PCI DSS Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 118 132
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 +33
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 12 18 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 0.65% 0.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.18% 3.98% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 11
10th Percentile £368 £425 £393
25th Percentile £413 £463 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £560 £413
Median % change year-on-year -12.32% +35.76% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £644 £476
90th Percentile £586 £675 £550
England median daily rate £549 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -0.23% -12.00% +13.64%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 287 452 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.48% 16.25% 15.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 246 289
10th Percentile £313 £325 £303
25th Percentile £376 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% +5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £588
90th Percentile £675 £694 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 71 35
10th Percentile £13.50 - £19.00
25th Percentile £20.61 £10.95 £29.65
Median hourly rate £47.25 £12.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +293.75% -68.00% -25.02%
75th Percentile £73.47 £30.44 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.07 £43.75 £74.80
England median hourly rate £34.50 £23.80 £42.50
% change year-on-year +44.96% -44.00% +54.55%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the North West

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the North West

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the North West over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the North West

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in the North West

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Manchester +7 8 £473 -4.44% 11
Cheshire -3 3 £550 -12.00% 1
Lancashire - 1 £575 - 4
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (16.67%) IIS
1 2 (16.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Nutanix
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Network Security
2 2 (16.67%) DHCP
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) IPsec
3 1 (8.33%) LAN
3 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (8.33%) VPN
3 1 (8.33%) WAN
3 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Banking
3 4 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Consultant
2 3 (25.00%) Security Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Payments Architect
3 2 (16.67%) SAS Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) OAuth
1 2 (16.67%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Clustering
1 2 (16.67%) Digital Wallet
1 2 (16.67%) EMV
1 2 (16.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (8.33%) CESG
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) CentOS
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Risk Management
1 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (25.00%) Information Security
2 3 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (16.67%) Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Fintech
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Microservices
3 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Re-Platforming
3 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) CISM
1 3 (25.00%) CISSP
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) CCNA
3 1 (8.33%) CCNP
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (41.67%) NIST
2 3 (25.00%) GDPR
3 2 (16.67%) ISO 20022
3 2 (16.67%) ISO 8583
3 2 (16.67%) PSD2
3 2 (16.67%) SEPA
4 1 (8.33%) COBIT
4 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
4 1 (8.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (8.33%) JSP 440
4 1 (8.33%) NIST 800
4 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
1 2 (16.67%) Nagios
1 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
1 2 (16.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Dell
2 2 (16.67%) HP
2 2 (16.67%) IBM
2 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Meraki