PCI DSS Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.39% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.26% - -
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 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £504 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -22.50% +30.00% -4.76%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 108 37 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 14.96% 8.30% 19.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 22 41
10th Percentile £273 £135 £225
25th Percentile £339 £235 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £568 £550
90th Percentile £609 £593 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £471 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.99% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate £12.21 - £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.33%
75th Percentile - - £22.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £20.50
% change year-on-year +86.36% -42.05% +9.63%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in South Yorkshire

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Sheffield - 10 £463 - 1
PCI DSS
Yorkshire

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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