PCI DSS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 422 534
Rank change year-on-year +45 +112 -158
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 214 104 216
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.36% 0.31%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.58% 2.24% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 122 77 169
10th Percentile £38,638 £37,500 £24,240
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,825 £83,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +12.00% +13.64%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,973 4,633 9,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.96% 15.85% 13.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,578 2,372 6,241
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £38,563 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +11.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,319 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,738 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

PCI DSS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

PCI DSS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PCI DSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for PCI DSS in the UK excluding London

PCI DSS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PCI DSS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
South West +11 79 £71,250 +18.75% 8
North of England -21 46 £65,000 - 13
South East -12 41 £67,500 +3.85% 13
North West +18 27 £72,500 +11.54% 11
Midlands -20 22 £52,500 +23.53% 11
Yorkshire -33 19 £57,500 -17.86% 1
West Midlands -33 15 £67,500 +58.82% 7
East of England -6 13 £44,000 -37.14% 7
Wales -24 8 - -
East Midlands -22 7 £30,500 -23.75% 4
Scotland -3 5 £31,500 -21.25% 2
PCI DSS
UK

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 50 (23.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.93%) Confluence
3 2 (0.93%) IIS
4 1 (0.47%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 97 (45.33%) Azure
2 62 (28.97%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (23.83%) AWS
4 11 (5.14%) GCP
5 8 (3.74%) SaaS
5 8 (3.74%) Twilio
6 6 (2.80%) IaaS
6 6 (2.80%) PaaS
7 5 (2.34%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.87%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.87%) GitHub
9 3 (1.40%) Cloudflare
9 3 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.93%) BrowserStack
11 1 (0.47%) dbt
11 1 (0.47%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 56 (26.17%) DNS
2 55 (25.70%) DHCP
3 22 (10.28%) Firewall
4 11 (5.14%) VoIP
5 9 (4.21%) Network Security
5 9 (4.21%) VPN
6 8 (3.74%) PBX
6 8 (3.74%) WebEx
7 6 (2.80%) DMZ
8 5 (2.34%) HTTP
9 4 (1.87%) LAN
9 4 (1.87%) SAN
9 4 (1.87%) WAN
10 3 (1.40%) RTP
10 3 (1.40%) Unified Communications
10 3 (1.40%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.93%) DMVPN
11 2 (0.93%) NetScaler
11 2 (0.93%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.93%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (22.43%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.87%) MySQL
3 3 (1.40%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.40%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.47%) DB2
4 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Git
2 3 (1.40%) JIRA
3 2 (0.93%) GitLab
3 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.93%) JUnit
3 2 (0.93%) Postman
3 2 (0.93%) Selenium
4 1 (0.47%) Yeoman
General
1 104 (48.60%) Social Skills
2 87 (40.65%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (12.62%) Finance
4 21 (9.81%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.01%) Retail
6 13 (6.07%) Banking
7 11 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.87%) Legal
10 4 (1.87%) Marketing
11 2 (0.93%) Law
11 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.47%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 50 (23.36%) Systems Engineer
2 23 (10.75%) Consultant
3 21 (9.81%) Security Manager
4 19 (8.88%) Architect
5 17 (7.94%) Security Consultant
5 17 (7.94%) Senior
6 16 (7.48%) Security Architect
7 14 (6.54%) Analyst
8 13 (6.07%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 13 (6.07%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 11 (5.14%) Compliance Manager
10 10 (4.67%) Security Analyst
11 8 (3.74%) Information Manager
11 8 (3.74%) Information Security Manager
11 8 (3.74%) Lead
12 7 (3.27%) AWS Architect
12 7 (3.27%) AWS Security Architect
12 7 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (3.27%) IT Architect
12 7 (3.27%) IT Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.80%) CSS
1 6 (2.80%) HTML
2 4 (1.87%) .NET
2 4 (1.87%) AngularJS
2 4 (1.87%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.87%) HTML5
2 4 (1.87%) jQuery
3 3 (1.40%) Django
3 3 (1.40%) Flask
3 3 (1.40%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (1.40%) Jinja
3 3 (1.40%) OAuth
3 3 (1.40%) OAuth2
3 3 (1.40%) pytest
3 3 (1.40%) REST
3 3 (1.40%) RFC 2833
3 3 (1.40%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (1.40%) WebRTC
4 2 (0.93%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.47%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 52 (24.30%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (7.48%) Security Posture
3 13 (6.07%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (5.61%) Management Information System
4 12 (5.61%) PKI
5 11 (5.14%) Blog
5 11 (5.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 10 (4.67%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.74%) IVR
8 7 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.80%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (2.34%) NHS
10 5 (2.34%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.87%) CCTV
11 4 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.87%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.87%) SCADA
12 3 (1.40%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 71 (33.18%) Windows
2 68 (31.78%) Linux
3 61 (28.50%) Windows Server
4 48 (22.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.40%) Android
5 3 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.93%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (38.32%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (33.64%) Cybersecurity
3 69 (32.24%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 63 (29.44%) Customer Experience
5 54 (25.23%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 51 (23.83%) Migration
7 50 (23.36%) Kalman Filter
7 50 (23.36%) Web Filtering
8 49 (22.90%) Customer Service
8 49 (22.90%) Email Filtering
9 47 (21.96%) Information Security
10 38 (17.76%) Risk Management
11 30 (14.02%) Cloud Security
12 28 (13.08%) Incident Response
13 25 (11.68%) Threat Modelling
14 24 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (11.21%) Security Architecture
15 20 (9.35%) Risk Assessment
16 19 (8.88%) Data Protection
16 19 (8.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.14%) PowerShell
2 10 (4.67%) Python
3 5 (2.34%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.87%) Bicep
4 4 (1.87%) SQL
5 3 (1.40%) C
5 3 (1.40%) C++
6 2 (0.93%) Bash
6 2 (0.93%) Java
7 1 (0.47%) C#
7 1 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 82 (38.32%) Security Cleared
2 70 (32.71%) SC Cleared
3 31 (14.49%) CISSP
4 23 (10.75%) CISM
5 19 (8.88%) Degree
6 18 (8.41%) DV Cleared
7 13 (6.07%) CISA
7 13 (6.07%) CREST Certified
8 12 (5.61%) CRISC
9 11 (5.14%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (3.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (3.74%) CTC Cleared
10 8 (3.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 7 (3.27%) Azure Certification
12 6 (2.80%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (2.34%) AWS Certification
13 5 (2.34%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (1.87%) CEH
14 4 (1.87%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (40.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 83 (38.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 69 (32.24%) GDPR
4 57 (26.64%) NIST
5 36 (16.82%) GRC
6 23 (10.75%) SOC 2
7 18 (8.41%) NCSC
8 12 (5.61%) JSP 440
9 11 (5.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 6 (2.80%) QA
11 5 (2.34%) COBIT
11 5 (2.34%) SOC 3
12 4 (1.87%) Data Quality
13 3 (1.40%) ISO 9001
13 3 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.93%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 63 (29.44%) Active Directory
2 50 (23.36%) Hyper-V
3 48 (22.43%) Terminal Server
4 10 (4.67%) Docker
5 3 (1.40%) Kamailio
5 3 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.40%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.93%) vSphere
7 1 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (3.74%) Kubernetes
1 8 (3.74%) Terraform
2 4 (1.87%) CASB
3 3 (1.40%) Ansible
3 3 (1.40%) Argo
3 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.40%) Nagios
3 3 (1.40%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.93%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (0.93%) VxRail
5 1 (0.47%) Host Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (0.47%) Nessus
5 1 (0.47%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 81 (37.85%) Microsoft
2 52 (24.30%) VMware
3 50 (23.36%) Veeam
4 49 (22.90%) SolarWinds
5 48 (22.43%) Brocade
5 48 (22.43%) Nimble Storage
5 48 (22.43%) Splunk
5 48 (22.43%) Tanium
6 12 (5.61%) Cisco
7 8 (3.74%) Genesys
7 8 (3.74%) Verint
8 4 (1.87%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.87%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.87%) Meraki
9 3 (1.40%) Apple
9 3 (1.40%) BT
9 3 (1.40%) Mitel
9 3 (1.40%) NetApp
9 3 (1.40%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.40%) Tenable