PCI DSS Jobs in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring PCI DSS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PCI DSS over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 280 247
Rank change year-on-year +42 -33 +54
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 18 55 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.40% 0.67%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.61% 2.91% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 18 38 40
10th Percentile £23,250 £24,240 £41,368
25th Percentile £37,875 £24,807 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.56% -2.73% +2.33%
75th Percentile £49,188 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £55,750 £85,000 £93,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.76% -7.20%

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 1,118 1,889 1,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.06% 13.73% 19.76%
Number of salaries quoted 563 1,246 854
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,580 £31,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,125 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,500 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the Midlands.

Salary trend for PCI DSS in the Midlands

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 July 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 +54 10 £42,500 -29.17% 30
East Midlands +29 8 £45,000 +81.37% 11
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 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (38.89%) Serverless
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Google Workspace
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DHCP
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) MS Access
General
1 7 (38.89%) Retail
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Marketing
4 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.56%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) Applications Support
1 6 (33.33%) Applications Support Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) Software Applications Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) Software Support Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) IT Support
2 4 (22.22%) Security Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Information Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Information Security Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Information Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Information Security Manager
5 1 (5.56%) IT Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (38.89%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (27.78%) Information Security
3 3 (16.67%) Data Management
3 3 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 3 (16.67%) Security Management
4 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity
4 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 2 (11.11%) Information Security Management
4 2 (11.11%) ISMS
4 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL
5 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2
5 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Java
1 7 (38.89%) Python
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) CISM
2 2 (11.11%) CISSP
3 1 (5.56%) CISA
3 1 (5.56%) CISMP
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (55.56%) GDPR
2 7 (38.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (16.67%) GRC
5 2 (11.11%) NIST
6 1 (5.56%) COBIT
6 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Adobe
2 3 (16.67%) dotdigital
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) IBM Sterling