PCI DSS Contracts in London

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 286 346
Rank change year-on-year +9 +60 +128
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 64 110 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.63% 0.53%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.27% 4.46% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 71 107
10th Percentile £396 £413 £539
25th Percentile £496 £469 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £640 £700 £725
90th Percentile £870 £875 £838
England median daily rate £549 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -0.23% -8.33% +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,957 2,466 3,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.15% 14.11% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,303 1,746 2,468
10th Percentile £316 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £798
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 63 37
10th Percentile £20.75 £12.90 £20.40
25th Percentile £22.51 £17.94 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £24.18 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.68% -8.75% -40.45%
75th Percentile £47.00 £46.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.36 £56.75 £81.00
England median hourly rate £34.50 £23.00 £39.51
% change year-on-year +50.00% -41.79% +42.48%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in London

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in London.

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in London

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in London

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in London.

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in London

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Central London -4 6 £483 -28.41% 6
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.56%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.13%) Magento
1 2 (3.13%) Oracle Retail
1 2 (3.13%) SAP CX
1 2 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (3.13%) Shopify
2 1 (1.56%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 31 (48.44%) Azure
2 23 (35.94%) AWS
3 16 (25.00%) GCP
4 8 (12.50%) GitHub
5 6 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (7.81%) OpenShift
6 5 (7.81%) Serverless
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.69%) Azure AKS
8 3 (4.69%) SaaS
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Stack
9 2 (3.13%) Boomi
9 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.13%) Oracle CX
9 2 (3.13%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (21.88%) Firewall
2 12 (18.75%) Network Security
3 2 (3.13%) HTTP
3 2 (3.13%) VLAN
3 2 (3.13%) VPN
4 1 (1.56%) ATM
4 1 (1.56%) BGP
4 1 (1.56%) DHCP
4 1 (1.56%) DNS
4 1 (1.56%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.56%) IPsec
4 1 (1.56%) OSPF
4 1 (1.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.56%) SMTP
4 1 (1.56%) SNMP
4 1 (1.56%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.56%) SSL
4 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.38%) NoSQL
2 5 (7.81%) GIS
3 4 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.56%) DB2
5 1 (1.56%) MySQL
5 1 (1.56%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.25%) Artifactory
2 4 (6.25%) Cucumber
2 4 (6.25%) git-flow
2 4 (6.25%) Gradle
3 2 (3.13%) GitLab
3 2 (3.13%) JIRA
3 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 26 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.00%) Finance
3 10 (15.63%) Banking
4 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.38%) Retail
5 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.69%) Marketing
7 2 (3.13%) Law
7 2 (3.13%) Legal
7 2 (3.13%) Public Speaking
8 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (34.38%) Architect
2 16 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 8 (12.50%) Analyst
4 6 (9.38%) Consultant
4 6 (9.38%) Security Analyst
5 5 (7.81%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 5 (7.81%) Lead
6 4 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Developer
6 4 (6.25%) IT Architect
6 4 (6.25%) IT Security Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Senior
7 3 (4.69%) Security Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) Applications Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Chief Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) Kafka
2 4 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (6.25%) Spring
2 4 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 3 (4.69%) .NET
4 2 (3.13%) EDI
4 2 (3.13%) Middleware
4 2 (3.13%) React
4 2 (3.13%) REST
4 2 (3.13%) SailPoint
4 2 (3.13%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (3.13%) SAP PI
4 2 (3.13%) SOAP
4 2 (3.13%) Web Services
5 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.56%) OAuth
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (1.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Security Posture
2 6 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.13%) Blog
4 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.13%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.56%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.56%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.56%) EMV
5 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.56%) PKI
5 1 (1.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.81%) Linux
1 5 (7.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.13%) Rocky
3 1 (1.56%) AIX
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (23.44%) Risk Management
3 14 (21.88%) SIEM
4 13 (20.31%) Security Architecture
5 12 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 12 (18.75%) Cloud Security
6 11 (17.19%) Agile
6 11 (17.19%) Incident Response
6 11 (17.19%) Information Security
7 10 (15.63%) Migration
8 9 (14.06%) Project Management
8 9 (14.06%) Roadmaps
8 9 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
10 7 (10.94%) Computer Science
10 7 (10.94%) Containerisation
10 7 (10.94%) DevOps
10 7 (10.94%) High Availability
10 7 (10.94%) Penetration Testing
10 7 (10.94%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.56%) Python
2 10 (15.63%) Bash
3 7 (10.94%) PowerShell
4 6 (9.38%) Java
5 3 (4.69%) PHP
6 2 (3.13%) SQL
6 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.56%) C
7 1 (1.56%) C#
7 1 (1.56%) C++
7 1 (1.56%) COBOL
7 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.56%) Perl
7 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) CISSP
2 9 (14.06%) SC Cleared
2 9 (14.06%) Security Cleared
3 7 (10.94%) CISM
3 7 (10.94%) Degree
4 6 (9.38%) CEH
4 6 (9.38%) PMP
5 4 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (6.25%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.69%) CISA
6 3 (4.69%) PMI Certification
7 2 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.13%) CRISC
7 2 (3.13%) PCI QSA
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.56%) GCIH
8 1 (1.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (45.31%) GDPR
2 26 (40.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (39.06%) NIST
4 22 (34.38%) HIPAA
5 5 (7.81%) GRC
5 5 (7.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (4.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (3.13%) SOC 2
9 1 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
9 1 (1.56%) ISO 8583
9 1 (1.56%) NIST 800
9 1 (1.56%) PMO
9 1 (1.56%) PSD2
9 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 10 (15.63%) Docker
2 3 (4.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (18.75%) Terraform
2 11 (17.19%) Kubernetes
3 9 (14.06%) Ansible
4 3 (4.69%) Puppet
5 2 (3.13%) HP Fortify
5 2 (3.13%) Nessus
5 2 (3.13%) Packer
6 1 (1.56%) CASB
6 1 (1.56%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.81%) ESRI
2 5 (7.81%) Google
2 5 (7.81%) Oracle
2 5 (7.81%) Palo Alto
3 4 (6.25%) Dell
4 3 (4.69%) HP
5 2 (3.13%) Adobe
5 2 (3.13%) CheckPoint
5 2 (3.13%) Cisco
5 2 (3.13%) CyberArk
5 2 (3.13%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.13%) NCR
5 2 (3.13%) Qualys
5 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.13%) SAP
5 2 (3.13%) Splunk
5 2 (3.13%) VeriFone
5 2 (3.13%) VMware
5 2 (3.13%) Zscaler