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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 363 455
Rank change year-on-year +78 +92 -38
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 150 58 124
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.73% 0.37% 0.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.48% 2.03% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 112 52 84
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,100 £40,250
25th Percentile £50,938 £55,000 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £69,746 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% +21.30% -11.37%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £142,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +9.09%

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 3,345 2,858 4,208
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.17% 18.09% 12.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,199 1,589 3,120
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £58,533 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.80% +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 June 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 1 (0.67%) CMS
1 1 (0.67%) Confluence
1 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 40 (26.67%) SaaS
2 35 (23.33%) AWS
3 32 (21.33%) Azure
4 7 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (4.67%) GCP
5 6 (4.00%) IaaS
5 6 (4.00%) PaaS
6 4 (2.67%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.67%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.00%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (2.00%) GitHub
7 3 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.00%) Mimecast
7 3 (2.00%) Route 53
7 3 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.67%) Firewall
2 15 (10.00%) Network Security
3 13 (8.67%) VPN
4 5 (3.33%) DMZ
5 4 (2.67%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.00%) BGP
6 3 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (2.00%) HTTP
6 3 (2.00%) RTP
6 3 (2.00%) Unified Communications
6 3 (2.00%) VLAN
6 3 (2.00%) VoIP
6 3 (2.00%) Wireshark
7 2 (1.33%) SCCP
8 1 (0.67%) DHCP
8 1 (0.67%) DNS
8 1 (0.67%) LAN
8 1 (0.67%) WAN
8 1 (0.67%) Wireless
8 1 (0.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (2.67%) MySQL
2 3 (2.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.67%) Git
2 1 (0.67%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.67%) JIRA
2 1 (0.67%) Metasploit
General
1 69 (46.00%) Social Skills
2 39 (26.00%) Finance
3 30 (20.00%) Banking
4 28 (18.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (18.00%) Retail
6 23 (15.33%) Telecoms
7 20 (13.33%) Back Office
8 18 (12.00%) Law
8 18 (12.00%) Public Sector
9 14 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (8.67%) Financial Institution
11 12 (8.00%) Legal
12 3 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.33%) Aviation
14 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.67%) Local Government
14 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.67%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 21 (14.00%) Analyst
2 19 (12.67%) Lead
3 17 (11.33%) Consultant
4 15 (10.00%) Security Analyst
5 13 (8.67%) Security Consultant
5 13 (8.67%) Security Specialist
6 12 (8.00%) Head of Operations
7 9 (6.00%) Architect
7 9 (6.00%) Head of Technology
8 8 (5.33%) Information Analyst
8 8 (5.33%) Information Security Analyst
8 8 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.33%) Security Architect
8 8 (5.33%) Senior
9 7 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (4.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.67%) Information Officer
9 7 (4.67%) Information Security Officer
9 7 (4.67%) IT Security Specialist
9 7 (4.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.33%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.00%) .NET
2 3 (2.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (2.00%) CSS
2 3 (2.00%) Django
2 3 (2.00%) Flask
2 3 (2.00%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (2.00%) HTML
2 3 (2.00%) HTML5
2 3 (2.00%) Jinja
2 3 (2.00%) jQuery
2 3 (2.00%) OAuth
2 3 (2.00%) OAuth2
2 3 (2.00%) pytest
2 3 (2.00%) REST
2 3 (2.00%) RESTful
2 3 (2.00%) RFC 2833
2 3 (2.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (2.00%) WebRTC
3 1 (0.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.33%) Cloud Native
2 25 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 21 (14.00%) Security Posture
4 18 (12.00%) Blog
5 17 (11.33%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (7.33%) PKI
7 9 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (4.67%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (4.67%) Freedom of Information
8 7 (4.67%) Freedom of Information Act
9 6 (4.00%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (3.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 5 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (2.67%) Data Centre
12 3 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (2.00%) Onboarding
13 2 (1.33%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.67%) Linux
2 8 (5.33%) Windows
3 3 (2.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.67%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (54.67%) Cybersecurity
2 59 (39.33%) Information Security
3 46 (30.67%) Risk Management
4 42 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 34 (22.67%) Regulatory Compliance
7 30 (20.00%) Cloud Security
7 30 (20.00%) SIEM
8 27 (18.00%) Incident Response
9 24 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 21 (14.00%) Vulnerability Management
11 20 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
11 20 (13.33%) Security Operations
12 19 (12.67%) Data Loss Prevention
12 19 (12.67%) Threat Modelling
13 18 (12.00%) Data Protection
13 18 (12.00%) Penetration Testing
13 18 (12.00%) Project Delivery
14 17 (11.33%) Root Cause Analysis
15 16 (10.67%) ISMS
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.33%) Python
2 7 (4.67%) Java
2 7 (4.67%) PowerShell
3 5 (3.33%) Bicep
4 3 (2.00%) C
4 3 (2.00%) C++
4 3 (2.00%) Go
4 3 (2.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.67%) Bash
5 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (26.00%) CISSP
2 26 (17.33%) Security Cleared
3 23 (15.33%) CISM
4 19 (12.67%) SC Cleared
5 16 (10.67%) DV Cleared
6 15 (10.00%) CRISC
7 14 (9.33%) CISA
8 12 (8.00%) Degree
9 9 (6.00%) CompTIA Security+
9 9 (6.00%) CREST Certified
10 7 (4.67%) Azure Certification
10 7 (4.67%) CEH
10 7 (4.67%) ISACA
11 6 (4.00%) AWS Certification
11 6 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (2.00%) GCIA
12 3 (2.00%) OSCP
12 3 (2.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (73.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 62 (41.33%) GDPR
3 58 (38.67%) NIST
4 41 (27.33%) GRC
5 33 (22.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 26 (17.33%) SOC 2
7 17 (11.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 17 (11.33%) NCSC
8 12 (8.00%) COBIT
9 11 (7.33%) QA
10 7 (4.67%) SOC 1
11 6 (4.00%) Data Quality
12 5 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 5 (3.33%) JSP 440
13 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (6.67%) Docker
2 7 (4.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.00%) Kamailio
4 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (10.67%) Terraform
2 10 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.67%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.00%) Argo
4 3 (2.00%) CSIRT
5 2 (1.33%) Ansible
6 1 (0.67%) CASB
6 1 (0.67%) Grafana
6 1 (0.67%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.67%) Nmap
6 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.67%) Cisco
2 4 (2.67%) Splunk
3 3 (2.00%) BT
3 3 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (2.00%) Forcepoint
3 3 (2.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (2.00%) Google
3 3 (2.00%) Mitel
3 3 (2.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (2.00%) Qualys
4 2 (1.33%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.67%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.67%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.67%) Meraki
5 1 (0.67%) Tenable
5 1 (0.67%) VMware
5 1 (0.67%) Xero