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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 262 202
Rank change year-on-year +55 -60 +80
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 16 25 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.29% 0.25% 0.59%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.87% 1.64% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 16 11 34
10th Percentile £23,250 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £35,313 £46,250 £42,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.35% +6.36% +2.80%
75th Percentile £43,750 £63,125 £71,875
90th Percentile £54,375 £68,750 £93,375
England median annual salary £55,043 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.93% +13.64% -15.38%

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 856 1,523 837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.30% 15.19% 14.55%
Number of salaries quoted 560 686 658
10th Percentile £28,750 £27,500 £27,675
25th Percentile £30,580 £30,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £65,754
90th Percentile £69,550 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.87% -4.17% +7.14%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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
West Midlands +51 11 £42,500 -27.35% 5
East Midlands +15 5 £23,500 -65.82% 2
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Amazon ECS
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
1 7 (43.75%) AWS Lambda
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
1 7 (43.75%) Serverless
2 1 (6.25%) SaaS
2 1 (6.25%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MS Access
General
1 7 (43.75%) Retail
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Marketing
2 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Analyst
1 6 (37.50%) Applications Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Applications Support
1 6 (37.50%) Applications Support Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Software Applications Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Software Support Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Compliance Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) IT Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) IT Compliance Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) IT Support
2 3 (18.75%) Security Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Information Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Information Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (43.75%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (31.25%) Information Security
5 4 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (18.75%) Data Management
6 3 (18.75%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Process Improvement
6 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
7 2 (12.50%) Due Diligence
7 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
7 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
7 2 (12.50%) Security Management
7 2 (12.50%) Validation
8 1 (6.25%) Customer Service
8 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Java
1 7 (43.75%) Python
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (6.25%) CISA
2 1 (6.25%) CISMP
2 1 (6.25%) CISSP
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (62.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (31.25%) GDPR
2 5 (31.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (18.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (18.75%) NIST
4 2 (12.50%) QA
5 1 (6.25%) COBIT
5 1 (6.25%) GRC
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Adobe
2 3 (18.75%) dotdigital
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) IBM Sterling