PCI DSS Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside 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 36 30 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 +17
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 1.22% 1.70% 0.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.11% 16.00% 5.00%
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 - -
North West median daily rate £499 £560 £495
% change year-on-year -10.98% +13.13% +4.21%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 27 25 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 10.98% 10.64% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 8
10th Percentile £263 £143 £255
25th Percentile £306 £152 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £325 £510
Median % change year-on-year +40.38% -36.27% +27.50%
75th Percentile £638 £500 £538
90th Percentile £661 £590 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +8.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £18.25 £12.05
25th Percentile - £18.57 £13.63
Median hourly rate - £19.13 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +9.30% -
75th Percentile - £19.67 £23.60
90th Percentile - £19.98 £26.50
North West median hourly rate £52.78 £22.09 £26.65
% change year-on-year +138.91% -17.11% -48.68%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in Merseyside

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in Merseyside

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Liverpool -4 3 £675 +22.73%
PCI DSS
North West

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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