Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PCI DSS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PCI DSS over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 482 579
Rank change year-on-year -90 +97 -101
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 346 627 827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.60% 0.54%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.56% 3.10% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 278 413 562
10th Percentile £24,807 £32,500 £37,286
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +2.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £79,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £53,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -7.83% +15.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,505 20,219 25,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.76% 19.29% 16.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9,263 9,275 13,194
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for PCI DSS in the UK

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for PCI DSS in the UK

PCI DSS
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PCI DSS within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -45 315 £62,500 +4.17% 94
UK excluding London -135 219 £53,000 - 72
Work from Home -21 126 £57,500 -11.20% 50
London +93 109 £72,500 - 30
North of England +17 64 £49,000 +6.52% 17
Midlands -2 46 £53,500 -23.57% 9
North West +5 45 £45,000 - 9
South East -61 43 £72,500 +20.83% 26
South West -44 33 £45,000 -15.09% 6
East Midlands +12 31 £24,811 -40.44% 6
Yorkshire +74 18 £55,000 +17.65% 6
East of England -1 18 £24,526 -66.17% 10
West Midlands -12 14 £77,500 +10.71% 3
Scotland -54 13 £24,811 -61.76% 5
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
North East -4 1 £37,500 -51.30% 2
Wales -13 1 £52,500 +50.00% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £45,000 - 1

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 6 (1.73%) IIS
1 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.87%) Apache
2 3 (0.87%) CMS
3 2 (0.58%) nginx
3 2 (0.58%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.29%) Magento
3 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 115 (33.24%) Azure
2 89 (25.72%) AWS
3 47 (13.58%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (6.36%) Cloud Computing
5 19 (5.49%) GCP
6 18 (5.20%) Azure Sentinel
7 17 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (4.62%) SaaS
9 15 (4.34%) IaaS
9 15 (4.34%) Microsoft Purview
10 13 (3.76%) PaaS
11 7 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.45%) Cloudflare
13 5 (1.45%) WhatsApp
14 4 (1.16%) Entra ID
14 4 (1.16%) GitHub
14 4 (1.16%) Google Workspace
14 4 (1.16%) OneDrive
14 4 (1.16%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 98 (28.32%) Firewall
2 54 (15.61%) Wi-Fi
3 52 (15.03%) Network Security
4 23 (6.65%) LAN
4 23 (6.65%) WAN
5 21 (6.07%) Wireshark
6 20 (5.78%) VPN
7 18 (5.20%) Intrusion Detection
8 17 (4.91%) TCP/IP
9 14 (4.05%) Wireless
10 13 (3.76%) DNS
11 10 (2.89%) Internet
12 6 (1.73%) SSL
13 5 (1.45%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (1.45%) Cisco Nexus
13 5 (1.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 5 (1.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 5 (1.45%) Unified Communications
13 5 (1.45%) VoIP
14 4 (1.16%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.45%) BigQuery
2 5 (1.45%) Redis
2 5 (1.45%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.16%) Power BI
4 3 (0.87%) MySQL
4 3 (0.87%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.58%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.16%) Git
2 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.58%) git-flow
3 2 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 94 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 74 (21.39%) Finance
3 40 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (10.69%) Retail
5 19 (5.49%) Law
5 19 (5.49%) Legal
6 18 (5.20%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.18%) Banking
9 9 (2.60%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.31%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.02%) Marketing
12 5 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.16%) Games
14 3 (0.87%) Advertising
15 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.58%) Mandarin Language
15 2 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.58%) Public Speaking
15 2 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 58 (16.76%) Analyst
2 45 (13.01%) Security Analyst
3 42 (12.14%) Senior
4 33 (9.54%) Architect
5 32 (9.25%) Mobile Engineer
6 31 (8.96%) Security Engineer
7 27 (7.80%) Lead
8 26 (7.51%) Security Manager
9 25 (7.23%) Security Architect
10 24 (6.94%) Consultant
10 24 (6.94%) Information Analyst
10 24 (6.94%) Information Security Analyst
11 19 (5.49%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 19 (5.49%) Support Engineer
12 18 (5.20%) Desktop Engineer
12 18 (5.20%) Desktop Support
12 18 (5.20%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 18 (5.20%) Junior
12 18 (5.20%) Junior Desktop Support
12 18 (5.20%) Junior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.60%) Web Services
2 8 (2.31%) .NET
3 6 (1.73%) Kafka
3 6 (1.73%) Middleware
4 4 (1.16%) .NET Framework
4 4 (1.16%) OAuth
4 4 (1.16%) SAML
5 3 (0.87%) CSS
5 3 (0.87%) HTML
5 3 (0.87%) Next.js
5 3 (0.87%) Node.js
5 3 (0.87%) React
5 3 (0.87%) REST
5 3 (0.87%) RESTful
6 2 (0.58%) LAMP
6 2 (0.58%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (0.29%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.29%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 60 (17.34%) Management Information System
2 39 (11.27%) Driving Licence
3 30 (8.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 30 (8.67%) Security Posture
4 28 (8.09%) Cyber Threat
5 24 (6.94%) Data Centre
6 16 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (3.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 11 (3.18%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.89%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.02%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.73%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 6 (1.73%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.73%) Replication
10 6 (1.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (1.45%) Blog
11 5 (1.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 77 (22.25%) Windows
2 22 (6.36%) Android
2 22 (6.36%) Apple iOS
3 19 (5.49%) Linux
4 12 (3.47%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.87%) Kali Linux
5 3 (0.87%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.58%) Unix
6 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
7 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (54.34%) Information Security
2 161 (46.53%) Cybersecurity
3 74 (21.39%) Cloud Security
4 67 (19.36%) SIEM
5 66 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (17.92%) Incident Response
6 62 (17.92%) Security Operations
7 60 (17.34%) Vulnerability Management
8 58 (16.76%) Risk Management
9 51 (14.74%) Data Protection
10 46 (13.29%) Disaster Recovery
11 45 (13.01%) Asset Management
11 45 (13.01%) ITIL
12 44 (12.72%) Data Security
13 41 (11.85%) Proactive Maintenance
13 41 (11.85%) Roadmaps
14 40 (11.56%) DevOps
15 39 (11.27%) Information Security Management
15 39 (11.27%) Security Management
16 35 (10.12%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 38 (10.98%) Python
2 30 (8.67%) PowerShell
3 11 (3.18%) JavaScript
4 9 (2.60%) Bash
4 9 (2.60%) SQL
5 8 (2.31%) C#
6 7 (2.02%) Java
7 6 (1.73%) Go
8 4 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.58%) VB
10 1 (0.29%) Groovy
10 1 (0.29%) Perl
10 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 123 (35.55%) CISSP
2 69 (19.94%) Degree
3 59 (17.05%) CISM
4 53 (15.32%) Security Cleared
5 41 (11.85%) PCI QSA
6 39 (11.27%) CISA
7 38 (10.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (10.12%) Cisco Certification
9 28 (8.09%) AWS Certification
10 27 (7.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 24 (6.94%) CEH
12 23 (6.65%) SANS
13 20 (5.78%) Azure Certification
13 20 (5.78%) CCSP
14 17 (4.91%) Master's Degree
15 16 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (4.34%) CRISC
16 15 (4.34%) SSCP
17 12 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
18 10 (2.89%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (52.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 137 (39.60%) NIST
3 91 (26.30%) GDPR
4 50 (14.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 44 (12.72%) GRC
6 43 (12.43%) SLA
7 26 (7.51%) NCSC
8 21 (6.07%) HIPAA
9 20 (5.78%) COBIT
10 19 (5.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (4.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 11 (3.18%) SOC 2
13 10 (2.89%) ISO 9001
14 6 (1.73%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (1.73%) GLBA
15 5 (1.45%) ISO 22301
15 5 (1.45%) QA
16 4 (1.16%) NIST 800
17 3 (0.87%) FISMA
System Software
1 38 (10.98%) KVM
2 15 (4.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.05%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (3.76%) Active Directory
5 7 (2.02%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.45%) Docker
7 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.29%) Snort
8 1 (0.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (4.34%) CASB
1 15 (4.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (4.05%) Nmap
3 13 (3.76%) Kubernetes
4 9 (2.60%) Terraform
5 8 (2.31%) Ansible
6 6 (1.73%) CSIRT
7 4 (1.16%) Autotask
8 3 (0.87%) Nessus
8 3 (0.87%) SCCM
8 3 (0.87%) Suricata
9 2 (0.58%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (0.58%) Packer
10 1 (0.29%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 1 (0.29%) Nagios
10 1 (0.29%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 126 (36.42%) Microsoft
2 39 (11.27%) Dell
3 28 (8.09%) Qualys
4 20 (5.78%) Splunk
5 17 (4.91%) Cisco
6 16 (4.62%) VMware
7 14 (4.05%) Rapid7
7 14 (4.05%) Thycotic
8 13 (3.76%) Google
9 10 (2.89%) CheckPoint
10 9 (2.60%) Juniper
11 8 (2.31%) Palo Alto
11 8 (2.31%) SolarWinds
12 7 (2.02%) F5
13 6 (1.73%) Citrix
14 5 (1.45%) Forcepoint
14 5 (1.45%) Fortinet
15 4 (1.16%) Datto
15 4 (1.16%) Veeam
16 3 (0.87%) Facebook