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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 427 589
Rank change year-on-year +43 +162 -67
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 198 280 275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.49% 0.31%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.28% 3.65% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 203 180
10th Percentile £406 £438 £374
25th Percentile £477 £519 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £679 £700 £638
90th Percentile £806 £836 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £534
% change year-on-year -12.50% +12.36% +18.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 6,035 7,662 11,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.19% 13.38% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,843 5,232 8,045
10th Percentile £280 £281 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £743 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +0.10% +6.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 242 315
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.33 £12.03
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.71 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +16.67% +42.86%
75th Percentile £45.00 £61.50 £50.39
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.35 £68.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 £31.89 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.70% +41.71% +7.14%

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 20 May 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 20 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
England +65 179 £550 -8.33% 109
London +68 106 £550 -14.06% 42
Work from Home +67 74 £545 -9.17% 56
UK excluding London +5 72 £525 -12.50% 67
North of England +16 24 £500 -4.76% 22
South East -3 24 £525 -25.00% 22
North West +19 18 £610 +28.42% 9
South West +14 16 £500 -21.57% 7
Scotland +36 8 £650 +51.52% 1
Yorkshire +1 5 £340 -36.74% 9
East Midlands +20 4 £588 -6.00% 6
Midlands +14 4 £588 -2.08% 11
East of England +12 2 £675 +42.11% 5

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 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.01%) CMS
2 2 (1.01%) Confluence
2 2 (1.01%) IIS
2 2 (1.01%) nginx
3 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (4.04%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.02%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 73 (36.87%) Azure
2 49 (24.75%) AWS
3 20 (10.10%) GCP
4 10 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.05%) Azure Service Bus
5 9 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 9 (4.55%) GitHub
5 9 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (4.04%) Twilio
7 6 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.03%) Miro
8 5 (2.53%) AWS KMS
8 5 (2.53%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.52%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.01%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (1.01%) Serverless
11 2 (1.01%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.62%) Firewall
2 12 (6.06%) Network Security
3 10 (5.05%) CTI
4 9 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
4 9 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 8 (4.04%) VoIP
5 8 (4.04%) VPN
6 6 (3.03%) DNS
7 5 (2.53%) WAN
8 4 (2.02%) LAN
9 3 (1.52%) BGP
9 3 (1.52%) MPLS
9 3 (1.52%) OSPF
9 3 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.01%) Internet
10 2 (1.01%) Kerberos
10 2 (1.01%) SAN
10 2 (1.01%) SSL
10 2 (1.01%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.51%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.03%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.53%) SAP HANA
3 3 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.01%) Big Data
4 2 (1.01%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (1.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 8 (4.04%) Burp Suite
2 8 (4.04%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (3.03%) JIRA
4 4 (2.02%) GitLab
5 3 (1.52%) Selenium
6 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.01%) Capybara
6 2 (1.01%) Gradle
6 2 (1.01%) Maven
6 2 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.01%) Postman
7 1 (0.51%) Git
7 1 (0.51%) TestCafe
General
1 53 (26.77%) Finance
2 48 (24.24%) Social Skills
3 25 (12.63%) Back Office
4 22 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.07%) Banking
5 14 (7.07%) Retail
6 12 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.56%) Manufacturing
8 10 (5.05%) Telecoms
9 9 (4.55%) Marketing
10 8 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (2.02%) Legal
13 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.01%) International Banking
13 2 (1.01%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.51%) Advertising
14 1 (0.51%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 47 (23.74%) Senior
2 46 (23.23%) Architect
3 25 (12.63%) Analyst
4 24 (12.12%) Lead
5 22 (11.11%) Consultant
6 18 (9.09%) Security Consultant
7 14 (7.07%) Developer
7 14 (7.07%) Security Architect
8 13 (6.57%) Business Analyst
9 12 (6.06%) Product Owner
10 11 (5.56%) Security Engineer
10 11 (5.56%) Senior Developer
11 10 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (4.55%) Lead Architect
12 9 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (4.55%) Technical Leader
13 8 (4.04%) Senior Product Owner
13 8 (4.04%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 8 (4.04%) Systems Engineer
14 7 (3.54%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.55%) Web Services
2 8 (4.04%) .NET
2 8 (4.04%) Middleware
3 6 (3.03%) REST
4 5 (2.53%) SAP PI
5 4 (2.02%) SAML
5 4 (2.02%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.01%) FIDO
6 2 (1.01%) Kafka
6 2 (1.01%) OAuth
6 2 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.01%) React
6 2 (1.01%) RESTful
6 2 (1.01%) Spring
6 2 (1.01%) Spring Security
6 2 (1.01%) Spring WebFlux
6 2 (1.01%) WebKit
6 2 (1.01%) XML
7 1 (0.51%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.51%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.16%) Management Information System
2 19 (9.60%) Product Ownership
3 15 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (7.07%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (4.04%) CESG
5 8 (4.04%) IVR
6 7 (3.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 6 (3.03%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.53%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (2.53%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.02%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.02%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.52%) IoT
10 3 (1.52%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.52%) PKI
11 2 (1.01%) Contactless
11 2 (1.01%) Digital Wallet
11 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.51%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.11%) Windows
2 18 (9.09%) Linux
3 11 (5.56%) Unix
4 8 (4.04%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.03%) Kali Linux
6 3 (1.52%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (42.42%) Agile
2 53 (26.77%) Cybersecurity
3 49 (24.75%) Information Security
4 48 (24.24%) DevOps
5 36 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 34 (17.17%) Risk Management
7 24 (12.12%) Cloud Security
8 22 (11.11%) Design Patterns
9 20 (10.10%) Security Architecture
9 20 (10.10%) Security Operations
10 19 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (9.60%) SIEM
10 19 (9.60%) Software Engineering
11 18 (9.09%) User Stories
12 17 (8.59%) Content Management
12 17 (8.59%) Database Optimisation
12 17 (8.59%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (8.08%) CRM
13 16 (8.08%) Penetration Testing
13 16 (8.08%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.14%) Java
2 25 (12.63%) SQL
3 24 (12.12%) PowerShell
4 20 (10.10%) JavaScript
5 18 (9.09%) C#
5 18 (9.09%) Python
6 4 (2.02%) Ruby
6 4 (2.02%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.52%) C
8 2 (1.01%) C++
8 2 (1.01%) Go
8 2 (1.01%) Perl
9 1 (0.51%) Bash
9 1 (0.51%) Bicep
9 1 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 45 (22.73%) Degree
2 26 (13.13%) CISSP
3 23 (11.62%) CISM
4 22 (11.11%) Master's Degree
5 15 (7.58%) Security Cleared
6 14 (7.07%) CISA
7 13 (6.57%) SC Cleared
8 11 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 11 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (5.05%) AWS Certification
9 10 (5.05%) CEH
10 9 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (4.55%) SSCP
11 8 (4.04%) Azure Certification
11 8 (4.04%) CISMP
11 8 (4.04%) ISACA
11 8 (4.04%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (4.04%) OSCP
12 5 (2.53%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (32.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 51 (25.76%) NIST
3 49 (24.75%) GDPR
4 27 (13.64%) HIPAA
5 12 (6.06%) GRC
6 10 (5.05%) SOC 2
7 9 (4.55%) PSD2
8 7 (3.54%) COBIT
8 7 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (3.54%) ISO 20022
8 7 (3.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (2.53%) ISO 31000
9 5 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (2.53%) NIST 800
10 3 (1.52%) NCSC
11 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
11 2 (1.01%) COSO
11 2 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (1.01%) ISO 22301
11 2 (1.01%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 15 (7.58%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.03%) Docker
3 5 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.01%) Squid
5 2 (1.01%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 21 (10.61%) Terraform
2 8 (4.04%) Ansible
3 7 (3.54%) Nessus
4 5 (2.53%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.02%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 4 (2.02%) Grafana
5 4 (2.02%) Kibana
5 4 (2.02%) Packer
6 3 (1.52%) SCCM
7 2 (1.01%) CASB
7 2 (1.01%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.01%) logstash
7 2 (1.01%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (1.01%) Nmap
7 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.01%) SCOrch
7 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.51%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 33 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.57%) Cisco
2 13 (6.57%) Google
3 8 (4.04%) Avaya
3 8 (4.04%) Genesys
4 7 (3.54%) SAP
5 6 (3.03%) CyberSource
5 6 (3.03%) Splunk
6 5 (2.53%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.53%) VMware
7 4 (2.02%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (2.02%) Qualys
8 3 (1.52%) Netskope
9 2 (1.01%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.01%) Checkmarx
9 2 (1.01%) Confluent
9 2 (1.01%) Databricks
9 2 (1.01%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.01%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.01%) Teradata