PSD2 Contract Job Trends in the South West

EU Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring PSD2 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PSD2 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.051% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 - -
England median daily rate £474 £500 £501
% change year-on-year -5.20% -0.15% -42.77%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

PSD2 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 393 339 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 19.93% 13.10% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 167 269
10th Percentile £235 £256 £350
25th Percentile £355 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% -9.09% +7.58%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £666
90th Percentile £706 £690 £753
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 58 42
10th Percentile £15.48 £12.24 £33.00
25th Percentile £30.13 £21.87 £39.69
Median hourly rate £33.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% +7.69% +20.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £83.40
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £33.93 £36.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.75% +61.22%

PSD2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing PSD2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for PSD2 in the South West

PSD2
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PSD2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PSD2

PSD2
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 PSD2 within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Bristol - 1 £523 - 4
PSD2
England

PSD2
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) ForgeRock Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Identity
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ForgeRock
1 1 (100.00%) Ping Identity