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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 243 197
Rank change year-on-year +24 -46 +88
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 16 21 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.29% 0.23% 0.58%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.98% 1.42% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 16 12 31
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.35% +6.36% +2.80%
75th Percentile £52,813 £62,813 £73,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £68,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -0.83% -5.10%

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 810 1,474 733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.61% 16.36% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 532 577 587
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,000 £27,650
25th Percentile £30,580 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £51,251 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -2.38% +8.25%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £76,750
England median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +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 21 October 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 21 October 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 +45 13 £42,500 -21.66% 9
East Midlands +18 3 £60,000 -12.73% 3
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 9 (56.25%) AWS
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (43.75%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (43.75%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
General
1 6 (37.50%) Retail
2 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Applications Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Applications Support
2 6 (37.50%) Applications Support Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Software Applications Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Software Support Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Compliance Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) IT Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) IT Compliance Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Consultant
5 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 2 (12.50%) Security Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Security Consultant
6 1 (6.25%) Information Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Information Security Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
1 3 (18.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (43.75%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (25.00%) Information Security
3 4 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Due Diligence
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 2 (12.50%) Security Management
5 2 (12.50%) Validation
5 2 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
6 1 (6.25%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Java
1 7 (43.75%) Python
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) CISM
1 3 (18.75%) CISSP
2 2 (12.50%) CESG Certified Professional
2 2 (12.50%) CRISC
2 2 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 2 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (62.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 8 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (18.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (18.75%) NIST
4 2 (12.50%) GDPR
4 2 (12.50%) GRC
4 2 (12.50%) NCSC
4 2 (12.50%) QA
5 1 (6.25%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) IBM Sterling