PSD2 Job Trends in England

EU Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring PSD2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 733 624 747
Rank change year-on-year -109 +123 +2
Permanent jobs citing PSD2 11 12 1
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.011% 0.028% 0.001%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.11% 0.18% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 5 12 1
10th Percentile £69,600 £65,750 -
25th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £132,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £75,000 £135,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -44.44% +151.16%
75th Percentile £108,750 £84,375 £137,500
90th Percentile - £120,750 -
UK median annual salary £102,500 £75,000 £135,000
% change year-on-year +36.67% -44.44% +145.45%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

PSD2 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 10,293 6,631 9,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.43% 15.41% 13.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6,815 3,850 5,006
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,623 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% -1.53% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%

PSD2
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PSD2 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

PSD2 job vacancy trend in England

PSD2
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing PSD2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing PSD2

PSD2
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PSD2 in England over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Salary histogram for PSD2 in England

PSD2
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PSD2 within the England region over the 6 months to 8 September 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 -59 9 £102,500 +36.67% 38
Midlands - 2 £87,250 -
West Midlands - 1 £102,500 -
East Midlands - 1 £72,000 -
PSD2
UK

PSD2
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) Datadog
3 3 (27.27%) Snowflake
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Collibra
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (9.09%) SMS
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (18.18%) Maven
1 2 (18.18%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (100.00%) Finance
2 8 (72.73%) Banking
3 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
5 3 (27.27%) Retail
6 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (18.18%) Legal
6 2 (18.18%) Marketing
6 2 (18.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Principal Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Data Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Head of Compliance
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Payments Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Java Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) GraphQL
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
1 3 (27.27%) RESTful
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) Mobile Wallet
3 2 (18.18%) Digital Currency
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 1 (9.09%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Analytics
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
1 5 (45.45%) Microservices
2 4 (36.36%) Data Protection
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
2 4 (36.36%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (27.27%) AI
3 3 (27.27%) API Development
3 3 (27.27%) API Integration
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
3 3 (27.27%) Digital Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Observability
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) C#
1 3 (27.27%) Java
1 3 (27.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) CISM
2 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (9.09%) CRISC
2 1 (9.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (9.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) GDPR
2 4 (36.36%) PCI DSS
3 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (27.27%) NIST
4 2 (18.18%) PERC
4 2 (18.18%) SEPA
5 1 (9.09%) COBIT
5 1 (9.09%) GRC
5 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Grafana
1 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
2 2 (18.18%) Argo
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Databricks
2 3 (27.27%) OneTrust