PCI DSS Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 285 247
Rank change year-on-year +8 -38 +6
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 22 37 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.26% 0.81%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.97% 2.10% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 13 29 62
10th Percentile £48,800 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% -20.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,250 £71,125
England median annual salary £56,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.40% +13.64% -15.38%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,117 1,761 1,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.87% 12.44% 14.26%
Number of salaries quoted 501 903 1,000
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.98% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £63,150 £60,991 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,258 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% +7.55%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the North of England

PCI DSS
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing PCI DSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Salary histogram for PCI DSS in the North of England

PCI DSS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PCI DSS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
North West -2 12 £55,000 -12.00% 6
Yorkshire +25 7 £65,000 +32.65% 7
North East +20 3 £57,500 +9.52% 2
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) CMS
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Magento
1 2 (9.09%) Sage 200
2 1 (4.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (13.64%) Facebook Ads
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (9.09%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) AWS
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.55%) IaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Mimecast
5 1 (4.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) Network Security
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) VPN
3 1 (4.55%) DMZ
3 1 (4.55%) DNS
3 1 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Endeca
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) GitLab
1 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Finance
3 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Marketing
5 3 (13.64%) Advertising
5 3 (13.64%) Brand Awareness
5 3 (13.64%) Retail
6 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (4.55%) Aviation
7 1 (4.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) IT Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Architect
2 3 (13.64%) E-Commerce Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Security Architect
2 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Lead
3 2 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Technical Leader
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Information Security Architect
4 1 (4.55%) IT Security Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) .NET
2 3 (13.64%) LDAP
2 3 (13.64%) RESTful
2 3 (13.64%) SOAP
3 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 2 (9.09%) Node.js
4 1 (4.55%) JSON
4 1 (4.55%) JWT
4 1 (4.55%) OAuth
4 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) FMCG
1 3 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (13.64%) Social Media
2 2 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Learning Management System
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
1 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Project Management
2 7 (31.82%) E-Commerce
3 6 (27.27%) Agile
3 6 (27.27%) B2C
3 6 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (22.73%) Business Continuity
4 5 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (22.73%) High Availability
5 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 4 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 4 (18.18%) CRM
5 4 (18.18%) DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Digital Marketing
5 4 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 4 (18.18%) SEO
5 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (18.18%) User Experience
6 3 (13.64%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) C#
2 3 (13.64%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) Bash
3 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) CISSP
2 3 (13.64%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) CISM
3 2 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.55%) CEH
4 1 (4.55%) GCIA
4 1 (4.55%) GCIH
4 1 (4.55%) GIAC
4 1 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (54.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (50.00%) GDPR
3 7 (31.82%) NIST
4 2 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (9.09%) QA
4 2 (9.09%) SOC 2
5 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (4.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) Squid
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Kibana
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.55%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Facebook
2 3 (13.64%) Google
3 2 (9.09%) New Relic
3 2 (9.09%) Sage
4 1 (4.55%) CyberSource
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Proofpoint
4 1 (4.55%) Rapid7
4 1 (4.55%) Splunk
4 1 (4.55%) Tenable