PCI DSS Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring PCI DSS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PCI DSS over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 464 431
Rank change year-on-year +53 -33 +136
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 58 124 192
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.36% 0.53%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.80% 2.90% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 52 84 158
10th Percentile £49,100 £40,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,746 £57,500 £64,875
Median % change year-on-year +21.30% -11.37% +8.13%
75th Percentile £98,474 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £87,500 £88,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -15.38%

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 3,221 4,274 5,328
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.04% 12.39% 14.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,817 3,115 3,658
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,461 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,200 £97,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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 a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PCI DSS.

PCI DSS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 30 June 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.90%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Acrobat
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (32.76%) Azure
2 8 (13.79%) AWS
3 4 (6.90%) GCP
3 4 (6.90%) GitHub
3 4 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (6.90%) SaaS
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (3.45%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.72%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.72%) Datadog
6 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.97%) Firewall
2 7 (12.07%) Network Security
3 3 (5.17%) VPN
4 2 (3.45%) BGP
4 2 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (3.45%) LAN
4 2 (3.45%) SD-WAN
4 2 (3.45%) WAN
4 2 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.72%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.72%) Intranet
5 1 (1.72%) OSPF
5 1 (1.72%) SSL
5 1 (1.72%) VLAN
5 1 (1.72%) Wireless
5 1 (1.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (6.90%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.72%) Power BI
4 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) ERwin
1 1 (1.72%) Git
1 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 27 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 26 (44.83%) Finance
3 13 (22.41%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (15.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (8.62%) Banking
5 5 (8.62%) Marketing
6 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.90%) Retail
7 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.45%) Electronics
8 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.72%) Aviation
9 1 (1.72%) Games
9 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Law
9 1 (1.72%) Legal
9 1 (1.72%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 11 (18.97%) Architect
2 9 (15.52%) Lead
3 7 (12.07%) Security Manager
4 6 (10.34%) Analyst
4 6 (10.34%) Information Manager
4 6 (10.34%) Information Security Manager
4 6 (10.34%) Lead Architect
4 6 (10.34%) Security Analyst
4 6 (10.34%) Support Officer
5 5 (8.62%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Consultant
6 4 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Management Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Head of Security
6 4 (6.90%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Security Consultant
6 4 (6.90%) Security Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) .NET
1 4 (6.90%) AngularJS
1 4 (6.90%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (8.62%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.62%) Security Posture
3 4 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (6.90%) Credit Risk
3 4 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.90%) Market Risk
3 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.72%) Clustering
5 1 (1.72%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.72%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.72%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.72%) Online Games
5 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Windows
2 1 (1.72%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) Information Security
2 23 (39.66%) Cybersecurity
3 21 (36.21%) Risk Management
4 13 (22.41%) Agile
5 11 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (17.24%) Data Protection
6 10 (17.24%) DevOps
6 10 (17.24%) Incident Response
7 9 (15.52%) Cloud Security
7 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (13.79%) Analytics
8 8 (13.79%) CI/CD
8 8 (13.79%) SIEM
8 8 (13.79%) Vulnerability Management
9 7 (12.07%) Security Management
10 6 (10.34%) Application Security
10 6 (10.34%) High Availability
10 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
10 6 (10.34%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.24%) SQL
2 6 (10.34%) Python
3 4 (6.90%) C#
3 4 (6.90%) R
3 4 (6.90%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.72%) Bicep
4 1 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (44.83%) CISSP
2 23 (39.66%) CISM
3 12 (20.69%) Degree
4 9 (15.52%) CISA
5 8 (13.79%) CRISC
6 5 (8.62%) CEH
7 4 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (5.17%) ISSAP
8 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
8 3 (5.17%) SSCP
9 2 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (3.45%) CCSP
9 2 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (3.45%) GIAC
9 2 (3.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (3.45%) PCI QSA
9 2 (3.45%) SANS
10 1 (1.72%) CCNA
10 1 (1.72%) CCNP
10 1 (1.72%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (75.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (51.72%) GDPR
3 25 (43.10%) NIST
4 12 (20.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (17.24%) SOC 2
6 9 (15.52%) GRC
7 5 (8.62%) COBIT
7 5 (8.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (6.90%) Basel II
8 4 (6.90%) Basel III
8 4 (6.90%) Dodd-Frank
8 4 (6.90%) IFRS
8 4 (6.90%) IFRS 9
8 4 (6.90%) NCSC
9 3 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (1.72%) HIPAA
10 1 (1.72%) PERC
10 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.07%) Terraform
2 5 (8.62%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.72%) Ansible
3 1 (1.72%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.72%) Nessus
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.45%) Cisco
2 2 (3.45%) Meraki
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle
2 2 (3.45%) Palo Alto
2 2 (3.45%) SAP
2 2 (3.45%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.72%) Adobe
3 1 (1.72%) Aruba
3 1 (1.72%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (1.72%) Databricks
3 1 (1.72%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.72%) Google
3 1 (1.72%) OneTrust
3 1 (1.72%) Tenable