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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	332	275	272
Rank change year-on-year	-57	-3	-28
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS	27	13	37
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England	0.11%	0.14%	0.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category	1.26%	1.34%	2.17%
Number of salaries quoted	22	7	32
10^th Percentile	£47,541	£47,500	£41,600
25^th Percentile	£62,500	£52,500	£47,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£72,500	£65,000	£52,500
Median % change year-on-year	+11.54%	+23.81%	+10.53%
75^th Percentile	£93,750	£75,000	£63,750
90^th Percentile	£110,000	£85,000	£74,600
England median annual salary	£70,000	£55,000	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+27.27%	-8.33%	+2.56%

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.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills	2,141	972	1,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England	8.90%	10.65%	13.35%
Number of salaries quoted	1,473	446	706
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£27,000	£25,000
25^th Percentile	£37,500	£32,563	£32,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£50,000	£49,500	£47,500
Median % change year-on-year	+1.01%	+4.21%	-5.00%
75^th Percentile	£67,500	£64,875	£60,991
90^th Percentile	£83,750	£76,250	£80,000
England median annual salary	£55,000	£57,000	£60,000
% change year-on-year	-3.51%	-5.00%	-

PCI DSS Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PCI DSS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised 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.

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 18 October 2026.

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 18 October 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
North West	-28	20	£72,500	+31.82%	26
Yorkshire	-34	4	£65,000	-	8
North East	-68	3	£43,439	-45.70%	3
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PCI DSS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, job vacancies citing PCI DSS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region with a requirement for PCI DSS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	ISO/IEC 27001	77.8%	21
2	AWS	48.1%	13
2	Cybersecurity	48.1%	13
4	GDPR	37.0%	10
5	AI	33.3%	9
5	Cloud Security	33.3%	9
5	SaaS	33.3%	9
8	Agile	29.6%	8
8	Information Security	29.6%	8
10	GRC	25.9%	7
11	CISSP	22.2%	6
11	Data Privacy	22.2%	6
11	Product Strategy	22.2%	6
11	Risk Assessment	22.2%	6
11	Scrum	22.2%	6
11	Stakeholder Management	22.2%	6
11	Twilio	22.2%	6
18	Customer Service	18.5%	5
18	DevOps	18.5%	5
18	Machine Learning	18.5%	5
18	Microsoft	18.5%	5
18	Network Security	18.5%	5
18	NIST	18.5%	5
18	SOC 2	18.5%	5
18	Threat Modelling	18.5%	5
18	Vulnerability Scanning	18.5%	5
27	B2B	14.8%	4
27	Data Mining	14.8%	4
27	Firewall	14.8%	4
27	Incident Management	14.8%	4

PCI DSS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Quality Assurance & Compliance

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	ISO/IEC 27001	77.8%	21
2	GDPR	37.0%	10
3	GRC	25.9%	7
4	NIST	18.5%	5
4	SOC 2	18.5%	5
6	Cyber Essentials	11.1%	3
7	Cyber Essentials PLUS	7.4%	2
7	ISO 22301	7.4%	2
7	ISO/IEC 42001	7.4%	2
10	COBIT	3.7%	1