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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 477 620
Rank change year-on-year -106 +143 -142
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 337 576 838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.61% 0.49%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.43% 3.37% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 268 401 542
10th Percentile £24,807 £26,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,313 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,625 £91,250 £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 13,851 17,091 29,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.95% 18.21% 17.21%
Number of salaries quoted 9,243 8,393 13,532
10th Percentile £26,500 £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 £91,250 £93,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% +2.11%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -96 309 £60,000 +9.09% 68
UK excluding London -166 219 £52,500 +5.00% 37
Work from Home -32 129 £57,500 -10.75% 34
London +65 103 £72,500 +3.57% 29
North of England +6 65 £50,000 +8.70% 7
Midlands -16 48 £47,500 -13.64% 15
North West -1 46 £47,500 +5.56% 2
South East -56 41 £66,250 +2.63% 8
South West -86 32 £45,000 +63.64% 3
East Midlands +5 29 £24,811 -40.44% 6
East of England -36 19 £24,526 -64.96% 3
Yorkshire +48 18 £52,000 +13.04% 3
West Midlands -57 18 £63,000 +14.55% 9
Scotland -69 12 £24,526 -50.83%
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Wales -21 2 £51,250 +46.43% 1
North East -18 1 £37,500 -61.34% 2

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 5 (1.48%) IIS
1 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.89%) Confluence
3 2 (0.59%) Apache
3 2 (0.59%) CMS
3 2 (0.59%) nginx
3 2 (0.59%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.59%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Magento
3 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 117 (34.72%) Azure
2 94 (27.89%) AWS
3 42 (12.46%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (6.82%) Cloud Computing
5 22 (6.53%) GCP
6 15 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (4.45%) Azure Sentinel
7 12 (3.56%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (3.26%) SaaS
9 9 (2.67%) IaaS
10 7 (2.08%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.08%) GitHub
10 7 (2.08%) PaaS
10 7 (2.08%) WhatsApp
11 5 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (1.19%) Cloudflare
12 4 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.19%) Google Workspace
12 4 (1.19%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 95 (28.19%) Firewall
2 55 (16.32%) Wi-Fi
3 41 (12.17%) Network Security
4 21 (6.23%) VPN
5 20 (5.93%) LAN
5 20 (5.93%) WAN
6 17 (5.04%) Intrusion Detection
6 17 (5.04%) Wireshark
7 15 (4.45%) DNS
8 13 (3.86%) TCP/IP
9 12 (3.56%) Internet
10 10 (2.97%) Wireless
11 5 (1.48%) SD-WAN
12 4 (1.19%) DHCP
12 4 (1.19%) SSL
13 3 (0.89%) BGP
13 3 (0.89%) EIGRP
13 3 (0.89%) MPLS
13 3 (0.89%) OSPF
13 3 (0.89%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.86%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.48%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.19%) Redis
3 4 (1.19%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.89%) MySQL
4 3 (0.89%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.59%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.59%) Power BI
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Bitbucket
1 3 (0.89%) Git
1 3 (0.89%) GitLab
1 3 (0.89%) Jenkins
1 3 (0.89%) JIRA
2 2 (0.59%) git-flow
2 2 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 97 (28.78%) Social Skills
2 73 (21.66%) Finance
3 40 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (10.98%) Retail
5 21 (6.23%) Legal
6 19 (5.64%) Law
7 18 (5.34%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.86%) Banking
10 8 (2.37%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.08%) Advertising
11 7 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.08%) Marketing
12 6 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.19%) Games
14 3 (0.89%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.59%) Electronics
15 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.59%) Mandarin Language
15 2 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 62 (18.40%) Analyst
2 45 (13.35%) Security Analyst
3 41 (12.17%) Senior
4 35 (10.39%) Architect
5 33 (9.79%) Mobile Engineer
6 27 (8.01%) Lead
6 27 (8.01%) Security Architect
7 25 (7.42%) Security Engineer
8 24 (7.12%) Information Analyst
8 24 (7.12%) Information Security Analyst
9 23 (6.82%) Security Manager
10 21 (6.23%) Support Engineer
11 20 (5.93%) Junior
12 19 (5.64%) Consultant
12 19 (5.64%) Desktop Engineer
12 19 (5.64%) Desktop Support
12 19 (5.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 19 (5.64%) Junior Desktop Engineer
12 19 (5.64%) Junior Desktop Support
12 19 (5.64%) Junior Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.78%) .NET
1 6 (1.78%) Kafka
1 6 (1.78%) SAML
2 5 (1.48%) Web Services
3 4 (1.19%) OAuth
4 2 (0.59%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.59%) LAMP
4 2 (0.59%) LEMP Stack
4 2 (0.59%) Next.js
4 2 (0.59%) Node.js
4 2 (0.59%) React
4 2 (0.59%) REST
4 2 (0.59%) RESTful
4 2 (0.59%) Spring
5 1 (0.30%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 53 (15.73%) Management Information System
2 39 (11.57%) Driving Licence
3 29 (8.61%) Security Posture
4 28 (8.31%) Security Operations Centre
5 26 (7.72%) Cyber Threat
6 23 (6.82%) Data Centre
7 15 (4.45%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (4.15%) Onboarding
9 12 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 9 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (2.37%) Public Cloud
12 7 (2.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 7 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.78%) Cloud Security Posture
13 6 (1.78%) Cyber Defence
13 6 (1.78%) Replication
13 6 (1.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 5 (1.48%) Blog
14 5 (1.48%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 73 (21.66%) Windows
2 19 (5.64%) Android
2 19 (5.64%) Apple iOS
3 15 (4.45%) Linux
4 12 (3.56%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.48%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.59%) Unix
6 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.30%) CentOS
7 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (51.04%) Information Security
2 149 (44.21%) Cybersecurity
3 69 (20.47%) Cloud Security
3 69 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (20.47%) SIEM
4 66 (19.58%) Incident Response
5 65 (19.29%) Security Operations
6 62 (18.40%) Risk Management
7 52 (15.43%) Vulnerability Management
8 48 (14.24%) Asset Management
9 47 (13.95%) Data Protection
9 47 (13.95%) Data Security
10 43 (12.76%) Proactive Maintenance
11 42 (12.46%) ITIL
12 41 (12.17%) Disaster Recovery
13 40 (11.87%) DevOps
14 39 (11.57%) Computer Science
15 37 (10.98%) Roadmaps
16 36 (10.68%) Identity Access Management
17 32 (9.50%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 39 (11.57%) Python
2 29 (8.61%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.67%) Go
3 9 (2.67%) Java
4 8 (2.37%) Bash
5 7 (2.08%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.08%) SQL
6 4 (1.19%) C#
6 4 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.59%) VB
8 1 (0.30%) Groovy
8 1 (0.30%) Perl
8 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 122 (36.20%) CISSP
2 70 (20.77%) Degree
3 61 (18.10%) CISM
4 53 (15.73%) Security Cleared
5 41 (12.17%) CISA
6 39 (11.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (11.57%) PCI QSA
7 31 (9.20%) Cisco Certification
8 29 (8.61%) AWS Certification
9 23 (6.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 23 (6.82%) CEH
10 21 (6.23%) Azure Certification
11 20 (5.93%) SANS
12 18 (5.34%) Master's Degree
13 17 (5.04%) CCSP
14 15 (4.45%) CRISC
15 14 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
16 13 (3.86%) Microsoft Certification
17 12 (3.56%) SSCP
18 10 (2.97%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (50.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 130 (38.58%) NIST
3 88 (26.11%) GDPR
4 58 (17.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 43 (12.76%) GRC
5 43 (12.76%) SLA
6 22 (6.53%) HIPAA
6 22 (6.53%) NCSC
7 20 (5.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 17 (5.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (4.45%) COBIT
10 12 (3.56%) SOC 2
11 11 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (2.08%) GLBA
13 6 (1.78%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (1.78%) ISO 9001
13 6 (1.78%) QA
14 5 (1.48%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.89%) FISMA
15 3 (0.89%) ISO 14000
System Software
1 39 (11.57%) KVM
2 14 (4.15%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (2.37%) Docker
5 7 (2.08%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.30%) Snort
7 1 (0.30%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (4.75%) CASB
2 15 (4.45%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (3.56%) Terraform
4 11 (3.26%) Ansible
4 11 (3.26%) Nmap
5 5 (1.48%) CSIRT
5 5 (1.48%) Suricata
6 4 (1.19%) Autotask
7 3 (0.89%) Nessus
8 2 (0.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (0.59%) Packer
9 1 (0.30%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.30%) Nagios
9 1 (0.30%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.30%) Puppet
9 1 (0.30%) SCCM
9 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 120 (35.61%) Microsoft
2 40 (11.87%) Dell
3 22 (6.53%) Qualys
4 18 (5.34%) Splunk
5 17 (5.04%) Cisco
6 15 (4.45%) VMware
7 12 (3.56%) Google
8 11 (3.26%) Juniper
8 11 (3.26%) Rapid7
8 11 (3.26%) Thycotic
9 10 (2.97%) Palo Alto
10 8 (2.37%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.78%) Citrix
11 6 (1.78%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.48%) F5
12 5 (1.48%) Fortinet
13 4 (1.19%) Datto
14 3 (0.89%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.89%) Facebook
14 3 (0.89%) LogRhythm