PCI DSS Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.51% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £354 - -
25th Percentile £378 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £584 - -
90th Percentile £688 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £463 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 102 33 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 15.36% 8.05% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 19 39
10th Percentile £270 £175 £258
25th Percentile £341 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £584 £550
90th Percentile £606 £599 £625
South Yorkshire median daily rate £460 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.50
75th Percentile - - £22.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £12.21 - £20.50
% change year-on-year - - -16.33%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in Sheffield

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in Sheffield over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in Sheffield

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Akamai
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (10.00%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) SNMP
1 3 (30.00%) SSH
1 3 (30.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) JIRA
1 6 (60.00%) Postman
1 6 (60.00%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Cryptography Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Web Applications Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Regular Expression
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Cloud Security
1 7 (70.00%) DevSecOps
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) API Testing
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (60.00%) Kanban
2 6 (60.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (60.00%) Scrum
2 6 (60.00%) Security Testing
2 6 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 6 (60.00%) Test Management
3 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (30.00%) Cryptography
4 3 (30.00%) Data Security
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Observability
4 3 (30.00%) OWASP
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) CISM
1 6 (60.00%) CISSP
1 6 (60.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (30.00%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (90.00%) GDPR
1 9 (90.00%) NIST
2 7 (70.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (30.00%) GLBA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Snort
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) BeyondTrust
1 6 (60.00%) CyberArk
1 6 (60.00%) Google
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (60.00%) Thycotic
2 4 (40.00%) Splunk
3 2 (20.00%) Thales
4 1 (10.00%) ArcSight
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) F5
4 1 (10.00%) Imperva