PCI DSS Contracts in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for PCI DSS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PCI DSS over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 429 569
Rank change year-on-year +63 +140 -76
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 179 235 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.49% 0.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.49% 3.66% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 179 145
10th Percentile £402 £462 £392
25th Percentile £475 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £650
90th Percentile £823 £838 £740
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

PCI DSS is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,125 6,421 9,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.09% 13.33% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,289 4,357 6,302
10th Percentile £300 £290 £290
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 215 265
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.63 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £20.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +27.12% +40.48%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £79.90 £69.52
UK median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -39.84% +7.69% +54.76%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in England

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in England.

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in England

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in England

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in England.

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in England

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London +65 104 £575 -8.00% 38
North of England +10 24 £500 -4.76% 21
South East -12 24 £525 -25.00% 20
North West +20 18 £610 +22.00% 10
South West +16 16 £500 -20.00% 6
Yorkshire -4 5 £340 -36.74% 8
Midlands +23 4 £588 -2.08% 9
East Midlands +16 4 £588 -6.00% 5
East of England +11 2 £675 +42.11% 6
PCI DSS
UK

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (1.12%) CMS
1 2 (1.12%) Confluence
1 2 (1.12%) IIS
1 2 (1.12%) nginx
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (34.64%) Azure
2 42 (23.46%) AWS
3 15 (8.38%) GCP
4 10 (5.59%) Azure Service Bus
5 9 (5.03%) GitHub
5 9 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.91%) Entra ID
7 6 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.35%) Miro
8 4 (2.23%) AWS KMS
8 4 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.23%) Twilio
9 3 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.68%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.12%) Datadog
10 2 (1.12%) IaaS
10 2 (1.12%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (12.85%) Firewall
2 12 (6.70%) Network Security
3 9 (5.03%) Intrusion Detection
3 9 (5.03%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.47%) VPN
5 6 (3.35%) CTI
5 6 (3.35%) DNS
6 4 (2.23%) LAN
6 4 (2.23%) VoIP
7 3 (1.68%) BGP
7 3 (1.68%) MPLS
7 3 (1.68%) OSPF
7 3 (1.68%) WAN
8 2 (1.12%) SAN
8 2 (1.12%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.56%) DMZ
9 1 (0.56%) IPsec
9 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.56%) SSL
9 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.35%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.79%) SAP HANA
3 3 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.12%) Big Data
4 2 (1.12%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (4.47%) Jenkins
1 8 (4.47%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (3.91%) Burp Suite
3 6 (3.35%) JIRA
4 4 (2.23%) GitLab
5 3 (1.68%) Selenium
6 2 (1.12%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.12%) Postman
7 1 (0.56%) Git
7 1 (0.56%) TestCafe
General
1 51 (28.49%) Finance
2 44 (24.58%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.97%) Back Office
4 22 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.26%) Manufacturing
5 13 (7.26%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.15%) Banking
6 11 (6.15%) Marketing
7 10 (5.59%) Retail
8 8 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (3.35%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.79%) Legal
12 3 (1.68%) Electronics
13 2 (1.12%) Advertising
13 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.12%) International Banking
13 2 (1.12%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 47 (26.26%) Senior
2 39 (21.79%) Architect
3 25 (13.97%) Analyst
4 20 (11.17%) Consultant
4 20 (11.17%) Lead
5 17 (9.50%) Security Consultant
6 13 (7.26%) Developer
6 13 (7.26%) Security Architect
7 12 (6.70%) Product Owner
8 11 (6.15%) Business Analyst
9 10 (5.59%) Senior Analyst
9 10 (5.59%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.47%) Lead Architect
10 8 (4.47%) Security Engineer
10 8 (4.47%) Senior Product Owner
10 8 (4.47%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 8 (4.47%) Systems Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 6 (3.35%) Senior Integration Engineer
12 6 (3.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.47%) .NET
2 6 (3.35%) REST
3 5 (2.79%) SAP PI
3 5 (2.79%) Web Services
4 4 (2.23%) Middleware
4 4 (2.23%) SAML
5 2 (1.12%) OAuth
5 2 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.12%) Spring
5 2 (1.12%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.12%) Spring Security
5 2 (1.12%) Spring WebFlux
5 2 (1.12%) XML
6 1 (0.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.56%) JWT
6 1 (0.56%) Kafka
6 1 (0.56%) LDAP
6 1 (0.56%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.56%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.97%) Management Information System
2 19 (10.61%) Product Ownership
3 15 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (7.82%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (4.47%) CESG
6 7 (3.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 6 (3.35%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.79%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (2.23%) IVR
9 4 (2.23%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.23%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.68%) IoT
10 3 (1.68%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.68%) PKI
11 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 1 (0.56%) Mobile Payment
12 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.17%) Windows
2 13 (7.26%) Linux
3 10 (5.59%) Unix
4 6 (3.35%) Kali Linux
4 6 (3.35%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.68%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (40.22%) Agile
2 51 (28.49%) Cybersecurity
3 44 (24.58%) Information Security
4 38 (21.23%) DevOps
5 29 (16.20%) Risk Management
6 28 (15.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (11.73%) Cloud Security
8 19 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (10.61%) SIEM
8 19 (10.61%) Software Engineering
9 18 (10.06%) Design Patterns
9 18 (10.06%) Security Operations
10 17 (9.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (9.50%) Security Architecture
11 16 (8.94%) Content Management
11 16 (8.94%) Database Optimisation
11 16 (8.94%) User Stories
12 15 (8.38%) Penetration Testing
12 15 (8.38%) Requirements Gathering
13 14 (7.82%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (13.97%) Java
2 24 (13.41%) SQL
3 23 (12.85%) PowerShell
4 17 (9.50%) C#
4 17 (9.50%) JavaScript
4 17 (9.50%) Python
5 3 (1.68%) C
5 3 (1.68%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.12%) C++
6 2 (1.12%) Go
6 2 (1.12%) Perl
6 2 (1.12%) Ruby
7 1 (0.56%) Bash
7 1 (0.56%) Bicep
7 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 40 (22.35%) Degree
2 24 (13.41%) CISSP
3 23 (12.85%) CISM
4 18 (10.06%) Master's Degree
5 15 (8.38%) Security Cleared
6 14 (7.82%) CISA
7 13 (7.26%) SC Cleared
8 11 (6.15%) CompTIA Security+
9 10 (5.59%) CEH
10 9 (5.03%) SSCP
11 8 (4.47%) CISMP
11 8 (4.47%) ISACA
11 8 (4.47%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (4.47%) OSCP
12 7 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (2.79%) AWS Certification
13 5 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (2.79%) CRISC
13 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (2.23%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (31.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 50 (27.93%) NIST
3 38 (21.23%) GDPR
4 21 (11.73%) HIPAA
5 10 (5.59%) GRC
6 7 (3.91%) ISO 20022
7 5 (2.79%) COBIT
7 5 (2.79%) ISO 31000
7 5 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 5 (2.79%) NIST 800
7 5 (2.79%) PSD2
7 5 (2.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (2.79%) SOC 2
8 4 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
9 2 (1.12%) COSO
9 2 (1.12%) ISO 22301
9 2 (1.12%) NCSC
10 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 11 (6.15%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.79%) Docker
2 5 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.12%) Squid
3 2 (1.12%) XenApp
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (11.17%) Terraform
2 7 (3.91%) Ansible
2 7 (3.91%) Nessus
3 4 (2.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 4 (2.23%) Kibana
4 3 (1.68%) CA Service Virtualization
4 3 (1.68%) Grafana
4 3 (1.68%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.68%) Packer
5 2 (1.12%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.12%) logstash
5 2 (1.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 2 (1.12%) Nmap
6 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.03%) Cisco
2 9 (5.03%) SAP
3 8 (4.47%) Google
4 6 (3.35%) CyberSource
4 6 (3.35%) Splunk
5 5 (2.79%) VMware
6 4 (2.23%) Avaya
6 4 (2.23%) Genesys
7 3 (1.68%) CA
7 3 (1.68%) Micro Focus
7 3 (1.68%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.68%) Qualys
8 2 (1.12%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.12%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.12%) Databricks
8 2 (1.12%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.12%) New Relic
8 2 (1.12%) Rapid7