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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 114 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.31% 0.056% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.75% 0.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £367 - -
25th Percentile £373 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 - -
75th Percentile £408 - -
90th Percentile £412 - -
UK median daily rate £510 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -11.30% -4.17% +14.29%

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 286 342 444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.98% 19.03% 18.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 218 317
10th Percentile £206 £190 £200
25th Percentile £400 £326 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £467
Median % change year-on-year - -3.64% -2.51%
75th Percentile £538 £497 £538
90th Percentile £597 £586 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 4
10th Percentile £13.35 - £14.53
25th Percentile £15.09 £13.52 £16.58
Median hourly rate £31.00 £14.98 £38.86
Median % change year-on-year +106.94% -61.45% +113.52%
75th Percentile £61.25 £15.23 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.50 £29.32 £62.20
UK median hourly rate £27.77 £27.50 £39.60
% change year-on-year +0.98% -30.56% +52.31%

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 6 November 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
Glasgow +3 4 £393 - 16
Edinburgh - 1 - - 2
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Officer
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Payments Architect
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) FMCG
1 1 (20.00%) IVR
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (40.00%) Data Security
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Attestation
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Information Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CEH
1 1 (20.00%) CISA
1 1 (20.00%) CISM
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) CRISC
1 1 (20.00%) GIAC
1 1 (20.00%) OSCP
1 1 (20.00%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) PERC
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow