Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 439 583
Rank change year-on-year +39 +144 -68
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 194 283 280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.48% 0.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.12% 3.58% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 204 187
10th Percentile £406 £438 £366
25th Percentile £475 £513 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £700 £671 £648
90th Percentile £825 £750 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £581 £540
% change year-on-year -9.68% +7.64% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,210 7,911 11,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.32% 13.35% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,938 5,435 8,072
10th Percentile £296 £276 £294
25th Percentile £403 £410 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £623
90th Percentile £750 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £478 £450
% change year-on-year +2.09% +6.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 233 302
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.29 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.50 £16.63
Median hourly rate £20.80 £35.00 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.56% +26.13% +32.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.50 £77.50 £66.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £35.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -48.57% +66.27% +0.24%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the UK

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the UK

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the UK

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS.

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in the UK

PCI DSS
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 May 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
England +77 179 £575 -4.17% 98
London +50 93 £588 -6.00% 36
UK excluding London +19 81 £525 -9.68% 66
Work from Home +77 77 £548 -7.20% 52
South East +6 34 £525 -25.00% 21
North of England +12 24 £500 -4.76% 17
North West +18 18 £610 +22.00% 9
South West +24 14 £500 -20.00% 7
Scotland +32 8 £650 +51.52% 4
Yorkshire +2 5 £340 -35.24% 6
Midlands +25 4 £588 -2.08% 10
East Midlands +24 4 £588 -6.00% 8
East of England +18 3 £575 +21.05% 9

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.03%) CMS
1 2 (1.03%) Confluence
1 2 (1.03%) IIS
1 2 (1.03%) nginx
2 1 (0.52%) CICS
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.03%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.06%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 54 (27.84%) Azure
2 41 (21.13%) AWS
3 13 (6.70%) GCP
4 12 (6.19%) IaaS
4 12 (6.19%) PaaS
4 12 (6.19%) SaaS
5 10 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.64%) GitHub
6 9 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.09%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.58%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (2.06%) AWS KMS
9 4 (2.06%) Miro
10 3 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.55%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.03%) Datadog
11 2 (1.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.86%) Firewall
2 13 (6.70%) Network Security
3 10 (5.15%) 5G
3 10 (5.15%) Broadband
3 10 (5.15%) TCP/IP
4 9 (4.64%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (4.12%) VPN
6 6 (3.09%) DNS
7 4 (2.06%) LAN
8 3 (1.55%) BGP
8 3 (1.55%) CTI
8 3 (1.55%) MPLS
8 3 (1.55%) OSPF
8 3 (1.55%) WAN
9 2 (1.03%) SAN
9 2 (1.03%) SSL
9 2 (1.03%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.52%) DMZ
10 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.52%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.06%) NoSQL
1 4 (2.06%) SAP HANA
2 3 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.03%) Big Data
3 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.52%) DB2
Development Applications
1 8 (4.12%) Jenkins
1 8 (4.12%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (3.61%) Burp Suite
3 6 (3.09%) JIRA
4 4 (2.06%) GitLab
5 3 (1.55%) Selenium
6 2 (1.03%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.03%) Capybara
6 2 (1.03%) Gradle
6 2 (1.03%) Maven
6 2 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.03%) Postman
7 1 (0.52%) Git
7 1 (0.52%) TestCafe
General
1 46 (23.71%) Finance
1 46 (23.71%) Social Skills
2 21 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (9.28%) Back Office
4 15 (7.73%) Manufacturing
4 15 (7.73%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.70%) Banking
5 13 (6.70%) Marketing
6 10 (5.15%) Law
6 10 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.61%) Retail
8 7 (3.61%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.58%) Electronics
9 5 (2.58%) Legal
10 2 (1.03%) Advertising
10 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.03%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 43 (22.16%) Senior
2 41 (21.13%) Architect
3 26 (13.40%) Lead
4 24 (12.37%) Analyst
5 20 (10.31%) Consultant
6 17 (8.76%) Security Consultant
7 14 (7.22%) Developer
7 14 (7.22%) Security Architect
8 12 (6.19%) Penetration Tester
8 12 (6.19%) Tester
9 11 (5.67%) Senior Developer
10 10 (5.15%) Security Penetration Tester
10 10 (5.15%) Security Specialist
10 10 (5.15%) Security Tester
10 10 (5.15%) Testing Specialist
11 9 (4.64%) Business Analyst
11 9 (4.64%) Lead Architect
11 9 (4.64%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (4.64%) Technical Leader
12 8 (4.12%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.67%) Web Services
2 8 (4.12%) .NET
3 6 (3.09%) REST
4 4 (2.06%) SAML
4 4 (2.06%) SAP PI
4 4 (2.06%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.03%) FIDO
5 2 (1.03%) OAuth
5 2 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.03%) React
5 2 (1.03%) RESTful
5 2 (1.03%) Spring
5 2 (1.03%) Spring Security
5 2 (1.03%) Spring WebFlux
5 2 (1.03%) WebKit
5 2 (1.03%) XML
6 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.52%) Kafka
6 1 (0.52%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.52%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.86%) Management Information System
2 15 (7.73%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.22%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (6.19%) Mobile App
5 10 (5.15%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.12%) CESG
7 5 (2.58%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (2.58%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (2.06%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.55%) IoT
9 3 (1.55%) PKI
10 2 (1.03%) Contactless
10 2 (1.03%) Digital Wallet
10 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.52%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.52%) Mobile Payment
11 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.31%) Windows
2 15 (7.73%) Linux
3 10 (5.15%) Unix
4 6 (3.09%) Kali Linux
4 6 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.55%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (32.99%) Agile
2 63 (32.47%) Cybersecurity
3 49 (25.26%) Information Security
4 40 (20.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (19.07%) DevOps
6 35 (18.04%) Risk Management
7 25 (12.89%) Penetration Testing
8 22 (11.34%) Cloud Security
8 22 (11.34%) Design Patterns
9 20 (10.31%) Security Architecture
10 19 (9.79%) OWASP
10 19 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (9.79%) Security Testing
10 19 (9.79%) SIEM
10 19 (9.79%) Software Engineering
11 18 (9.28%) Security Operations
12 17 (8.76%) Content Management
12 17 (8.76%) Database Optimisation
12 17 (8.76%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (6.70%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.43%) Java
2 24 (12.37%) PowerShell
3 23 (11.86%) SQL
4 20 (10.31%) JavaScript
5 18 (9.28%) C#
6 17 (8.76%) Python
7 4 (2.06%) Ruby
8 3 (1.55%) C
8 3 (1.55%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.03%) C++
9 2 (1.03%) Go
9 2 (1.03%) Perl
10 1 (0.52%) Bash
10 1 (0.52%) Bicep
10 1 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 38 (19.59%) Degree
2 25 (12.89%) CISSP
2 25 (12.89%) Security Cleared
3 23 (11.86%) CISM
4 18 (9.28%) OSCP
5 15 (7.73%) Master's Degree
6 14 (7.22%) CISA
6 14 (7.22%) CREST Certified
7 13 (6.70%) SC Cleared
8 10 (5.15%) CEH
8 10 (5.15%) CompTIA Security+
8 10 (5.15%) GIAC
8 10 (5.15%) GPEN
8 10 (5.15%) SANS
9 9 (4.64%) SSCP
10 8 (4.12%) CISMP
10 8 (4.12%) ISACA
10 8 (4.12%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (2.58%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (32.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 50 (25.77%) NIST
3 49 (25.26%) GDPR
4 18 (9.28%) HIPAA
5 13 (6.70%) GRC
6 12 (6.19%) NCSC
7 9 (4.64%) PSD2
8 7 (3.61%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (3.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (2.58%) ISO 31000
9 5 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (2.58%) NIST 800
10 4 (2.06%) COBIT
10 4 (2.06%) ISO 20022
11 3 (1.55%) SOC 2
12 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
12 2 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (1.03%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.52%) COSO
13 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 12 (6.19%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.58%) Docker
2 5 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.03%) Squid
3 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.03%) XenApp
4 1 (0.52%) RACF
Systems Management
1 20 (10.31%) Terraform
2 7 (3.61%) Ansible
2 7 (3.61%) Nessus
3 5 (2.58%) CA Service Virtualization
3 5 (2.58%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.06%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 4 (2.06%) Kibana
5 3 (1.55%) Grafana
5 3 (1.55%) Packer
6 2 (1.03%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.03%) logstash
6 2 (1.03%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (1.03%) Nmap
7 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.15%) Virgin Media
3 9 (4.64%) SAP
4 7 (3.61%) Cisco
5 5 (2.58%) CA
5 5 (2.58%) Google
5 5 (2.58%) Micro Focus
5 5 (2.58%) Splunk
5 5 (2.58%) VMware
6 4 (2.06%) CyberSource
7 3 (1.55%) IBM
7 3 (1.55%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.55%) Qualys
7 3 (1.55%) Teradata
8 2 (1.03%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.03%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.03%) Citrix
8 2 (1.03%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.03%) New Relic
8 2 (1.03%) Rapid7