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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 327 414
Rank change year-on-year +94 +87 +41
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 144 96 124
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.88% 0.63% 0.45%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.09% 3.58% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 54 52 111
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,063 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,246 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +20.41% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £104,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -

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 2,829 2,684 3,869
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.33% 17.57% 13.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,634 1,514 3,030
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,716 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,104 £50,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.94% -0.74%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% +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 23 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 (1.39%) Confluence
2 1 (0.69%) CMS
2 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 49 (34.03%) AWS
2 36 (25.00%) Azure
3 32 (22.22%) SaaS
4 14 (9.72%) GCP
5 8 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (4.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (4.86%) GitHub
6 7 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.17%) AWS Direct Connect
7 6 (4.17%) Route 53
7 6 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (3.47%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (3.47%) IaaS
8 5 (3.47%) PaaS
9 4 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.67%) Firewall
2 16 (11.11%) Network Security
3 12 (8.33%) VPN
4 7 (4.86%) DMZ
4 7 (4.86%) VLAN
5 6 (4.17%) BGP
5 6 (4.17%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (2.08%) HTTP
7 3 (2.08%) LAN
7 3 (2.08%) RTP
7 3 (2.08%) SCCP
7 3 (2.08%) Unified Communications
7 3 (2.08%) VoIP
7 3 (2.08%) WAN
7 3 (2.08%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.39%) DMVPN
8 2 (1.39%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.39%) WLAN
9 1 (0.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.08%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.08%) MySQL
3 2 (1.39%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.78%) TeamCity
2 3 (2.08%) Git
3 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
General
1 78 (54.17%) Finance
2 74 (51.39%) Banking
3 32 (22.22%) Retail
4 28 (19.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (18.75%) Social Skills
6 26 (18.06%) Back Office
6 26 (18.06%) Financial Institution
7 24 (16.67%) Law
8 11 (7.64%) Public Sector
9 9 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (5.56%) Telecoms
11 3 (2.08%) Aviation
12 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.69%) Legal
12 1 (0.69%) Marketing
12 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.69%) Social Science
12 1 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 22 (15.28%) Analyst
2 19 (13.19%) Security Analyst
3 13 (9.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (8.33%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (7.64%) Lead
6 10 (6.94%) Architect
6 10 (6.94%) Consultant
7 9 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 9 (6.25%) Information Analyst
7 9 (6.25%) Information Security Analyst
7 9 (6.25%) Senior
8 8 (5.56%) Security Architect
9 7 (4.86%) Security Consultant
10 6 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 6 (4.17%) Security Engineer
11 5 (3.47%) Applications Engineer
11 5 (3.47%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.17%) AngularJS
1 6 (4.17%) RESTful
2 4 (2.78%) .NET
2 4 (2.78%) ARM Templates
2 4 (2.78%) CSS
2 4 (2.78%) HTML
2 4 (2.78%) HTML5
2 4 (2.78%) jQuery
3 3 (2.08%) Django
3 3 (2.08%) Flask
3 3 (2.08%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (2.08%) Jinja
3 3 (2.08%) OAuth
3 3 (2.08%) OAuth2
3 3 (2.08%) pytest
3 3 (2.08%) REST
3 3 (2.08%) RFC 2833
3 3 (2.08%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (2.08%) WebRTC
4 2 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 35 (24.31%) Cloud Native
2 19 (13.19%) Blog
3 15 (10.42%) Security Posture
4 14 (9.72%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (9.72%) PKI
5 12 (8.33%) Data Centre
5 12 (8.33%) Management Information System
6 9 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (4.86%) Cloud Security Posture
7 7 (4.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.08%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.69%) NHS
10 1 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.08%) Linux
1 3 (2.08%) Ubuntu
2 2 (1.39%) VMS
3 1 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (50.00%) Information Security
1 72 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 52 (36.11%) Risk Assessment
3 51 (35.42%) Process Improvement
4 49 (34.03%) Roadmaps
5 48 (33.33%) Business Continuity
5 48 (33.33%) Due Diligence
6 45 (31.25%) Business Continuity Management
6 45 (31.25%) Operations Management
6 45 (31.25%) Supply Chain Management
7 38 (26.39%) Cybersecurity
8 29 (20.14%) Cloud Security
9 25 (17.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 24 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 24 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (15.97%) Containerisation
12 22 (15.28%) Security Architecture
13 21 (14.58%) RBAC
14 20 (13.89%) Security Operations
15 19 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (13.89%) Python
2 13 (9.03%) Java
3 10 (6.94%) Go
4 6 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.47%) Bash
6 4 (2.78%) Bicep
6 4 (2.78%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.08%) C
7 3 (2.08%) C++
8 2 (1.39%) SQL
9 1 (0.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 74 (51.39%) CISSP
2 58 (40.28%) CISA
3 55 (38.19%) CRISC
4 17 (11.81%) CISM
5 15 (10.42%) Security Cleared
6 13 (9.03%) AWS Certification
7 9 (6.25%) Azure Certification
7 9 (6.25%) Degree
7 9 (6.25%) SC Cleared
8 8 (5.56%) DV Cleared
9 7 (4.86%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (4.86%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (4.17%) CEH
11 5 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (2.08%) CCSP
12 3 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (2.08%) GCIA
12 3 (2.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 3 (2.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (57.64%) NIST
2 74 (51.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (22.92%) GRC
4 32 (22.22%) GDPR
4 32 (22.22%) SOC 2
5 20 (13.89%) NCSC
6 16 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 7 (4.86%) JSP 440
8 6 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (4.17%) Data Quality
9 3 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (2.08%) SLA
10 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.69%) COBIT
10 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.69%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (6.94%) Docker
2 3 (2.08%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (20.83%) Terraform
2 19 (13.19%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.17%) Ansible
4 4 (2.78%) Cilium
5 3 (2.08%) Argo
5 3 (2.08%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.69%) CASB
6 1 (0.69%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.17%) Google
3 3 (2.08%) BT
3 3 (2.08%) Fortinet
3 3 (2.08%) Meraki
3 3 (2.08%) Mitel
3 3 (2.08%) Palo Alto
3 3 (2.08%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.08%) Tenable
4 2 (1.39%) Cisco
4 2 (1.39%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.39%) Splunk
5 1 (0.69%) Adobe
5 1 (0.69%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.69%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle
5 1 (0.69%) VMware
5 1 (0.69%) Xero