PCI DSS Jobs in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring PCI DSS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PCI DSS over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 318 334
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 -56
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 31 64 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.34% 0.48%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.03% 2.75% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 22 51 58
10th Percentile £48,088 £24,840 £32,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £72,914 £66,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,375 £85,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.76% -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 1,528 2,330 2,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.57% 12.40% 16.31%
Number of salaries quoted 676 1,515 1,108
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,600 £28,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,813 £62,500 £65,313
90th Percentile £75,625 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,900 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.42% -8.00% +4.55%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the North of England.

Salary trend for PCI DSS in the North of England

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 July 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 July 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 -30 15 £55,043 -2.15% 26
Yorkshire +36 11 £70,000 +42.86% 6
North East +44 5 £57,500 +9.52% 4
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 4 (12.90%) SAS
2 2 (6.45%) CMS
2 2 (6.45%) IIS
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Magento
1 2 (6.45%) Sage 200
2 1 (3.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (12.90%) GCP
3 4 (12.90%) GitHub
3 4 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (9.68%) Facebook Ads
5 2 (6.45%) SaaS
6 1 (3.23%) AWS
6 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.23%) IaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Mimecast
6 1 (3.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) Network Security
2 4 (12.90%) Firewall
2 4 (12.90%) VPN
3 2 (6.45%) DMZ
3 2 (6.45%) DNS
3 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.23%) Broadband
4 1 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.23%) IPsec
4 1 (3.23%) LAN
4 1 (3.23%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.23%) WAN
4 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (12.90%) MongoDB
1 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.23%) Endeca
4 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) GitLab
1 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) Selenium
General
1 16 (51.61%) Finance
2 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
3 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.13%) Banking
5 4 (12.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (12.90%) Marketing
5 4 (12.90%) Retail
6 3 (9.68%) Advertising
6 3 (9.68%) Brand Awareness
7 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (6.45%) Local Government
7 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (3.23%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Architect
2 5 (16.13%) Software Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Management Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 4 (12.90%) IT Manager
3 4 (12.90%) Lead
3 4 (12.90%) Lead Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.68%) E-Commerce Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Security Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Information Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Information Security Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Security Manager
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) .NET
2 4 (12.90%) AngularJS
2 4 (12.90%) Node.js
3 3 (9.68%) LDAP
3 3 (9.68%) RESTful
3 3 (9.68%) SOAP
4 1 (3.23%) JSON
4 1 (3.23%) JWT
4 1 (3.23%) OAuth
4 1 (3.23%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Management Information System
2 4 (12.90%) Credit Risk
2 4 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (12.90%) Market Risk
2 4 (12.90%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.68%) FMCG
3 3 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (9.68%) Social Media
4 2 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (6.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.23%) Learning Management System
5 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.23%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
1 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Agile
2 10 (32.26%) Project Management
3 9 (29.03%) Risk Management
4 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
4 8 (25.81%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (25.81%) High Availability
5 7 (22.58%) Analytics
5 7 (22.58%) DevOps
6 6 (19.35%) B2C
6 6 (19.35%) E-Commerce
6 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (16.13%) Cloud Security
7 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (16.13%) Data Protection
7 5 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (16.13%) Information Security
7 5 (16.13%) Regulatory Compliance
7 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
7 5 (16.13%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) SQL
2 7 (22.58%) C#
3 5 (16.13%) Python
4 4 (12.90%) R
4 4 (12.90%) TypeScript
5 3 (9.68%) Java
5 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) CISSP
2 6 (19.35%) CISM
2 6 (19.35%) Degree
3 3 (9.68%) CEH
3 3 (9.68%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.45%) CRISC
4 2 (6.45%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (6.45%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.23%) CCNA
5 1 (3.23%) CCSP
5 1 (3.23%) GCIA
5 1 (3.23%) GCIH
5 1 (3.23%) GIAC
5 1 (3.23%) OSCP
5 1 (3.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (51.61%) GDPR
2 15 (48.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (29.03%) NIST
4 4 (12.90%) Basel II
4 4 (12.90%) Basel III
4 4 (12.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (12.90%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (12.90%) IFRS
4 4 (12.90%) IFRS 9
4 4 (12.90%) SOC 2
5 2 (6.45%) GRC
5 2 (6.45%) NCSC
5 2 (6.45%) QA
6 1 (3.23%) COBIT
6 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (3.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) Squid
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Terraform
2 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.45%) Kibana
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.45%) Nessus
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) Facebook
2 3 (9.68%) Google
3 2 (6.45%) New Relic
3 2 (6.45%) Sage
4 1 (3.23%) CyberSource
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Proofpoint
4 1 (3.23%) Qualys
4 1 (3.23%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.23%) Splunk
4 1 (3.23%) Tenable