PCI DSS Contracts

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 376 433 576
Rank change year-on-year +57 +143 -43
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 206 266 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.47% 0.31%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.44% 3.51% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 191 180
10th Percentile £413 £425 £385
25th Percentile £478 £525 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +8.91%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £638
90th Percentile £820 £838 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £613 £538
% change year-on-year -14.29% +13.85% +19.56%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,992 7,585 11,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.92% 13.53% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,782 5,156 7,966
10th Percentile £280 £289 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.35% +9.05%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £486 £454
% change year-on-year -2.26% +7.17% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 244 308
10th Percentile £10.98 £13.29 £12.05
25th Percentile £13.20 £18.65 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.42 £37.50 £28.12
Median % change year-on-year -40.21% +33.38% +33.88%
75th Percentile £47.81 £63.23 £49.44
90th Percentile £69.44 £77.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.97 £36.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -47.67% +64.77% +6.41%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the UK

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the UK

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the UK

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in the UK

PCI DSS
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +56 186 £550 -8.71% 76
London +73 110 £550 -15.38% 36
Work from Home +82 78 £545 -9.17% 45
UK excluding London -1 75 £525 -14.29% 43
South East -12 25 £525 -25.00% 13
North of England +7 23 £500 -3.38% 9
South West +15 19 £550 -15.38% 3
North West +22 17 £563 +36.36% 6
Scotland +35 8 £650 +51.52% 1
Yorkshire 0 5 £395 -26.51% 2
Midlands +21 4 £588 +2.17% 13
East Midlands +15 4 £588 -6.00% 5
East of England +5 2 £675 +5.88% 2

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.97%) CMS
2 2 (0.97%) Confluence
2 2 (0.97%) IIS
2 2 (0.97%) nginx
3 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (3.88%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.94%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 76 (36.89%) Azure
2 54 (26.21%) AWS
3 21 (10.19%) GCP
4 11 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (5.34%) Azure Service Bus
4 11 (5.34%) Entra ID
5 10 (4.85%) GitHub
6 9 (4.37%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.88%) Twilio
8 7 (3.40%) AWS KMS
9 6 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.91%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.91%) Miro
10 4 (1.94%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.94%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.19%) Firewall
2 10 (4.85%) CTI
2 10 (4.85%) Network Security
3 9 (4.37%) Intrusion Detection
4 8 (3.88%) VoIP
4 8 (3.88%) VPN
5 7 (3.40%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.43%) Kerberos
6 5 (2.43%) SSL
6 5 (2.43%) WAN
7 4 (1.94%) DNS
7 4 (1.94%) LAN
8 3 (1.46%) BGP
8 3 (1.46%) MPLS
8 3 (1.46%) OSPF
8 3 (1.46%) SAN
8 3 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.97%) Internet
10 1 (0.49%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.49%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.91%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.43%) SAP HANA
3 3 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.97%) Big Data
4 2 (0.97%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (0.97%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 12 (5.83%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.37%) Burp Suite
3 7 (3.40%) Rational DOORS
4 6 (2.91%) JIRA
5 4 (1.94%) GitLab
6 3 (1.46%) Selenium
7 2 (0.97%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.97%) Capybara
7 2 (0.97%) Git
7 2 (0.97%) Gradle
7 2 (0.97%) Maven
7 2 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.97%) Postman
8 1 (0.49%) TestCafe
General
1 59 (28.64%) Finance
2 51 (24.76%) Social Skills
3 26 (12.62%) Back Office
4 24 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.28%) Banking
6 14 (6.80%) Retail
7 11 (5.34%) Manufacturing
7 11 (5.34%) Public Sector
8 10 (4.85%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.88%) Marketing
9 8 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.94%) Legal
12 2 (0.97%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.97%) International Banking
12 2 (0.97%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.49%) Advertising
13 1 (0.49%) Electronics
13 1 (0.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 50 (24.27%) Architect
2 46 (22.33%) Senior
3 24 (11.65%) Lead
4 23 (11.17%) Analyst
5 22 (10.68%) Consultant
6 18 (8.74%) Security Architect
7 17 (8.25%) Security Consultant
8 15 (7.28%) Developer
9 14 (6.80%) Business Analyst
10 13 (6.31%) Product Owner
11 12 (5.83%) Security Engineer
12 11 (5.34%) Senior Developer
13 10 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (4.37%) Lead Architect
14 9 (4.37%) Senior Product Owner
14 9 (4.37%) Technical Leader
15 7 (3.40%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 7 (3.40%) Senior Analyst
15 7 (3.40%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 7 (3.40%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.37%) Web Services
2 8 (3.88%) .NET
2 8 (3.88%) Middleware
3 6 (2.91%) Kafka
3 6 (2.91%) REST
4 5 (2.43%) SAP PI
5 4 (1.94%) SAML
5 4 (1.94%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.46%) OAuth
7 2 (0.97%) FIDO
7 2 (0.97%) JWT
7 2 (0.97%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.97%) React
7 2 (0.97%) RESTful
7 2 (0.97%) Spring
7 2 (0.97%) Spring Security
7 2 (0.97%) Spring WebFlux
7 2 (0.97%) WebKit
7 2 (0.97%) XML
8 1 (0.49%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.53%) Management Information System
2 20 (9.71%) Product Ownership
3 15 (7.28%) Cyber Threat
3 15 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.88%) CESG
4 8 (3.88%) IVR
4 8 (3.88%) Security Posture
5 7 (3.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 6 (2.91%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.43%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.94%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.46%) IoT
9 3 (1.46%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.46%) PKI
9 3 (1.46%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.97%) Contactless
10 2 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.68%) Linux
2 20 (9.71%) Windows
3 13 (6.31%) Unix
4 8 (3.88%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.91%) Kali Linux
5 6 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.46%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.49%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (41.26%) Agile
2 54 (26.21%) Cybersecurity
3 50 (24.27%) DevOps
4 49 (23.79%) Information Security
5 35 (16.99%) Stakeholder Management
6 32 (15.53%) Risk Management
7 23 (11.17%) Cloud Security
7 23 (11.17%) Security Architecture
8 22 (10.68%) Design Patterns
9 21 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (10.19%) Security Operations
10 20 (9.71%) Software Engineering
11 18 (8.74%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (8.74%) SIEM
11 18 (8.74%) User Stories
11 18 (8.74%) Vulnerability Management
12 17 (8.25%) Content Management
12 17 (8.25%) Database Optimisation
12 17 (8.25%) Penetration Testing
13 16 (7.77%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 28 (13.59%) Java
2 26 (12.62%) SQL
3 24 (11.65%) PowerShell
4 20 (9.71%) JavaScript
5 19 (9.22%) Python
6 18 (8.74%) C#
7 7 (3.40%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.94%) Ruby
9 3 (1.46%) C
10 2 (0.97%) C++
10 2 (0.97%) Go
10 2 (0.97%) Perl
11 1 (0.49%) Bash
11 1 (0.49%) Bicep
11 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 46 (22.33%) Degree
2 28 (13.59%) CISSP
3 25 (12.14%) CISM
4 21 (10.19%) Master's Degree
5 15 (7.28%) CISA
5 15 (7.28%) Security Cleared
6 13 (6.31%) SC Cleared
7 12 (5.83%) AWS Certification
7 12 (5.83%) CompTIA Security+
7 12 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (5.34%) CEH
9 10 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (4.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.37%) Azure Certification
10 9 (4.37%) SSCP
11 8 (3.88%) CISMP
11 8 (3.88%) ISACA
11 8 (3.88%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (3.88%) OSCP
12 5 (2.43%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (29.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 52 (25.24%) GDPR
3 50 (24.27%) NIST
4 28 (13.59%) HIPAA
5 12 (5.83%) GRC
6 11 (5.34%) SOC 2
7 9 (4.37%) PSD2
8 7 (3.40%) COBIT
8 7 (3.40%) ISO 20022
8 7 (3.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (2.43%) ISO 31000
10 5 (2.43%) NIST 800
11 4 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (1.46%) NCSC
13 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.97%) COSO
13 2 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.97%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.97%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 19 (9.22%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.34%) Docker
3 6 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.97%) Squid
5 2 (0.97%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 24 (11.65%) Terraform
2 11 (5.34%) Ansible
3 8 (3.88%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.40%) Grafana
4 7 (3.40%) Packer
5 5 (2.43%) Nessus
5 5 (2.43%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.94%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 4 (1.94%) Kibana
7 3 (1.46%) SCCM
8 2 (0.97%) CASB
8 2 (0.97%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.97%) logstash
8 2 (0.97%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.97%) SCOrch
8 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.49%) Argo
9 1 (0.49%) Backup Exec
9 1 (0.49%) CA Service Virtualization
9 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (16.99%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.80%) Cisco
2 14 (6.80%) Google
3 8 (3.88%) Avaya
3 8 (3.88%) Genesys
3 8 (3.88%) SAP
4 6 (2.91%) CyberSource
4 6 (2.91%) Splunk
4 6 (2.91%) VMware
5 5 (2.43%) Confluent
5 5 (2.43%) Palo Alto
5 5 (2.43%) Qualys
6 4 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.94%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.46%) Checkmarx
7 3 (1.46%) Netskope
7 3 (1.46%) Veracode
8 2 (0.97%) Databricks
8 2 (0.97%) PayPal
8 2 (0.97%) Ping Identity