PCI DSS Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 99 143 158
Rank change year-on-year +44 +15 +13
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 12 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.72% 0.44% 0.25%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.27% 2.44% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile £540 - £433
25th Percentile £550 £513 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £627 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +19.43% -16.00% +15.74%
75th Percentile £715 £538 £700
90th Percentile £750 - £753
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 281 574 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.75% 17.94% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 336 296
10th Percentile £306 £263 £200
25th Percentile £400 £409 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year - +1.94% +7.63%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 57 44
10th Percentile £36.50 £12.41 £17.65
25th Percentile £62.50 £14.00 £49.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.00 £64.57
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -30.31% -5.84%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £79.81
90th Percentile £77.96 £72.53 £83.40
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the South West

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the South West

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the South West

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +38 9 £550 +4.76% 1
Bristol +11 3 £750 - 2
PCI DSS
England

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

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) BASE24
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (8.33%) SAP BW
1 1 (8.33%) SAP HANA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Architect
2 6 (50.00%) Consultant
2 6 (50.00%) Security Architect
3 5 (41.67%) Security Consultant
4 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps Architect
4 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 2 (16.67%) Hardware Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Product Consultant
6 1 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (8.33%) SAP Financial Consultant
6 1 (8.33%) SAP Technical Consultant
6 1 (8.33%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (25.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) EMV
3 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (8.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Cryptography
2 4 (33.33%) Key Management
3 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 3 (25.00%) OWASP
3 3 (25.00%) Security Management
3 3 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (8.33%) Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
5 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
5 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (8.33%) ETL
5 1 (8.33%) High Availability
5 1 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C
1 1 (8.33%) C++
1 1 (8.33%) COBOL
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) CISM
1 4 (33.33%) CISSP
2 3 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (25.00%) CCSP
2 3 (25.00%) CEH
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (25.00%) OSCP
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) GDPR
2 4 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (25.00%) COBIT
3 3 (25.00%) NIST
4 1 (8.33%) Basel III
4 1 (8.33%) IFRS
4 1 (8.33%) IFRS 17
4 1 (8.33%) IFRS 9
4 1 (8.33%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) HP
1 1 (8.33%) SAP