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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 254 199
Rank change year-on-year +66 -55 +83
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 26 20 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.45% 0.22% 0.62%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.20% 1.43% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 15 14 32
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,250 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -4.82% +3.64%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,750 £67,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -3.85%

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 812 1,396 725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.02% 15.61% 14.15%
Number of salaries quoted 546 540 587
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,119 £27,300
25th Percentile £30,580 £33,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,900 £78,875 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

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 16 November 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 November 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
East Midlands +37 15 £70,000 +12.00% 4
West Midlands +52 11 £42,500 -15.00% 16
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (11.54%) Serverless
4 2 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
General
1 15 (57.69%) Finance
2 11 (42.31%) Banking
3 3 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Retail
3 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Analyst
1 5 (19.23%) Support Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Applications Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Applications Support
2 3 (11.54%) Applications Support Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Compliance Analyst
2 3 (11.54%) IT Analyst
2 3 (11.54%) IT Compliance Analyst
2 3 (11.54%) Software Applications Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Software Support Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Consultant
3 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 2 (7.69%) Security Analyst
3 2 (7.69%) Security Consultant
4 1 (3.85%) Information Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Information Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Information Security Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 5 (19.23%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Information Security
2 17 (65.38%) Risk Management
3 15 (57.69%) Risk Assessment
4 14 (53.85%) Due Diligence
5 13 (50.00%) Roadmaps
6 11 (42.31%) Business Continuity
6 11 (42.31%) Business Continuity Management
6 11 (42.31%) Operations Management
6 11 (42.31%) Process Improvement
6 11 (42.31%) Supply Chain Management
7 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (19.23%) Incident Response
8 4 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (11.54%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (11.54%) SIEM
9 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
9 3 (11.54%) Vulnerability Management
10 2 (7.69%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) Java
1 3 (11.54%) Python
1 3 (11.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (57.69%) CISSP
2 13 (50.00%) CRISC
3 11 (42.31%) CISA
4 4 (15.38%) CISM
5 2 (7.69%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (7.69%) Degree
5 2 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 2 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (3.85%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (61.54%) NIST
2 11 (42.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (30.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (11.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (11.54%) GDPR
5 2 (7.69%) GRC
5 2 (7.69%) NCSC
5 2 (7.69%) QA
6 1 (3.85%) COBIT
6 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Ansible
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Google