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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 466 599
Rank change year-on-year -104 +133 -114
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 344 614 830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.62% 0.51%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.54% 3.31% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 270 416 539
10th Percentile £24,807 £26,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,938 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,938 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +20.00%

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 13,561 18,525 27,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.44% 18.81% 17.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,147 8,607 13,266
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,602
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.04% +0.22%

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 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PCI DSS in the UK

PCI DSS
Top 17 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 23 May 2024. 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 -55 317 £61,250 +11.36% 83
UK excluding London -139 217 £52,500 +5.00% 45
Work from Home -26 127 £57,500 -7.26% 47
London +82 109 £72,500 - 35
North of England +22 66 £50,000 +11.11% 14
North West +6 46 £47,500 +5.56% 7
Midlands -16 46 £47,500 -13.64% 10
South East -70 44 £67,500 +5.30% 13
South West -64 30 £45,000 +63.64% 4
East Midlands +21 29 £24,811 -40.44% 5
Yorkshire +61 19 £53,500 +16.30% 6
East of England -11 18 £24,526 -64.96% 3
West Midlands -27 16 £70,000 +27.27% 5
Scotland -52 12 £24,526 -50.83% 1
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
North East -8 1 £37,500 -61.34% 1
Wales -20 1 £52,500 +50.00% 1

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 (1.74%) IIS
1 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.87%) Apache
2 3 (0.87%) Confluence
3 2 (0.58%) CMS
3 2 (0.58%) nginx
3 2 (0.58%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.29%) Magento
2 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 119 (34.59%) Azure
2 93 (27.03%) AWS
3 46 (13.37%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (7.56%) Cloud Computing
5 22 (6.40%) GCP
6 19 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (5.23%) Azure Sentinel
8 17 (4.94%) SaaS
9 15 (4.36%) IaaS
9 15 (4.36%) Microsoft Purview
10 13 (3.78%) PaaS
11 7 (2.03%) GitHub
11 7 (2.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (1.74%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.74%) WhatsApp
13 5 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (1.16%) Cloudflare
14 4 (1.16%) Google Workspace
14 4 (1.16%) OneDrive
15 3 (0.87%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 101 (29.36%) Firewall
2 55 (15.99%) Wi-Fi
3 52 (15.12%) Network Security
4 24 (6.98%) LAN
4 24 (6.98%) WAN
5 23 (6.69%) VPN
6 21 (6.10%) Wireshark
7 19 (5.52%) Intrusion Detection
8 17 (4.94%) TCP/IP
9 15 (4.36%) DNS
10 13 (3.78%) Internet
11 12 (3.49%) Wireless
12 6 (1.74%) SSL
13 5 (1.45%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (1.45%) Cisco Nexus
13 5 (1.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 5 (1.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 5 (1.45%) Unified Communications
13 5 (1.45%) VoIP
14 4 (1.16%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.78%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.45%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.16%) Redis
3 4 (1.16%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.87%) MySQL
4 3 (0.87%) Power BI
4 3 (0.87%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.58%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
1 3 (0.87%) Git
1 3 (0.87%) GitLab
1 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
1 3 (0.87%) JIRA
2 2 (0.58%) git-flow
2 2 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 96 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 71 (20.64%) Finance
3 39 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (10.76%) Retail
5 19 (5.52%) Legal
6 18 (5.23%) Law
6 18 (5.23%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.20%) Banking
9 9 (2.62%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.33%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.03%) Marketing
12 5 (1.45%) Advertising
12 5 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.16%) Games
14 3 (0.87%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.58%) Electronics
15 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.58%) Mandarin Language
15 2 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 62 (18.02%) Analyst
2 45 (13.08%) Security Analyst
3 42 (12.21%) Senior
4 34 (9.88%) Architect
5 33 (9.59%) Mobile Engineer
6 30 (8.72%) Lead
7 28 (8.14%) Security Engineer
8 27 (7.85%) Security Architect
9 23 (6.69%) Information Analyst
9 23 (6.69%) Information Security Analyst
9 23 (6.69%) Security Manager
10 20 (5.81%) Consultant
10 20 (5.81%) Support Engineer
11 19 (5.52%) Desktop Engineer
11 19 (5.52%) Desktop Support
11 19 (5.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 19 (5.52%) Junior
11 19 (5.52%) Junior Desktop Engineer
11 19 (5.52%) Junior Desktop Support
11 19 (5.52%) Junior Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.20%) Web Services
2 7 (2.03%) .NET
3 6 (1.74%) Kafka
3 6 (1.74%) Middleware
3 6 (1.74%) SAML
4 4 (1.16%) OAuth
5 2 (0.58%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.58%) LAMP
5 2 (0.58%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (0.58%) Next.js
5 2 (0.58%) Node.js
5 2 (0.58%) React
5 2 (0.58%) REST
5 2 (0.58%) RESTful
5 2 (0.58%) Spring
6 1 (0.29%) CSS
6 1 (0.29%) HTML
6 1 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 65 (18.90%) Management Information System
2 39 (11.34%) Driving Licence
3 32 (9.30%) Security Posture
4 30 (8.72%) Security Operations Centre
5 26 (7.56%) Cyber Threat
6 23 (6.69%) Data Centre
7 15 (4.36%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (4.07%) Onboarding
9 12 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (3.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 9 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (2.62%) Public Cloud
12 7 (2.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 7 (2.03%) Operational Technology
12 7 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.74%) Cloud Security Posture
13 6 (1.74%) Cyber Defence
13 6 (1.74%) Replication
13 6 (1.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 5 (1.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 74 (21.51%) Windows
2 22 (6.40%) Android
2 22 (6.40%) Apple iOS
3 14 (4.07%) Linux
4 11 (3.20%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.45%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.58%) Unix
6 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
7 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (53.49%) Information Security
2 161 (46.80%) Cybersecurity
3 72 (20.93%) SIEM
4 71 (20.64%) Cloud Security
5 70 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (20.06%) Security Operations
7 67 (19.48%) Incident Response
8 64 (18.60%) Risk Management
9 63 (18.31%) Vulnerability Management
10 50 (14.53%) Data Protection
11 49 (14.24%) Data Security
11 49 (14.24%) ITIL
12 48 (13.95%) Asset Management
13 43 (12.50%) DevOps
13 43 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
13 43 (12.50%) Proactive Maintenance
14 42 (12.21%) Roadmaps
15 39 (11.34%) Computer Science
15 39 (11.34%) Identity Access Management
16 37 (10.76%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (12.21%) Python
2 32 (9.30%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.62%) Go
4 8 (2.33%) Bash
4 8 (2.33%) Java
4 8 (2.33%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.74%) SQL
6 5 (1.45%) C#
7 4 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.58%) VB
9 1 (0.29%) Groovy
9 1 (0.29%) Perl
9 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 125 (36.34%) CISSP
2 70 (20.35%) Degree
3 60 (17.44%) CISM
4 53 (15.41%) Security Cleared
5 41 (11.92%) PCI QSA
6 40 (11.63%) CISA
7 39 (11.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (10.17%) Cisco Certification
9 28 (8.14%) AWS Certification
10 26 (7.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 26 (7.56%) CEH
11 23 (6.69%) SANS
12 21 (6.10%) Azure Certification
13 20 (5.81%) CCSP
14 18 (5.23%) Master's Degree
15 17 (4.94%) CRISC
16 15 (4.36%) SSCP
17 14 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
18 13 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
19 10 (2.91%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (51.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 138 (40.12%) NIST
3 88 (25.58%) GDPR
4 53 (15.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 44 (12.79%) SLA
6 43 (12.50%) GRC
7 23 (6.69%) NCSC
8 22 (6.40%) HIPAA
9 21 (6.10%) COBIT
10 20 (5.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 16 (4.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 11 (3.20%) SOC 2
13 7 (2.03%) GLBA
13 7 (2.03%) QA
14 6 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (1.74%) ISO 9001
15 4 (1.16%) FISMA
15 4 (1.16%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.87%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 39 (11.34%) KVM
2 14 (4.07%) Virtual Desktop
3 13 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.03%) Docker
4 7 (2.03%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.29%) Snort
6 1 (0.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (4.65%) CASB
2 15 (4.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (4.07%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.07%) Nmap
4 11 (3.20%) Terraform
5 10 (2.91%) Ansible
6 6 (1.74%) CSIRT
7 5 (1.45%) Suricata
8 4 (1.16%) Autotask
9 3 (0.87%) Nessus
10 2 (0.58%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.58%) Packer
11 1 (0.29%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 1 (0.29%) Nagios
11 1 (0.29%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.29%) SCCM
11 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 125 (36.34%) Microsoft
2 40 (11.63%) Dell
3 26 (7.56%) Qualys
4 22 (6.40%) Splunk
5 19 (5.52%) Cisco
6 14 (4.07%) Rapid7
6 14 (4.07%) Thycotic
6 14 (4.07%) VMware
7 12 (3.49%) Google
8 11 (3.20%) Juniper
9 10 (2.91%) CheckPoint
9 10 (2.91%) Palo Alto
10 8 (2.33%) SolarWinds
11 7 (2.03%) F5
12 6 (1.74%) Citrix
13 5 (1.45%) Forcepoint
13 5 (1.45%) Fortinet
14 4 (1.16%) Datto
15 3 (0.87%) Facebook
15 3 (0.87%) LogRhythm