PCI DSS Job Trends in the South West

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 172 208
Rank change year-on-year +115 +36 +58
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 143 21 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.85% 0.49% 0.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.68% 3.48% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 29 7 10
10th Percentile - £40,500 £39,975
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +16.50% -2.83%
75th Percentile £52,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,250 £64,250 £80,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £64,902
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.70% +8.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 604 603 677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 12.02% 14.06% 15.24%
Number of salaries quoted 348 277 521
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £41,094 £37,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,581 £68,750 £67,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.35%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in the South West

PCI DSS
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PCI DSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the South West over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PCI DSS in the South West

PCI DSS
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PCI DSS within the South West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Somerset - 51 - -
Bristol +33 43 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Wiltshire - 38 £42,500 -
Gloucestershire - 11 £52,500 -
PCI DSS
England

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 85 (59.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 93 (65.03%) Azure
2 87 (60.84%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (4.90%) AWS
4 3 (2.10%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.40%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.70%) IaaS
6 1 (0.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 85 (59.44%) DHCP
1 85 (59.44%) DNS
2 20 (13.99%) Network Security
3 5 (3.50%) Firewall
4 1 (0.70%) DMZ
4 1 (0.70%) LAN
4 1 (0.70%) VLAN
4 1 (0.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (58.74%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Git
1 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
General
1 106 (74.13%) Analytical Skills
2 86 (60.14%) Social Skills
3 48 (33.57%) Finance
4 27 (18.88%) Banking
5 20 (13.99%) Marketing
5 20 (13.99%) Public Sector
6 19 (13.29%) Electronics
6 19 (13.29%) Manufacturing
6 19 (13.29%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.40%) Retail
9 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 84 (58.74%) Systems Engineer
2 20 (13.99%) Consultant
2 20 (13.99%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 20 (13.99%) Security Consultant
3 3 (2.10%) Architect
3 3 (2.10%) Security Architect
4 2 (1.40%) Analyst
4 2 (1.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (1.40%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 2 (1.40%) Security Engineer
4 2 (1.40%) Security Manager
5 1 (0.70%) Business Analyst
5 1 (0.70%) Compliance Manager
5 1 (0.70%) Information Manager
5 1 (0.70%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (0.70%) Risk Consultant
5 1 (0.70%) Security Analyst
5 1 (0.70%) Support Engineer
5 1 (0.70%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (0.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.70%) JWT
1 1 (0.70%) OAuth
1 1 (0.70%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 84 (58.74%) Legacy Systems
2 19 (13.29%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.10%) PKI
4 2 (1.40%) CCTV
5 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.70%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (0.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (0.70%) DataPower
5 1 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 88 (61.54%) Windows
2 87 (60.84%) Windows Server
3 85 (59.44%) Linux
4 84 (58.74%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (60.14%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (59.44%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 84 (58.74%) Customer Experience
3 84 (58.74%) Customer Service
3 84 (58.74%) Email Filtering
3 84 (58.74%) Kalman Filter
3 84 (58.74%) Migration
3 84 (58.74%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 84 (58.74%) Web Filtering
4 29 (20.28%) Business Continuity
4 29 (20.28%) Information Security
4 29 (20.28%) Risk Assessment
5 28 (19.58%) Risk Management
5 28 (19.58%) Roadmaps
6 27 (18.88%) Business Continuity Management
6 27 (18.88%) Due Diligence
6 27 (18.88%) Operations Management
6 27 (18.88%) Process Improvement
6 27 (18.88%) Supply Chain Management
7 25 (17.48%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.70%) Bash
1 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
1 1 (0.70%) Python
1 1 (0.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (74.13%) Security Cleared
2 87 (60.84%) SC Cleared
3 50 (34.97%) CISSP
4 27 (18.88%) CISA
4 27 (18.88%) CRISC
5 21 (14.69%) CEH
5 21 (14.69%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (2.10%) CISM
7 2 (1.40%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.40%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.40%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.70%) Degree
8 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (61.54%) Cyber Essentials
2 52 (36.36%) NIST
3 26 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (5.59%) GDPR
5 3 (2.10%) NCSC
6 2 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.40%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.70%) COBIT
7 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.70%) JSP 440
System Software
1 88 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 85 (59.44%) Hyper-V
3 84 (58.74%) Terminal Server
4 3 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.40%) vCenter Server
2 1 (0.70%) Ansible
2 1 (0.70%) CASB
2 1 (0.70%) Nessus
2 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 88 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 87 (60.84%) VMware
3 86 (60.14%) SolarWinds
4 84 (58.74%) Brocade
4 84 (58.74%) Nimble Storage
4 84 (58.74%) Splunk
4 84 (58.74%) Tanium
4 84 (58.74%) Veeam
5 19 (13.29%) SAP
6 2 (1.40%) Cisco
6 2 (1.40%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.40%) Meraki
7 1 (0.70%) Acronis
7 1 (0.70%) IBM
7 1 (0.70%) Tenable