PCI DSS Job Trends in Leicester

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 3 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 0.92% - 0.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.11% - 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £44,400 - -
25th Percentile £57,750 - £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £53,500
75th Percentile - - £55,250
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median annual salary £80,000 - £53,500

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 37 27 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 11.31% 13.37% 8.76%
Number of salaries quoted 27 16 23
10th Percentile £38,950 £29,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,000 £32,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% +25.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £53,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 -
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £32,500 £49,990
% change year-on-year +38.46% -34.99% +5.24%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in Leicester

PCI DSS
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing PCI DSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in Leicester over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PCI DSS in Leicester

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Information Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Due Diligence
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Email Filtering
3 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CISM
1 2 (66.67%) CISMP
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki