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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 131 198
Rank change year-on-year -2 +67 +5
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 8 17 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.29% 0.66% 0.032%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.02% 4.56% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 7 12 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29,750 £90,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £100,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +42.86% +69.39%
75th Percentile £65,000 £110,000 -
90th Percentile £68,500 - -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,561
% change year-on-year - +2.26% +5.94%

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 397 373 396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.37% 14.55% 12.58%
Number of salaries quoted 104 109 200
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,700 £32,000
25th Percentile £34,625 £42,500 £42,267
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £79,648 £72,433
90th Percentile £89,625 £110,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £58,500 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -2.50% +3.51% +0.81%

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
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PCI DSS in Scotland

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 January 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
Glasgow +9 4 £65,000 -35.00% 1
Edinburgh -11 3 £31,500 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) WLAN
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Information Manager
1 4 (50.00%) Information Security Manager
1 4 (50.00%) Security Manager
2 3 (37.50%) IT Support
3 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (12.50%) Head of IT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Android
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Information Security
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
2 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Benchmarking
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Contract Negotiation
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Management
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) SIEM
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (50.00%) GDPR
3 3 (37.50%) NIST
4 2 (25.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Apple
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft