PCI DSS Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 48 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 -14 -
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.80% 0.38% 0.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.35% 2.08% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £388 - -
25th Percentile £421 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £363 £630
Median % change year-on-year +33.24% -42.46% -
75th Percentile £551 £369 -
90th Percentile £588 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £600 £550 £560
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% +1.82%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 46 48 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 18.47% 18.46% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 46 13
10th Percentile £358 £341 £393
25th Percentile £393 £358 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £422 £463
Median % change year-on-year +17.77% -8.85% -15.83%
75th Percentile £621 £485 £569
90th Percentile £684 £526 £619
Cheshire median daily rate £497 £451 £475
% change year-on-year +10.26% -5.11% +5.56%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in Knutsford

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in Knutsford over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in Knutsford

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Payments Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Payments Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) SABSA
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) PSD2