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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 329 416
Rank change year-on-year +85 +87 +41
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 127 93 123
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.79% 0.59% 0.44%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.58% 3.39% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 41 49 110
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £61,250 £52,500
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 £74,688
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.66% +6.00% +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 2,775 2,741 3,845
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.35% 17.37% 13.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,630 1,493 3,009
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.94% -0.74%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £93,350
UK median annual salary £59,527 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.79% +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 9 February 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 (1.57%) Confluence
2 1 (0.79%) CMS
2 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 46 (36.22%) AWS
2 35 (27.56%) Azure
3 24 (18.90%) SaaS
4 11 (8.66%) GCP
5 8 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (5.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (5.51%) GitHub
6 7 (5.51%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (4.72%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.72%) AWS Direct Connect
7 6 (4.72%) Route 53
7 6 (4.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (3.94%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (3.15%) IaaS
9 4 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.15%) PaaS
10 3 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (18.11%) Firewall
2 16 (12.60%) Network Security
3 12 (9.45%) VPN
4 7 (5.51%) DMZ
4 7 (5.51%) VLAN
5 6 (4.72%) BGP
5 6 (4.72%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.15%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (2.36%) HTTP
7 3 (2.36%) LAN
7 3 (2.36%) RTP
7 3 (2.36%) SCCP
7 3 (2.36%) Unified Communications
7 3 (2.36%) VoIP
7 3 (2.36%) WAN
7 3 (2.36%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.57%) DMVPN
8 2 (1.57%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.57%) WLAN
9 1 (0.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.36%) DynamoDB
2 3 (2.36%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.36%) MySQL
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (3.15%) TeamCity
2 3 (2.36%) Git
3 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
General
1 75 (59.06%) Finance
2 69 (54.33%) Banking
3 27 (21.26%) Retail
4 23 (18.11%) Back Office
4 23 (18.11%) Financial Institution
5 22 (17.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (14.96%) Law
7 18 (14.17%) Social Skills
8 11 (8.66%) Public Sector
9 9 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.36%) Aviation
10 3 (2.36%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Legal
11 1 (0.79%) Marketing
11 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Social Science
11 1 (0.79%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (11.81%) Analyst
2 12 (9.45%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (9.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (9.45%) Security Analyst
3 11 (8.66%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (8.66%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (7.87%) Architect
4 10 (7.87%) Consultant
5 8 (6.30%) Security Architect
6 7 (5.51%) Lead
6 7 (5.51%) Security Consultant
6 7 (5.51%) Senior
7 6 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (4.72%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 6 (4.72%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 5 (3.94%) Information Analyst
8 5 (3.94%) Information Security Analyst
8 5 (3.94%) Security Engineer
9 4 (3.15%) Developer
9 4 (3.15%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.51%) RESTful
2 4 (3.15%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.36%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.36%) Django
3 3 (2.36%) Flask
3 3 (2.36%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (2.36%) Jinja
3 3 (2.36%) Node.js
3 3 (2.36%) OAuth
3 3 (2.36%) OAuth2
3 3 (2.36%) pytest
3 3 (2.36%) React
3 3 (2.36%) REST
3 3 (2.36%) RFC 2833
3 3 (2.36%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (2.36%) WebRTC
4 2 (1.57%) Kafka
4 2 (1.57%) Nuxt
4 2 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 36 (28.35%) Cloud Native
2 18 (14.17%) Blog
3 15 (11.81%) Security Posture
4 14 (11.02%) PKI
5 13 (10.24%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (8.66%) Data Centre
7 8 (6.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (5.51%) Cloud Security Posture
8 7 (5.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 7 (5.51%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.36%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (2.36%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (1.57%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.79%) NHS
11 1 (0.79%) Replication
11 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.36%) Linux
1 3 (2.36%) Ubuntu
2 2 (1.57%) VMS
3 1 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (51.18%) Risk Management
2 62 (48.82%) Information Security
3 50 (39.37%) Risk Assessment
3 50 (39.37%) Roadmaps
4 48 (37.80%) Process Improvement
5 46 (36.22%) Business Continuity
5 46 (36.22%) Due Diligence
6 45 (35.43%) Business Continuity Management
6 45 (35.43%) Operations Management
6 45 (35.43%) Supply Chain Management
7 30 (23.62%) Cybersecurity
8 28 (22.05%) Cloud Security
9 25 (19.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (18.11%) CI/CD
10 23 (18.11%) Containerisation
11 21 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (16.54%) Security Architecture
12 20 (15.75%) RBAC
13 18 (14.17%) Cryptography
13 18 (14.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (14.96%) Python
2 12 (9.45%) Java
3 10 (7.87%) Go
4 5 (3.94%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.15%) Bash
5 4 (3.15%) Bicep
6 3 (2.36%) C
6 3 (2.36%) C++
7 2 (1.57%) SQL
8 1 (0.79%) C#
8 1 (0.79%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (52.76%) CISSP
2 56 (44.09%) CISA
3 53 (41.73%) CRISC
4 16 (12.60%) CISM
5 15 (11.81%) Security Cleared
6 13 (10.24%) AWS Certification
7 9 (7.09%) Azure Certification
7 9 (7.09%) SC Cleared
8 8 (6.30%) DV Cleared
9 7 (5.51%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (4.72%) Degree
11 5 (3.94%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (2.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (2.36%) CCSP
13 3 (2.36%) CEH
13 3 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (1.57%) CESG Certified Professional
14 2 (1.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 2 (1.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (62.20%) NIST
2 61 (48.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (20.47%) GDPR
3 26 (20.47%) GRC
3 26 (20.47%) SOC 2
4 17 (13.39%) NCSC
5 12 (9.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (5.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 7 (5.51%) JSP 440
7 6 (4.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (2.36%) SLA
9 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.79%) COBIT
10 1 (0.79%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (7.87%) Docker
2 3 (2.36%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (22.05%) Terraform
2 19 (14.96%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.72%) Ansible
4 4 (3.15%) Cilium
5 3 (2.36%) Argo
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (7.87%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.72%) Google
3 3 (2.36%) BT
3 3 (2.36%) Fortinet
3 3 (2.36%) Meraki
3 3 (2.36%) Mitel
3 3 (2.36%) Palo Alto
3 3 (2.36%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.36%) Tenable
4 2 (1.57%) Cisco
4 2 (1.57%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.57%) 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