PCI DSS Contracts in the South East

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 149 154 182
Rank change year-on-year +5 +28 +63
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 10 51 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.33% 0.92% 0.69%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.95% 6.14% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 34
10th Percentile - £461 £500
25th Percentile £500 £484 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -25.00% +43.59%
75th Percentile £633 £606 £728
90th Percentile £823 £720 £838
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 512 830 886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.01% 14.93% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 435 563
10th Percentile £200 £232 £200
25th Percentile £363 £361 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 65 43
10th Percentile £21.32 £10.82 £18.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £15.38 £19.00
Median hourly rate £46.30 £27.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.36% -11.29% +47.44%
75th Percentile £62.24 £48.75 £51.94
90th Percentile £77.27 £65.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the South East

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the South East

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the South East

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in the South East

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +20 5 £500 -33.33% 5
Hampshire +22 4 £576 +21.26% 3
Berkshire +8 4 £500 -42.86% 3
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 1
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) OCI
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
1 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (10.00%) IP Telephony
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) MPLS
1 1 (10.00%) NAS
1 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
1 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (10.00%) Skype
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
1 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (20.00%) Metasploit
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Auditor
1 2 (20.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (20.00%) Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Audit Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Manager
2 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) IT Support
2 1 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Operations Director
2 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (10.00%) SOC Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (10.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (40.00%) Incident Response
4 4 (40.00%) Information Security
4 4 (40.00%) Project Management
4 4 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (30.00%) Cryptography
5 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Programme Management
5 3 (30.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (20.00%) Analytics
6 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
6 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C
1 2 (20.00%) C++
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) Ruby
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) CISA
2 4 (40.00%) CISM
2 4 (40.00%) CISSP
2 4 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (30.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (20.00%) GPEN
4 2 (20.00%) GWAPT
4 2 (20.00%) OSCE
4 2 (20.00%) OSCP
5 1 (10.00%) A+ Certification
5 1 (10.00%) GCIA
5 1 (10.00%) MCP
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (10.00%) PgMP
5 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (10.00%) PMP
5 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) GDPR
2 6 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (50.00%) NIST
4 2 (20.00%) HIPAA
4 2 (20.00%) NIST 800
5 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) vSphere
2 1 (10.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (10.00%) QRadar
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix
2 1 (10.00%) F5
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) VMware