PCI DSS Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 109 118
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 +37
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 4 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.22% 0.25% 0.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.19% 1.45% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile - £613 -
25th Percentile - £631 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% +51.52%
75th Percentile - £719 £675
90th Percentile - £738 -
UK median daily rate £535 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.04% +4.55% -8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 337 276 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.26% 17.37% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 178 241
10th Percentile £250 £191 £181
25th Percentile £340 £341 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +2.27% -7.37%
75th Percentile £570 £528 £523
90th Percentile £653 £611 £606
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 16
10th Percentile £15.07 £18.52 £14.31
25th Percentile £41.81 £18.54 £15.86
Median hourly rate £51.25 £27.35 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year +87.39% +49.70% -47.41%
75th Percentile £65.25 £70.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.92 -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £20.80
% change year-on-year - +68.25% -40.56%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PCI DSS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in Scotland

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PCI DSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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
Glasgow 0 2 - - 1
Edinburgh -4 2 £675 -5.26%
PCI DSS
UK

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (50.00%) IVR
1 2 (50.00%) NHS
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
1 2 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Key Management
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Avaya
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Genesys
1 2 (50.00%) Thales