PCI DSS Jobs in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 412 465
Rank change year-on-year +71 +53 +195
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 64 99 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.50% 0.40% 0.42%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.01% 2.94% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 58 79 90
10th Percentile £50,775 £53,750 £39,748
25th Percentile £59,563 £62,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.17% +3.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £117,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £107,750 £105,250
England median annual salary £68,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% +9.09% -12.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,126 3,362 5,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.54% 13.56% 16.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,289 2,440 3,348
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £39,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £102,500
England 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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in London

PCI DSS
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for PCI DSS in London

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in London over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Salary histogram for PCI DSS in London

PCI DSS
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PCI DSS within the London region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Central London +29 12 £68,750 -14.06% 55
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.56%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 29 (45.31%) Azure
2 14 (21.88%) AWS
2 14 (21.88%) GCP
3 6 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (6.25%) GitHub
4 4 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (6.25%) SaaS
4 4 (6.25%) Serverless
4 4 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (4.69%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.13%) Datadog
6 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 22 (34.38%) Firewall
2 14 (21.88%) Network Security
3 4 (6.25%) VPN
4 2 (3.13%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (3.13%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.56%) BGP
5 1 (1.56%) LAN
5 1 (1.56%) MPLS
5 1 (1.56%) OSPF
5 1 (1.56%) SAN
5 1 (1.56%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.56%) VoIP
5 1 (1.56%) WAN
5 1 (1.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.69%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.69%) OLAP
2 3 (4.69%) OLTP
3 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.56%) Power BI
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) GitLab
2 2 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 29 (45.31%) Social Skills
2 17 (26.56%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (23.44%) Finance
3 15 (23.44%) Retail
4 13 (20.31%) Legal
5 9 (14.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (12.50%) Banking
7 5 (7.81%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Games
9 1 (1.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (15.63%) Security Manager
2 9 (14.06%) Analyst
2 9 (14.06%) Head of Security
2 9 (14.06%) Information Manager
2 9 (14.06%) Information Security Manager
3 7 (10.94%) Head of Information
3 7 (10.94%) Head of Information Security
3 7 (10.94%) Lead
3 7 (10.94%) Security Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Security Analyst
4 6 (9.38%) Senior
5 4 (6.25%) Architect
5 4 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 4 (6.25%) Information Security Officer
5 4 (6.25%) Security Officer
6 3 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Head of Compliance
6 3 (4.69%) Information Assurance Officer
6 3 (4.69%) IT Security Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.50%) EDI
2 3 (4.69%) .NET
2 3 (4.69%) Node.js
2 3 (4.69%) Spring
3 1 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (37.50%) Security Posture
2 22 (34.38%) Management Information System
3 6 (9.38%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (7.81%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.13%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (3.13%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.56%) Clustering
7 1 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.56%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) Online Games
7 1 (1.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Windows
2 2 (3.13%) Mac OS
2 2 (3.13%) Windows 10
2 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (57.81%) Cybersecurity
2 34 (53.13%) Information Security
3 29 (45.31%) Risk Management
4 24 (37.50%) Data Security
5 21 (32.81%) Incident Management
5 21 (32.81%) Incident Response
6 20 (31.25%) Security Management
7 19 (29.69%) Cloud Security
7 19 (29.69%) SIEM
8 18 (28.13%) Vulnerability Management
9 16 (25.00%) Security Operations
10 15 (23.44%) Internal Audit
10 15 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (21.88%) Identity Access Management
11 14 (21.88%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 12 (18.75%) Data Loss Prevention
12 12 (18.75%) Data Privacy
12 12 (18.75%) Data Protection
12 12 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
13 11 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.81%) Java
1 5 (7.81%) SQL
2 4 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (4.69%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.56%) Python
4 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (23.44%) CISSP
2 14 (21.88%) CISM
3 11 (17.19%) Degree
4 4 (6.25%) CISA
4 4 (6.25%) SSCP
5 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.13%) CRISC
6 2 (3.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (3.13%) PCI QSA
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.56%) CCNA
7 1 (1.56%) CCSK
7 1 (1.56%) CCSP
7 1 (1.56%) CEH
7 1 (1.56%) CISMP
7 1 (1.56%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (68.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 43 (67.19%) NIST
3 38 (59.38%) GDPR
4 17 (26.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (18.75%) GRC
6 9 (14.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (7.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (7.81%) SOC 2
8 4 (6.25%) NCSC
8 4 (6.25%) QA
9 3 (4.69%) SLA
10 2 (3.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (3.13%) ISO 22301
10 2 (3.13%) ISO 9001
10 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (1.56%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Ansible
1 4 (6.25%) Grafana
1 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 4 (6.25%) Progress Chef
1 4 (6.25%) Prometheus
1 4 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (1.56%) Nessus
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.25%) Google
3 2 (3.13%) Avaya
3 2 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.56%) Cisco
4 1 (1.56%) HP
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle
4 1 (1.56%) Tenable
4 1 (1.56%) VMware
4 1 (1.56%) WatchGuard