PCI DSS Contracts in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 128 141
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 +51
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 12 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.47% 0.23% 0.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.68% 1.63% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 9
10th Percentile £446 £456 £463
25th Percentile £506 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -6.25% +233.33%
75th Percentile £775 £597 £675
90th Percentile £1,234 £608 £700
England median daily rate £538 £550 £647
% change year-on-year -2.27% -15.03% +20.08%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 448 367 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.71% 13.86% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 243 283
10th Percentile £235 £253 £283
25th Percentile £358 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £540 £606 £575
90th Percentile £638 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 30 20
10th Percentile £15.21 £12.75 £12.33
25th Percentile £17.16 £13.32 £19.56
Median hourly rate £25.08 £16.05 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.28% -41.65% +39.84%
75th Percentile £32.91 £33.93 £32.45
90th Percentile £40.12 £55.38 £65.50
England median hourly rate £31.64 £27.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year +15.05% -22.54% +54.35%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
West Midlands +8 11 £600 +41.18% 8
East Midlands -4 1 £358 -37.83% 1
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Network Security
2 3 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) Kerberos
3 1 (8.33%) SSH
General
1 8 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (8.33%) Architect
1 1 (8.33%) Consultant
1 1 (8.33%) Information Security Advisor
1 1 (8.33%) Management Consultant
1 1 (8.33%) Product Owner
1 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (8.33%) Security Advisor
1 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) LDAP
1 1 (8.33%) OAuth
1 1 (8.33%) SailPoint
1 1 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (25.00%) PKI
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) AIX
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Solaris
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Product Vision
2 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
2 5 (41.67%) User Stories
3 4 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 4 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 4 (33.33%) Cryptography
3 4 (33.33%) Key Management
3 4 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (25.00%) Attestation
4 3 (25.00%) Product Management
5 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (16.67%) Data Security
5 2 (16.67%) Information Security
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) Use Case
5 2 (16.67%) User Experience
6 1 (8.33%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bash
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) CISA
1 4 (33.33%) CISM
1 4 (33.33%) CISSP
2 3 (25.00%) CEH
2 3 (25.00%) GIAC
2 3 (25.00%) PCI QSA
3 2 (16.67%) CRISC
3 2 (16.67%) OSCP
4 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) GDPR
2 4 (33.33%) FIPS 140-2
3 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (25.00%) NIST
4 2 (16.67%) HIPAA
4 2 (16.67%) QA
5 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (8.33%) PSD2
5 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (8.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (8.33%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Okta