PCI DSS Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring PCI DSS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PCI DSS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 164 223
Rank change year-on-year -1 +59 -51
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 20 38 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.41% 0.70% 0.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.89% 4.95% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 22
10th Percentile £425 £395 £300
25th Percentile £450 £406 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +13.33% -10.89%
75th Percentile £630 £616 £569
90th Percentile £670 £668 £666
England median daily rate £550 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +6.38%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 693 767 968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.30% 14.09% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 467 703
10th Percentile £313 £295 £197
25th Percentile £413 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £593 £578 £575
90th Percentile £670 £650 £639
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 48 55
10th Percentile - £17.24 £11.36
25th Percentile £10.95 £26.84 £15.93
Median hourly rate £12.00 £35.00 £22.29
Median % change year-on-year -65.71% +57.02% +28.47%
75th Percentile £26.66 £47.25 £61.88
90th Percentile £48.75 £56.59 £77.50
England median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the North of England

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the North of England

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the North of England

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in the North of England

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West +12 14 £530 +28.48% 3
Yorkshire -2 5 £395 -28.99% 3
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (5.00%) IPsec
2 1 (5.00%) LAN
2 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
2 1 (5.00%) WAN
2 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.00%) Big Data
1 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (10.00%) GitLab
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
1 2 (10.00%) Postman
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.00%) TestCafe
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Compliance Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Consultant
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Security Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Compliance Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Information Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Principal Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Principal Security Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Information Security
2 6 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) OWASP
4 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Identity Management
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (15.00%) SIEM
6 2 (10.00%) API Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Manual Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Records Management
6 2 (10.00%) SDLC
6 2 (10.00%) Security Operations
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (15.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) Go
2 2 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) CCNA
2 1 (5.00%) CCNP
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (5.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (55.00%) NIST
2 8 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (15.00%) GRC
4 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (5.00%) GDPR
6 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
6 1 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco
2 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (5.00%) Darktrace
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (5.00%) Sophos
2 1 (5.00%) Teradata
2 1 (5.00%) VMware