Hybrid/Remote PCI DSS Job Trends

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring PCI DSS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 357 351
Rank change year-on-year +109 -6 +97
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 131 95 124
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 0.55% 0.61%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.87% 3.28% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 56 49 112
10th Percentile - £51,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £61,250 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £68,429 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.28% +14.05% -
75th Percentile £71,688 £78,250 £74,063
90th Percentile £83,125 £93,295 £89,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

PCI DSS falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,689 2,899 3,080
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.75% 16.94% 15.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,630 1,593 2,422
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +4.17% +2.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,088
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.35%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PCI DSS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

PCI DSS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

PCI DSS
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PCI DSS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PCI DSS

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PCI DSS over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

PCI DSS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

PCI DSS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (25.95%) AWS
2 26 (19.85%) Azure
3 16 (12.21%) SaaS
4 8 (6.11%) GCP
5 5 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (3.82%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.05%) GitHub
6 4 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.29%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.29%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.29%) IaaS
7 3 (2.29%) Route 53
7 3 (2.29%) Serverless
7 3 (2.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (25.95%) Network Security
2 21 (16.03%) Firewall
3 6 (4.58%) VPN
4 5 (3.82%) DMZ
5 4 (3.05%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (3.05%) VLAN
6 3 (2.29%) BGP
6 3 (2.29%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.53%) LAN
7 2 (1.53%) WAN
8 1 (0.76%) DMVPN
8 1 (0.76%) DNS
8 1 (0.76%) SAN
8 1 (0.76%) SCCP
8 1 (0.76%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.76%) SSL
8 1 (0.76%) Wireless
8 1 (0.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (2.29%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (3.05%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
General
1 92 (70.23%) Finance
2 61 (46.56%) Banking
3 33 (25.19%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (22.90%) Public Sector
5 24 (18.32%) Marketing
6 23 (17.56%) Telecoms
7 22 (16.79%) Electronics
7 22 (16.79%) Manufacturing
8 17 (12.98%) Retail
9 15 (11.45%) Back Office
9 15 (11.45%) Financial Institution
10 14 (10.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (9.16%) Social Skills
12 11 (8.40%) Law
13 1 (0.76%) Aviation
13 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.76%) Legal
13 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (22.14%) Consultant
2 27 (20.61%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 27 (20.61%) Security Consultant
3 10 (7.63%) Analyst
3 10 (7.63%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (7.63%) Security Manager
4 9 (6.87%) Information Manager
4 9 (6.87%) Information Security Manager
5 8 (6.11%) Security Analyst
6 7 (5.34%) Architect
6 7 (5.34%) Lead
7 6 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.58%) Security Architect
8 5 (3.82%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (3.82%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.82%) Security Engineer
8 5 (3.82%) Senior
9 4 (3.05%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (3.05%) Cloud Automation Engineer
9 4 (3.05%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.05%) RESTful
2 3 (2.29%) AngularJS
2 3 (2.29%) Node.js
2 3 (2.29%) React
3 2 (1.53%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.53%) Hugging Face
3 2 (1.53%) Kafka
3 2 (1.53%) Nuxt
3 2 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.53%) Vue
4 1 (0.76%) .NET
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Cordova
4 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.76%) CSS
4 1 (0.76%) HTML
4 1 (0.76%) HTML5
4 1 (0.76%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (0.76%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.32%) Cloud Native
2 22 (16.79%) Analytical Mindset
3 13 (9.92%) Security Posture
4 10 (7.63%) Blog
5 9 (6.87%) PKI
6 8 (6.11%) Data Centre
7 7 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (4.58%) Management Information System
9 5 (3.82%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (3.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (3.05%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.76%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (0.76%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.76%) Replication
11 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.53%) VMS
2 1 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (46.56%) Information Security
1 61 (46.56%) Risk Management
2 52 (39.69%) Roadmaps
3 50 (38.17%) Due Diligence
4 49 (37.40%) Risk Assessment
5 48 (36.64%) Business Continuity
6 47 (35.88%) Cybersecurity
7 46 (35.11%) Process Improvement
8 45 (34.35%) Business Continuity Management
8 45 (34.35%) Operations Management
8 45 (34.35%) Supply Chain Management
9 30 (22.90%) Vulnerability Management
10 24 (18.32%) Mentoring
11 23 (17.56%) Business Intelligence
11 23 (17.56%) Cloud Security
11 23 (17.56%) Digital Marketing
12 22 (16.79%) Programme Management
13 17 (12.98%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (12.21%) CI/CD
14 16 (12.21%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.40%) Python
2 7 (5.34%) Go
3 6 (4.58%) Java
4 4 (3.05%) Bash
5 3 (2.29%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.53%) Bicep
6 2 (1.53%) SQL
7 1 (0.76%) C#
7 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 87 (66.41%) CISSP
2 54 (41.22%) CISA
3 51 (38.93%) CRISC
4 31 (23.66%) Security Cleared
5 28 (21.37%) CEH
5 28 (21.37%) CompTIA Security+
6 14 (10.69%) CISM
7 10 (7.63%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.82%) Azure Certification
8 5 (3.82%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.82%) SC Cleared
9 4 (3.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.29%) CCSP
10 3 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.29%) Degree
10 3 (2.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 3 (2.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 2 (1.53%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (73.28%) NIST
2 71 (54.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (16.79%) GDPR
4 19 (14.50%) GRC
4 19 (14.50%) SOC 2
5 14 (10.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (9.16%) NCSC
7 7 (5.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 5 (3.82%) JSP 440
9 3 (2.29%) SLA
10 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.76%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (14.50%) Terraform
2 12 (9.16%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.05%) Ansible
3 4 (3.05%) Cilium
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (16.79%) SAP
2 4 (3.05%) Google
2 4 (3.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.29%) Palo Alto
3 3 (2.29%) Tenable
4 2 (1.53%) Meraki
4 2 (1.53%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.53%) Splunk
5 1 (0.76%) Adobe
5 1 (0.76%) Cisco
5 1 (0.76%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle
5 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.76%) VMware