PCI DSS Contracts in the South West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for PCI DSS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PCI DSS over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 160 160
Rank change year-on-year +24 0 -20
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 14 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.44% 0.22% 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.47% 1.89% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 6
10th Percentile - £431 £478
25th Percentile £513 £438 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.04% -
75th Percentile £538 £691 £540
90th Percentile - £700 £720
England median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

PCI DSS is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 566 424 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 17.72% 11.51% 11.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 307 299
10th Percentile £263 £200 £207
25th Percentile £416 £386 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £513 £477
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% +7.44% -4.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £586
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 44 21
10th Percentile £12.40 £17.65 £47.41
25th Percentile £14.00 £49.75 £56.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £64.57 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year -30.31% -6.48% +38.10%
75th Percentile £68.75 £79.81 £71.08
90th Percentile £74.44 £83.40 £81.23
England median hourly rate £20.55 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -51.64% +54.55% +31.26%

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
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 24 April 2024. 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 - 11 - - 4
Wiltshire -1 3 £525 +10.53%
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Burp Suite
General
1 8 (57.14%) Manufacturing
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Architect
2 8 (57.14%) Lead
2 8 (57.14%) Lead Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Ethical Hacker
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Information Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Information Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
1 1 (7.14%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) CESG
2 3 (21.43%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (14.29%) Security Posture
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Kali Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (64.29%) Information Security
2 9 (64.29%) Security Operations
3 8 (57.14%) Information Assurance
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 4 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (21.43%) Ethical Hacking
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (21.43%) Purple Team
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.14%) Cyber Intelligence
7 1 (7.14%) Network Architecture
7 1 (7.14%) Regulatory Compliance
7 1 (7.14%) Remediation Plan
7 1 (7.14%) Resource Allocation
7 1 (7.14%) Security Architecture
7 1 (7.14%) Threat Intelligence
7 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) C
2 1 (7.14%) C++
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) Perl
2 1 (7.14%) Ruby
2 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 9 (64.29%) CISSP
2 9 (64.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (57.14%) CEH
3 8 (57.14%) CISA
3 8 (57.14%) CISM
3 8 (57.14%) CISMP
3 8 (57.14%) CompTIA Security+
3 8 (57.14%) ISACA
3 8 (57.14%) SSCP
4 4 (28.57%) OSCP
5 1 (7.14%) CCNP
5 1 (7.14%) CCSP
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (7.14%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (64.29%) GDPR
1 9 (64.29%) HIPAA
1 9 (64.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (64.29%) NIST
2 1 (7.14%) GRC
2 1 (7.14%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Google