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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 166 123
Rank change year-on-year +4 -43 +94
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 14 8 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.41% 0.18% 1.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.64% 1.27% 7.38%
Number of salaries quoted 14 2 2
10th Percentile - £28,766 £64,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,555 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £49,120 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +32.33% -28.55% +19.57%
75th Percentile £71,563 £64,935 £72,188
90th Percentile £92,125 £73,074 £72,375
England median annual salary £55,043 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.93% +13.64% -15.38%

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 385 632 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 11.39% 14.26% 16.16%
Number of salaries quoted 236 238 189
10th Percentile £28,750 £27,850 £22,800
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,125 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.87% -4.17% +7.14%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 - 11 £42,500 - 2
Cambridgeshire +15 2 £67,500 +37.42%
Essex - 1 £65,000 - 7
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (57.14%) Serverless
3 6 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (42.86%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) DynamoDB
General
1 9 (64.29%) Retail
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Applications Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Applications Support
2 6 (42.86%) Applications Support Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Software Applications Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Software Support Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Support Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) Information Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Information Security Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) Security Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Principal Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) LDAP
3 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 2 (14.29%) Hugging Face
3 2 (14.29%) Kafka
3 2 (14.29%) Node.js
3 2 (14.29%) Nuxt
3 2 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (14.29%) React
3 2 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
1 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (21.43%) Change Control
2 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) Due Diligence
2 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
2 3 (21.43%) Information Security
2 3 (21.43%) Information Security Management
2 3 (21.43%) ISMS
2 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
2 3 (21.43%) Risk Register
2 3 (21.43%) Security Management
3 2 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (14.29%) Batch Processing
3 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 2 (14.29%) Data Science
3 2 (14.29%) LLM
3 2 (14.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) Java
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Bash
3 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) CEH
1 3 (21.43%) CISM
1 3 (21.43%) CISSP
1 3 (21.43%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (42.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (35.71%) GDPR
3 3 (21.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (21.43%) NIST
4 2 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) OpenAI