Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 578 472
Rank change year-on-year +29 -106 +130
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 188 335 520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.32% 0.61%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.04% 2.49% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 163 249 366
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,807 £26,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £112,750 £93,750 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -13.04%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,215 13,455 13,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.34% 13.04% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,866 8,782 8,120
10th Percentile £30,580 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £74,000 £71,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the UK

PCI DSS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS.

Salary trend for PCI DSS in the UK

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for PCI DSS in the UK

PCI DSS
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 July 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
England +22 164 £61,500 -1.60% 176
UK excluding London +38 106 £55,000 +2.80% 117
Work from Home +49 69 £65,000 +13.04% 80
London +82 57 £75,000 -6.25% 82
North of England +22 31 £57,500 +15.00% 41
South West +86 23 £50,000 +11.11% 9
Midlands +37 17 £42,500 -20.56% 7
South East +42 16 £70,000 +3.70% 45
North West -23 15 £55,043 -2.15% 30
East of England +31 12 £53,750 +119.16% 8
Yorkshire +44 11 £70,000 +42.86% 7
West Midlands +55 10 £42,500 -29.17% 7
East Midlands +21 7 £50,000 +101.52%
North East +47 5 £57,500 +9.52% 4
Scotland +81 4 £40,000 +63.10% 3
Wales +31 3 £65,000 +26.83% 3

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (3.19%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.13%) SAS
3 2 (1.06%) CMS
3 2 (1.06%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (4.26%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.06%) Magento
2 2 (1.06%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 66 (35.11%) Azure
2 43 (22.87%) AWS
3 19 (10.11%) Amazon ECS
4 18 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (9.57%) Serverless
5 17 (9.04%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (4.26%) GitHub
6 8 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (4.26%) SaaS
7 7 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.19%) GCP
8 6 (3.19%) OneDrive
8 6 (3.19%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.66%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.60%) IaaS
11 3 (1.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (15.96%) Network Security
2 28 (14.89%) Firewall
3 18 (9.57%) VPN
4 6 (3.19%) LAN
4 6 (3.19%) VLAN
4 6 (3.19%) WAN
4 6 (3.19%) Wireless
5 5 (2.66%) IPsec
5 5 (2.66%) SD-WAN
5 5 (2.66%) SSL
5 5 (2.66%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (1.60%) BGP
7 3 (1.60%) DMZ
7 3 (1.60%) DNS
7 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.06%) MPLS
8 2 (1.06%) OSPF
8 2 (1.06%) VoIP
8 2 (1.06%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.72%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (2.66%) DynamoDB
3 4 (2.13%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.13%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.13%) OLAP
3 4 (2.13%) OLTP
4 3 (1.60%) MS Access
4 3 (1.60%) Power BI
5 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.53%) Endeca
6 1 (0.53%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.53%) MySQL
6 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.72%) GitLab
2 4 (2.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.06%) JIRA
4 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.53%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.53%) ERwin
4 1 (0.53%) Git
4 1 (0.53%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 68 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 63 (33.51%) Finance
3 52 (27.66%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (14.89%) Marketing
5 21 (11.17%) Retail
6 20 (10.64%) Banking
6 20 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (9.57%) Public Sector
8 17 (9.04%) Manufacturing
8 17 (9.04%) Telecoms
9 16 (8.51%) Electronics
10 11 (5.85%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.60%) Advertising
13 3 (1.60%) Brand Awareness
13 3 (1.60%) Local Government
14 2 (1.06%) Aviation
15 1 (0.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 23 (12.23%) Analyst
2 21 (11.17%) Consultant
3 20 (10.64%) Security Consultant
4 18 (9.57%) Security Analyst
4 18 (9.57%) Senior
5 16 (8.51%) Applications Engineer
5 16 (8.51%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 16 (8.51%) Lead
5 16 (8.51%) Security Manager
6 15 (7.98%) Architect
6 15 (7.98%) Information Manager
6 15 (7.98%) Information Security Manager
7 13 (6.91%) Applications Support
8 12 (6.38%) Applications Support Engineer
8 12 (6.38%) Security Engineer
8 12 (6.38%) Software Applications Engineer
8 12 (6.38%) Software Support Engineer
8 12 (6.38%) Support Engineer
9 9 (4.79%) Head of Security
10 8 (4.26%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.83%) .NET
2 10 (5.32%) EDI
3 8 (4.26%) LDAP
3 8 (4.26%) Node.js
4 4 (2.13%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.13%) Spring
5 3 (1.60%) RESTful
5 3 (1.60%) SOAP
6 2 (1.06%) CSS
6 2 (1.06%) HTML
7 1 (0.53%) JSON
7 1 (0.53%) JWT
7 1 (0.53%) OAuth
7 1 (0.53%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.53%) Web Services
7 1 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.23%) Management Information System
1 23 (12.23%) Security Posture
2 19 (10.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (6.38%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (4.79%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.19%) Replication
6 5 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.66%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.13%) Credit Risk
7 4 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.13%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.60%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (1.60%) Digital Wallet
8 3 (1.60%) FMCG
8 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.60%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.64%) Windows
2 10 (5.32%) Linux
3 9 (4.79%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.19%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.60%) Android
6 3 (1.60%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.06%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.06%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.53%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (43.09%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (31.91%) Information Security
3 44 (23.40%) Risk Management
4 37 (19.68%) Continuous Improvement
5 36 (19.15%) Cloud Security
6 33 (17.55%) DevOps
6 33 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (17.02%) Agile
8 31 (16.49%) CI/CD
9 29 (15.43%) Incident Response
10 27 (14.36%) Vulnerability Management
11 25 (13.30%) Mentoring
12 24 (12.77%) Digital Marketing
13 23 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
15 18 (9.57%) Programme Management
16 17 (9.04%) High Availability
17 16 (8.51%) Collaborative Working
17 16 (8.51%) Incident Management
17 16 (8.51%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 29 (15.43%) Python
1 29 (15.43%) SQL
2 24 (12.77%) Java
3 16 (8.51%) PowerShell
4 10 (5.32%) Bash
5 9 (4.79%) C#
6 8 (4.26%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.66%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (2.13%) R
9 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.53%) Bicep
10 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 58 (30.85%) CISSP
2 35 (18.62%) CISM
3 29 (15.43%) CEH
4 25 (13.30%) CompTIA Security+
5 23 (12.23%) Degree
6 22 (11.70%) Security Cleared
7 10 (5.32%) CISA
8 9 (4.79%) CRISC
9 8 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (3.19%) SC Cleared
11 4 (2.13%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.13%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.13%) CCNP
11 4 (2.13%) GIAC
11 4 (2.13%) SSCP
12 3 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.60%) CISMP
12 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.60%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (54.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 82 (43.62%) NIST
3 78 (41.49%) GDPR
4 35 (18.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 26 (13.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (10.11%) GRC
7 16 (8.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 16 (8.51%) SOC 2
8 12 (6.38%) QA
9 7 (3.72%) NCSC
10 5 (2.66%) COBIT
11 4 (2.13%) Basel II
11 4 (2.13%) Basel III
11 4 (2.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (2.13%) Dodd-Frank
11 4 (2.13%) IFRS
11 4 (2.13%) IFRS 9
11 4 (2.13%) SLA
12 3 (1.60%) ISO 9001
12 3 (1.60%) PSD2
System Software
1 16 (8.51%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.66%) Docker
2 5 (2.66%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.06%) Squid
3 2 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (6.91%) Terraform
2 10 (5.32%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.72%) Ansible
4 5 (2.66%) Nessus
5 4 (2.13%) Dell DRAC
5 4 (2.13%) Grafana
5 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.13%) Progress Chef
5 4 (2.13%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.06%) Kibana
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.53%) OpenVAS
7 1 (0.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (27.13%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.51%) SAP
3 8 (4.26%) Google
4 5 (2.66%) Cisco
5 4 (2.13%) Oracle
6 3 (1.60%) Adobe
6 3 (1.60%) dotdigital
6 3 (1.60%) Facebook
6 3 (1.60%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.60%) VMware
7 2 (1.06%) Avaya
7 2 (1.06%) Meraki
7 2 (1.06%) New Relic
7 2 (1.06%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.06%) Qualys
7 2 (1.06%) Sage
7 2 (1.06%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.53%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.53%) HP
8 1 (0.53%) IBM