PCI DSS Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 377 432
Rank change year-on-year +15 +55 +123
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 134 187 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.50% 0.44%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.09% 3.72% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 126 158
10th Percentile £362 £418 £431
25th Percentile £456 £477 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £750
90th Percentile £816 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +10.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £27.93 - -
25th Percentile £28.52 - -
Median hourly rate £31.49 - -
75th Percentile £34.16 - -
90th Percentile £34.58 - -
UK median hourly rate £31.49 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,333 5,026 6,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.44% 13.46% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,804 3,154 4,385
10th Percentile £275 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -1.19% -3.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 377 235
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £19.86 £13.25 £20.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £24.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.34% -43.11% +63.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.41 £70.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £38.00
% change year-on-year +26.05% -37.37% +40.74%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in England

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in England

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in England

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in England

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
London -12 69 £550 - 295
North of England +10 23 £478 -4.40% 99
East of England +37 16 £250 -63.04% 35
North West +3 13 £478 -14.64% 62
Yorkshire +9 10 £483 +22.15% 34
South West +28 7 £538 +7.50% 43
South East +22 7 £500 -4.76% 78
Midlands +9 5 £850 +44.68% 42
West Midlands - 5 £850 - 30
PCI DSS
UK

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (3.73%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.99%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.24%) SAS
4 2 (1.49%) Confluence
4 2 (1.49%) IIS
4 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.49%) BASE24
2 2 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.49%) Magento
2 2 (1.49%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (1.49%) SAP CX
2 2 (1.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (43.28%) Azure
2 54 (40.30%) AWS
3 27 (20.15%) GCP
4 15 (11.19%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (8.21%) GitHub
6 8 (5.97%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (5.97%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.48%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.73%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.73%) OpenShift
8 5 (3.73%) SaaS
8 5 (3.73%) Serverless
9 4 (2.99%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (2.99%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.24%) Azure AKS
10 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 30 (22.39%) Network Security
2 23 (17.16%) Firewall
3 13 (9.70%) DNS
4 6 (4.48%) SAN
4 6 (4.48%) VPN
5 5 (3.73%) iSCSI
6 4 (2.99%) HTTP
6 4 (2.99%) SD-WAN
6 4 (2.99%) WAN
7 3 (2.24%) DHCP
7 3 (2.24%) VLAN
8 2 (1.49%) ATM
8 2 (1.49%) IPsec
8 2 (1.49%) LAN
8 2 (1.49%) SNMP
8 2 (1.49%) SSL
8 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.75%) DMZ
9 1 (0.75%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.75%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.22%) NoSQL
2 6 (4.48%) GIS
3 5 (3.73%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.24%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.49%) NonStop SQL
5 2 (1.49%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.75%) DB2
6 1 (0.75%) MySQL
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.75%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.75%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 17 (12.69%) JIRA
2 13 (9.70%) GitLab
3 9 (6.72%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.97%) TeamCity
5 5 (3.73%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.99%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.99%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.99%) git-flow
6 4 (2.99%) Gradle
6 4 (2.99%) Postman
6 4 (2.99%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.75%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.75%) Git
7 1 (0.75%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.75%) TestRail
General
1 62 (46.27%) Social Skills
2 43 (32.09%) Finance
3 21 (15.67%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (15.67%) Banking
4 7 (5.22%) Retail
5 6 (4.48%) Legal
6 4 (2.99%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.24%) Marketing
8 2 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.49%) Law
8 2 (1.49%) Public Speaking
8 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (26.87%) Architect
2 26 (19.40%) Security Architect
3 16 (11.94%) Consultant
4 13 (9.70%) Senior
5 12 (8.96%) Analyst
6 10 (7.46%) Security Consultant
7 9 (6.72%) Administrator
7 9 (6.72%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (5.97%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (5.22%) Lead
10 6 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Systems Administrator
11 5 (3.73%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Linux Administrator
11 5 (3.73%) Security Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 4 (2.99%) Applications Architect
12 4 (2.99%) IT Architect
12 4 (2.99%) IT Security Architect
12 4 (2.99%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.48%) Kafka
2 5 (3.73%) .NET
2 5 (3.73%) OAuth
3 4 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (2.99%) React
3 4 (2.99%) Spring
3 4 (2.99%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.24%) SailPoint
4 3 (2.24%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (1.49%) EDI
5 2 (1.49%) LDAP
5 2 (1.49%) Middleware
5 2 (1.49%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.49%) REST
5 2 (1.49%) SAML
5 2 (1.49%) SAP PI
5 2 (1.49%) SOAP
5 2 (1.49%) Web Services
6 1 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.45%) Security Posture
2 12 (8.96%) Data Centre
3 11 (8.21%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.48%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (3.73%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (3.73%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.99%) EMV
6 4 (2.99%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.24%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.49%) Blog
8 2 (1.49%) Clustering
8 2 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.49%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.49%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.49%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.45%) Linux
2 9 (6.72%) Windows
3 7 (5.22%) CentOS
4 5 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.73%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.99%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.49%) Rocky
6 2 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.75%) AIX
7 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.37%) Cloud Security
2 29 (21.64%) Risk Management
3 26 (19.40%) Agile
3 26 (19.40%) Information Security
3 26 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (18.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (17.16%) CI/CD
6 21 (15.67%) Vulnerability Management
7 20 (14.93%) Containerisation
7 20 (14.93%) Cybersecurity
8 19 (14.18%) Incident Response
9 18 (13.43%) Roadmaps
9 18 (13.43%) Security Architecture
9 18 (13.43%) SIEM
10 17 (12.69%) Project Management
11 16 (11.94%) DevOps
11 16 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (11.19%) Computer Science
12 15 (11.19%) Migration
12 15 (11.19%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (26.12%) Python
2 15 (11.19%) Bash
2 15 (11.19%) PowerShell
3 10 (7.46%) Shell Script
4 9 (6.72%) Java
5 6 (4.48%) SQL
6 5 (3.73%) PHP
7 4 (2.99%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.24%) C
8 3 (2.24%) C++
9 2 (1.49%) COBOL
10 1 (0.75%) C#
10 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.75%) Perl
10 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (23.88%) CISSP
2 25 (18.66%) CISM
3 17 (12.69%) Degree
4 11 (8.21%) Security Cleared
5 10 (7.46%) CEH
6 9 (6.72%) CISA
6 9 (6.72%) SC Cleared
7 7 (5.22%) PMP
8 6 (4.48%) CRISC
8 6 (4.48%) OSCP
9 5 (3.73%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (3.73%) GIAC
9 5 (3.73%) PCI QSA
10 4 (2.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.99%) ISTQB
10 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.99%) PMI Certification
11 3 (2.24%) AWS Certification
11 3 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (41.04%) GDPR
2 52 (38.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 49 (36.57%) NIST
4 30 (22.39%) HIPAA
5 15 (11.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (4.48%) GRC
7 5 (3.73%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (3.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (2.99%) COBIT
8 4 (2.99%) ISO 8583
8 4 (2.99%) NIST 800
8 4 (2.99%) QA
9 3 (2.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (2.24%) PSD2
9 3 (2.24%) SLA
9 3 (2.24%) SOC 2
10 2 (1.49%) ISO 20022
10 2 (1.49%) PMO
10 2 (1.49%) SEPA
System Software
1 14 (10.45%) Docker
2 11 (8.21%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.22%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.24%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.75%) Firmware
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.75%) vSphere
7 1 (0.75%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 22 (16.42%) Ansible
1 22 (16.42%) Terraform
2 16 (11.94%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.22%) Puppet
4 6 (4.48%) Nessus
5 5 (3.73%) HP Fortify
5 5 (3.73%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.99%) QRadar
6 4 (2.99%) Salt
7 2 (1.49%) Nagios
7 2 (1.49%) Packer
7 2 (1.49%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.49%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.75%) CASB
8 1 (0.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.75%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (27.61%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.46%) ServiceNow
2 10 (7.46%) VMware
3 9 (6.72%) Google
4 7 (5.22%) CyberArk
5 6 (4.48%) Dell
5 6 (4.48%) ESRI
5 6 (4.48%) HP
5 6 (4.48%) Qualys
6 5 (3.73%) Oracle
6 5 (3.73%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.73%) Thycotic
6 5 (3.73%) Zscaler
7 4 (2.99%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (2.24%) Cisco
8 3 (2.24%) Darktrace
8 3 (2.24%) IBM
8 3 (2.24%) Okta
8 3 (2.24%) SAP
8 3 (2.24%) Splunk