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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 402 370
Rank change year-on-year +42 -32 +177
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 69 105 142
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.45% 0.57%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.30% 3.32% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 61 54 117
10th Percentile - £44,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,643
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.09% -3.93%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £76,825 £94,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -19.23%

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 2,998 3,166 3,548
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.46% 13.57% 14.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,668 1,909 2,910
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,150 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £94,663
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.88% -5.00% +9.09%

PCI DSS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PCI DSS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

PCI DSS
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

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

PCI DSS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing PCI DSS over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

PCI DSS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 11 (15.94%) AWS
2 10 (14.49%) Azure
3 3 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (4.35%) Azure AKS
3 3 (4.35%) Serverless
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (2.90%) SaaS
5 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.45%) GitHub
5 1 (1.45%) IaaS
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 29 (42.03%) Network Security
2 9 (13.04%) Firewall
3 2 (2.90%) BGP
3 2 (2.90%) LAN
3 2 (2.90%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.90%) WAN
3 2 (2.90%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.45%) DMZ
4 1 (1.45%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.45%) OSPF
4 1 (1.45%) SSL
4 1 (1.45%) VLAN
4 1 (1.45%) VPN
4 1 (1.45%) Wireless
4 1 (1.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.35%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.45%) Power BI
General
1 42 (60.87%) Finance
2 34 (49.28%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (42.03%) Marketing
4 27 (39.13%) Public Sector
5 25 (36.23%) Electronics
5 25 (36.23%) Manufacturing
5 25 (36.23%) Telecoms
6 16 (23.19%) Social Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Games
7 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Legal
7 1 (1.45%) Local Government
7 1 (1.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (37.68%) Consultant
1 26 (37.68%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 26 (37.68%) Security Consultant
2 10 (14.49%) Information Manager
2 10 (14.49%) Information Security Manager
2 10 (14.49%) Security Manager
3 6 (8.70%) Support Officer
4 5 (7.25%) Analyst
5 4 (5.80%) Security Analyst
6 3 (4.35%) Architect
6 3 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Compliance Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 3 (4.35%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Lead
6 3 (4.35%) Operational Security Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Operations Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Security Operations Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Software Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Cloud Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.80%) Node.js
2 3 (4.35%) AngularJS
2 3 (4.35%) React
3 2 (2.90%) Hugging Face
3 2 (2.90%) Kafka
3 2 (2.90%) Nuxt
3 2 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.90%) Vue
4 1 (1.45%) .NET
4 1 (1.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (37.68%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (8.70%) Security Posture
3 5 (7.25%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.80%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.80%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.90%) PKI
5 2 (2.90%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.45%) Online Games
6 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Replication
6 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.45%) Linux
1 1 (1.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (59.42%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (39.13%) Mentoring
2 27 (39.13%) Vulnerability Management
3 26 (37.68%) Business Intelligence
3 26 (37.68%) Digital Marketing
4 25 (36.23%) Programme Management
5 21 (30.43%) Information Security
6 13 (18.84%) Risk Management
7 9 (13.04%) Incident Response
8 8 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (10.14%) Cloud Security
9 7 (10.14%) Security Management
9 7 (10.14%) Zero Trust
10 6 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (8.70%) DevOps
11 5 (7.25%) Analytics
11 5 (7.25%) Due Diligence
11 5 (7.25%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (7.25%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (7.25%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.35%) Python
2 2 (2.90%) SQL
2 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 40 (57.97%) CISSP
2 28 (40.58%) CEH
2 28 (40.58%) CompTIA Security+
3 27 (39.13%) Security Cleared
4 13 (18.84%) CISM
5 4 (5.80%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.80%) CISA
6 3 (4.35%) CRISC
6 3 (4.35%) SSCP
7 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (2.90%) Degree
7 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.45%) CCIE
8 1 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.45%) CISMP
8 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (86.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (65.22%) NIST
3 24 (34.78%) GDPR
4 11 (15.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (10.14%) SOC 2
6 5 (7.25%) NCSC
7 3 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (2.90%) COBIT
8 2 (2.90%) GRC
9 1 (1.45%) HIPAA
9 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (1.45%) JSP 440
9 1 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.25%) Terraform
2 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.45%) Ansible
3 1 (1.45%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 25 (36.23%) SAP
2 2 (2.90%) Cisco
2 2 (2.90%) Meraki
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.90%) OpenAI
2 2 (2.90%) Oracle
2 2 (2.90%) Palo Alto
2 2 (2.90%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.45%) Aruba
3 1 (1.45%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (1.45%) Fortinet