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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 436 564
Rank change year-on-year +44 +128 -44
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 199 283 278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.49% 0.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.26% 3.67% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 204 186
10th Percentile £400 £438 £372
25th Percentile £477 £513 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £679 £688 £638
90th Percentile £806 £759 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.52% +16.32%
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 6,099 7,708 11,680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.29% 13.37% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,878 5,287 7,989
10th Percentile £285 £281 £300
25th Percentile £401 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +2.24% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £479 £450
% change year-on-year +0.94% +6.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 380 235 315
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.29 £12.03
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.50 £17.13
Median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.37
Median % change year-on-year -39.84% +8.12% +54.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 £34.19 £22.55
% change year-on-year -46.57% +51.66% +7.36%

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 14 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 14 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 +66 179 £550 -8.33% 104
London +45 104 £575 -8.00% 34
Work from Home +66 75 £548 -8.75% 55
UK excluding London +20 72 £525 -12.50% 67
North of England +9 24 £500 -4.76% 24
South East -2 24 £525 -25.00% 21
North West +29 18 £610 +22.00% 12
South West +17 16 £500 -20.00% 6
Scotland +33 8 £650 +51.52% 2
Yorkshire +3 5 £340 -36.74% 9
East Midlands +21 4 £588 -6.00% 5
Midlands +21 4 £588 -2.08% 9
East of England +15 2 £675 +42.11% 6

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 2 (1.01%) CMS
1 2 (1.01%) Confluence
1 2 (1.01%) IIS
1 2 (1.01%) nginx
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (4.02%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.01%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 71 (35.68%) Azure
2 48 (24.12%) AWS
3 20 (10.05%) GCP
4 10 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.03%) Azure Service Bus
5 9 (4.52%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (4.52%) GitHub
5 9 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (4.02%) Twilio
7 7 (3.52%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.02%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (3.02%) Miro
9 4 (2.01%) AWS KMS
10 3 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.51%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.01%) Datadog
11 2 (1.01%) IaaS
11 2 (1.01%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.56%) Firewall
2 13 (6.53%) Network Security
3 10 (5.03%) CTI
4 9 (4.52%) Intrusion Detection
4 9 (4.52%) TCP/IP
5 8 (4.02%) VoIP
5 8 (4.02%) VPN
6 6 (3.02%) DNS
7 4 (2.01%) LAN
8 3 (1.51%) BGP
8 3 (1.51%) MPLS
8 3 (1.51%) OSPF
8 3 (1.51%) WAN
9 2 (1.01%) SAN
9 2 (1.01%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.50%) DMZ
10 1 (0.50%) IPsec
10 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.50%) SSL
10 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.02%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.51%) SAP HANA
3 3 (1.51%) 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 8 (4.02%) Jenkins
1 8 (4.02%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (3.52%) Burp Suite
3 6 (3.02%) JIRA
4 4 (2.01%) GitLab
5 3 (1.51%) 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 (0.50%) Git
7 1 (0.50%) TestCafe
General
1 55 (27.64%) Finance
2 48 (24.12%) Social Skills
3 25 (12.56%) Back Office
4 22 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.54%) Public Sector
6 14 (7.04%) Banking
6 14 (7.04%) Retail
7 13 (6.53%) Manufacturing
8 12 (6.03%) Telecoms
9 11 (5.53%) Marketing
10 8 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (2.51%) Legal
13 3 (1.51%) Electronics
14 2 (1.01%) Advertising
14 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.01%) International Banking
14 2 (1.01%) Multimedia
15 1 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 48 (24.12%) Senior
2 47 (23.62%) Architect
3 27 (13.57%) Analyst
4 25 (12.56%) Lead
5 22 (11.06%) Consultant
6 18 (9.05%) Security Consultant
7 14 (7.04%) Developer
7 14 (7.04%) Security Architect
8 13 (6.53%) Business Analyst
9 12 (6.03%) Product Owner
10 11 (5.53%) Senior Developer
10 11 (5.53%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (5.03%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (4.52%) Lead Architect
12 9 (4.52%) Technical Leader
13 8 (4.02%) Security Engineer
13 8 (4.02%) Senior Product Owner
13 8 (4.02%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 8 (4.02%) Systems Engineer
14 7 (3.52%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.52%) Web Services
2 8 (4.02%) .NET
2 8 (4.02%) Middleware
3 6 (3.02%) REST
4 5 (2.51%) SAP PI
5 4 (2.01%) SAML
5 4 (2.01%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.01%) FIDO
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 (0.50%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.50%) JWT
7 1 (0.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.08%) Management Information System
2 19 (9.55%) Product Ownership
3 15 (7.54%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (7.04%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (4.02%) CESG
5 8 (4.02%) IVR
6 7 (3.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 6 (3.02%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.51%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.01%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.51%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.51%) IoT
10 3 (1.51%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.51%) PKI
11 2 (1.01%) Contactless
11 2 (1.01%) Digital Wallet
11 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.05%) Windows
2 15 (7.54%) Linux
3 10 (5.03%) Unix
4 6 (3.02%) Kali Linux
4 6 (3.02%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.51%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (42.21%) Agile
2 53 (26.63%) Cybersecurity
3 48 (24.12%) Information Security
4 47 (23.62%) DevOps
5 36 (18.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 35 (17.59%) Risk Management
7 22 (11.06%) Cloud Security
7 22 (11.06%) Design Patterns
8 20 (10.05%) Security Architecture
9 19 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (9.55%) SIEM
9 19 (9.55%) Software Engineering
10 18 (9.05%) Security Operations
10 18 (9.05%) User Stories
11 17 (8.54%) Content Management
11 17 (8.54%) Database Optimisation
11 17 (8.54%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (8.04%) CRM
13 15 (7.54%) Penetration Testing
13 15 (7.54%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.07%) Java
2 25 (12.56%) SQL
3 24 (12.06%) PowerShell
4 20 (10.05%) JavaScript
5 18 (9.05%) C#
6 17 (8.54%) Python
7 4 (2.01%) Ruby
8 3 (1.51%) C
8 3 (1.51%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.01%) C++
9 2 (1.01%) Go
9 2 (1.01%) Perl
10 1 (0.50%) Bash
10 1 (0.50%) Bicep
10 1 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 45 (22.61%) Degree
2 26 (13.07%) CISSP
3 23 (11.56%) CISM
4 22 (11.06%) Master's Degree
5 15 (7.54%) Security Cleared
6 14 (7.04%) CISA
7 13 (6.53%) SC Cleared
8 11 (5.53%) CompTIA Security+
8 11 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (5.03%) AWS Certification
9 10 (5.03%) CEH
10 9 (4.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (4.52%) SSCP
11 8 (4.02%) Azure Certification
11 8 (4.02%) CISMP
11 8 (4.02%) ISACA
11 8 (4.02%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (4.02%) OSCP
12 5 (2.51%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (32.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 52 (26.13%) NIST
3 49 (24.62%) GDPR
4 26 (13.07%) HIPAA
5 12 (6.03%) GRC
6 10 (5.03%) SOC 2
7 9 (4.52%) PSD2
8 7 (3.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (3.52%) ISO 20022
8 7 (3.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (2.51%) COBIT
9 5 (2.51%) ISO 31000
9 5 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (2.51%) NIST 800
10 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
10 2 (1.01%) COSO
10 2 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (1.01%) ISO 22301
10 2 (1.01%) ISO 9001
10 2 (1.01%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (6.03%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.51%) Docker
2 5 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.01%) Squid
3 2 (1.01%) XenApp
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (10.05%) Terraform
2 7 (3.52%) Ansible
2 7 (3.52%) Nessus
3 5 (2.51%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.01%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 4 (2.01%) Kibana
5 3 (1.51%) CA Service Virtualization
5 3 (1.51%) Grafana
5 3 (1.51%) Packer
6 2 (1.01%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.01%) logstash
6 2 (1.01%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (1.01%) Nmap
7 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.04%) Cisco
3 13 (6.53%) Google
4 9 (4.52%) SAP
5 8 (4.02%) Avaya
5 8 (4.02%) Genesys
6 6 (3.02%) CyberSource
6 6 (3.02%) Splunk
7 5 (2.51%) VMware
8 3 (1.51%) CA
8 3 (1.51%) Micro Focus
8 3 (1.51%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.51%) Qualys
9 2 (1.01%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.01%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.01%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.01%) New Relic
9 2 (1.01%) PayPal
9 2 (1.01%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.01%) Teradata