PCI DSS Job Trends in Scotland

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 138 155
Rank change year-on-year -11 +17 +63
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 4 14 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.15% 0.43% 0.084%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.29% 3.23% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 2
10th Percentile £62,000 - £38,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £90,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £100,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +90.48% -13.93%
75th Percentile - £110,000 £61,250
90th Percentile - - £66,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +6.84% -10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 310 434 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.24% 13.19% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 93 136 183
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,250 £32,650
25th Percentile £41,975 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -6.52% +15.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £67,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £78,088
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +5.26%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in Scotland

PCI DSS
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PCI DSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PCI DSS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Glasgow -18 3 £65,000 -35.00% 12
Shetland Islands - 1 - -
PCI DSS
UK

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Information Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Information Security Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Head of IT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Contract Negotiation
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
3 1 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) GRC