PCI DSS Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 79 76
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +45
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 9 6 19
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.78% 0.54% 1.42%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.04% 5.45% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile £325 £525 -
25th Percentile £402 £564 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £627 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% +19.43% +28.05%
75th Percentile £569 £726 £613
90th Percentile £570 £785 £665
South East median daily rate £550 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +16.67%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 223 110 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 19.41% 9.96% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 70 98
10th Percentile £250 £200 £312
25th Percentile £446 £371 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.21% +6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £661
90th Percentile £650 £691 £670
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £525
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% +12.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 15
10th Percentile £18.67 £22.88 £15.35
25th Percentile £27.16 £26.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £41.33 £49.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% -10.91% +69.13%
75th Percentile £55.49 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.99 - -
South East median hourly rate £18.23 £54.36 £52.10
% change year-on-year -66.46% +4.34% +126.52%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PCI DSS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in Hampshire

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing PCI DSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in Hampshire over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in Hampshire

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Fleet - 4 £369 -
Southampton +4 3 £563 -
Farnborough -2 1 £550 -12.28% 2
Eastleigh -5 1 £525 +5.00%
PCI DSS
South East

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Network Security
2 3 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (11.11%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) DMZ
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Security Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Payments Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) BYOD
1 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 2 (22.22%) PMI
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile Computing
3 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Risk Management
3 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (44.44%) Waterfall
4 3 (33.33%) Application Security
4 3 (33.33%) Data Flow Diagram
4 3 (33.33%) Due Diligence
4 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 3 (33.33%) Information Governance
4 3 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Regulatory Change
4 3 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
4 3 (33.33%) Security Operations
4 3 (33.33%) User Stories
4 3 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CISM
1 3 (33.33%) CISSP
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) CBAP
2 2 (22.22%) PMI Certification
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) GDPR
2 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (44.44%) NIST
2 4 (44.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (33.33%) PSD2
4 2 (22.22%) ISO 8583
4 2 (22.22%) QA
5 1 (11.11%) GRC
5 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (11.11%) JSP 440
5 1 (11.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Avamar
1 1 (11.11%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
1 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
1 1 (11.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Dell
2 1 (11.11%) Veeam
2 1 (11.11%) VMware