PCI DSS Job Trends in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 338 420
Rank change year-on-year +61 +82 +23
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 150 63 89
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.68% 0.50% 0.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.92% 2.88% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 104 56 64
10th Percentile £62,500 £52,072 £54,500
25th Percentile £65,079 £59,688 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,250 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £99,250 £120,000 £110,875
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +7.76%

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 3,050 2,188 3,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.76% 17.39% 14.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,995 1,382 2,384
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £58,589 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +1.89% +7.48% -6.96%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in London

PCI DSS
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing PCI DSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in London over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

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 10 July 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
Central London -5 7 £68,961 -6.49% 3
East London - 4 £95,000 - 2
West London - 3 £69,119 - 2
North London - 1 £80,000 -
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (22.00%) SaaS
2 32 (21.33%) AWS
3 26 (17.33%) Azure
4 25 (16.67%) Datadog
5 18 (12.00%) GCP
6 11 (7.33%) Serverless
7 10 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (5.33%) Entra ID
8 8 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (4.67%) Mimecast
10 4 (2.67%) Cloudflare
10 4 (2.67%) GitHub
10 4 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.00%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.00%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (2.00%) Route 53
11 3 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (22.00%) Network Security
2 31 (20.67%) Firewall
3 26 (17.33%) VPN
4 19 (12.67%) Cisco ISE
5 17 (11.33%) DNS
6 15 (10.00%) Cisco Wireless
6 15 (10.00%) SD-WAN
6 15 (10.00%) SSL
6 15 (10.00%) WAN
6 15 (10.00%) Wireless
7 10 (6.67%) BIG-IP
7 10 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 10 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (5.33%) BGP
8 8 (5.33%) VLAN
9 5 (3.33%) EIGRP
9 5 (3.33%) HSRP
9 5 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (3.33%) OSPF
9 5 (3.33%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.33%) MySQL
3 2 (1.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (7.33%) GitLab
1 11 (7.33%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.00%) CircleCI
3 4 (2.67%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.33%) JIRA
General
1 73 (48.67%) Social Skills
2 41 (27.33%) Finance
3 40 (26.67%) Banking
4 34 (22.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (19.33%) Retail
6 23 (15.33%) Telecoms
7 20 (13.33%) Back Office
8 18 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (10.67%) Law
10 13 (8.67%) Legal
11 11 (7.33%) Financial Institution
12 7 (4.67%) Public Sector
13 3 (2.00%) Advertising
13 3 (2.00%) Aviation
13 3 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.33%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.67%) Local Government
15 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (19.33%) Lead
2 22 (14.67%) Senior
3 21 (14.00%) Analyst
4 15 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 15 (10.00%) Security Analyst
5 14 (9.33%) AWS Engineer
5 14 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.33%) Architect
6 11 (7.33%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (7.33%) Head of Operations
6 11 (7.33%) Head of Technology
6 11 (7.33%) Security Architect
7 10 (6.67%) Security Engineer
7 10 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
8 9 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (4.67%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
9 7 (4.67%) Information Security Officer
9 7 (4.67%) Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.33%) Kafka
2 9 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (4.00%) RESTful
4 2 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.33%) REST
4 2 (1.33%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.67%) .NET
5 1 (0.67%) EDI
5 1 (0.67%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 23 (15.33%) PKI
3 20 (13.33%) Cloud Native
4 19 (12.67%) Data Centre
4 19 (12.67%) Management Information System
5 11 (7.33%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (4.67%) Blog
7 7 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (4.67%) Freedom of Information
7 7 (4.67%) Freedom of Information Act
8 4 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.00%) Cyberattack
9 3 (2.00%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.33%) CCTV
10 2 (1.33%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.00%) Windows
2 2 (1.33%) Linux
3 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (42.00%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (35.33%) Information Security
3 45 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (23.33%) Incident Response
4 35 (23.33%) Risk Management
5 34 (22.67%) Regulatory Compliance
6 33 (22.00%) Business Continuity
7 32 (21.33%) Disaster Recovery
8 30 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (18.67%) Security Architecture
10 27 (18.00%) SIEM
11 22 (14.67%) Agile
11 22 (14.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (13.33%) Cloud Security
12 20 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (12.00%) CI/CD
13 18 (12.00%) Enterprise Architecture
13 18 (12.00%) ITIL
13 18 (12.00%) Microservices
14 17 (11.33%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 34 (22.67%) Python
2 12 (8.00%) Java
3 11 (7.33%) Bash
3 11 (7.33%) Go
4 9 (6.00%) SQL
5 3 (2.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.33%) PHP
7 1 (0.67%) C#
7 1 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 43 (28.67%) CISSP
2 27 (18.00%) CISM
3 22 (14.67%) Degree
4 18 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (11.33%) CISA
6 15 (10.00%) CCNP
6 15 (10.00%) CRISC
7 10 (6.67%) GIAC
7 10 (6.67%) SANS
8 9 (6.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 7 (4.67%) CEH
9 7 (4.67%) ISACA
10 6 (4.00%) FFIEC
11 5 (3.33%) AWS Certification
11 5 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (2.67%) Security Cleared
13 3 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (2.00%) SC Cleared
14 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (1.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (55.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 66 (44.00%) NIST
3 64 (42.67%) GDPR
4 36 (24.00%) GRC
5 33 (22.00%) SOC 2
6 31 (20.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 20 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 15 (10.00%) QA
9 12 (8.00%) COBIT
10 11 (7.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (4.67%) SOC 1
12 3 (2.00%) HIPAA
13 2 (1.33%) Data Quality
13 2 (1.33%) ISO 22301
13 2 (1.33%) ISO 9001
13 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (1.33%) NCSC
13 2 (1.33%) PMO
13 2 (1.33%) PSD2
14 1 (0.67%) TickIT
System Software
1 10 (6.67%) Docker
1 10 (6.67%) IAG
2 4 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.67%) NLBS
3 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (18.67%) Terraform
2 27 (18.00%) Ansible
3 14 (9.33%) Kubernetes
4 10 (6.67%) Grafana
4 10 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.67%) Cilium
6 4 (2.67%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.67%) CASB
7 1 (0.67%) Nessus
7 1 (0.67%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 26 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.00%) Cisco
3 20 (13.33%) Palo Alto
3 20 (13.33%) Splunk
4 15 (10.00%) Arista
4 15 (10.00%) ForeScout
4 15 (10.00%) Infoblox
4 15 (10.00%) SevOne
4 15 (10.00%) SolarWinds
5 10 (6.67%) F5
6 5 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (2.67%) Qualys
8 3 (2.00%) Forcepoint
8 3 (2.00%) Meraki
9 2 (1.33%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.33%) Google
9 2 (1.33%) PayPal
9 2 (1.33%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.33%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.33%) Tenable