PCI DSS Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 306 320
Rank change year-on-year +25 +14 +117
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 57 72 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.35% 0.51%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.70% 2.43% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 43 90
10th Percentile £362 £430 £415
25th Percentile £483 £478 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -12.50% +13.21%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £700
90th Percentile £689 £705 £838
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £27.73 - -
25th Percentile £28.03 - -
Median hourly rate £29.51 - -
75th Percentile £31.99 - -
90th Percentile £32.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £29.51 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,111 2,966 3,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.46% 14.56% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,341 1,746 2,234
10th Percentile £225 £250 £225
25th Percentile £360 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -2.06% +7.78%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £509 £525
% change year-on-year -1.77% -3.05% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 320 190
10th Percentile £15.13 £10.95 £13.16
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £32.96 £18.27 £34.19
Median % change year-on-year +80.41% -46.57% +51.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £62.92
90th Percentile £79.61 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £21.38 £35.00
% change year-on-year +54.18% -38.92% +17.65%

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 24 May 2025.

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 24 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
North of England +11 22 £538 +7.50% 120
North West +6 13 £504 -10.40% 67
East of England +34 11 £250 -62.96% 62
South East +30 9 £525 - 133
Yorkshire +13 9 £588 +48.73% 40
South West +33 7 £550 +10.00% 52
Midlands +9 4 £588 - 76
Scotland -3 4 £638 -1.92% 19
West Midlands - 4 £588 - 43
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 4 (7.02%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.51%) IIS
2 2 (3.51%) SAS
3 1 (1.75%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.75%) BASE24
2 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.58%) AWS
2 15 (26.32%) Azure
3 7 (12.28%) GCP
4 5 (8.77%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.51%) Cloudflare
7 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.51%) Nutanix
7 2 (3.51%) SaaS
7 2 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.75%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.75%) OCI
8 1 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (22.81%) Network Security
2 9 (15.79%) DNS
3 7 (12.28%) Firewall
4 5 (8.77%) SAN
5 4 (7.02%) iSCSI
6 3 (5.26%) DHCP
7 2 (3.51%) LAN
7 2 (3.51%) SD-WAN
7 2 (3.51%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.51%) WAN
8 1 (1.75%) ATM
8 1 (1.75%) FTP
8 1 (1.75%) Internet
8 1 (1.75%) IPsec
8 1 (1.75%) MPLS
8 1 (1.75%) Skype
8 1 (1.75%) SSL
8 1 (1.75%) VPN
8 1 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.75%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.75%) SAP BW
1 1 (1.75%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (14.04%) JIRA
2 5 (8.77%) GitLab
2 5 (8.77%) TeamCity
3 2 (3.51%) Burp Suite
3 2 (3.51%) Metasploit
4 1 (1.75%) Mockito
4 1 (1.75%) TestRail
4 1 (1.75%) Toad
General
1 29 (50.88%) Social Skills
2 19 (33.33%) Finance
3 17 (29.82%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (21.05%) Banking
5 3 (5.26%) Financial Institution
5 3 (5.26%) Legal
6 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (29.82%) Architect
2 14 (24.56%) Consultant
3 12 (21.05%) Security Consultant
4 8 (14.04%) Security Architect
5 6 (10.53%) Administrator
5 6 (10.53%) Senior
6 5 (8.77%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 5 (8.77%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (7.02%) DevSecOps Architect
7 4 (7.02%) DevSecOps Consultant
7 4 (7.02%) Linux Administrator
8 3 (5.26%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 3 (5.26%) Payments Architect
9 2 (3.51%) Analyst
9 2 (3.51%) Auditor
9 2 (3.51%) Information Security Consultant
9 2 (3.51%) Network Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Penetration Tester
9 2 (3.51%) SAS Architect
9 2 (3.51%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) OAuth
2 2 (3.51%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Camel
3 1 (1.75%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.75%) JWT
3 1 (1.75%) LDAP
3 1 (1.75%) OpenID
3 1 (1.75%) REST
3 1 (1.75%) SAML
3 1 (1.75%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.75%) Spring
3 1 (1.75%) Spring Batch
3 1 (1.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Security Posture
2 6 (10.53%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (8.77%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (8.77%) Private Cloud
4 4 (7.02%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (7.02%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (7.02%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.26%) EMV
6 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.51%) Clustering
6 2 (3.51%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (3.51%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Linux
2 6 (10.53%) CentOS
3 4 (7.02%) Ubuntu
4 3 (5.26%) Windows
4 3 (5.26%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.75%) AIX
6 1 (1.75%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (26.32%) Risk Management
3 13 (22.81%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (22.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (21.05%) Cloud Security
4 12 (21.05%) Computer Science
5 11 (19.30%) Incident Response
5 11 (19.30%) Information Security
5 11 (19.30%) OWASP
6 10 (17.54%) Roadmaps
7 9 (15.79%) Containerisation
8 8 (14.04%) Agile
8 8 (14.04%) Project Management
8 8 (14.04%) Vulnerability Management
9 7 (12.28%) Analytics
9 7 (12.28%) DevOps
9 7 (12.28%) ITIL
9 7 (12.28%) Network Architecture
9 7 (12.28%) Security Operations
10 6 (10.53%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.05%) Python
2 6 (10.53%) Shell Script
3 5 (8.77%) SQL
4 3 (5.26%) C
4 3 (5.26%) C++
4 3 (5.26%) Java
5 2 (3.51%) Bash
5 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.51%) Ruby
6 1 (1.75%) COBOL
6 1 (1.75%) Go
6 1 (1.75%) Perl
6 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (36.84%) CISSP
2 18 (31.58%) CISM
3 13 (22.81%) Degree
4 10 (17.54%) OSCP
5 7 (12.28%) CEH
6 6 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (8.77%) CISA
8 4 (7.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (7.02%) CCSP
8 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (7.02%) Master's Degree
9 3 (5.26%) GIAC
9 3 (5.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 2 (3.51%) CCNA
10 2 (3.51%) GPEN
10 2 (3.51%) GWAPT
10 2 (3.51%) OSCE
10 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
11 1 (1.75%) CRISC
11 1 (1.75%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (40.35%) NIST
2 22 (38.60%) GDPR
3 21 (36.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (14.04%) COBIT
4 8 (14.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (7.02%) HIPAA
6 3 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (5.26%) ISO 8583
6 3 (5.26%) NIST 800
6 3 (5.26%) SLA
7 2 (3.51%) ISO 20022
7 2 (3.51%) PSD2
7 2 (3.51%) SEPA
8 1 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (1.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (1.75%) IFRS
8 1 (1.75%) IFRS 9
8 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (1.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.77%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.51%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.75%) Docker
5 1 (1.75%) vSphere
5 1 (1.75%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (17.54%) Ansible
2 4 (7.02%) Terraform
3 3 (5.26%) Progress Chef
3 3 (5.26%) Puppet
4 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.51%) Nagios
4 2 (3.51%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.51%) Salt
4 2 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.51%) ZABBIX
5 1 (1.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (1.75%) QRadar
5 1 (1.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.28%) ServiceNow
2 7 (12.28%) VMware
3 3 (5.26%) Cisco
3 3 (5.26%) HP
3 3 (5.26%) IBM
4 2 (3.51%) Dell
4 2 (3.51%) F5
4 2 (3.51%) Oracle
4 2 (3.51%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.75%) Aruba
5 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.75%) Citrix
5 1 (1.75%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.75%) Google
5 1 (1.75%) Imperva
5 1 (1.75%) Meraki
5 1 (1.75%) SAP
5 1 (1.75%) Splunk
5 1 (1.75%) Talend