PCI DSS Job Trends in the East of England

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 179 129
Rank change year-on-year +30 -50 +58
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 8 7 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.21% 0.17% 0.051%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.55% 1.15% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 0
10th Percentile £54,000 - -
25th Percentile £63,750 £69,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £74,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% - -
75th Percentile £84,375 £78,500 -
90th Percentile £100,000 - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £64,902
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.70% +8.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 314 609 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 8.19% 15.14% 14.44%
Number of salaries quoted 218 192 181
10th Percentile £30,370 £28,000 £24,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% -4.35% +16.16%
75th Percentile £56,813 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,550 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PCI DSS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in the East of England

PCI DSS
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing PCI DSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the East of England over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PCI DSS in the East of England

PCI DSS
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PCI DSS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 5 December 2025. 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
Hertfordshire - 4 £82,500 - 1
Cambridgeshire +17 3 £67,500 -9.40% 1
Essex - 1 £65,000 -
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) DMZ
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Applications Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Information Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Information Security Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Security Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Software Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (25.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) Nuxt
1 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (25.00%) React
1 2 (25.00%) Vue
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Blog
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (12.50%) PKI
3 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (50.00%) ISMS
1 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (37.50%) AI
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) Due Diligence
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
2 3 (37.50%) Information Security
2 3 (37.50%) Information Security Management
2 3 (37.50%) Risk Register
2 3 (37.50%) Security Management
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) API Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Batch Processing
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Data Science
3 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CEH
1 3 (37.50%) CISM
1 3 (37.50%) CISSP
1 3 (37.50%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) GDPR
1 6 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (50.00%) NIST
3 3 (37.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (25.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (12.50%) GRC
5 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (12.50%) JSP 440
5 1 (12.50%) NCSC
5 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft