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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 362 431
Rank change year-on-year +3 +69 +143
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 121 180 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.50% 0.47%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.16% 3.53% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 114 174
10th Percentile £378 £413 £458
25th Percentile £488 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £640 £679 £700
90th Percentile £804 £821 £838
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £27.73 - -
25th Percentile £28.03 - -
Median hourly rate £29.51 - -
75th Percentile £31.99 - -
90th Percentile £32.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £29.51 - -

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 3,826 5,102 6,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.05% 14.04% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,479 3,271 4,330
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 353 217
10th Percentile £17.79 £10.95 £15.21
25th Percentile £22.27 £13.18 £20.00
Median hourly rate £34.50 £23.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -41.65% +38.32%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.87 £68.85 £79.85
UK median hourly rate £33.11 £21.69 £35.00
% change year-on-year +52.69% -38.04% +16.67%

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 23 May 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 23 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
London +11 62 £575 +4.55% 122
North of England +13 22 £538 +7.50% 110
North West +4 13 £504 -10.40% 68
East of England +39 11 £250 -62.96% 47
South East +36 9 £525 - 114
Yorkshire +18 9 £588 +48.73% 32
South West +29 7 £550 +10.00% 43
Midlands +18 4 £588 - 60
West Midlands - 4 £588 - 35
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 4 (3.31%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.31%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.48%) SAS
3 2 (1.65%) Confluence
3 2 (1.65%) IIS
3 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.65%) BASE24
2 2 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.65%) Magento
2 2 (1.65%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (1.65%) SAP CX
2 2 (1.65%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 49 (40.50%) Azure
2 43 (35.54%) AWS
3 23 (19.01%) GCP
4 11 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (6.61%) GitHub
6 6 (4.96%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.13%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (4.13%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.13%) OpenShift
7 5 (4.13%) SaaS
7 5 (4.13%) Serverless
8 4 (3.31%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (3.31%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.48%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.65%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.65%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.65%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (23.14%) Network Security
2 21 (17.36%) Firewall
3 11 (9.09%) DNS
4 5 (4.13%) SAN
5 4 (3.31%) DHCP
5 4 (3.31%) iSCSI
6 3 (2.48%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.48%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.48%) VLAN
6 3 (2.48%) VPN
6 3 (2.48%) WAN
7 2 (1.65%) ATM
7 2 (1.65%) HTTP
7 2 (1.65%) IPsec
7 2 (1.65%) LAN
7 2 (1.65%) SSL
8 1 (0.83%) Internet
8 1 (0.83%) MPLS
8 1 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.96%) NoSQL
2 5 (4.13%) GIS
3 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.65%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.65%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.83%) DB2
5 1 (0.83%) MySQL
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.83%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.83%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (7.44%) JIRA
2 8 (6.61%) GitLab
3 7 (5.79%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.13%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.31%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.31%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.31%) git-flow
5 4 (3.31%) Gradle
6 3 (2.48%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.65%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.65%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.83%) TestRail
General
1 55 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 33 (27.27%) Finance
3 25 (20.66%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (17.36%) Banking
5 7 (5.79%) Retail
6 6 (4.96%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.13%) Legal
8 3 (2.48%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.48%) Marketing
9 2 (1.65%) Law
9 2 (1.65%) Public Speaking
9 2 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (30.58%) Architect
2 25 (20.66%) Security Architect
3 19 (15.70%) Consultant
4 14 (11.57%) Security Consultant
5 10 (8.26%) Analyst
5 10 (8.26%) Senior
6 7 (5.79%) Lead
7 6 (4.96%) Administrator
7 6 (4.96%) Security Analyst
8 5 (4.13%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (4.13%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 5 (4.13%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 5 (4.13%) Systems Administrator
9 4 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Developer
9 4 (3.31%) DevSecOps Consultant
9 4 (3.31%) IT Architect
9 4 (3.31%) IT Security Architect
9 4 (3.31%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.31%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.96%) Kafka
2 5 (4.13%) OAuth
3 4 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (3.31%) Spring
3 4 (3.31%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.48%) SailPoint
4 3 (2.48%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (1.65%) .NET
5 2 (1.65%) EDI
5 2 (1.65%) LDAP
5 2 (1.65%) Middleware
5 2 (1.65%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.65%) React
5 2 (1.65%) REST
5 2 (1.65%) SAML
5 2 (1.65%) SAP PI
5 2 (1.65%) SOAP
5 2 (1.65%) Web Services
6 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.22%) Security Posture
2 9 (7.44%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.61%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.96%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (4.13%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.13%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.31%) EMV
6 4 (3.31%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.31%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.48%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.65%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.65%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.65%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.92%) Linux
2 6 (4.96%) CentOS
3 5 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.13%) Windows
4 4 (3.31%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.48%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.65%) Rocky
6 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.83%) AIX
7 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (24.79%) Risk Management
2 28 (23.14%) Cybersecurity
3 26 (21.49%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (20.66%) Cloud Security
5 23 (19.01%) Information Security
6 22 (18.18%) Incident Response
6 22 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (15.70%) Agile
7 19 (15.70%) Computer Science
7 19 (15.70%) SIEM
8 18 (14.88%) Project Management
8 18 (14.88%) Roadmaps
8 18 (14.88%) Vulnerability Management
9 17 (14.05%) Security Architecture
10 16 (13.22%) DevOps
10 16 (13.22%) Migration
11 15 (12.40%) CI/CD
11 15 (12.40%) Containerisation
12 14 (11.57%) Regulatory Compliance
13 13 (10.74%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (24.79%) Python
2 12 (9.92%) Bash
3 11 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 8 (6.61%) Java
5 7 (5.79%) Shell Script
6 6 (4.96%) SQL
7 4 (3.31%) C
7 4 (3.31%) C++
8 3 (2.48%) PHP
9 2 (1.65%) COBOL
9 2 (1.65%) Ruby
9 2 (1.65%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.83%) Go
10 1 (0.83%) Perl
10 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (26.45%) CISSP
2 24 (19.83%) CISM
3 20 (16.53%) Degree
4 13 (10.74%) CEH
4 13 (10.74%) Security Cleared
5 11 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 9 (7.44%) OSCP
7 8 (6.61%) CISA
7 8 (6.61%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (5.79%) PMP
9 6 (4.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (4.13%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (3.31%) CCSP
11 4 (3.31%) DV Cleared
11 4 (3.31%) GIAC
11 4 (3.31%) Master's Degree
11 4 (3.31%) PMI Certification
12 3 (2.48%) CRISC
12 3 (2.48%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (43.80%) GDPR
2 49 (40.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (40.50%) NIST
3 29 (23.97%) HIPAA
4 13 (10.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (6.61%) COBIT
6 5 (4.13%) GRC
6 5 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (3.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (3.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (3.31%) ISO 8583
7 4 (3.31%) NIST 800
8 3 (2.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (2.48%) PSD2
8 3 (2.48%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.65%) ISO 20022
9 2 (1.65%) QA
9 2 (1.65%) SEPA
9 2 (1.65%) SLA
10 1 (0.83%) JSP 440
System Software
1 11 (9.09%) Docker
2 10 (8.26%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.96%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.48%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.83%) vSphere
7 1 (0.83%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 20 (16.53%) Ansible
2 18 (14.88%) Terraform
3 14 (11.57%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.13%) Puppet
5 4 (3.31%) Nessus
6 3 (2.48%) HP Fortify
6 3 (2.48%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.65%) Nagios
7 2 (1.65%) Packer
7 2 (1.65%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.65%) Salt
7 2 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.65%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.83%) CASB
8 1 (0.83%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.83%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.83%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.83%) QRadar
8 1 (0.83%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (23.97%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.44%) VMware
3 7 (5.79%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.96%) Dell
4 6 (4.96%) HP
5 5 (4.13%) Cisco
5 5 (4.13%) ESRI
5 5 (4.13%) Google
5 5 (4.13%) Oracle
5 5 (4.13%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.31%) CyberArk
7 3 (2.48%) IBM
7 3 (2.48%) Okta
7 3 (2.48%) Qualys
7 3 (2.48%) SAP
7 3 (2.48%) Splunk
7 3 (2.48%) Tenable
8 2 (1.65%) Adobe
8 2 (1.65%) NCR
8 2 (1.65%) Pure Storage