PSD2 Contracts in Reading

EU Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring PSD2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PSD2 over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PSD2 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.66% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £665 - -
25th Percentile £688 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £774 - -
90th Percentile £775 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £750 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Reading

PSD2 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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 128 127 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 21.09% 11.31% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 44 102
10th Percentile £390 £316 £350
25th Percentile £450 £422 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% +12.00%
75th Percentile £625 £578 £600
90th Percentile £675 £721 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £527 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.40% -2.91% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.92%
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £63.43 £30.00
% change year-on-year -3.05% +111.43% +42.86%

PSD2
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing PSD2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for PSD2 in Reading

PSD2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (75.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Privacy
2 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Data Security
3 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (75.00%) CCSP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
1 4 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes