PCI DSS Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Liverpool requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 28 27
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 1.55% 2.01% 0.64%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.50% 25.00% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £453 - -
25th Percentile £531 £500 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +33.33% -23.26%
75th Percentile £740 £600 £419
90th Percentile £771 - -
Merseyside median daily rate £675 £550 £413
% change year-on-year +22.73% +33.33% -23.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 24 16 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 12.44% 8.04% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 5
10th Percentile £267 £143 £220
25th Percentile £325 £146 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 £413
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -21.21% +3.13%
75th Percentile £650 £500 £525
90th Percentile £668 £600 £657
Merseyside median daily rate £456 £325 £510
% change year-on-year +40.38% -36.27% +27.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £12.74
25th Percentile - £18.03 £15.36
Median hourly rate - £18.07 £19.72
Median % change year-on-year - -8.39% -
75th Percentile - £18.10 £24.08
90th Percentile - - £26.70
Merseyside median hourly rate - £19.13 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +9.30% -

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in Liverpool

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

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

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in Liverpool

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in Liverpool over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in Liverpool

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Security Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Server Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) GIAC
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) SOC 1
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) QRadar
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Darktrace
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) Zscaler