PSD2 Contracts in the Thames Valley

EU Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring PSD2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PSD2 over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PSD2 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.24% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £729 - -
25th Percentile £736 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £760 - -
75th Percentile £774 - -
90th Percentile £775 - -
South East median daily rate £760 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 364 343 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 21.76% 14.04% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 154 243
10th Percentile £285 £252 £249
25th Percentile £400 £366 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £562 £589
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 25 22
10th Percentile £15.12 £18.20 £16.35
25th Percentile £15.13 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £46.30 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.33% -25.00% +135.29%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £52.36
90th Percentile £89.63 £69.11 £72.48
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year -8.55% -40.54% +131.25%

PSD2
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PSD2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PSD2 in the Thames Valley

PSD2
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 PSD2 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 July 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 - 4 £760 - 1
PSD2
South East

PSD2
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (75.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (75.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 4 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (75.00%) Application Security
2 3 (75.00%) Architectural Design
2 3 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (75.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Secrets Management
2 3 (75.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (100.00%) CCSP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
1 4 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes