PCI DSS Jobs in the City of London

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring PCI DSS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PCI DSS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 161 219
Rank change year-on-year +24 +58 +43
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 8 15 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.38% 0.45% 0.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.59% 3.36% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 5 15 14
10th Percentile £56,000 - £48,161
25th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £108,750 £93,750 £90,938
90th Percentile £127,500 £114,500 £106,375
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% +3.45% +7.41%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

PCI DSS falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 309 447 785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 14.84% 13.29% 16.53%
Number of salaries quoted 189 368 693
10th Percentile £41,950 £39,850 £43,280
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £114,000 £102,500 £102,500
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the City of London

PCI DSS
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the City of London.

Salary trend for PCI DSS in the City of London

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PCI DSS in the City of London

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (25.00%) OneDrive
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (12.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (25.00%) OLAP
1 2 (25.00%) OLTP
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Technical Services Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Head of Compliance
2 1 (12.50%) Head of Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Head of Payments
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
1 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (25.00%) BDD
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) CQRS
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) Fintech
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
2 2 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Stress Testing
2 2 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
1 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CISSP
2 2 (25.00%) CISM
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CCNA
3 1 (12.50%) CCSP
3 1 (12.50%) CEH
3 1 (12.50%) CISA
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GDPR
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (25.00%) ISO 22301
2 2 (25.00%) ISO 9001
2 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) SLA
3 1 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (12.50%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Avaya
1 2 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (25.00%) Google
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) Tenable