PCI DSS Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 93 107
Rank change year-on-year -8 +14 +33
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 12 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.79% 0.40% 0.63%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.76% 3.43% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 12
10th Percentile £357 £362 -
25th Percentile £375 £395 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £505
Median % change year-on-year - -10.89% +41.75%
75th Percentile £495 £550 £515
90th Percentile £563 £610 £569
England median daily rate £515 £555 £625
% change year-on-year -7.21% -11.20% +13.64%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 252 175 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.52% 11.72% 14.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 111 160
10th Percentile £235 £263 £239
25th Percentile £317 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £517 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +3.40% -
75th Percentile £538 £594 £588
90th Percentile £600 £650 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 6
10th Percentile £17.48 - £14.24
25th Percentile £19.81 - £16.05
Median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.36% -43.43% +12.30%
75th Percentile - £16.67 £42.42
90th Percentile £25.00 £33.51 £50.55
England median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -20.00% +52.17%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in Yorkshire

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in Yorkshire

PCI DSS
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
South Yorkshire - 12 £450 - 1
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (8.33%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Akamai
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (8.33%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) SNMP
2 1 (8.33%) SSH
2 1 (8.33%) SSL
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) JIRA
1 6 (50.00%) Postman
1 6 (50.00%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Test Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cryptography Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Web Applications Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Regular Expression
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Agile
2 9 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (58.33%) Cloud Security
3 7 (58.33%) DevSecOps
4 6 (50.00%) API Testing
4 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (50.00%) Kanban
4 6 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 6 (50.00%) Scrum
4 6 (50.00%) Security Testing
4 6 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 6 (50.00%) Test Management
5 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 2 (16.67%) Analytics
7 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
8 1 (8.33%) Issue Tracking
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) CISM
1 6 (50.00%) CISSP
1 6 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.33%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) GDPR
1 7 (58.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (58.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) GLBA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Snort
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) BeyondTrust
1 6 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 6 (50.00%) Google
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (50.00%) Thycotic
2 2 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) ArcSight
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) F5
3 1 (8.33%) Imperva