PCI DSS Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 398 520
Rank change year-on-year +51 +122 -36
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 389 221 308
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.59% 0.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.80% 3.66% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 208 160 245
10th Percentile £47,125 £42,500 £24,807
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £86,250 £96,563 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £120,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +12.00% +4.17%

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 8,100 6,044 11,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.45% 16.18% 14.07%
Number of salaries quoted 5,041 3,601 8,359
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £27,040
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,501
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.69%
75th Percentile £78,800 £76,250 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.56% +11.43% -8.70%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in England

PCI DSS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing PCI DSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in England over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

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 20 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
London +39 136 £84,000 -4.00% 26
South West +38 111 £70,000 +16.67% 10
North of England -48 50 £65,000 +13.04% 14
South East -36 45 £65,000 +6.12% 16
Midlands -15 33 £75,000 +87.50% 6
North West -16 30 £72,500 +20.79% 13
East Midlands -39 21 £80,000 +82.86% 1
Yorkshire -55 20 £57,500 -17.86% 1
West Midlands -24 12 £75,000 +87.50% 5
East of England -32 7 £42,025 -43.97% 6
PCI DSS
UK

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 58 (14.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.51%) Confluence
3 1 (0.26%) CMS
3 1 (0.26%) IIS
3 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (2.06%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 147 (37.79%) Azure
2 109 (28.02%) AWS
3 69 (17.74%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (11.05%) SaaS
5 41 (10.54%) GCP
6 17 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (4.11%) Datadog
8 12 (3.08%) GitHub
9 11 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (2.57%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (2.57%) Nutanix
10 10 (2.57%) Serverless
11 7 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (1.80%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.80%) Twilio
12 6 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.54%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.54%) PaaS
12 6 (1.54%) Route 53
12 6 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 68 (17.48%) DNS
2 58 (14.91%) DHCP
3 49 (12.60%) Firewall
4 35 (9.00%) Network Security
5 26 (6.68%) VPN
6 22 (5.66%) WAN
7 19 (4.88%) SD-WAN
8 12 (3.08%) VLAN
8 12 (3.08%) VoIP
9 11 (2.83%) BGP
10 8 (2.06%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (2.06%) SSL
10 8 (2.06%) Wireless
11 7 (1.80%) BIG-IP
11 7 (1.80%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (1.80%) Cisco Wireless
11 7 (1.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 7 (1.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 7 (1.80%) PBX
11 7 (1.80%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (16.20%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (2.31%) NoSQL
3 7 (1.80%) MySQL
4 3 (0.77%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.51%) Redis
5 2 (0.51%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.51%) Tableau
6 1 (0.26%) DB2
6 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.26%) Metadata
6 1 (0.26%) MS Access
6 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.26%) Power BI
6 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (3.60%) Jenkins
2 12 (3.08%) GitLab
3 9 (2.31%) CircleCI
4 8 (2.06%) TeamCity
5 7 (1.80%) Git
6 4 (1.03%) JIRA
7 2 (0.51%) JUnit
7 2 (0.51%) Postman
7 2 (0.51%) Selenium
General
1 166 (42.67%) Social Skills
2 108 (27.76%) Finance
3 104 (26.74%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (23.65%) Banking
5 51 (13.11%) Retail
6 46 (11.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (7.46%) Back Office
8 26 (6.68%) Financial Institution
8 26 (6.68%) Law
9 23 (5.91%) Telecoms
10 20 (5.14%) Public Sector
11 18 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (3.60%) Legal
14 6 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.29%) Aviation
15 5 (1.29%) Marketing
15 5 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.03%) Advertising
17 3 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (14.40%) Systems Engineer
2 43 (11.05%) Analyst
3 38 (9.77%) Lead
4 35 (9.00%) Architect
5 34 (8.74%) Senior
6 33 (8.48%) Security Analyst
7 30 (7.71%) Security Architect
8 29 (7.46%) Security Manager
9 23 (5.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
11 18 (4.63%) Consultant
11 18 (4.63%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 17 (4.37%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.60%) Security Consultant
14 13 (3.34%) Compliance Manager
14 13 (3.34%) Head of Security
15 12 (3.08%) Security Assurance Manager
16 11 (2.83%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 11 (2.83%) Information Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.57%) Kafka
2 9 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (2.31%) RESTful
3 6 (1.54%) CSS
3 6 (1.54%) HTML
4 5 (1.29%) .NET
4 5 (1.29%) ARM Templates
4 5 (1.29%) REST
5 4 (1.03%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.03%) HTML5
5 4 (1.03%) jQuery
5 4 (1.03%) OAuth
5 4 (1.03%) OAuth2
6 3 (0.77%) Flask
6 3 (0.77%) FreeSWITCH
6 3 (0.77%) Jinja
6 3 (0.77%) pytest
6 3 (0.77%) RFC 2833
6 3 (0.77%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (0.77%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 60 (15.42%) Legacy Systems
2 44 (11.31%) Security Posture
3 37 (9.51%) Cloud Native
4 27 (6.94%) PKI
5 25 (6.43%) Management Information System
6 24 (6.17%) Blog
7 20 (5.14%) Data Centre
8 13 (3.34%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (2.57%) Security Operations Centre
11 9 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.80%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 7 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.80%) IVR
13 6 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (1.29%) Cloud Security Posture
14 5 (1.29%) Cyber Security Posture
14 5 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
15 4 (1.03%) CCTV
15 4 (1.03%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 79 (20.31%) Windows
2 77 (19.79%) Linux
3 65 (16.71%) Windows Server
4 56 (14.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (35.22%) Information Security
2 126 (32.39%) Cybersecurity
3 125 (32.13%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (26.99%) Risk Management
5 80 (20.57%) Roadmaps
6 75 (19.28%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 70 (17.99%) Customer Experience
8 65 (16.71%) Business Continuity
9 62 (15.94%) Incident Response
10 61 (15.68%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 60 (15.42%) Kalman Filter
11 60 (15.42%) Web Filtering
12 59 (15.17%) Customer Service
12 59 (15.17%) Migration
12 59 (15.17%) Risk Assessment
13 58 (14.91%) Due Diligence
14 57 (14.65%) Email Filtering
14 57 (14.65%) Process Improvement
15 53 (13.62%) Cloud Security
16 51 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 49 (12.60%) Python
2 18 (4.63%) Bash
2 18 (4.63%) Go
2 18 (4.63%) Java
3 15 (3.86%) PowerShell
4 14 (3.60%) SQL
5 5 (1.29%) Bicep
5 5 (1.29%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.77%) C
6 3 (0.77%) C++
6 3 (0.77%) PHP
7 1 (0.26%) C#
7 1 (0.26%) Ruby
7 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 107 (27.51%) CISSP
2 87 (22.37%) Security Cleared
3 79 (20.31%) SC Cleared
4 76 (19.54%) CISA
5 58 (14.91%) CRISC
6 45 (11.57%) CISM
7 38 (9.77%) Degree
8 19 (4.88%) CREST Certified
9 15 (3.86%) AWS Certification
10 14 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (3.60%) DV Cleared
11 11 (2.83%) CompTIA Security+
12 9 (2.31%) Azure Certification
12 9 (2.31%) GIAC
13 8 (2.06%) CEH
13 8 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (1.80%) FFIEC
14 7 (1.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 7 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (43.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 154 (39.59%) NIST
3 125 (32.13%) GDPR
4 120 (30.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 77 (19.79%) GRC
6 69 (17.74%) SOC 2
7 41 (10.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 27 (6.94%) NCSC
9 17 (4.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (3.60%) QA
11 11 (2.83%) SOC 3
12 9 (2.31%) Data Quality
13 7 (1.80%) COBIT
13 7 (1.80%) JSP 440
14 6 (1.54%) HIPAA
15 5 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 4 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 3 (0.77%) ISO 22301
17 3 (0.77%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (18.25%) Active Directory
2 56 (14.40%) Hyper-V
2 56 (14.40%) Terminal Server
3 21 (5.40%) Docker
4 7 (1.80%) IAG
5 3 (0.77%) Kamailio
5 3 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.51%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.26%) Firmware
7 1 (0.26%) NLBS
7 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (12.34%) Terraform
2 32 (8.23%) Kubernetes
3 25 (6.43%) Ansible
4 13 (3.34%) CASB
5 10 (2.57%) Grafana
5 10 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (2.57%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.06%) Cilium
7 7 (1.80%) SCCM
8 4 (1.03%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.77%) Argo
9 3 (0.77%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.51%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.51%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.51%) RSA Archer
10 2 (0.51%) VxRail
11 1 (0.26%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.26%) Nagios
11 1 (0.26%) Nessus
Vendors
1 99 (25.45%) Microsoft
2 66 (16.97%) Splunk
3 64 (16.45%) SolarWinds
4 60 (15.42%) VMware
5 58 (14.91%) Veeam
6 56 (14.40%) Brocade
6 56 (14.40%) Nimble Storage
6 56 (14.40%) Tanium
7 18 (4.63%) Cisco
8 10 (2.57%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.06%) Google
10 7 (1.80%) Arista
10 7 (1.80%) F5
10 7 (1.80%) ForeScout
10 7 (1.80%) Genesys
10 7 (1.80%) Infoblox
10 7 (1.80%) Meraki
10 7 (1.80%) SevOne
10 7 (1.80%) Verint
11 5 (1.29%) Tenable