PCI DSS Contracts in Edinburgh

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 64 69 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.48% 0.37% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.11% 1.44% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £671 - -
25th Percentile £684 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% - -
75th Percentile £734 £675 -
90th Percentile £744 - -
Scotland median daily rate £675 £650 £429
% change year-on-year +3.85% +51.52% +14.40%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 142 208 317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.72% 25.52% 24.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 128 280
10th Percentile £184 £219 £224
25th Percentile £354 £348 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £484
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -3.88% +13.82%
75th Percentile £534 £571 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £602
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 1
10th Percentile £20.88 £17.72 -
25th Percentile £24.38 £18.14 £51.25
Median hourly rate £27.35 £19.17 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.67% -63.49% +13.51%
75th Percentile £38.79 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £57.51 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £27.35 £18.27 £47.73
% change year-on-year +49.70% -61.72% +44.64%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Unix Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) AIX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CEH
1 2 (66.67%) CISM
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) OSCP
2 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) COBIT
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
11 PCI DSS jobs in Scotland