PCI DSS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 254 353
Rank change year-on-year 0 +99 +129
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 50 91 125
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.59% 0.48%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.36% 4.06% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 48 97
10th Percentile £455 £421 £415
25th Percentile £500 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £590
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -7.20% +8.26%
75th Percentile £629 £703 £638
90th Percentile £720 £825 £700
UK median daily rate £590 £563 £600
% change year-on-year +4.89% -6.25% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate - - £37.75

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,488 2,240 3,140
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.02% 14.60% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,532 2,292
10th Percentile £281 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £420 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £603 £623 £625
90th Percentile £713 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 79 63
10th Percentile £17.98 £12.75 £18.54
25th Percentile £23.13 £14.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £22.87 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.53% -46.81% -2.16%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.38 £61.88
90th Percentile £87.15 £65.00 £72.35
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

PCI DSS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PCI DSS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PCI DSS.

PCI DSS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing PCI DSS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

PCI DSS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (2.00%) Confluence
1 1 (2.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.00%) BASE24
2 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.00%) Azure
2 18 (36.00%) AWS
3 10 (20.00%) GCP
4 5 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.00%) GitHub
6 3 (6.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.00%) Akamai
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.00%) Cloudflare
7 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.00%) SaaS
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.00%) AWS KMS
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.00%) Datadog
8 1 (2.00%) IaaS
8 1 (2.00%) Nutanix
8 1 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) Firewall
2 6 (12.00%) Network Security
3 3 (6.00%) DHCP
3 3 (6.00%) DNS
3 3 (6.00%) LAN
3 3 (6.00%) SNMP
3 3 (6.00%) SSL
3 3 (6.00%) VPN
4 2 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (4.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (4.00%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (4.00%) TACACS
4 2 (4.00%) Wireless
4 2 (4.00%) WLAN
5 1 (2.00%) FTP
5 1 (2.00%) IPsec
5 1 (2.00%) SMTP
5 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.00%) VLAN
5 1 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.00%) DB2
2 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.00%) MySQL
2 1 (2.00%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.00%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.00%) Gatling
2 1 (2.00%) GitLab
2 1 (2.00%) JMeter
2 1 (2.00%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.00%) Mockito
2 1 (2.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (2.00%) Selenium
2 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (2.00%) Toad
General
1 20 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (26.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (18.00%) Finance
4 5 (10.00%) Back Office
4 5 (10.00%) Retail
5 4 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Banking
6 3 (6.00%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.00%) German Language
7 2 (4.00%) Legal
8 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Architect
2 7 (14.00%) Analyst
3 5 (10.00%) Consultant
3 5 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 5 (10.00%) Lead
4 4 (8.00%) Technical Leader
5 3 (6.00%) Governance Analyst
5 3 (6.00%) Security Analyst
5 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Auditor
6 2 (4.00%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) CyberArk Architect
6 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS Consultant
6 2 (4.00%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Security Consultant
7 1 (2.00%) Audit Consultant
7 1 (2.00%) Cryptography Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS Project Manager
7 1 (2.00%) SOC Consultant
7 1 (2.00%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) .NET
1 5 (10.00%) LDAP
2 3 (6.00%) SailPoint
2 3 (6.00%) SAML
3 2 (4.00%) 802.1X
3 2 (4.00%) REST
4 1 (2.00%) ADO
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Camel
4 1 (2.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.00%) iOS SDK
4 1 (2.00%) JWT
4 1 (2.00%) OAuth
4 1 (2.00%) OpenID
4 1 (2.00%) Playwright
4 1 (2.00%) React
4 1 (2.00%) Spring
4 1 (2.00%) Spring Batch
4 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Security Posture
2 6 (12.00%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.00%) EMV
5 2 (4.00%) PKI
5 2 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.00%) Clustering
6 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.00%) EPoS
6 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.00%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (2.00%) Online Gambling
6 1 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (2.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Linux
2 3 (6.00%) Windows
3 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.00%) Android
4 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.00%) CentOS
4 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) Incident Response
1 13 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (24.00%) DevOps
2 12 (24.00%) Information Security
3 11 (22.00%) Cloud Security
4 9 (18.00%) Agile
4 9 (18.00%) Computer Science
4 9 (18.00%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (18.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 9 (18.00%) Risk Management
5 7 (14.00%) Cryptography
5 7 (14.00%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (14.00%) Roadmaps
5 7 (14.00%) Security Operations
6 6 (12.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (12.00%) Migration
6 6 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (12.00%) Threat Modelling
6 6 (12.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.00%) PowerShell
2 15 (30.00%) Python
3 9 (18.00%) SQL
4 8 (16.00%) Java
5 5 (10.00%) C#
6 4 (8.00%) Bash
6 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.00%) C
7 2 (4.00%) C++
7 2 (4.00%) PHP
8 1 (2.00%) COBOL
8 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.00%) Ruby
8 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (36.00%) CISSP
2 10 (20.00%) CISM
3 9 (18.00%) Degree
3 9 (18.00%) GIAC
4 7 (14.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (12.00%) CEH
5 6 (12.00%) SANS
6 4 (8.00%) CISA
6 4 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
6 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
7 3 (6.00%) AWS Certification
7 3 (6.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (6.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 3 (6.00%) Master's Degree
8 2 (4.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
8 2 (4.00%) CCIE Security
8 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
8 2 (4.00%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (54.00%) GDPR
2 18 (36.00%) NIST
3 17 (34.00%) HIPAA
4 13 (26.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (14.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (6.00%) GRC
7 2 (4.00%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (4.00%) QA
8 1 (2.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
8 1 (2.00%) ISO 8583
8 1 (2.00%) NIST 800
8 1 (2.00%) SLA
8 1 (2.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Terraform
2 2 (4.00%) Ansible
2 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.00%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.00%) Nagios
3 1 (2.00%) Nessus
3 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.00%) QRadar
3 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (8.00%) CyberArk
3 4 (8.00%) Okta
4 3 (6.00%) ForgeRock
5 2 (4.00%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.00%) Cisco
5 2 (4.00%) HP
5 2 (4.00%) Oracle
5 2 (4.00%) Tenable
5 2 (4.00%) Thycotic
5 2 (4.00%) VMware
6 1 (2.00%) Apple
6 1 (2.00%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (2.00%) Centrify
6 1 (2.00%) Dell
6 1 (2.00%) Delphix
6 1 (2.00%) IBM
6 1 (2.00%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.00%) Thales