PCI DSS Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 142 162 180
Rank change year-on-year +20 +18 +33
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 24 23 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.73% 0.48% 0.69%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.10% 3.09% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 25
10th Percentile £413 £425 £419
25th Percentile £478 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +5.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £680 £641 £606
90th Percentile £713 £673 £638
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 471 745 813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.29% 15.63% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 418 493
10th Percentile £235 £320 £288
25th Percentile £371 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £698 £672 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 85 40
10th Percentile £14.27 - £13.47
25th Percentile £22.14 £10.95 £29.30
Median hourly rate £24.67 £12.84 £38.55
Median % change year-on-year +92.15% -66.69% +106.15%
75th Percentile £39.69 £26.66 £49.08
90th Percentile £79.39 £48.75 £58.45
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the North of England

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the North of England

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the North of England

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in the North of England

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +14 14 £544 -11.94% 24
Yorkshire +13 10 £600 +76.47% 10
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (8.33%) IIS
1 2 (8.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (8.33%) Nutanix
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Cloudflare
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) Network Security
2 3 (12.50%) DHCP
2 3 (12.50%) DNS
2 3 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (4.17%) IPsec
3 1 (4.17%) LAN
3 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.17%) VLAN
3 1 (4.17%) VPN
3 1 (4.17%) WAN
3 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
General
1 10 (41.67%) Banking
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (37.50%) Finance
3 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Architect
2 6 (25.00%) Consultant
2 6 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 6 (25.00%) Security Consultant
3 4 (16.67%) DevSecOps Architect
3 4 (16.67%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
3 4 (16.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Payments Architect
4 2 (8.33%) SAS Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Designer
5 1 (4.17%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Identity Management Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) OAuth
1 2 (8.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (16.67%) Private Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Clustering
2 2 (8.33%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (8.33%) EMV
2 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (4.17%) CESG
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) CentOS
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
1 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
1 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 7 (29.17%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (29.17%) Network Architecture
2 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (25.00%) OWASP
4 5 (20.83%) DevOps
5 4 (16.67%) Agile
5 4 (16.67%) Analytics
5 4 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 4 (16.67%) Security Management
6 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 3 (12.50%) Information Security
6 3 (12.50%) ITIL
6 3 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (12.50%) Project Management
6 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 3 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (8.33%) Fintech
7 2 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) Go
2 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) CISSP
2 7 (29.17%) CISM
3 6 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (16.67%) CCSP
4 4 (16.67%) CEH
4 4 (16.67%) OSCP
5 2 (8.33%) CCNA
5 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (8.33%) Degree
6 1 (4.17%) CCNP
6 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (45.83%) NIST
2 9 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (20.83%) COBIT
3 5 (20.83%) GDPR
4 2 (8.33%) ISO 20022
4 2 (8.33%) ISO 8583
4 2 (8.33%) PSD2
4 2 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (8.33%) SEPA
4 2 (8.33%) SLA
5 1 (4.17%) GRC
5 1 (4.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (4.17%) JSP 440
5 1 (4.17%) NIST 800
5 1 (4.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) Nagios
2 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) ZABBIX
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco
2 2 (8.33%) Dell
2 2 (8.33%) HP
2 2 (8.33%) IBM
2 2 (8.33%) SolarWinds
2 2 (8.33%) VMware
3 1 (4.17%) Aruba
3 1 (4.17%) Centrify
3 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.17%) Meraki
3 1 (4.17%) Thycotic