PSD2 Job Trends in the East Midlands

EU Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring PSD2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing PSD2 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.024% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.25% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 - -
75th Percentile £78,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £76,250 £70,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +8.93% -22.22% +53.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

PSD2 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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 396 238 495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.54% 16.30% 12.38%
Number of salaries quoted 253 163 361
10th Percentile £26,000 £23,400 £24,240
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -2.44% -13.68%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £66,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,400 £53,500
% change year-on-year +1.01% +11.03% -6.96%

PSD2
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PSD2 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

PSD2 job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

PSD2
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PSD2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PSD2

PSD2
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PSD2 within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. 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
Northamptonshire - 1 £72,000 - 1
PSD2
England

PSD2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Payments Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Payments Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Payments Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation