PSD2 Job Trends in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring PSD2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 383 457
Rank change year-on-year -50 +74 +64
Permanent jobs citing PSD2 7 10 3
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.029% 0.082% 0.015%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.21% 0.44% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 2
10th Percentile £79,250 £71,000 £54,875
25th Percentile £85,625 £72,500 £67,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £75,000 £91,250
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -17.81% +73.81%
75th Percentile £108,125 £77,500 £115,313
90th Percentile £108,500 £96,250 £128,625
England median annual salary £102,500 £75,000 £91,250
% change year-on-year +36.67% -17.81% +73.81%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,273 2,268 2,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.75% 18.60% 15.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,052 1,419 1,903
10th Percentile £42,417 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £107,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -8.33%

PSD2
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

PSD2 job vacancy trend in London

PSD2
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing PSD2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing PSD2

PSD2
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PSD2 in London over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for PSD2 in London

PSD2
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PSD2 within the London region over the 6 months to 12 August 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 1 - - 4
PSD2
England

PSD2
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Collibra
3 2 (28.57%) Datadog
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco IPT
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) Maven
1 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 6 (85.71%) Banking
3 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Marketing
4 2 (28.57%) Retail
4 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Data Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Java Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Mobile Wallet
3 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Analytics
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Consent Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Data Sharing
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) Digital Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Epics
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) Objectives and Key Results
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) CISM
1 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (14.29%) CRISC
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) GDPR
2 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (42.86%) NIST
2 3 (42.86%) PCI DSS
3 2 (28.57%) PERC
3 2 (28.57%) SEPA
4 1 (14.29%) COBIT
4 1 (14.29%) GRC
4 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Argo
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Databricks
2 3 (42.86%) OneTrust