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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 314 447
Rank change year-on-year +83 +133 -15
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 167 85 125
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.92% 0.63% 0.38%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.39% 3.28% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 84 58 99
10th Percentile £50,375 £50,000 £40,250
25th Percentile £58,438 £57,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £72,246 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.54% +25.64% -11.20%
75th Percentile £95,000 £91,188 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £130,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +12.00% +5.04%

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 3,096 2,588 4,195
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.09% 19.22% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,867 1,582 3,269
10th Percentile £35,750 £35,035 £34,700
25th Percentile £47,046 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

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 April 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 (1.20%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) CMS
2 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 43 (25.75%) AWS
2 39 (23.35%) Azure
3 34 (20.36%) SaaS
4 8 (4.79%) GCP
5 7 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (2.99%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.99%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (2.99%) IaaS
6 5 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.99%) PaaS
7 4 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.40%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (2.40%) GitHub
7 4 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.40%) Route 53
7 4 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.57%) Firewall
2 12 (7.19%) Network Security
2 12 (7.19%) VPN
3 6 (3.59%) DMZ
4 5 (2.99%) VLAN
5 4 (2.40%) BGP
5 4 (2.40%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.80%) HTTP
6 3 (1.80%) LAN
6 3 (1.80%) RTP
6 3 (1.80%) SCCP
6 3 (1.80%) Unified Communications
6 3 (1.80%) VoIP
6 3 (1.80%) WAN
6 3 (1.80%) Wireshark
7 2 (1.20%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.20%) DMVPN
7 2 (1.20%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.20%) WLAN
8 1 (0.60%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.40%) MySQL
3 3 (1.80%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Git
2 1 (0.60%) JIRA
2 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 74 (44.31%) Finance
2 70 (41.92%) Banking
3 53 (31.74%) Social Skills
4 27 (16.17%) Retail
5 25 (14.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (13.17%) Telecoms
7 21 (12.57%) Law
8 20 (11.98%) Back Office
9 18 (10.78%) Financial Institution
10 15 (8.98%) Public Sector
11 9 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (2.40%) Legal
13 3 (1.80%) Aviation
14 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.60%) Local Government
14 1 (0.60%) Marketing
14 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.60%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 22 (13.17%) Analyst
2 19 (11.38%) Security Analyst
3 18 (10.78%) Lead
4 13 (7.78%) Consultant
5 10 (5.99%) Architect
5 10 (5.99%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (5.99%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (5.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (5.39%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 9 (5.39%) Information Analyst
6 9 (5.39%) Information Security Analyst
6 9 (5.39%) Security Consultant
7 8 (4.79%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 8 (4.79%) Head of Operations
7 8 (4.79%) Security Architect
8 7 (4.19%) Security Manager
8 7 (4.19%) Senior
9 6 (3.59%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (3.59%) Head of Professional Services
10 5 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.40%) .NET
1 4 (2.40%) AngularJS
1 4 (2.40%) ARM Templates
1 4 (2.40%) CSS
1 4 (2.40%) HTML
1 4 (2.40%) HTML5
1 4 (2.40%) jQuery
1 4 (2.40%) RESTful
2 3 (1.80%) Django
2 3 (1.80%) Flask
2 3 (1.80%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (1.80%) Jinja
2 3 (1.80%) OAuth
2 3 (1.80%) OAuth2
2 3 (1.80%) pytest
2 3 (1.80%) REST
2 3 (1.80%) RFC 2833
2 3 (1.80%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (1.80%) WebRTC
3 1 (0.60%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.57%) Cloud Native
2 22 (13.17%) Blog
3 15 (8.98%) Management Information System
4 13 (7.78%) PKI
4 13 (7.78%) Security Posture
5 10 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (4.19%) Data Centre
6 7 (4.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.59%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (3.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.80%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.80%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.80%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.20%) Freedom of Information Act
10 2 (1.20%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.39%) Linux
2 6 (3.59%) Windows
3 3 (1.80%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (53.29%) Information Security
2 76 (45.51%) Risk Management
3 57 (34.13%) Cybersecurity
4 52 (31.14%) Business Continuity
4 52 (31.14%) Operations Management
4 52 (31.14%) Process Improvement
4 52 (31.14%) Risk Assessment
5 48 (28.74%) Due Diligence
6 47 (28.14%) Roadmaps
7 45 (26.95%) Business Continuity Management
7 45 (26.95%) Supply Chain Management
8 27 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (14.97%) Cloud Security
9 25 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (13.77%) Regulatory Compliance
11 18 (10.78%) Security Architecture
11 18 (10.78%) Security Operations
12 17 (10.18%) Containerisation
12 17 (10.18%) Incident Response
12 17 (10.18%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.38%) Python
2 11 (6.59%) Java
3 5 (2.99%) Go
3 5 (2.99%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.40%) Bicep
4 4 (2.40%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.80%) C
5 3 (1.80%) C++
6 2 (1.20%) Bash
7 1 (0.60%) C#
7 1 (0.60%) SQL
7 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 74 (44.31%) CISSP
2 59 (35.33%) CISA
3 55 (32.93%) CRISC
4 20 (11.98%) Security Cleared
5 17 (10.18%) CISM
6 14 (8.38%) SC Cleared
7 13 (7.78%) DV Cleared
8 9 (5.39%) Azure Certification
8 9 (5.39%) Degree
9 8 (4.79%) AWS Certification
9 8 (4.79%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (4.79%) CREST Certified
10 7 (4.19%) CEH
10 7 (4.19%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.80%) CCSP
12 3 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.80%) GCIA
12 3 (1.80%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (53.29%) NIST
2 86 (51.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (26.35%) GDPR
4 42 (25.15%) GRC
5 27 (16.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (14.97%) SOC 2
7 18 (10.78%) NCSC
8 15 (8.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (4.19%) QA
10 6 (3.59%) Data Quality
10 6 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 6 (3.59%) JSP 440
11 4 (2.40%) COBIT
12 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (1.20%) SOC 1
14 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.60%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (5.99%) Docker
2 7 (4.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.80%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 20 (11.98%) Terraform
2 11 (6.59%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.80%) Ansible
3 3 (1.80%) Argo
3 3 (1.80%) CSIRT
4 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.60%) CASB
5 1 (0.60%) Cilium
5 1 (0.60%) Grafana
5 1 (0.60%) Host Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (11.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.59%) Google
3 5 (2.99%) Palo Alto
4 4 (2.40%) Cisco
5 3 (1.80%) BT
5 3 (1.80%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.80%) Meraki
5 3 (1.80%) Mitel
5 3 (1.80%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.80%) Tenable
6 2 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.60%) Adobe
7 1 (0.60%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.60%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.60%) Splunk
7 1 (0.60%) Xero