PCI DSS Contract Job Trends in West Wales

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 2.22% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £475 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 4.44% 6.90% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £473 - -
25th Percentile £488 - £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £338
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +48.15% -
75th Percentile £638 - £344
90th Percentile £668 - -
Wales median daily rate £436 £425 £363
% change year-on-year +2.65% +17.24% -27.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
Wales median hourly rate £80.00 £25.48 £23.92
% change year-on-year +213.97% +6.54% +5.73%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in West Wales

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend in West Wales

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

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

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in West Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Swansea - 1 £475 -
PCI DSS
Wales

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales 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%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform