 5.67% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £222 £117 -
25th Percentile £236 £223 £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £400 £800
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -50.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £251 £556 £888
90th Percentile £253 £650 £925
England median daily rate £538 £555 £647
% change year-on-year -3.15% -14.25% +19.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £27.93 - -
25th Percentile £28.52 - -
Median hourly rate £31.49 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% - -
75th Percentile £34.16 - -
90th Percentile £34.58 - -
England median hourly rate £31.49 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -37.02% - -

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 210 141 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.63% 8.81% 14.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 66 148
10th Percentile £208 £254 £254
25th Percentile £345 £308 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £405 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.46% -14.74% +10.47%
75th Percentile £579 £547 £596
90th Percentile £650 £555 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% +2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 24 18
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.41 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.03 £14.96 £13.29
Median hourly rate £31.64 £24.50 £17.84
Median % change year-on-year +29.14% +37.37% +1.91%
75th Percentile £88.00 £53.44 £52.16
90th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £72.25
England median hourly rate £31.64 £27.50 £38.46
% change year-on-year +15.05% -28.50% +56.98%

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 14 August 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
Cambridgeshire - 10 £250 - 2
Hertfordshire +16 5 £249 -63.11% 6
Essex - 2 - - 9
Bedfordshire -10 1 - -
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 5 (27.78%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
1 8 (44.44%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) DNS
2 5 (27.78%) iSCSI
2 5 (27.78%) SAN
3 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) JIRA
2 8 (44.44%) GitLab
2 8 (44.44%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Administrator
2 6 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (27.78%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (16.67%) Data Centre Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (11.11%) Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Compliance Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Information Security Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Security Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Administrator
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Administrator
6 1 (5.56%) Data Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Information Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Information Security Compliance Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Information Security Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Risk Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Security Compliance Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Storage
2 5 (27.78%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (22.22%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) CentOS
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
1 5 (27.78%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 9 (50.00%) ITSM
2 8 (44.44%) Incident Response
3 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
3 5 (27.78%) Security Operations
3 5 (27.78%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (22.22%) Data Science
4 4 (22.22%) Information Security
4 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (22.22%) ITIL
4 4 (22.22%) Risk Management
4 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 3 (16.67%) Fault Management
5 3 (16.67%) OWASP
5 3 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (11.11%) Asset Management
6 2 (11.11%) Change Management
6 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (11.11%) Problem Management
6 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Python
1 9 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) CISSP
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) CISM
3 3 (16.67%) OSCP
4 2 (11.11%) CEH
5 1 (5.56%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.56%) CRISC
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) NIST
2 5 (27.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (22.22%) GDPR
4 3 (16.67%) COBIT
5 1 (5.56%) GRC
5 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (5.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (27.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (22.22%) Progress Chef
2 4 (22.22%) Puppet
2 4 (22.22%) Salt
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 6 (33.33%) VMware
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix
4 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.56%) Tenable