PCI DSS Jobs in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 533 453
Rank change year-on-year +39 -80 +128
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 170 315 543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.36% 0.62%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.16% 2.65% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 132 244 348
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,807 £26,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £44,688 £42,102
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,750 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.20% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £89,563 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £89,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,750 £61,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.51% +11.36% -8.33%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,867 11,904 16,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.28% 13.74% 19.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,094 8,301 7,811
10th Percentile £30,580 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,984 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,400 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in England

PCI DSS
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for PCI DSS in England

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PCI DSS in England

PCI DSS
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
London +69 69 £82,500 +13.79% 113
South East +81 30 £65,000 -3.70% 133
North of England +7 30 £65,000 +30.00% 120
Midlands +42 15 £42,500 +2.41% 75
North West -32 13 £65,000 +40.54% 68
Yorkshire +55 12 £70,000 +30.84% 39
South West +86 11 £60,000 +33.33% 53
West Midlands +61 8 £42,500 -43.33% 43
East of England +27 7 £70,000 +185.42% 61
East Midlands +14 7 £40,000 +61.22% 27
North East +51 5 £57,500 +53.33% 13
PCI DSS
UK

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.94%) SAS
2 4 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.18%) IIS
4 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (7.65%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (5.29%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.59%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.59%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.59%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 67 (39.41%) Azure
2 38 (22.35%) AWS
3 24 (14.12%) GCP
4 22 (12.94%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (5.88%) Google Workspace
5 10 (5.88%) Serverless
6 9 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (4.71%) GitHub
7 8 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (4.71%) SaaS
8 5 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.35%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (2.35%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.35%) Cloudflare
9 4 (2.35%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.35%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.76%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.76%) Facebook Ads
Communications & Networking
1 42 (24.71%) Firewall
2 29 (17.06%) Network Security
3 13 (7.65%) VPN
4 9 (5.29%) Intranet
5 6 (3.53%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (2.94%) LAN
6 5 (2.94%) SD-WAN
6 5 (2.94%) WAN
7 4 (2.35%) DNS
7 4 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.76%) BGP
8 3 (1.76%) DMZ
8 3 (1.76%) MPLS
8 3 (1.76%) NAS
8 3 (1.76%) OSPF
9 2 (1.18%) DHCP
9 2 (1.18%) EIGRP
9 2 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (1.18%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.18%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (2.94%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.94%) Tableau
3 4 (2.35%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.76%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.76%) MS Access
4 3 (1.76%) Power BI
4 3 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.18%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.18%) MySQL
5 2 (1.18%) OLAP
5 2 (1.18%) OLTP
6 1 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.59%) Endeca
6 1 (0.59%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.53%) GitLab
2 4 (2.35%) JIRA
3 3 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.18%) ERwin
5 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.59%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.59%) Git
5 1 (0.59%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.59%) Selenium
General
1 75 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 42 (24.71%) Retail
3 39 (22.94%) Finance
4 33 (19.41%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (15.29%) Legal
6 17 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (6.47%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (5.29%) Banking
8 9 (5.29%) Law
9 8 (4.71%) Marketing
10 4 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.76%) Advertising
11 3 (1.76%) Brand Awareness
11 3 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.76%) Local Government
11 3 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.18%) Aviation
12 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.18%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.59%) Games
Job Titles
1 28 (16.47%) Analyst
2 25 (14.71%) Security Analyst
3 22 (12.94%) Lead
4 20 (11.76%) Architect
5 17 (10.00%) Senior
6 15 (8.82%) Security Manager
7 14 (8.24%) Head of Security
7 14 (8.24%) Security Engineer
8 12 (7.06%) Information Analyst
8 12 (7.06%) Information Manager
8 12 (7.06%) Information Security Analyst
8 12 (7.06%) Information Security Manager
9 11 (6.47%) Lead Architect
10 10 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
11 9 (5.29%) Compliance Advisor
11 9 (5.29%) Head of Information
11 9 (5.29%) Head of Information Security
11 9 (5.29%) Security Advisor
12 8 (4.71%) Administrator
13 7 (4.12%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.18%) .NET
2 6 (3.53%) EDI
2 6 (3.53%) LDAP
2 6 (3.53%) Node.js
3 4 (2.35%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.35%) Kafka
4 3 (1.76%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (1.18%) RESTful
5 2 (1.18%) SOAP
5 2 (1.18%) Spring
6 1 (0.59%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.59%) JSON
6 1 (0.59%) JWT
6 1 (0.59%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.59%) OAuth
6 1 (0.59%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.59%) REST
6 1 (0.59%) Web Services
6 1 (0.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (21.18%) Management Information System
2 33 (19.41%) Security Posture
3 15 (8.82%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (6.47%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (5.88%) Data Centre
5 10 (5.88%) e-Learning
6 8 (4.71%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.94%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.94%) Credit Risk
8 5 (2.94%) Market Risk
8 5 (2.94%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.76%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (1.76%) FMCG
9 3 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.76%) Replication
9 3 (1.76%) Social Media
9 3 (1.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.18%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.65%) Windows
2 7 (4.12%) Linux
3 6 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.76%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.18%) VMS
5 2 (1.18%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.59%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (44.12%) Information Security
2 66 (38.82%) Cybersecurity
3 60 (35.29%) Risk Management
4 41 (24.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 39 (22.94%) Incident Response
6 34 (20.00%) Data Security
7 33 (19.41%) Data Protection
8 32 (18.82%) Agile
9 29 (17.06%) Vulnerability Management
10 28 (16.47%) CI/CD
10 28 (16.47%) Cloud Security
10 28 (16.47%) Incident Management
11 27 (15.88%) DevOps
11 27 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (15.88%) Security Management
11 27 (15.88%) SIEM
12 26 (15.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 24 (14.12%) Root Cause Analysis
14 21 (12.35%) Security Operations
14 21 (12.35%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (17.65%) Python
2 23 (13.53%) SQL
3 15 (8.82%) Java
4 12 (7.06%) PowerShell
5 9 (5.29%) Bash
6 7 (4.12%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.53%) C#
7 6 (3.53%) R
8 5 (2.94%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.59%) Bicep
10 1 (0.59%) Go
10 1 (0.59%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (25.88%) CISSP
2 34 (20.00%) CISM
3 21 (12.35%) Degree
4 11 (6.47%) CEH
4 11 (6.47%) CRISC
5 8 (4.71%) CISA
5 8 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (4.12%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (2.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (2.94%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.94%) Security Cleared
8 4 (2.35%) CCSP
8 4 (2.35%) GIAC
8 4 (2.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 4 (2.35%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.35%) SSCP
9 3 (1.76%) CCSK
9 3 (1.76%) ISSAP
9 3 (1.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (59.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 95 (55.88%) GDPR
3 78 (45.88%) NIST
4 40 (23.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 23 (13.53%) GRC
6 20 (11.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 16 (9.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 10 (5.88%) SOC 2
9 9 (5.29%) PERC
10 8 (4.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (4.71%) NCSC
11 5 (2.94%) Basel II
11 5 (2.94%) Basel III
11 5 (2.94%) Dodd-Frank
11 5 (2.94%) IFRS
11 5 (2.94%) IFRS 9
11 5 (2.94%) QA
12 4 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (1.76%) COBIT
13 3 (1.76%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 10 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.35%) Docker
3 2 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.59%) NFS
4 1 (0.59%) Squid
4 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (7.65%) Terraform
2 11 (6.47%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.53%) Ansible
4 4 (2.35%) Grafana
4 4 (2.35%) Progress Chef
4 4 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.76%) CASB
5 3 (1.76%) EMC VPLEX
5 3 (1.76%) Nessus
6 2 (1.18%) Istio
6 2 (1.18%) linkerd
7 1 (0.59%) cPanel
7 1 (0.59%) Kibana
7 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.59%) OpenVAS
7 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (25.88%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.59%) Google
3 12 (7.06%) Adobe
4 9 (5.29%) OneTrust
5 4 (2.35%) Cisco
6 3 (1.76%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.76%) dotdigital
6 3 (1.76%) EMC
6 3 (1.76%) Facebook
6 3 (1.76%) Oracle
6 3 (1.76%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.76%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.18%) Avaya
7 2 (1.18%) Databricks
7 2 (1.18%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.18%) Qualys
7 2 (1.18%) VMware
8 1 (0.59%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.59%) IBM
8 1 (0.59%) Juniper