PCI DSS Contracts in the North of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 176 223
Rank change year-on-year +18 +47 -58
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 24 40 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.51% 0.70% 0.31%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.35% 5.17% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 18
10th Percentile £425 £413 £348
25th Percentile £450 £500 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -10.89%
75th Percentile £638 £616 £608
90th Percentile £670 £638 £647
England median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +8.37%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 716 774 950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.33% 13.61% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 478 667
10th Percentile £319 £288 £200
25th Percentile £413 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile £595 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 41 65
10th Percentile - £17.72 £11.36
25th Percentile £10.95 £29.30 £15.93
Median hourly rate £12.84 £39.60 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -67.58% +75.65% +31.27%
75th Percentile £26.66 £48.98 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.75 £67.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +31.58% +35.71%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 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
North West +24 18 £610 +16.19% 7
Yorkshire +1 5 £340 -36.74% 6
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%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) Network Security
3 1 (4.17%) IPsec
3 1 (4.17%) LAN
3 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.17%) VPN
3 1 (4.17%) WAN
3 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (8.33%) Big Data
1 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 2 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Burp Suite
2 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (8.33%) GitLab
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Postman
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) Selenium
3 1 (4.17%) TestCafe
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Compliance Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Consultant
2 4 (16.67%) Security Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Ethical Hacker
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Principal Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Principal Security Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Compliance Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.17%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Kali Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Information Security
2 8 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (20.83%) OWASP
5 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (12.50%) Cost Reduction
6 3 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
6 3 (12.50%) Data Migration
6 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 3 (12.50%) Ethical Hacking
6 3 (12.50%) Identity Management
6 3 (12.50%) Migration
6 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.50%) Purple Team
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.33%) Go
3 2 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) OSCP
2 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) CCNA
3 1 (4.17%) CCNP
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.17%) CISSP
3 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (50.00%) NIST
2 10 (41.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (12.50%) GRC
5 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (4.17%) GDPR
6 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
6 1 (4.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Atlassian
1 2 (8.33%) Databricks
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.33%) Rapid7
1 2 (8.33%) Teradata
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco
2 1 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (4.17%) Darktrace
2 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
2 1 (4.17%) Sophos
2 1 (4.17%) VMware