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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 312 435
Rank change year-on-year +77 +123 +16
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 158 85 118
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.94% 0.63% 0.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.39% 3.52% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 69 54 107
10th Percentile £51,000 £50,000 £40,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% +22.50% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,500 £103,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.47% +13.20% +0.81%

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 2,932 2,412 4,153
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.39% 17.99% 13.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,704 1,539 3,205
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.82% -3.39%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -6.09%

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 19 March 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 (1.27%) Confluence
2 1 (0.63%) CMS
2 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 51 (32.28%) AWS
2 40 (25.32%) Azure
3 34 (21.52%) SaaS
4 14 (8.86%) GCP
5 7 (4.43%) Amazon S3
5 7 (4.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (4.43%) GitHub
5 7 (4.43%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (3.80%) AWS Direct Connect
6 6 (3.80%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (3.80%) Route 53
6 6 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (3.16%) IaaS
7 5 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.16%) PaaS
8 3 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.56%) Firewall
2 15 (9.49%) Network Security
3 12 (7.59%) VPN
4 7 (4.43%) VLAN
5 6 (3.80%) BGP
5 6 (3.80%) DMZ
5 6 (3.80%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.53%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (1.90%) HTTP
7 3 (1.90%) LAN
7 3 (1.90%) RTP
7 3 (1.90%) SCCP
7 3 (1.90%) Unified Communications
7 3 (1.90%) VoIP
7 3 (1.90%) WAN
7 3 (1.90%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.27%) DMVPN
8 2 (1.27%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.27%) WLAN
9 1 (0.63%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.53%) MySQL
3 3 (1.90%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.53%) Git
1 4 (2.53%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.63%) JIRA
General
1 77 (48.73%) Finance
2 74 (46.84%) Banking
3 40 (25.32%) Social Skills
4 32 (20.25%) Retail
5 29 (18.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (16.46%) Back Office
6 26 (16.46%) Financial Institution
7 24 (15.19%) Law
8 15 (9.49%) Public Sector
8 15 (9.49%) Telecoms
9 10 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.90%) Aviation
11 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Legal
11 1 (0.63%) Local Government
11 1 (0.63%) Marketing
11 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 21 (13.29%) Analyst
2 19 (12.03%) Security Analyst
3 18 (11.39%) Lead
4 13 (8.23%) Consultant
4 13 (8.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (7.59%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (7.59%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (6.96%) Architect
7 10 (6.33%) Security Consultant
8 9 (5.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 9 (5.70%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 9 (5.70%) Information Analyst
8 9 (5.70%) Information Security Analyst
8 9 (5.70%) Security Architect
8 9 (5.70%) Senior
9 6 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (3.80%) Head of Professional Services
9 6 (3.80%) Security Engineer
9 6 (3.80%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.80%) RESTful
2 4 (2.53%) .NET
2 4 (2.53%) AngularJS
2 4 (2.53%) ARM Templates
2 4 (2.53%) CSS
2 4 (2.53%) HTML
2 4 (2.53%) HTML5
2 4 (2.53%) jQuery
3 3 (1.90%) Django
3 3 (1.90%) Flask
3 3 (1.90%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (1.90%) Jinja
3 3 (1.90%) OAuth
3 3 (1.90%) OAuth2
3 3 (1.90%) pytest
3 3 (1.90%) REST
3 3 (1.90%) RFC 2833
3 3 (1.90%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (1.90%) WebRTC
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Cordova
Miscellaneous
1 32 (20.25%) Cloud Native
2 23 (14.56%) Blog
3 14 (8.86%) PKI
3 14 (8.86%) Security Posture
4 13 (8.23%) Management Information System
5 12 (7.59%) Data Centre
5 12 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (5.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.80%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (3.80%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (1.90%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.90%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.90%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.27%) NHS
9 2 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.63%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.43%) Linux
2 5 (3.16%) Windows
3 3 (1.90%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (50.00%) Information Security
2 75 (47.47%) Risk Management
3 52 (32.91%) Risk Assessment
4 51 (32.28%) Process Improvement
5 49 (31.01%) Business Continuity
5 49 (31.01%) Roadmaps
6 48 (30.38%) Cybersecurity
6 48 (30.38%) Due Diligence
7 46 (29.11%) Operations Management
8 45 (28.48%) Business Continuity Management
8 45 (28.48%) Supply Chain Management
9 29 (18.35%) Cloud Security
10 25 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (15.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (14.56%) CI/CD
12 22 (13.92%) Security Architecture
13 21 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (12.66%) Containerisation
14 20 (12.66%) RBAC
14 20 (12.66%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.03%) Python
2 13 (8.23%) Java
3 10 (6.33%) Go
4 6 (3.80%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.16%) Bash
6 4 (2.53%) Bicep
6 4 (2.53%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.90%) C
7 3 (1.90%) C++
8 1 (0.63%) C#
8 1 (0.63%) SQL
8 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 75 (47.47%) CISSP
2 58 (36.71%) CISA
3 55 (34.81%) CRISC
4 19 (12.03%) Security Cleared
5 18 (11.39%) CISM
6 13 (8.23%) SC Cleared
7 12 (7.59%) AWS Certification
8 11 (6.96%) DV Cleared
9 10 (6.33%) Azure Certification
10 9 (5.70%) Degree
11 8 (5.06%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (4.43%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (3.80%) CEH
14 5 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (3.16%) CREST Certified
15 3 (1.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (1.90%) GCIA
15 3 (1.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 3 (1.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (55.06%) NIST
2 86 (54.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (25.32%) GRC
4 35 (22.15%) GDPR
5 30 (18.99%) SOC 2
6 20 (12.66%) NCSC
7 19 (12.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (5.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (3.80%) Data Quality
9 6 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (3.80%) JSP 440
10 3 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.90%) SLA
11 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.63%) COBIT
11 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.63%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.63%) QA
11 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (6.33%) Docker
2 5 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.90%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 30 (18.99%) Terraform
2 17 (10.76%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.16%) Ansible
4 4 (2.53%) Cilium
5 3 (1.90%) Argo
5 3 (1.90%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.63%) CASB
6 1 (0.63%) Grafana
6 1 (0.63%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (10.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.80%) Google
3 3 (1.90%) BT
3 3 (1.90%) Fortinet
3 3 (1.90%) Meraki
3 3 (1.90%) Mitel
3 3 (1.90%) Palo Alto
3 3 (1.90%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.90%) Tenable
4 2 (1.27%) Cisco
4 2 (1.27%) Splunk
5 1 (0.63%) Adobe
5 1 (0.63%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.63%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.63%) VMware
5 1 (0.63%) Xero