PCI DSS Contracts in Manchester

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for PCI DSS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PCI DSS over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 111 142
Rank change year-on-year +24 +31 -43
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 15 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.01% 0.37% 0.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.22% 2.58% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 6
10th Percentile £425 - £415
25th Percentile £444 £393 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -20.83% +54.84%
75th Percentile £656 £513 £662
90th Percentile £701 £535 £671
North West median daily rate £610 £500 £583
% change year-on-year +22.00% -14.16% +15.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Manchester

PCI DSS is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 241 271 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.19% 14.48% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 188 261
10th Percentile £374 £317 £263
25th Percentile £425 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £713 £650 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 13
10th Percentile £12.84 £18.01 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.19 £20.09 £11.75
Median hourly rate £37.13 £31.05 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.59% +148.40% +3.50%
75th Percentile £68.78 £49.70 £13.34
90th Percentile £72.14 £67.88 £18.95
North West median hourly rate £12.84 £41.05 £18.25
% change year-on-year -68.72% +124.93% +21.67%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024. 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 £450 - 2
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 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (6.67%) PaaS
5 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) IPsec
2 1 (6.67%) LAN
2 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) WAN
2 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Burp Suite
2 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (13.33%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Postman
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) TestCafe
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Ethical Hacker
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Compliance Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Information Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Security Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
1 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.67%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Kali Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (40.00%) Information Security
2 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (33.33%) OWASP
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
5 3 (20.00%) Identity Management
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (20.00%) Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Purple Team
5 3 (20.00%) SIEM
6 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) Go
3 2 (13.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) OSCP
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) CCNA
2 1 (6.67%) CCNP
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) NIST
2 6 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (20.00%) GRC
4 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (6.67%) GDPR
5 1 (6.67%) HIPAA
5 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) Rapid7
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco
2 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (6.67%) Darktrace
2 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds
2 1 (6.67%) Sophos
2 1 (6.67%) VMware