PCI DSS Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 542 395
Rank change year-on-year +66 -147 +60
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 100 235 373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.29% 0.68%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.55% 2.33% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 86 179 260
10th Percentile £37,500 £24,240 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,043 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £73,438 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,125
UK median annual salary £66,250 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.42% +9.09% -15.38%

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 6,440 10,089 10,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.04% 12.33% 18.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,112 6,474 4,373
10th Percentile £29,025 £25,000 £28,300
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +3.04%
75th Percentile £70,600 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the UK excluding London

PCI DSS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for PCI DSS in the UK excluding London

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 22 June 2025.

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 22 June 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 of England +16 30 £57,500 +15.00% 101
South East +75 24 £65,000 - 103
Midlands +66 19 £42,500 -20.56% 59
North West -17 14 £55,043 +0.08% 63
West Midlands +55 11 £42,500 -29.17% 42
Yorkshire +51 11 £70,000 +40.00% 29
East of England +38 11 £42,500 +73.29% 30
South West +89 9 £60,000 +33.33% 38
East Midlands +28 8 £45,000 +81.37% 17
North East +54 5 £57,500 +27.78% 9
Scotland +97 4 £40,000 +63.10% 15
Wales +49 3 £65,000 +26.83% 8
PCI DSS
UK

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.00%) SAS
1 4 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.00%) CMS
2 2 (2.00%) IIS
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.00%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Magento
1 2 (2.00%) Sage 200
2 1 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 46 (46.00%) Azure
2 24 (24.00%) AWS
3 18 (18.00%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (13.00%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (13.00%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (13.00%) Serverless
5 5 (5.00%) SaaS
6 4 (4.00%) GCP
6 4 (4.00%) GitHub
6 4 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.00%) Google Workspace
6 4 (4.00%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.00%) Facebook Ads
8 2 (2.00%) Cloudflare
8 2 (2.00%) IaaS
8 2 (2.00%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.00%) PaaS
9 1 (1.00%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (20.00%) Firewall
2 13 (13.00%) VPN
3 12 (12.00%) Network Security
4 6 (6.00%) VLAN
4 6 (6.00%) Wireless
5 5 (5.00%) IPsec
5 5 (5.00%) LAN
5 5 (5.00%) SSL
5 5 (5.00%) WAN
5 5 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (4.00%) SD-WAN
7 3 (3.00%) DMZ
7 3 (3.00%) DNS
7 3 (3.00%) Intranet
7 3 (3.00%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (2.00%) BGP
8 2 (2.00%) NAS
8 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.00%) Cisco Wireless
9 1 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.00%) MS Access
3 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.00%) MySQL
4 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.00%) Endeca
5 1 (1.00%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.00%) Power BI
5 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.00%) GitLab
3 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.00%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.00%) ERwin
3 1 (1.00%) JIRA
3 1 (1.00%) Metasploit
3 1 (1.00%) Selenium
General
1 36 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (24.00%) Retail
3 22 (22.00%) Finance
4 15 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (7.00%) Marketing
7 5 (5.00%) Banking
7 5 (5.00%) Legal
8 4 (4.00%) Local Government
8 4 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.00%) Advertising
9 3 (3.00%) Brand Awareness
9 3 (3.00%) Law
10 2 (2.00%) Aviation
10 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.00%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.00%) Automotive
11 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (13.00%) Senior
2 12 (12.00%) Analyst
2 12 (12.00%) Applications Engineer
2 12 (12.00%) Applications Support
2 12 (12.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 12 (12.00%) Software Applications Engineer
2 12 (12.00%) Software Support Engineer
2 12 (12.00%) Support Engineer
3 11 (11.00%) Architect
3 11 (11.00%) Lead
3 11 (11.00%) Security Analyst
4 8 (8.00%) Administrator
4 8 (8.00%) IT Support
5 6 (6.00%) Security Manager
5 6 (6.00%) Systems Administrator
6 5 (5.00%) Information Analyst
6 5 (5.00%) Information Manager
6 5 (5.00%) Security Architect
6 5 (5.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 5 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.00%) .NET
2 8 (8.00%) LDAP
3 4 (4.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (4.00%) Node.js
4 3 (3.00%) RESTful
4 3 (3.00%) SOAP
5 1 (1.00%) JSON
5 1 (1.00%) JWT
5 1 (1.00%) ModSecurity
5 1 (1.00%) OAuth
5 1 (1.00%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.00%) Management Information System
2 9 (9.00%) Data Centre
3 8 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (6.00%) Replication
5 5 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (4.00%) Credit Risk
6 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.00%) e-Learning
6 4 (4.00%) Market Risk
6 4 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 4 (4.00%) Security Posture
7 3 (3.00%) FMCG
7 3 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.00%) Social Media
8 2 (2.00%) Cyberattack
8 2 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.00%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.00%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.00%) Windows
2 9 (9.00%) Linux
3 7 (7.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.00%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.00%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (28.00%) Information Security
3 26 (26.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 24 (24.00%) Risk Management
5 22 (22.00%) Agile
6 17 (17.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 15 (15.00%) DevOps
9 14 (14.00%) Data Protection
9 14 (14.00%) Incident Response
9 14 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (12.00%) Cloud Security
11 11 (11.00%) CI/CD
12 10 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
12 10 (10.00%) High Availability
12 10 (10.00%) Project Management
12 10 (10.00%) Roadmaps
13 9 (9.00%) Penetration Testing
14 8 (8.00%) OWASP
14 8 (8.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (26.00%) Python
2 23 (23.00%) SQL
3 16 (16.00%) Java
4 13 (13.00%) PowerShell
5 8 (8.00%) Bash
6 7 (7.00%) C#
7 4 (4.00%) R
7 4 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 22 (22.00%) CISSP
2 20 (20.00%) CISM
3 14 (14.00%) Degree
4 7 (7.00%) CRISC
5 6 (6.00%) CEH
5 6 (6.00%) CISA
5 6 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (4.00%) GIAC
8 3 (3.00%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.00%) CCNP
8 3 (3.00%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (3.00%) SANS
9 2 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.00%) CCIE
9 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (45.00%) GDPR
1 45 (45.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (28.00%) NIST
3 18 (18.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (18.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (8.00%) GRC
4 8 (8.00%) SOC 2
5 6 (6.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (4.00%) Basel II
6 4 (4.00%) Basel III
6 4 (4.00%) COBIT
6 4 (4.00%) Dodd-Frank
6 4 (4.00%) IFRS
6 4 (4.00%) IFRS 9
6 4 (4.00%) NCSC
7 3 (3.00%) PERC
8 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (2.00%) QA
9 1 (1.00%) HIPAA
9 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 11 (11.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.00%) Squid
4 1 (1.00%) Docker
4 1 (1.00%) NFS
4 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (7.00%) Terraform
2 6 (6.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.00%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (3.00%) Ansible
4 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.00%) Nessus
5 2 (2.00%) EMC VPLEX
5 2 (2.00%) Kibana
6 1 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.00%) cPanel
6 1 (1.00%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.00%) OpenVAS
6 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (37.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.00%) Adobe
2 6 (6.00%) Google
3 3 (3.00%) Cisco
3 3 (3.00%) dotdigital
3 3 (3.00%) Facebook
3 3 (3.00%) OneTrust
3 3 (3.00%) Oracle
4 2 (2.00%) EMC
4 2 (2.00%) Meraki
4 2 (2.00%) New Relic
4 2 (2.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.00%) Qualys
4 2 (2.00%) Sage
4 2 (2.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.00%) Aruba
5 1 (1.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.00%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.00%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.00%) Splunk