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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 350 399
Rank change year-on-year +101 +49 +55
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 126 95 126
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 0.59% 0.48%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.50% 3.40% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 38 51 112
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,429 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% +13.58% +0.42%
75th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £74,063
90th Percentile £96,500 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £69,875 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.50% +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 2,798 2,791 3,669
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.72% 17.19% 14.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,650 1,509 2,875
10th Percentile £34,460 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,514 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.81% +9.09% -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 30 January 2026.

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 2 (1.59%) Confluence
2 1 (0.79%) CMS
2 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 47 (37.30%) AWS
2 35 (27.78%) Azure
3 24 (19.05%) SaaS
4 11 (8.73%) GCP
5 8 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (4.76%) AWS Direct Connect
7 6 (4.76%) GitHub
7 6 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.76%) Route 53
7 6 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (3.97%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.38%) IaaS
10 3 (2.38%) PaaS
10 3 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (18.25%) Firewall
2 16 (12.70%) Network Security
3 11 (8.73%) VPN
4 7 (5.56%) DMZ
4 7 (5.56%) VLAN
5 6 (4.76%) BGP
5 6 (4.76%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.17%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (2.38%) LAN
7 3 (2.38%) SCCP
7 3 (2.38%) WAN
8 2 (1.59%) DMVPN
8 2 (1.59%) HTTP
8 2 (1.59%) RTP
8 2 (1.59%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.59%) Unified Communications
8 2 (1.59%) VoIP
8 2 (1.59%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.59%) WLAN
9 1 (0.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.38%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.59%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.59%) MySQL
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (3.17%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.59%) Git
3 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
General
1 75 (59.52%) Finance
2 69 (54.76%) Banking
3 27 (21.43%) Retail
4 23 (18.25%) Back Office
4 23 (18.25%) Financial Institution
5 22 (17.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (15.08%) Law
7 17 (13.49%) Social Skills
8 11 (8.73%) Public Sector
9 10 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.38%) Aviation
11 2 (1.59%) Legal
11 2 (1.59%) Marketing
12 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.79%) Social Science
12 1 (0.79%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (11.90%) Analyst
2 12 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (9.52%) Security Analyst
3 11 (8.73%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (8.73%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (8.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (7.94%) Architect
4 10 (7.94%) Consultant
5 8 (6.35%) Security Architect
6 7 (5.56%) Security Consultant
7 6 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 6 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 6 (4.76%) Lead
7 6 (4.76%) Security Manager
7 6 (4.76%) Senior
8 5 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (3.97%) Information Manager
8 5 (3.97%) Information Security Analyst
8 5 (3.97%) Information Security Manager
8 5 (3.97%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.56%) RESTful
2 3 (2.38%) AngularJS
2 3 (2.38%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.38%) Node.js
2 3 (2.38%) React
3 2 (1.59%) Flask
3 2 (1.59%) FreeSWITCH
3 2 (1.59%) Hugging Face
3 2 (1.59%) Jinja
3 2 (1.59%) Kafka
3 2 (1.59%) Nuxt
3 2 (1.59%) OAuth
3 2 (1.59%) OAuth2
3 2 (1.59%) pytest
3 2 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.59%) REST
3 2 (1.59%) RFC 2833
3 2 (1.59%) SQLAlchemy
3 2 (1.59%) Vue
3 2 (1.59%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 35 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 18 (14.29%) Blog
3 17 (13.49%) Security Posture
4 14 (11.11%) PKI
5 13 (10.32%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (8.73%) Data Centre
7 8 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
8 7 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 7 (5.56%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (2.38%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.79%) NHS
11 1 (0.79%) Replication
11 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.59%) Linux
1 2 (1.59%) Ubuntu
1 2 (1.59%) VMS
2 1 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (50.79%) Risk Management
2 62 (49.21%) Information Security
3 52 (41.27%) Roadmaps
4 50 (39.68%) Risk Assessment
5 48 (38.10%) Process Improvement
6 47 (37.30%) Business Continuity
7 46 (36.51%) Due Diligence
8 45 (35.71%) Business Continuity Management
8 45 (35.71%) Operations Management
8 45 (35.71%) Supply Chain Management
9 31 (24.60%) Cybersecurity
10 28 (22.22%) Cloud Security
11 25 (19.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (17.46%) CI/CD
12 22 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (16.67%) Containerisation
13 21 (16.67%) Security Architecture
14 19 (15.08%) RBAC
15 18 (14.29%) Cryptography
15 18 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.49%) Python
2 12 (9.52%) Java
3 10 (7.94%) Go
4 4 (3.17%) Bash
4 4 (3.17%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.38%) Bicep
6 2 (1.59%) C
6 2 (1.59%) C++
6 2 (1.59%) SQL
7 1 (0.79%) C#
7 1 (0.79%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (53.17%) CISSP
2 56 (44.44%) CISA
3 53 (42.06%) CRISC
4 16 (12.70%) CISM
5 15 (11.90%) Security Cleared
6 13 (10.32%) AWS Certification
7 9 (7.14%) Azure Certification
7 9 (7.14%) SC Cleared
8 8 (6.35%) DV Cleared
9 7 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (3.97%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (3.97%) Degree
11 3 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (2.38%) CCSP
11 3 (2.38%) CEH
11 3 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.59%) CESG Certified Professional
12 2 (1.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 2 (1.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (61.90%) NIST
2 60 (47.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (21.43%) SOC 2
4 26 (20.63%) GDPR
5 24 (19.05%) GRC
6 17 (13.49%) NCSC
7 13 (10.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 7 (5.56%) JSP 440
9 3 (2.38%) SLA
10 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.79%) COBIT
11 1 (0.79%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (6.35%) Docker
2 2 (1.59%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (22.22%) Terraform
2 17 (13.49%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.76%) Ansible
4 4 (3.17%) Cilium
5 2 (1.59%) Argo
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.76%) Google
3 3 (2.38%) Meraki
3 3 (2.38%) Palo Alto
3 3 (2.38%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.38%) Tenable
4 2 (1.59%) BT
4 2 (1.59%) Cisco
4 2 (1.59%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.59%) Mitel
4 2 (1.59%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.59%) Splunk
5 1 (0.79%) Adobe
5 1 (0.79%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.79%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle
5 1 (0.79%) VMware
5 1 (0.79%) Xero