PCI DSS Contracts in Scotland

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 112 121 150
Rank change year-on-year +9 +29 +17
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 4 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% 0.36% 0.45%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.41% 1.92% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 12
10th Percentile £613 - -
25th Percentile £631 £625 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £429
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +51.52% +14.40%
75th Percentile £719 £675 £490
90th Percentile £738 - £633
UK median daily rate £590 £563 £600
% change year-on-year +4.89% -6.25% +9.09%

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 284 417 568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.48% 18.81% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 259 479
10th Percentile £192 £191 £213
25th Percentile £363 £326 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £528 £538 £550
90th Percentile £605 £610 £639
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 3
10th Percentile £18.53 £15.32 £26.25
25th Percentile £21.90 £16.18 £34.30
Median hourly rate £27.35 £18.27 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year +49.70% -61.72% +44.64%
75th Percentile £49.19 £51.28 £50.74
90th Percentile £75.28 £60.75 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in Scotland

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in Scotland

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in Scotland

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 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
Edinburgh +5 3 £713 +9.62% 1
Glasgow 0 1 £600 - 6
PCI DSS
UK

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) FTP
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Mockito
1 1 (25.00%) Toad
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Architect
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Unix Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Camel
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (25.00%) JWT
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) AIX
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (25.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (25.00%) Data Encryption
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Perl
1 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CEH
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) OSCP
2 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (25.00%) CCSP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) COBIT
2 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (25.00%) Okta
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Talend