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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 214 257
Rank change year-on-year -40 +43 -54
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 26 16 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.17% 0.29% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.90% 1.87% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 22 16 12
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,875 £37,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -27.35% +6.36%
75th Percentile £54,688 £45,938 £62,813
90th Percentile £80,375 £54,375 £68,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £55,043 £60,000
% change year-on-year +27.17% -8.26% +9.09%

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 1,368 857 1,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.72% 15.32% 15.36%
Number of salaries quoted 935 568 659
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,580 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £62,700
90th Percentile £77,300 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - - -4.17%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -40 18 £48,000 +12.94% 13
East Midlands -23 8 £25,000 -36.31% 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) AWS
4 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) AWS KMS
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.85%) Datadog
5 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) VPN
2 5 (19.23%) DHCP
2 5 (19.23%) DNS
3 2 (7.69%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
1 1 (3.85%) JMeter
1 1 (3.85%) LoadRunner
1 1 (3.85%) Selenium
1 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (42.31%) Finance
2 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 7 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (23.08%) Retail
5 3 (11.54%) Legal
5 3 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Banking
7 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Analyst
1 7 (26.92%) IT Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) IT Support
2 5 (19.23%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Junior
2 5 (19.23%) Junior IT Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Junior IT Support
2 5 (19.23%) Junior Support Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Support Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Security Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Governance Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Information Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Security Operations Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Information Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Information Security Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
1 1 (3.85%) Kafka
1 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Management Information System
2 3 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (7.69%) CCTV
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Digital Signage
3 2 (7.69%) Driving Licence
3 2 (7.69%) EPoS
3 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.85%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Mobile Wallet
4 1 (3.85%) PKI
4 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Windows
2 5 (19.23%) Windows 10
3 2 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (34.62%) Information Security
3 8 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (26.92%) SIEM
5 6 (23.08%) Risk Management
5 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (15.38%) Incident Response
6 4 (15.38%) Patch Management
6 4 (15.38%) Risk Register
6 4 (15.38%) Security Management
7 3 (11.54%) Cloud Security
7 3 (11.54%) Coaching
7 3 (11.54%) Commercial Awareness
7 3 (11.54%) Customer Experience
7 3 (11.54%) IT Audit
7 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
7 3 (11.54%) Microservices
7 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (11.54%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.85%) C#
2 1 (3.85%) Java
2 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) CISSP
2 6 (23.08%) CISM
3 5 (19.23%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (19.23%) DBS Check
4 3 (11.54%) CRISC
5 2 (7.69%) ACCA
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 2 (7.69%) CCNA
5 2 (7.69%) CISA
5 2 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (7.69%) PCI QSA
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.85%) Degree
6 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (61.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (38.46%) GDPR
3 8 (30.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (26.92%) NIST
5 4 (15.38%) COBIT
5 4 (15.38%) GRC
6 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (7.69%) NCSC
7 1 (3.85%) HIPAA
7 1 (3.85%) PSD2
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Grafana
1 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.85%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) NCR