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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 550 402
Rank change year-on-year +98 -148 +53
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 128 215 419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.30% 0.70%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.91% 2.23% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 83 168 263
10th Percentile £37,500 £24,240 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,625 £34,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,800 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £55,667
% change year-on-year +12.00% +12.27% -7.22%

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 6,697 9,647 12,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.20% 13.60% 20.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,225 6,372 4,612
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.92%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +34 39 £65,000 +31.31% 37
South East +94 38 £65,000 -8.77% 59
North West -11 20 £65,000 +44.44% 22
Midlands +38 15 £40,000 -25.23% 11
South West +94 14 £60,000 +33.33% 9
Yorkshire +56 14 £70,996 +32.70% 10
Scotland +130 10 £40,000 +63.10% 8
West Midlands +49 8 £41,250 -45.00% 6
East of England +33 8 £73,250 +198.67% 18
East Midlands +22 7 £40,000 +61.22% 4
North East +55 5 £57,500 +53.33% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Wales +40 1 £58,500 +11.43% 3
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 7 (5.47%) SAS
2 6 (4.69%) IBM Domino
3 4 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.56%) IIS
4 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (7.03%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (33.59%) Azure
2 28 (21.88%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (21.09%) AWS
4 10 (7.81%) Google Workspace
5 7 (5.47%) GCP
6 5 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.91%) Serverless
7 4 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (3.13%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.13%) GitHub
7 4 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.13%) OneDrive
7 4 (3.13%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.34%) Facebook Ads
9 2 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.56%) Cloudflare
9 2 (1.56%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (18.75%) Firewall
2 17 (13.28%) VPN
3 11 (8.59%) Network Security
4 9 (7.03%) Intranet
5 8 (6.25%) LAN
5 8 (6.25%) WAN
5 8 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (6.25%) Wireless
6 7 (5.47%) IPsec
6 7 (5.47%) SD-WAN
7 6 (4.69%) DNS
8 5 (3.91%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (3.91%) MPLS
8 5 (3.91%) SSL
8 5 (3.91%) VLAN
9 3 (2.34%) BGP
9 3 (2.34%) Cisco Wireless
9 3 (2.34%) EIGRP
9 3 (2.34%) NAS
9 3 (2.34%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.16%) NoSQL
2 10 (7.81%) Tableau
3 5 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.34%) MS Access
5 3 (2.34%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.56%) MySQL
6 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.78%) Endeca
7 1 (0.78%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.78%) Power BI
7 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.56%) GitLab
2 2 (1.56%) JIRA
3 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.78%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.78%) ERwin
3 1 (0.78%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.78%) Selenium
General
1 66 (51.56%) Social Skills
2 33 (25.78%) Finance
3 25 (19.53%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (17.97%) Retail
5 13 (10.16%) Legal
6 12 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (7.03%) Law
8 8 (6.25%) Banking
8 8 (6.25%) Marketing
9 4 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.34%) Advertising
10 3 (2.34%) Brand Awareness
10 3 (2.34%) Local Government
10 3 (2.34%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.56%) Aviation
11 2 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.56%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.78%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.78%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 24 (18.75%) Lead
2 19 (14.84%) Analyst
2 19 (14.84%) Architect
3 17 (13.28%) Security Analyst
3 17 (13.28%) Senior
4 11 (8.59%) Lead Architect
5 9 (7.03%) Compliance Advisor
5 9 (7.03%) Security Advisor
5 9 (7.03%) Security Manager
6 8 (6.25%) Administrator
6 8 (6.25%) IT Support
7 7 (5.47%) Enterprise Management Architect
7 7 (5.47%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
7 7 (5.47%) Information Analyst
7 7 (5.47%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 7 (5.47%) Network Engineer
7 7 (5.47%) Security Architect
7 7 (5.47%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.69%) Information Manager
8 6 (4.69%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.59%) .NET
2 6 (4.69%) LDAP
3 4 (3.13%) AngularJS
3 4 (3.13%) Kafka
3 4 (3.13%) Node.js
4 2 (1.56%) RESTful
4 2 (1.56%) SOAP
5 1 (0.78%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.78%) JSON
5 1 (0.78%) JWT
5 1 (0.78%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.78%) OAuth
5 1 (0.78%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.41%) Management Information System
2 12 (9.38%) Data Centre
3 11 (8.59%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (8.59%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (7.81%) e-Learning
5 8 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (5.47%) Credit Risk
6 7 (5.47%) Market Risk
6 7 (5.47%) Product Ownership
7 6 (4.69%) Replication
8 3 (2.34%) FMCG
8 3 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.34%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.34%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.34%) Social Media
9 2 (1.56%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.56%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.94%) Windows
2 9 (7.03%) Windows Server
3 8 (6.25%) Linux
4 4 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.56%) Unix
6 1 (0.78%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (39.06%) Information Security
2 33 (25.78%) Agile
3 29 (22.66%) Risk Management
4 28 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 28 (21.88%) Cybersecurity
5 26 (20.31%) Roadmaps
6 21 (16.41%) Data Protection
7 18 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (13.28%) Data Management
8 17 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (12.50%) DevOps
10 15 (11.72%) ITIL
11 14 (10.94%) CI/CD
12 13 (10.16%) Architecture Governance
13 12 (9.38%) Business Strategy
13 12 (9.38%) Data Science
13 12 (9.38%) Incident Response
13 12 (9.38%) TOGAF
14 11 (8.59%) ArchiMate
14 11 (8.59%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.53%) Python
2 18 (14.06%) SQL
3 12 (9.38%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.47%) Bash
4 7 (5.47%) Java
4 7 (5.47%) R
5 6 (4.69%) C#
6 5 (3.91%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.78%) Go
Qualifications
1 27 (21.09%) CISM
2 26 (20.31%) CISSP
3 16 (12.50%) Degree
4 10 (7.81%) CRISC
5 8 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.69%) CompTIA CySA+
6 6 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.91%) CEH
7 5 (3.91%) CISA
8 4 (3.13%) CCNP
8 4 (3.13%) GIAC
8 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.34%) CCNA
9 3 (2.34%) CISMP
9 3 (2.34%) SANS
9 3 (2.34%) Security Cleared
10 2 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.56%) OSCP
10 2 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (50.78%) GDPR
2 58 (45.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (25.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 33 (25.78%) NIST
4 17 (13.28%) GRC
5 14 (10.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 13 (10.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 10 (7.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (7.03%) PERC
9 8 (6.25%) SOC 2
10 7 (5.47%) Basel II
10 7 (5.47%) Basel III
10 7 (5.47%) Dodd-Frank
10 7 (5.47%) IFRS
10 7 (5.47%) IFRS 9
11 6 (4.69%) COBIT
11 6 (4.69%) Data Quality
11 6 (4.69%) NCSC
12 3 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 10 (7.81%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.69%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.56%) vSphere
4 1 (0.78%) NFS
4 1 (0.78%) Squid
4 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (4.69%) Terraform
2 4 (3.13%) Dell DRAC
2 4 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.34%) EMC VPLEX
4 2 (1.56%) Ansible
4 2 (1.56%) Nessus
5 1 (0.78%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.78%) cPanel
5 1 (0.78%) Kibana
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.78%) OpenVAS
5 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (27.34%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.38%) Adobe
2 12 (9.38%) Google
3 9 (7.03%) Cisco
3 9 (7.03%) OneTrust
4 6 (4.69%) Informatica
5 5 (3.91%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.34%) dotdigital
6 3 (2.34%) EMC
6 3 (2.34%) Facebook
6 3 (2.34%) Meraki
6 3 (2.34%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.56%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.56%) Juniper
7 2 (1.56%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (1.56%) Qualys
7 2 (1.56%) Splunk
7 2 (1.56%) Veeam
7 2 (1.56%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.78%) CrowdStrike