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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 344 379
Rank change year-on-year +93 +35 +59
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 122 92 130
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.79% 0.56% 0.54%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.45% 3.27% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 39 50 116
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,313 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,429 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% +14.05% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £81,438 £74,063
90th Percentile £96,000 £98,474 £87,500
UK median annual salary £68,961 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.09% +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 2,740 2,814 3,445
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.77% 17.22% 14.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,646 1,512 2,708
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,813 £48,639 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,875 £60,000 £57,046
% change year-on-year -1.88% +5.18% -0.79%

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 21 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 (1.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 42 (34.43%) AWS
2 33 (27.05%) Azure
3 17 (13.93%) SaaS
4 10 (8.20%) GCP
5 6 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (4.10%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (4.10%) GitHub
6 5 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (3.28%) IaaS
8 3 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.46%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.46%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.46%) PaaS
8 3 (2.46%) Route 53
8 3 (2.46%) Serverless
8 3 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (20.49%) Firewall
2 20 (16.39%) Network Security
3 8 (6.56%) VPN
4 7 (5.74%) DMZ
5 4 (3.28%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (3.28%) VLAN
6 3 (2.46%) BGP
6 3 (2.46%) LAN
6 3 (2.46%) SCCP
6 3 (2.46%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.46%) WAN
7 2 (1.64%) DMVPN
7 2 (1.64%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.64%) WLAN
8 1 (0.82%) DNS
8 1 (0.82%) HTTP
8 1 (0.82%) SSL
8 1 (0.82%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.82%) VoIP
8 1 (0.82%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (2.46%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.82%) MySQL
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (3.28%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.82%) Git
2 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
General
1 74 (60.66%) Finance
2 62 (50.82%) Banking
3 20 (16.39%) Retail
4 16 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.11%) Back Office
4 16 (13.11%) Financial Institution
5 15 (12.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (11.48%) Social Skills
7 13 (10.66%) Public Sector
8 12 (9.84%) Law
9 5 (4.10%) Marketing
10 4 (3.28%) Telecoms
11 3 (2.46%) Aviation
11 3 (2.46%) Electronics
11 3 (2.46%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.64%) Legal
13 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.82%) Social Science
13 1 (0.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (10.66%) Analyst
2 12 (9.84%) Consultant
3 11 (9.02%) Architect
3 11 (9.02%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (8.20%) Security Analyst
5 9 (7.38%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 9 (7.38%) Security Architect
5 9 (7.38%) Security Consultant
6 8 (6.56%) Security Manager
7 7 (5.74%) Information Manager
7 7 (5.74%) Information Security Manager
7 7 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.74%) Lead
8 6 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 5 (4.10%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Senior
10 4 (3.28%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.28%) RESTful
2 3 (2.46%) AngularJS
2 3 (2.46%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.46%) Node.js
2 3 (2.46%) React
3 2 (1.64%) Hugging Face
3 2 (1.64%) Kafka
3 2 (1.64%) Nuxt
3 2 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.64%) Vue
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Cordova
4 1 (0.82%) Django
4 1 (0.82%) Flask
4 1 (0.82%) FreeSWITCH
4 1 (0.82%) HTML5
4 1 (0.82%) jQuery
4 1 (0.82%) OAuth
4 1 (0.82%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.82%) REST
4 1 (0.82%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 30 (24.59%) Cloud Native
2 18 (14.75%) Security Posture
3 14 (11.48%) PKI
4 13 (10.66%) Blog
5 9 (7.38%) Data Centre
6 8 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (5.74%) Cloud Security Posture
7 7 (5.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 6 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (4.92%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.46%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (2.46%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.82%) NHS
11 1 (0.82%) Replication
11 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.64%) VMS
2 1 (0.82%) Linux
2 1 (0.82%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (52.46%) Risk Management
2 61 (50.00%) Information Security
3 53 (43.44%) Roadmaps
4 49 (40.16%) Due Diligence
4 49 (40.16%) Risk Assessment
5 48 (39.34%) Business Continuity
5 48 (39.34%) Process Improvement
6 45 (36.89%) Business Continuity Management
6 45 (36.89%) Operations Management
6 45 (36.89%) Supply Chain Management
7 35 (28.69%) Cybersecurity
8 29 (23.77%) Cloud Security
9 21 (17.21%) Security Architecture
10 20 (16.39%) Containerisation
11 19 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (15.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (14.75%) CI/CD
12 18 (14.75%) Cryptography
13 17 (13.93%) RBAC
14 15 (12.30%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.66%) Python
2 7 (5.74%) Go
2 7 (5.74%) Java
3 4 (3.28%) Bash
3 4 (3.28%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.46%) Bicep
5 2 (1.64%) SQL
6 1 (0.82%) C
6 1 (0.82%) C#
6 1 (0.82%) C++
6 1 (0.82%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 70 (57.38%) CISSP
2 54 (44.26%) CISA
3 51 (41.80%) CRISC
4 17 (13.93%) Security Cleared
5 16 (13.11%) CISM
6 13 (10.66%) AWS Certification
7 8 (6.56%) Azure Certification
7 8 (6.56%) CEH
7 8 (6.56%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (6.56%) SC Cleared
8 7 (5.74%) DV Cleared
8 7 (5.74%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (4.10%) Degree
10 3 (2.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.46%) CCSP
10 3 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 3 (2.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 2 (1.64%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (68.85%) NIST
2 62 (50.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (22.13%) GDPR
4 22 (18.03%) GRC
5 20 (16.39%) SOC 2
6 17 (13.93%) NCSC
7 12 (9.84%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 7 (5.74%) JSP 440
9 5 (4.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (2.46%) SLA
11 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.82%) COBIT
12 1 (0.82%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (5.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.82%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 23 (18.85%) Terraform
2 16 (13.11%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.92%) Ansible
4 4 (3.28%) Cilium
5 1 (0.82%) Argo
5 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (4.92%) Google
2 5 (4.10%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.46%) Meraki
3 3 (2.46%) Palo Alto
3 3 (2.46%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.46%) SAP
3 3 (2.46%) Tenable
4 2 (1.64%) Cisco
4 2 (1.64%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.64%) Splunk
5 1 (0.82%) Adobe
5 1 (0.82%) BT
5 1 (0.82%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.82%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.82%) Mitel
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle
5 1 (0.82%) VMware