Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 27 November 2021

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 27 November 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
27 Nov 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 367 252 254
Rank change year-on-year -115 +2 -39
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 168 55 31
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 0.67% 0.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.06% 6.69% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 155 44 28
10th Percentile £47,100 £41,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £43,438 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -23.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £82,000 £79,375 £78,438
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,750 £86,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -

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 WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,141 822 840
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.20% 9.95% 10.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,873 689 699
10th Percentile £33,321 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -

PCI DSS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PCI DSS trend for jobs with a WFH option

PCI DSS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PCI DSS.

PCI DSS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PCI DSS over the 6 months to 27 November 2021.

PCI DSS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 27 November 2021, PCI DSS job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for PCI DSS.

1 133 (79.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 114 (67.86%) Information Security
3 83 (49.40%) GDPR
4 63 (37.50%) Risk Management
4 63 (37.50%) CISSP
5 62 (36.90%) Management Information System
5 62 (36.90%) NIST
6 58 (34.52%) Finance
7 53 (31.55%) Azure
7 53 (31.55%) Cybersecurity
8 50 (29.76%) CISM
8 50 (29.76%) Firewall
9 48 (28.57%) ITIL
10 47 (27.98%) Data Protection
11 44 (26.19%) COBIT
11 44 (26.19%) Microsoft
12 41 (24.40%) Linux
13 36 (21.43%) AWS
14 35 (20.83%) Security Management
15 33 (19.64%) Cyberthreat
16 32 (19.05%) Social Skills
16 32 (19.05%) Windows
16 32 (19.05%) Security Architecture
17 28 (16.67%) GRC
17 28 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
18 27 (16.07%) Security Operations
18 27 (16.07%) Cisco
19 26 (15.48%) CISA
20 25 (14.88%) Degree
20 25 (14.88%) Data Privacy

PCI DSS
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.76%) IIS
2 6 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.60%) CICS
3 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (31.55%) Azure
2 36 (21.43%) AWS
3 14 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (7.14%) GCP
5 8 (4.76%) Azure Active Directory
6 5 (2.98%) Datadog
6 5 (2.98%) IaaS
6 5 (2.98%) OneDrive
7 4 (2.38%) SaaS
8 3 (1.79%) GitHub
9 2 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.19%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.19%) Route 53
9 2 (1.19%) Serverless
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.60%) Apigee
10 1 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.60%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 50 (29.76%) Firewall
2 16 (9.52%) Cisco ASA
2 16 (9.52%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 16 (9.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 10 (5.95%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.76%) Network Security
5 6 (3.57%) DNS
6 5 (2.98%) DHCP
6 5 (2.98%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (2.98%) VPN
7 4 (2.38%) Cisco IPT
8 3 (1.79%) LAN
8 3 (1.79%) WAN
9 2 (1.19%) VoIP
10 1 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.17%) SQL Server 2019
3 6 (3.57%) SQL Server 2000
4 5 (2.98%) MySQL
5 4 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.19%) Amazon DynamoDB
6 2 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.19%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.19%) Power BI
6 2 (1.19%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.60%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.60%) DataStage
7 1 (0.60%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (4.76%) JIRA
1 8 (4.76%) Rational DOORS
1 8 (4.76%) SonarQube
1 8 (4.76%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.19%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.19%) Gatling
2 2 (1.19%) Git (software)
2 2 (1.19%) GitLab
2 2 (1.19%) JMeter
2 2 (1.19%) JUnit
2 2 (1.19%) Postman
2 2 (1.19%) Selenium
3 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 58 (34.52%) Finance
2 32 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.93%) Banking
4 12 (7.14%) Retail
5 11 (6.55%) Legal
6 10 (5.95%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (4.17%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.57%) Back Office
10 5 (2.98%) Law
11 2 (1.19%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.60%) French Language
12 1 (0.60%) Marketing
12 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (22.02%) Consultant
2 30 (17.86%) Security Consultant
3 23 (13.69%) Architect
3 23 (13.69%) Security Specialist
4 19 (11.31%) Analyst
4 19 (11.31%) Security Manager
5 18 (10.71%) Information Security Specialist
5 18 (10.71%) Information Specialist
6 17 (10.12%) Security Architect
7 16 (9.52%) Information Security Consultant
7 16 (9.52%) Security Operations Specialist
8 14 (8.33%) Security Analyst
9 13 (7.74%) Information Manager
9 13 (7.74%) Information Security Manager
10 11 (6.55%) Risk Consultant
11 8 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
12 7 (4.17%) DBA
12 7 (4.17%) Information Analyst
12 7 (4.17%) Information Security Analyst
12 7 (4.17%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.52%) Middleware
2 8 (4.76%) Web Services
3 7 (4.17%) .NET
4 6 (3.57%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.19%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.19%) Node.js
5 2 (1.19%) OAuth
5 2 (1.19%) OpenID
5 2 (1.19%) SAML
5 2 (1.19%) Spring
5 2 (1.19%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.19%) Spring MVC
6 1 (0.60%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.60%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.60%) NLTK
6 1 (0.60%) Pandas
6 1 (0.60%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.60%) SciPy
6 1 (0.60%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.60%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 62 (36.90%) Management Information System
2 33 (19.64%) Cyberthreat
3 21 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (8.33%) Public Cloud
5 8 (4.76%) Driving Licence
5 8 (4.76%) Mobile Payment
5 8 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.76%) Smartcard
6 7 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (3.57%) Cyberattack
7 6 (3.57%) Replication
8 5 (2.98%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.60%) BYOD
10 1 (0.60%) CCTV
10 1 (0.60%) Cybercrime
10 1 (0.60%) Equities
10 1 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (24.40%) Linux
2 32 (19.05%) Windows
3 24 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 18 (10.71%) Unix
5 8 (4.76%) Solaris
6 5 (2.98%) CentOS
6 5 (2.98%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.60%) Android
7 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.60%) Debian
7 1 (0.60%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.60%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (67.86%) Information Security
2 63 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 53 (31.55%) Cybersecurity
4 48 (28.57%) ITIL
5 47 (27.98%) Data Protection
6 35 (20.83%) Security Management
7 32 (19.05%) Security Architecture
8 27 (16.07%) Security Operations
9 25 (14.88%) Data Privacy
10 23 (13.69%) DevOps
11 22 (13.10%) Agile Software Development
11 22 (13.10%) Information Security Management
11 22 (13.10%) Vulnerability Management
12 21 (12.50%) Internal Audit
12 21 (12.50%) ISMS
12 21 (12.50%) OWASP
12 21 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
13 18 (10.71%) SIEM
13 18 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (10.12%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 18 (10.71%) Java
2 14 (8.33%) C#
3 13 (7.74%) SQL
4 8 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.76%) Python
5 7 (4.17%) T-SQL
6 6 (3.57%) C
6 6 (3.57%) C++
6 6 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.57%) Perl
6 6 (3.57%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.98%) Bicep
8 3 (1.79%) Bash Shell
9 2 (1.19%) Java 8
10 1 (0.60%) COBOL
10 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 63 (37.50%) CISSP
2 50 (29.76%) CISM
3 26 (15.48%) CISA
4 25 (14.88%) Degree
5 16 (9.52%) PCI QSA
6 15 (8.93%) CREST Certified
6 15 (8.93%) CRISC
7 11 (6.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 11 (6.55%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (5.36%) CCSP
8 9 (5.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 8 (4.76%) CLAS
9 8 (4.76%) IISP
9 8 (4.76%) OSCP
9 8 (4.76%) SANS
10 7 (4.17%) CEH
10 7 (4.17%) GIAC
10 7 (4.17%) GSNA
10 7 (4.17%) IRCA
11 4 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (79.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 83 (49.40%) GDPR
3 62 (36.90%) NIST
4 44 (26.19%) COBIT
5 28 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 28 (16.67%) GRC
6 18 (10.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 10 (5.95%) NIST 800
9 9 (5.36%) ISO 31000
9 9 (5.36%) ISO 9001
9 9 (5.36%) NCSC
10 8 (4.76%) HIPAA
10 8 (4.76%) ISAE 3402
10 8 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 7 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (4.17%) GAMP
12 6 (3.57%) COSO
12 6 (3.57%) PSD2
13 5 (2.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 13 (7.74%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.76%) ISA Server
3 5 (2.98%) Docker
3 5 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.79%) vSphere
5 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (4.76%) Nessus
1 8 (4.76%) Trend Micro Deep Security
2 3 (1.79%) Terraform
3 2 (1.19%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.60%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 44 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 27 (16.07%) Cisco
3 24 (14.29%) F5
4 16 (9.52%) Apple
4 16 (9.52%) CheckPoint
4 16 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 16 (9.52%) Zscaler
5 12 (7.14%) Splunk
6 11 (6.55%) Oracle
7 10 (5.95%) Google
8 8 (4.76%) Centrify
8 8 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (4.76%) Imperva
8 8 (4.76%) Okta
8 8 (4.76%) OneTrust
8 8 (4.76%) Trend Micro
8 8 (4.76%) Tripwire
9 6 (3.57%) Sybase
10 5 (2.98%) Cubic Transportation
11 3 (1.79%) VMware