PCI DSS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 346 467
Rank change year-on-year +74 +121 -56
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 75 116 151
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.49% 0.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.75% 3.86% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 91 102
10th Percentile £423 £415 £406
25th Percentile £488 £500 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £638
90th Percentile £805 £850 £686
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £545
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% +7.39%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,998 3,008 5,709
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 13.65% 12.64% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,409 2,184 4,124
10th Percentile £300 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £744 £709
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £524
% change year-on-year -2.86% +0.19% +10.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 75 126
10th Percentile £12.00 £17.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £20.69 £19.63
Median hourly rate £24.00 £35.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% -16.67% +110.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £58.13 £55.50
90th Percentile £67.75 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -36.53% +36.36% +30.64%

PCI DSS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PCI DSS trend for jobs with a WFH option

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PCI DSS.

PCI DSS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PCI DSS over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

PCI DSS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.67%) IIS
1 2 (2.67%) nginx
2 1 (1.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (40.00%) Azure
2 24 (32.00%) AWS
3 11 (14.67%) GCP
4 6 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 6 (8.00%) GitHub
5 5 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (5.33%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.33%) Twilio
7 3 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.00%) AWS KMS
7 3 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.67%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (2.67%) Datadog
8 2 (2.67%) Miro
8 2 (2.67%) Stripe
8 2 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.00%) Firewall
2 5 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (5.33%) CTI
3 4 (5.33%) Network Security
3 4 (5.33%) VoIP
3 4 (5.33%) VPN
4 3 (4.00%) DNS
4 3 (4.00%) LAN
5 2 (2.67%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (2.67%) Kerberos
5 2 (2.67%) SSL
5 2 (2.67%) WAN
6 1 (1.33%) BGP
6 1 (1.33%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.33%) MPLS
6 1 (1.33%) OSPF
6 1 (1.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.67%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 5 (6.67%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (4.00%) JIRA
3 2 (2.67%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.67%) Postman
4 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.33%) Git
4 1 (1.33%) GitLab
4 1 (1.33%) Selenium
4 1 (1.33%) TestCafe
General
1 26 (34.67%) Finance
2 17 (22.67%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.00%) Back Office
4 8 (10.67%) Retail
5 7 (9.33%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (8.00%) Marketing
6 6 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (6.67%) Banking
7 5 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (5.33%) Telecoms
9 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.33%) Electronics
11 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.33%) Law
11 1 (1.33%) Legal
11 1 (1.33%) Multimedia
11 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (33.33%) Senior
2 17 (22.67%) Architect
3 10 (13.33%) Consultant
4 8 (10.67%) Security Architect
5 7 (9.33%) Security Consultant
6 6 (8.00%) Analyst
6 6 (8.00%) Developer
6 6 (8.00%) Product Owner
7 5 (6.67%) DOORS Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Security Technical Consultant
7 5 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.67%) Senior Product Owner
7 5 (6.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Software Integration Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Systems Integration Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
7 5 (6.67%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.33%) Middleware
1 4 (5.33%) Web Services
2 3 (4.00%) REST
2 3 (4.00%) SAML
3 2 (2.67%) .NET
3 2 (2.67%) FIDO
3 2 (2.67%) Kafka
3 2 (2.67%) OAuth
3 2 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.67%) RESTful
3 2 (2.67%) SAP PI
3 2 (2.67%) Spring
3 2 (2.67%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.67%) Spring Security
3 2 (2.67%) Spring WebFlux
3 2 (2.67%) XML
4 1 (1.33%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.33%) JSON
4 1 (1.33%) LDAP
4 1 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 8 (10.67%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.33%) IVR
5 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (4.00%) PKI
5 3 (4.00%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.67%) Contactless
6 2 (2.67%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (2.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.33%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.33%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.67%) Windows
2 7 (9.33%) Unix
3 6 (8.00%) Linux
4 5 (6.67%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.00%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (41.33%) Agile
2 22 (29.33%) DevOps
3 21 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (21.33%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (17.33%) Information Security
6 12 (16.00%) Risk Management
7 8 (10.67%) CRM
7 8 (10.67%) Security Architecture
7 8 (10.67%) Vulnerability Management
8 7 (9.33%) Analytics
8 7 (9.33%) CI/CD
8 7 (9.33%) Computer Science
8 7 (9.33%) Data Protection
8 7 (9.33%) DevSecOps
8 7 (9.33%) Regulatory Compliance
8 7 (9.33%) Requirements Management
8 7 (9.33%) SIEM
8 7 (9.33%) User Stories
8 7 (9.33%) Validation
9 6 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.00%) Java
2 9 (12.00%) SQL
3 6 (8.00%) C#
3 6 (8.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (8.00%) Python
4 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.33%) Bash
5 1 (1.33%) Go
5 1 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 22 (29.33%) Degree
2 11 (14.67%) Master's Degree
3 8 (10.67%) AWS Certification
4 7 (9.33%) CISM
4 7 (9.33%) CISSP
5 6 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (8.00%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.33%) Azure Certification
7 4 (5.33%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (4.00%) GCIH
9 2 (2.67%) CEH
9 2 (2.67%) CISA
9 2 (2.67%) GIAC
9 2 (2.67%) GSEC
9 2 (2.67%) Linux+ Certification
9 2 (2.67%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (2.67%) Server+ Certification
10 1 (1.33%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (25.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (24.00%) GDPR
3 17 (22.67%) NIST
4 6 (8.00%) HIPAA
4 6 (8.00%) PSD2
5 5 (6.67%) SOC 2
6 3 (4.00%) COBIT
6 3 (4.00%) GRC
7 2 (2.67%) COSO
7 2 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (2.67%) ISO 20022
7 2 (2.67%) ISO 9001
7 2 (2.67%) NIST 800
8 1 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (1.33%) ISO 22301
8 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (1.33%) QA
8 1 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.33%) Docker
3 3 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.67%) Snort
4 2 (2.67%) Squid
4 2 (2.67%) XenApp
5 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (16.00%) Terraform
2 4 (5.33%) Ansible
2 4 (5.33%) Grafana
2 4 (5.33%) Kibana
2 4 (5.33%) logstash
2 4 (5.33%) Packer
3 3 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.00%) Nessus
4 2 (2.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (2.67%) HAProxy
4 2 (2.67%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.33%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.00%) Cisco
3 5 (6.67%) Google
3 5 (6.67%) Splunk
4 4 (5.33%) Avaya
4 4 (5.33%) Genesys
5 3 (4.00%) CyberArk
5 3 (4.00%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.00%) VMware
6 2 (2.67%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.67%) Citrix
6 2 (2.67%) Confluent
6 2 (2.67%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (2.67%) Cybereason
6 2 (2.67%) CyberSource
6 2 (2.67%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.67%) IBM
6 2 (2.67%) New Relic
6 2 (2.67%) PayPal
6 2 (2.67%) Red Hat