PCI DSS Contracts in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 97 117 140
Rank change year-on-year +20 +23 +15
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 5 28 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 1.04% 0.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.65% 6.01% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile - £534 £463
25th Percentile - £615 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £750 £563
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +26.76%
75th Percentile £538 £875 £616
90th Percentile £605 £950 £631
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £700
% change year-on-year - -25.00% +43.59%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 303 466 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.05% 17.35% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 246 261
10th Percentile £300 £180 £252
25th Percentile £412 £315 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £614 £575 £550
90th Percentile £688 £600 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 15
10th Percentile £29.62 £18.20 £18.50
25th Percentile £46.30 £22.50 £19.75
Median hourly rate £61.50 £27.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +123.62% +19.57% +9.52%
75th Percentile £66.56 £65.00 £38.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £66.50 £65.66
South East median hourly rate £46.30 £27.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +68.36% -11.29% +47.44%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the Thames Valley

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the Thames Valley

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the Thames Valley

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +8 4 £500 -42.86% 3
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 1
PCI DSS
South East

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
1 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (20.00%) IP Telephony
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) MPLS
1 1 (20.00%) NAS
1 1 (20.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
1 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (20.00%) Skype
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (40.00%) Metasploit
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Audit Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) SOC Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) PMI
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
3 2 (40.00%) OWASP
3 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (40.00%) SIEM
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C
1 2 (40.00%) C++
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) CISA
2 2 (40.00%) CISM
2 2 (40.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (40.00%) GPEN
2 2 (40.00%) GWAPT
2 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (40.00%) OSCE
2 2 (40.00%) OSCP
3 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
3 1 (20.00%) GCIA
3 1 (20.00%) GCIH
3 1 (20.00%) GIAC
3 1 (20.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (20.00%) MCP
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) PgMP
3 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
2 2 (40.00%) HIPAA
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) NIST
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (20.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) QRadar
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) VMware