PCI DSS Job Trends in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 212 268
Rank change year-on-year -27 +56 -11
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 20 16 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.15% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.58% 1.86% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 20 16 33
10th Percentile £25,000 £23,250 £24,240
25th Percentile £44,343 £35,938 £24,807
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £75,625 £45,563 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,425 £60,625 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +11.36%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,267 860 1,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.55% 17.75% 14.25%
Number of salaries quoted 713 523 1,278
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,822 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,580 £31,863
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £74,157 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

PCI DSS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PCI DSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Salary histogram for PCI DSS in the Midlands

PCI DSS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PCI DSS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 May 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
West Midlands -29 16 £60,000 +41.18% 7
East Midlands -37 4 £25,000 -37.50% 6
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) VPN
2 4 (20.00%) DNS
3 3 (15.00%) DHCP
3 3 (15.00%) LAN
3 3 (15.00%) WAN
4 2 (10.00%) DMVPN
4 2 (10.00%) Firewall
4 2 (10.00%) Network Security
4 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (10.00%) WLAN
5 1 (5.00%) SAN
5 1 (5.00%) SSL
5 1 (5.00%) VLAN
5 1 (5.00%) Wireless
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (15.00%) Legal
5 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (5.00%) Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Analyst
1 5 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Compliance Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) IT Support
2 3 (15.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Junior
2 3 (15.00%) Junior IT Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Junior IT Support
2 3 (15.00%) Junior Support Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Network Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Network Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) CCTV
2 2 (10.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 2 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (20.00%) Information Security
2 4 (20.00%) Patch Management
2 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (20.00%) SIEM
3 3 (15.00%) Analytics
3 3 (15.00%) Business Continuity
3 3 (15.00%) Data Analytics
3 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (15.00%) Facilities Management
3 3 (15.00%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (15.00%) Risk Register
4 2 (10.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 2 (10.00%) High Availability
4 2 (10.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (10.00%) Security Hardening
4 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.00%) DBS Check
3 2 (10.00%) CCNA
4 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CISA
4 1 (5.00%) CISM
4 1 (5.00%) CISSP
4 1 (5.00%) OSCP
4 1 (5.00%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) GDPR
2 6 (30.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (15.00%) GRC
4 1 (5.00%) COBIT
4 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Meraki
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco
2 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto