PCI DSS Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 60 72
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 +42
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 2 6 13
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.30% 0.89% 1.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.74% 8.96% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 13
10th Percentile - £373 -
25th Percentile £510 £423 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £530 £650 £515
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -28.57%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 115 67 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 17.01% 9.99% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 43 101
10th Percentile £235 £359 £275
25th Percentile £383 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £603 £630 £615
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.75
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -57.00%
75th Percentile - - £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 - £18.81
% change year-on-year - - +0.56%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in Leeds

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) GCIA
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
1 2 (100.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Rapid7