EU Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PSD2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PSD2 over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 735 1049 1026
Rank change year-on-year +314 -23 -285
Permanent jobs citing PSD2 6 27 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.022% 0.056%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.076% 0.12% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 6 22 21
10th Percentile £51,875 - £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -13.79% -3.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £72,500 - £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 - £55,000

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

PSD2 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 7,856 22,053 20,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.76% 17.79% 15.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5,764 11,814 12,559
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,968 £42,500 £40,317
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +2.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,500 £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%

PSD2
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PSD2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PSD2 in the UK

PSD2
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PSD2.

Salary trend for PSD2 in the UK

PSD2
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PSD2 over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for PSD2 in the UK

PSD2
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PSD2 within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +311 5 £55,000 -12.00% 11
Work from Home +242 5 £65,000 +4.00% 6
London +248 3 £65,000 +4.00% 6
UK excluding London +241 2 £55,000 - 6
North of England +153 2 £55,000 - 4
North West - 2 £55,000 - 2

PSD2
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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
1 3 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
1 1 (16.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Risk Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Business Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Data Encryption
1 3 (50.00%) High Availability
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (50.00%) Runbook
1 3 (50.00%) SIEM
1 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Product Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle