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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 280 235
Rank change year-on-year -10 -45 +24
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 14 38 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.15% 0.29% 0.76%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.31% 2.21% 5.30%
Number of salaries quoted 8 30 51
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +16.67% -20.35%
75th Percentile £71,875 £63,750 £61,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%

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 1,066 1,716 1,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.31% 13.21% 14.31%
Number of salaries quoted 453 725 903
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,000 £28,550
25th Percentile £32,750 £31,500 £38,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,991 £65,568
90th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £81,135
England median annual salary £56,000 £59,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -0.83% +5.26%

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 job vacancy trend 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 October 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 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
North West -13 8 £55,000 -12.00% 5
Yorkshire +11 5 £65,000 +24.40% 3
North East +20 1 £80,000 +52.38% 1
PCI DSS
England

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) CMS
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Magento
1 2 (14.29%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) IaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Mimecast
3 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Network Security
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Aviation
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) IT Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Security Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Technical Leader
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Development Manager
3 1 (7.14%) E-Commerce Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Information Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Information Security Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) LDAP
1 2 (14.29%) RESTful
1 2 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (14.29%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Learning Management System
3 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (35.71%) Business Continuity
2 5 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) High Availability
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Change Control
5 2 (14.29%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (14.29%) Digital Innovation
5 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
5 2 (14.29%) OWASP
5 2 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) C#
2 2 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CEH
2 1 (7.14%) CISM
2 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) GCIA
2 1 (7.14%) GCIH
2 1 (7.14%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (64.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (57.14%) GDPR
3 6 (42.86%) NIST
4 3 (21.43%) QA
5 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kibana
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) Nessus
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) New Relic
2 2 (14.29%) Sage
3 1 (7.14%) Proofpoint
3 1 (7.14%) Rapid7
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Tenable