PCI DSS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 367 453
Rank change year-on-year +103 +86 -102
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 132 98 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.40% 0.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.16% 2.73% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 78 53
10th Percentile £462 £415 £226
25th Percentile £487 £500 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +12.24% +5.15%
75th Percentile £650 £647 £625
90th Percentile £713 £700 £770
UK median daily rate £575 £595 £548
% change year-on-year -3.36% +8.68% +9.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,171 3,588 4,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.25% 14.72% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,848 2,412 3,105
10th Percentile £254 £213 £200
25th Percentile £374 £360 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 188 194
10th Percentile £10.95 £12.43 £11.36
25th Percentile £12.43 £18.25 £14.13
Median hourly rate £17.72 £35.00 £21.53
Median % change year-on-year -49.37% +62.60% +2.50%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.00 £48.44
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.50 £66.53
UK median hourly rate £20.47 £37.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year -45.79% +37.27% +30.64%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the UK excluding London

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the UK excluding London

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the UK excluding London

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in the UK excluding London

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
South East +69 90 £525 -20.75% 22
North of England +23 20 £610 +16.19% 18
North West +30 17 £618 +23.50% 11
South West +31 14 £525 -4.55% 8
Scotland +35 8 £650 +51.52% 5
East of England +19 4 £650 +36.84% 8
Midlands +30 2 £620 +3.33% 5
Yorkshire -2 2 - - 4
West Midlands +21 1 £625 +4.17% 1
East Midlands - 1 £615 - 4
PCI DSS
UK

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (1.52%) Confluence
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.76%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 69 (52.27%) SaaS
2 68 (51.52%) IaaS
2 68 (51.52%) PaaS
3 15 (11.36%) AWS
4 8 (6.06%) Azure
5 3 (2.27%) GCP
5 3 (2.27%) GitHub
6 2 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.76%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.76%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 66 (50.00%) 5G
1 66 (50.00%) Broadband
2 5 (3.79%) Firewall
3 3 (2.27%) Network Security
4 2 (1.52%) CTI
4 2 (1.52%) DNS
4 2 (1.52%) SAN
5 1 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.76%) LAN
5 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.76%) VPN
5 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (1.52%) Big Data
1 2 (1.52%) Hadoop
1 2 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (0.76%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (6.06%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (2.27%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.52%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.52%) Capybara
3 2 (1.52%) GitLab
3 2 (1.52%) Gradle
3 2 (1.52%) JIRA
3 2 (1.52%) Maven
3 2 (1.52%) Postman
4 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.76%) Selenium
4 1 (0.76%) TestCafe
General
1 66 (50.00%) Law
1 66 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 15 (11.36%) Finance
2 15 (11.36%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.82%) Manufacturing
3 9 (6.82%) Marketing
4 8 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.27%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.27%) Retail
7 2 (1.52%) Back Office
7 2 (1.52%) Banking
7 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.76%) Electronics
8 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 67 (50.76%) Penetration Tester
1 67 (50.76%) Tester
2 66 (50.00%) Security Penetration Tester
2 66 (50.00%) Security Specialist
2 66 (50.00%) Security Tester
2 66 (50.00%) Testing Specialist
3 18 (13.64%) Architect
4 16 (12.12%) Lead
5 13 (9.85%) Senior
6 9 (6.82%) Lead Architect
7 8 (6.06%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 8 (6.06%) Systems Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) Consultant
8 7 (5.30%) Security Architect
9 6 (4.55%) DOORS Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Senior Integration Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Software Integration Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Systems Integration Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (1.52%) React
2 2 (1.52%) SAML
2 2 (1.52%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.52%) WebKit
3 1 (0.76%) JSON
3 1 (0.76%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 66 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 11 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 8 (6.06%) CESG
4 4 (3.03%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.03%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.27%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.52%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.52%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.76%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.76%) PKI
7 1 (0.76%) Smart Energy
7 1 (0.76%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.12%) Windows
2 10 (7.58%) Linux
3 8 (6.06%) Unix
4 3 (2.27%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.76%) Android
6 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.76%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (67.42%) Cybersecurity
2 84 (63.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 73 (55.30%) OWASP
4 72 (54.55%) Penetration Testing
5 68 (51.52%) Security Testing
6 67 (50.76%) Application Security
7 66 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 29 (21.97%) Information Security
9 22 (16.67%) Risk Management
10 14 (10.61%) Security Operations
11 12 (9.09%) Agile
12 11 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
13 9 (6.82%) Collaborative Working
13 9 (6.82%) Decision-Making
13 9 (6.82%) ITIL
13 9 (6.82%) Roadmaps
14 8 (6.06%) Requirements Analysis
14 8 (6.06%) Requirements Management
14 8 (6.06%) UML
14 8 (6.06%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.06%) Python
2 5 (3.79%) Java
3 3 (2.27%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.27%) Ruby
4 2 (1.52%) Go
4 2 (1.52%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.76%) C
5 1 (0.76%) C++
5 1 (0.76%) Perl
5 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 70 (53.03%) OSCP
3 67 (50.76%) CREST Certified
4 66 (50.00%) GIAC
4 66 (50.00%) GPEN
4 66 (50.00%) SANS
5 17 (12.88%) Degree
6 12 (9.09%) CISSP
7 11 (8.33%) Master's Degree
8 10 (7.58%) CISM
9 9 (6.82%) CISA
9 9 (6.82%) CompTIA Security+
9 9 (6.82%) SC Cleared
9 9 (6.82%) SSCP
10 8 (6.06%) CEH
10 8 (6.06%) CISMP
10 8 (6.06%) ISACA
10 8 (6.06%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.52%) PhD
11 2 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (62.12%) GDPR
2 67 (50.76%) NCSC
3 31 (23.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (17.42%) NIST
5 10 (7.58%) HIPAA
6 7 (5.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (5.30%) GRC
7 4 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.76%) COBIT
9 1 (0.76%) PSD2
9 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (3.03%) Active Directory
1 4 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.52%) Docker
3 1 (0.76%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (5.30%) Terraform
2 4 (3.03%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (1.52%) Ansible
4 2 (1.52%) Nessus
5 1 (0.76%) CA Service Virtualization
5 1 (0.76%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (0.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 66 (50.00%) Virgin Media
2 5 (3.79%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.79%) VMware
3 2 (1.52%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.52%) Cisco
3 2 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (1.52%) Databricks
3 2 (1.52%) Rapid7
3 2 (1.52%) Teradata
4 1 (0.76%) CA
4 1 (0.76%) CheckPoint
4 1 (0.76%) Citrix
4 1 (0.76%) Darktrace
4 1 (0.76%) IBM
4 1 (0.76%) Micro Focus
4 1 (0.76%) Netskope
4 1 (0.76%) SAP
4 1 (0.76%) SolarWinds
4 1 (0.76%) Sophos
4 1 (0.76%) Splunk