PCI DSS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 139 160
Rank change year-on-year +13 +21 -15
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 6 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.23% 0.38% 0.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.46% 2.69% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £534 £450 -
25th Percentile £615 £525 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £550 £323
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +70.54% -
75th Percentile £875 £625 £559
90th Percentile £950 £633 £711
South East median daily rate £525 £700 £506
% change year-on-year -25.00% +38.27% +41.71%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 412 409 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.60% 14.28% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 236 334
10th Percentile £198 £306 £221
25th Percentile £316 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £587
90th Percentile £600 £675 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £495 £475
% change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 20 16
10th Percentile £18.20 £16.03 £10.26
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.50 £11.93
Median hourly rate £27.50 £24.00 £17.76
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +35.17% -15.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.30 £22.00
90th Percentile £69.11 £73.66 £46.93
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £31.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -12.70% +50.00% -22.57%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the Thames Valley

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the Thames Valley

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the Thames Valley

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Berkshire -12 5 £875 +59.09% 4
Buckinghamshire - 1 £480 -
PCI DSS
South East

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Head of Operations
1 4 (66.67%) Head of Security
2 3 (50.00%) Head of Information
2 3 (50.00%) Head of Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Compliance Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Governance Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Head of IT
3 1 (16.67%) Head of IT Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Head of IT Security
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (66.67%) Information Security
1 4 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 4 (66.67%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) Line Management
2 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Conflict Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (16.67%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) COBIT
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (50.00%) Nessus
3 2 (33.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Citrix
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (16.67%) Netskope