PCI DSS Contracts in Manchester

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 82 111
Rank change year-on-year +14 +29 +24
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 11 14 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.19% 0.92% 0.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.03% 5.74% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 5
10th Percentile £413 £425 -
25th Percentile £438 £450 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £696 £663 £513
90th Percentile £713 £710 £535
North West median daily rate £544 £618 £500
% change year-on-year -11.94% +23.50% -15.25%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 137 244 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.79% 16.08% 15.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 151 191
10th Percentile £360 £375 £320
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £594
90th Percentile £708 £713 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 5
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.84 £11.85
25th Percentile £16.11 £13.19 £13.50
Median hourly rate £22.63 £37.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.07% +65.03% +80.00%
75th Percentile £55.06 £68.78 £39.60
90th Percentile £76.25 £72.14 £63.84
North West median hourly rate £30.38 £12.84 £38.55
% change year-on-year +136.60% -66.69% +114.17%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in Manchester

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in Manchester

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in Manchester

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 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
Wigan - 1 £375 -
PCI DSS
North West

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (18.18%) IIS
1 2 (18.18%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
2 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Nutanix
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DHCP
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) IPsec
2 1 (9.09%) LAN
2 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
General
1 6 (54.55%) Banking
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps Architect
2 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Payments Architect
2 2 (18.18%) SAS Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Security Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) OAuth
1 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Clustering
1 2 (18.18%) Digital Wallet
1 2 (18.18%) EMV
1 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (18.18%) Private Cloud
1 2 (18.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) CentOS
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (36.36%) Network Architecture
1 4 (36.36%) OWASP
2 2 (18.18%) Analytics
2 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
2 2 (18.18%) Data Security
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) ETL
2 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) Information Security
2 2 (18.18%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) Microservices
2 2 (18.18%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (18.18%) Project Management
2 2 (18.18%) Re-Platforming
2 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
2 2 (18.18%) Security Management
2 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (18.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (18.18%) CCSP
2 2 (18.18%) CEH
2 2 (18.18%) CISM
2 2 (18.18%) CISSP
2 2 (18.18%) OSCP
3 1 (9.09%) CCNA
3 1 (9.09%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) NIST
2 2 (18.18%) COBIT
2 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 2 (18.18%) ISO 20022
2 2 (18.18%) ISO 8583
2 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (18.18%) PSD2
2 2 (18.18%) SEPA
3 1 (9.09%) GRC
3 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (18.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
1 2 (18.18%) Nagios
1 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
1 2 (18.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Dell
2 2 (18.18%) HP
2 2 (18.18%) IBM
2 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Meraki