Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PCI DSS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PCI DSS over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 500 496 515
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 -70
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 241 754 706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.62% 0.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.12% 3.47% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 209 483 556
10th Percentile £42,400 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £49,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

PCI DSS is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,723 21,738 19,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.77% 17.78% 15.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5,686 11,782 12,692
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -3.06%

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 10 December 2023.

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 10 December 2023. 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 -15 207 £64,902 +8.17% 115
UK excluding London -3 149 £52,500 -1.87% 65
Work from Home +81 118 £59,000 -1.67% 69
London +126 70 £67,500 -10.00% 55
North of England +39 49 £47,500 -9.52% 16
South East +85 39 £55,000 -7.56% 19
Yorkshire +69 33 £48,750 +5.98% 4
Midlands +92 27 £65,000 +18.18% 8
West Midlands +90 19 £65,000 +13.04% 6
North West +34 16 £47,500 -13.64% 9
South West +60 15 £65,000 +22.64% 10
Wales +21 15 £45,000 +20.00% 3
East Midlands +49 8 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £48,750 -
East of England +55 1 - - 6
Scotland +27 1 £70,000 +55.56% 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 (2.49%) CMS
2 5 (2.07%) IIS
3 3 (1.24%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.83%) MS Exchange
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 68 (28.22%) Azure
2 36 (14.94%) AWS
3 23 (9.54%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (7.47%) SaaS
5 16 (6.64%) Azure Sentinel
6 14 (5.81%) PaaS
7 13 (5.39%) IaaS
8 12 (4.98%) GCP
9 9 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.49%) Azure API Management
10 6 (2.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (2.49%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.49%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (2.49%) Cloudflare
11 5 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.07%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.66%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.24%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 48 (19.92%) Firewall
2 35 (14.52%) Network Security
3 18 (7.47%) Intrusion Detection
4 12 (4.98%) VPN
5 10 (4.15%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.32%) Wireshark
7 7 (2.90%) DNS
7 7 (2.90%) LAN
7 7 (2.90%) WAN
7 7 (2.90%) Wireless
8 4 (1.66%) SSL
9 3 (1.24%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 3 (1.24%) HTTP
9 3 (1.24%) SSH
9 3 (1.24%) VoIP
10 2 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 2 (0.83%) OpenFlow
10 2 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.20%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.49%) Redis
3 5 (2.07%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.66%) Power BI
5 2 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.41%) MySQL
6 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (4.98%) Git
2 4 (1.66%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.66%) NUnit
2 4 (1.66%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.83%) JIRA
4 1 (0.41%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
General
1 72 (29.88%) Finance
2 58 (24.07%) Social Skills
3 25 (10.37%) Retail
4 19 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.88%) Legal
5 13 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (5.39%) Law
6 10 (4.15%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.32%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.49%) Advertising
9 5 (2.07%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.07%) Publishing
10 4 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.66%) Games
11 3 (1.24%) Public Speaking
12 2 (0.83%) Marketing
12 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Electronics
13 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 60 (24.90%) Analyst
2 47 (19.50%) Security Analyst
3 27 (11.20%) Security Engineer
4 24 (9.96%) Security Manager
5 19 (7.88%) Information Analyst
6 18 (7.47%) Information Security Analyst
6 18 (7.47%) Senior
7 17 (7.05%) Consultant
8 16 (6.64%) Lead
9 14 (5.81%) IT Manager
10 13 (5.39%) Compliance Manager
10 13 (5.39%) IT Analyst
10 13 (5.39%) IT Security Analyst
11 12 (4.98%) Architect
11 12 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.98%) Developer
11 12 (4.98%) Security Consultant
12 10 (4.15%) ICT Analyst
12 10 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.73%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.47%) .NET
2 16 (6.64%) CSS
2 16 (6.64%) HTML
3 14 (5.81%) .NET Framework
4 11 (4.56%) .NET Core
4 11 (4.56%) ASP.NET
4 11 (4.56%) ASP.NET MVC
5 10 (4.15%) Web Services
6 8 (3.32%) REST
7 7 (2.90%) React
8 6 (2.49%) Middleware
8 6 (2.49%) Next.js
8 6 (2.49%) Node.js
8 6 (2.49%) RESTful
9 4 (1.66%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 4 (1.66%) Entity Framework
9 4 (1.66%) HTML5
9 4 (1.66%) jQuery
9 4 (1.66%) Razor View Engine
9 4 (1.66%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 52 (21.58%) Management Information System
2 36 (14.94%) Security Posture
3 14 (5.81%) Cyber Threat
4 13 (5.39%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.56%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (3.73%) Contactless
6 9 (3.73%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 8 (3.32%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.32%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (2.90%) Smartcard
9 6 (2.49%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.49%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.49%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.49%) Operational Technology
10 5 (2.07%) Cyberattack
10 5 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.66%) Cyber Security Posture
11 4 (1.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (18.26%) Windows
2 28 (11.62%) Linux
3 15 (6.22%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.56%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.24%) Android
5 3 (1.24%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.24%) Unix
5 3 (1.24%) VMS
6 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (48.96%) Information Security
2 114 (47.30%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (21.58%) Vulnerability Management
4 50 (20.75%) SIEM
5 42 (17.43%) Risk Management
6 40 (16.60%) Security Operations
7 36 (14.94%) Cloud Security
8 35 (14.52%) Roadmaps
9 34 (14.11%) Data Protection
10 33 (13.69%) Agile
11 32 (13.28%) Incident Response
12 31 (12.86%) Security Management
13 29 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (11.62%) Information Security Management
14 28 (11.62%) Vulnerability Scanning
15 27 (11.20%) Disaster Recovery
15 27 (11.20%) Penetration Testing
16 26 (10.79%) Risk Analysis
17 25 (10.37%) OWASP
18 23 (9.54%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 34 (14.11%) JavaScript
2 30 (12.45%) Python
3 27 (11.20%) PowerShell
4 26 (10.79%) C#
4 26 (10.79%) SQL
5 21 (8.71%) Bash
6 9 (3.73%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (2.07%) Java
8 4 (1.66%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.24%) Perl
10 2 (0.83%) Go
10 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.41%) C++
11 1 (0.41%) Ruby
11 1 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 54 (22.41%) CISSP
2 53 (21.99%) Degree
3 40 (16.60%) CEH
4 32 (13.28%) CISM
5 26 (10.79%) OSCP
6 22 (9.13%) GCFA
6 22 (9.13%) GCIA
6 22 (9.13%) GCIH
6 22 (9.13%) GREM
7 17 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (5.81%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (5.81%) CompTIA Security+
9 13 (5.39%) CISA
10 12 (4.98%) GIAC
10 12 (4.98%) Master's Degree
11 9 (3.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (3.73%) Network+ Certification
11 9 (3.73%) SANS
12 8 (3.32%) PCI QSA
12 8 (3.32%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (70.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 79 (32.78%) NIST
3 61 (25.31%) GDPR
4 39 (16.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 20 (8.30%) NCSC
6 14 (5.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 11 (4.56%) ISO 9001
7 11 (4.56%) SOC 2
8 10 (4.15%) COBIT
9 9 (3.73%) GRC
10 7 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 7 (2.90%) QA
11 6 (2.49%) HIPAA
11 6 (2.49%) ISO 9000
11 6 (2.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (2.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (1.66%) Data Quality
13 4 (1.66%) ISO 22301
13 4 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 4 (1.66%) NIST 800
System Software
1 13 (5.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.73%) Docker
4 3 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.83%) Ceph
5 2 (0.83%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.83%) KVM
5 2 (0.83%) NFS
6 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (6.64%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (3.32%) SCCM
4 7 (2.90%) Terraform
5 5 (2.07%) Ansible
5 5 (2.07%) Stealthwatch
6 4 (1.66%) HP Fortify
6 4 (1.66%) Nmap
6 4 (1.66%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.66%) Puppet
7 2 (0.83%) Hadoop YARN
7 2 (0.83%) Mesos
8 1 (0.41%) CASB
8 1 (0.41%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.41%) Nessus
8 1 (0.41%) QRadar
8 1 (0.41%) SCOM
8 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 70 (29.05%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.05%) VMware
3 15 (6.22%) Cisco
4 13 (5.39%) Splunk
5 12 (4.98%) Google
6 7 (2.90%) Qualys
7 5 (2.07%) Tanium
8 4 (1.66%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.24%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.24%) F5
9 3 (1.24%) LogRhythm
9 3 (1.24%) McAfee
9 3 (1.24%) Oracle
9 3 (1.24%) Rapid7
9 3 (1.24%) Thycotic
10 2 (0.83%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (0.83%) Forcepoint
10 2 (0.83%) Juniper
10 2 (0.83%) Meraki
10 2 (0.83%) Red Hat