PCI DSS Contract Job Trends in West London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 32 47
Rank change year-on-year -11 +15 -
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.34% 0.43% 0.83%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.17% 3.33% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £700 £838
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% -16.42% -
75th Percentile - - £850
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £600 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +10.64%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 46 30 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 15.81% 12.88% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 21 54
10th Percentile £219 £220 £315
25th Percentile £268 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -24.50% -2.44% -0.39%
75th Percentile £500 £573 £575
90th Percentile £625 £600 £626
London median daily rate £525 £550 £561
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.00% -1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £31.94 - £24.17
25th Percentile £32.62 - £26.98
Median hourly rate £34.00 £23.80 £31.67
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -24.84% +97.91%
75th Percentile £38.25 £25.24 £36.35
90th Percentile £44.10 £26.10 £39.17
London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +3.70% +26.67%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PCI DSS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in West London

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing PCI DSS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing PCI DSS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Hillingdon - 1 £350 - 2
PCI DSS
London

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DMZ
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) Telnet
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable