PCI DSS Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 62 78
Rank change year-on-year -15 +16 +45
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 2 6 14
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.24% 0.76% 1.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.48% 6.74% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 14
10th Percentile - £373 -
25th Percentile £510 £423 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £530 £650 £515
90th Percentile - - £557
Yorkshire median daily rate £498 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.55% +10.00% -6.98%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 135 89 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 16.13% 11.25% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 59 128
10th Percentile £235 £263 £271
25th Percentile £385 £359 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £578
90th Percentile £603 £640 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.86
25th Percentile - - £16.68
Median hourly rate £22.14 - £18.81
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.56%
75th Percentile - - £20.91
90th Percentile £23.28 - £21.72
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £20.50
% change year-on-year +86.36% -42.05% +9.63%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
Leeds -13 2 £520 -5.45% 2
PCI DSS
Yorkshire

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) GCIA
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
1 2 (100.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Rapid7