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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 530 474
Rank change year-on-year +59 -56 +76
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 204 314 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.37% 0.61%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.51% 2.63% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 150 245 353
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,807 £32,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +9.65% -5.00%
75th Percentile £96,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £89,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £55,667
% change year-on-year +12.00% +12.27% -7.22%

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 8,117 11,951 17,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.92% 13.93% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,349 8,404 8,044
10th Percentile £30,580 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £73,750 £70,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,700 £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 9 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 9 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 +85 82 £87,500 +20.69% 107
North of England +25 39 £65,000 +31.31% 38
South East +89 38 £65,000 -8.77% 60
North West -11 20 £65,000 +44.44% 23
Midlands +32 15 £40,000 -25.23% 9
South West +97 14 £60,000 +33.33% 11
Yorkshire +56 14 £70,996 +32.70% 11
West Midlands +52 8 £41,250 -45.00% 5
East of England +27 8 £73,250 +198.67% 18
East Midlands +22 7 £40,000 +61.22% 3
North East +54 5 £57,500 +53.33% 4
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 7 (3.43%) SAS
2 6 (2.94%) IBM Domino
3 4 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.98%) IIS
4 2 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.41%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.49%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.49%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 81 (39.71%) Azure
2 50 (24.51%) AWS
3 32 (15.69%) GCP
4 30 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (4.90%) Google Workspace
6 9 (4.41%) SaaS
7 8 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.92%) GitHub
7 8 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (3.92%) Serverless
8 7 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.96%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (1.96%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (1.96%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.96%) Cloudflare
10 4 (1.96%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 47 (23.04%) Firewall
2 36 (17.65%) Network Security
3 16 (7.84%) VPN
4 9 (4.41%) Intranet
5 8 (3.92%) LAN
5 8 (3.92%) SD-WAN
5 8 (3.92%) WAN
6 7 (3.43%) Intrusion Detection
6 7 (3.43%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (2.94%) MPLS
8 5 (2.45%) DNS
9 4 (1.96%) BGP
9 4 (1.96%) OSPF
9 4 (1.96%) Wireless
10 3 (1.47%) DHCP
10 3 (1.47%) DMZ
10 3 (1.47%) EIGRP
10 3 (1.47%) IPsec
10 3 (1.47%) NAS
11 2 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.37%) NoSQL
2 11 (5.39%) Tableau
3 6 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.45%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.47%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.47%) MS Access
6 3 (1.47%) Power BI
6 3 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.98%) MySQL
7 2 (0.98%) OLAP
7 2 (0.98%) OLTP
8 1 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.49%) Endeca
8 1 (0.49%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 6 (2.94%) GitLab
2 4 (1.96%) JIRA
3 3 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.98%) ERwin
5 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.49%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.49%) Git
5 1 (0.49%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.49%) Selenium
General
1 101 (49.51%) Social Skills
2 57 (27.94%) Finance
3 46 (22.55%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (20.10%) Retail
5 28 (13.73%) Legal
6 19 (9.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (5.39%) Banking
9 9 (4.41%) Law
9 9 (4.41%) Marketing
10 5 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.47%) Advertising
12 3 (1.47%) Brand Awareness
12 3 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.47%) Local Government
13 2 (0.98%) Aviation
13 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.98%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (17.65%) Analyst
2 31 (15.20%) Security Analyst
3 30 (14.71%) Lead
4 27 (13.24%) Senior
5 25 (12.25%) Architect
6 18 (8.82%) Security Manager
7 15 (7.35%) Security Engineer
8 14 (6.86%) Head of Security
8 14 (6.86%) Information Analyst
9 13 (6.37%) Lead Architect
10 12 (5.88%) Information Manager
10 12 (5.88%) Information Security Analyst
10 12 (5.88%) Information Security Manager
11 11 (5.39%) Head of Information
11 11 (5.39%) Head of Information Security
12 9 (4.41%) Compliance Advisor
12 9 (4.41%) Security Advisor
12 9 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (3.92%) Administrator
13 8 (3.92%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.33%) .NET
2 9 (4.41%) Azure Blueprints
3 6 (2.94%) EDI
3 6 (2.94%) LDAP
3 6 (2.94%) Node.js
4 4 (1.96%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.96%) Kafka
5 2 (0.98%) RESTful
5 2 (0.98%) SOAP
5 2 (0.98%) Spring
6 1 (0.49%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.49%) JSON
6 1 (0.49%) JWT
6 1 (0.49%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.49%) OAuth
6 1 (0.49%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.49%) REST
6 1 (0.49%) Web Services
6 1 (0.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (20.10%) Management Information System
2 38 (18.63%) Security Posture
3 16 (7.84%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (5.88%) Data Centre
5 11 (5.39%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (4.90%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.90%) e-Learning
7 8 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (3.43%) Credit Risk
8 7 (3.43%) Market Risk
8 7 (3.43%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.47%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (1.47%) FMCG
9 3 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.47%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.47%) Replication
9 3 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.47%) Social Media
9 3 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.86%) Windows
2 8 (3.92%) Linux
3 7 (3.43%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.47%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.47%) VMS
5 2 (0.98%) Unix
5 2 (0.98%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.49%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (44.61%) Information Security
2 73 (35.78%) Cybersecurity
3 72 (35.29%) Risk Management
4 48 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (23.04%) Incident Response
6 40 (19.61%) Agile
7 38 (18.63%) Cloud Security
8 37 (18.14%) Data Protection
8 37 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (17.65%) CI/CD
10 35 (17.16%) DevOps
11 34 (16.67%) Data Security
12 33 (16.18%) Vulnerability Management
12 33 (16.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 32 (15.69%) Security Operations
14 31 (15.20%) Security Management
15 29 (14.22%) Roadmaps
16 28 (13.73%) SIEM
17 26 (12.75%) Identity Access Management
17 26 (12.75%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (18.14%) Python
2 23 (11.27%) SQL
3 19 (9.31%) PowerShell
4 16 (7.84%) Bash
5 13 (6.37%) Java
6 8 (3.92%) R
7 7 (3.43%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.94%) C#
9 5 (2.45%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.49%) Bicep
11 1 (0.49%) Go
11 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 49 (24.02%) CISSP
2 41 (20.10%) CISM
3 24 (11.76%) Degree
4 14 (6.86%) CRISC
5 12 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (5.39%) CEH
7 9 (4.41%) CISA
7 9 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 7 (3.43%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.94%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.94%) CCSP
9 6 (2.94%) CISMP
9 6 (2.94%) CompTIA CySA+
9 6 (2.94%) Security Cleared
10 4 (1.96%) CCNA
10 4 (1.96%) GIAC
10 4 (1.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 4 (1.96%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.96%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (57.35%) GDPR
2 109 (53.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 88 (43.14%) NIST
4 44 (21.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 32 (15.69%) GRC
6 26 (12.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 21 (10.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 14 (6.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 10 (4.90%) NCSC
10 9 (4.41%) PERC
10 9 (4.41%) SOC 2
11 7 (3.43%) Basel II
11 7 (3.43%) Basel III
11 7 (3.43%) Dodd-Frank
11 7 (3.43%) IFRS
11 7 (3.43%) IFRS 9
12 6 (2.94%) Data Quality
13 5 (2.45%) COBIT
13 5 (2.45%) QA
14 4 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (5.39%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.96%) Docker
3 3 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.98%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.98%) vSphere
5 1 (0.49%) NFS
5 1 (0.49%) Squid
5 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (9.31%) Terraform
2 17 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.41%) CASB
4 6 (2.94%) Ansible
5 4 (1.96%) Grafana
5 4 (1.96%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.96%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.47%) EMC VPLEX
6 3 (1.47%) Istio
6 3 (1.47%) linkerd
6 3 (1.47%) Nessus
7 1 (0.49%) cPanel
7 1 (0.49%) Kibana
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.49%) OpenVAS
7 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.76%) Google
3 12 (5.88%) Adobe
4 9 (4.41%) Cisco
4 9 (4.41%) OneTrust
5 6 (2.94%) Informatica
6 5 (2.45%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.47%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.47%) dotdigital
7 3 (1.47%) EMC
7 3 (1.47%) Facebook
7 3 (1.47%) Meraki
7 3 (1.47%) Oracle
7 3 (1.47%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.98%) Avaya
8 2 (0.98%) Databricks
8 2 (0.98%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.98%) Juniper
8 2 (0.98%) Zscaler