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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 306 461
Rank change year-on-year +72 +155 -19
Permanent jobs citing PCI DSS 167 84 126
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.95% 0.64% 0.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.33% 3.48% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 79 56 106
10th Percentile £51,000 £50,000 £40,250
25th Percentile £58,125 £57,188 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,210 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +22.10% -11.20%
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,500 £103,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +12.00% -0.40%

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 3,136 2,412 4,215
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.87% 18.28% 13.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,848 1,566 3,303
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,781
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,400 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.01% +13.14% -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 16 April 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 (1.20%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) CMS
2 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 50 (29.94%) AWS
2 40 (23.95%) Azure
3 39 (23.35%) SaaS
4 14 (8.38%) GCP
5 8 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (4.19%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.19%) GitHub
6 7 (4.19%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (3.59%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.59%) AWS Direct Connect
7 6 (3.59%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (3.59%) IaaS
7 6 (3.59%) PaaS
7 6 (3.59%) Route 53
7 6 (3.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.57%) Firewall
2 14 (8.38%) Network Security
3 13 (7.78%) VPN
4 7 (4.19%) VLAN
5 6 (3.59%) BGP
5 6 (3.59%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.99%) DMZ
7 4 (2.40%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (1.80%) HTTP
8 3 (1.80%) LAN
8 3 (1.80%) RTP
8 3 (1.80%) SCCP
8 3 (1.80%) Unified Communications
8 3 (1.80%) VoIP
8 3 (1.80%) WAN
8 3 (1.80%) Wireshark
9 2 (1.20%) DMVPN
9 2 (1.20%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.20%) WLAN
10 1 (0.60%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.40%) MySQL
3 3 (1.80%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Git
1 4 (2.40%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.60%) JIRA
General
1 79 (47.31%) Finance
2 75 (44.91%) Banking
3 50 (29.94%) Social Skills
4 33 (19.76%) Retail
5 29 (17.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (16.17%) Back Office
7 26 (15.57%) Financial Institution
8 24 (14.37%) Law
9 20 (11.98%) Telecoms
10 14 (8.38%) Public Sector
11 8 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.80%) Aviation
13 2 (1.20%) Legal
14 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.60%) Local Government
14 1 (0.60%) Marketing
14 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.60%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 22 (13.17%) Lead
2 21 (12.57%) Analyst
3 19 (11.38%) Security Analyst
4 13 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (7.19%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (7.19%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (7.19%) Consultant
6 10 (5.99%) Architect
7 9 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (5.39%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 9 (5.39%) Information Analyst
7 9 (5.39%) Information Security Analyst
7 9 (5.39%) Security Consultant
7 9 (5.39%) Senior
8 8 (4.79%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 8 (4.79%) Security Architect
9 7 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (4.19%) Security Manager
10 6 (3.59%) Head of Professional Services
10 6 (3.59%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.59%) RESTful
2 5 (2.99%) ARM Templates
3 4 (2.40%) .NET
3 4 (2.40%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.40%) CSS
3 4 (2.40%) HTML
3 4 (2.40%) HTML5
3 4 (2.40%) jQuery
4 3 (1.80%) Django
4 3 (1.80%) Flask
4 3 (1.80%) FreeSWITCH
4 3 (1.80%) Jinja
4 3 (1.80%) OAuth
4 3 (1.80%) OAuth2
4 3 (1.80%) pytest
4 3 (1.80%) REST
4 3 (1.80%) RFC 2833
4 3 (1.80%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (1.80%) WebRTC
5 1 (0.60%) Ionic Framework
Miscellaneous
1 33 (19.76%) Cloud Native
2 24 (14.37%) Blog
3 14 (8.38%) Management Information System
4 13 (7.78%) Security Posture
5 12 (7.19%) Data Centre
5 12 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (7.19%) PKI
6 9 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.99%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (2.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (1.80%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.80%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.80%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.20%) NHS
10 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.60%) EPoS
10 1 (0.60%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.39%) Linux
2 7 (4.19%) Windows
3 3 (1.80%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (52.10%) Information Security
2 75 (44.91%) Risk Management
3 52 (31.14%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (31.14%) Risk Assessment
4 51 (30.54%) Process Improvement
5 50 (29.94%) Business Continuity
5 50 (29.94%) Operations Management
6 48 (28.74%) Due Diligence
7 47 (28.14%) Roadmaps
8 45 (26.95%) Business Continuity Management
8 45 (26.95%) Supply Chain Management
9 28 (16.77%) Cloud Security
10 27 (16.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (15.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (14.37%) CI/CD
13 20 (11.98%) Containerisation
13 20 (11.98%) RBAC
13 20 (11.98%) Security Architecture
13 20 (11.98%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 20 (11.98%) Python
2 13 (7.78%) Java
3 10 (5.99%) Go
4 7 (4.19%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.99%) Bash
5 5 (2.99%) Bicep
6 4 (2.40%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.80%) C
7 3 (1.80%) C++
8 1 (0.60%) C#
8 1 (0.60%) SQL
8 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 73 (43.71%) CISSP
2 59 (35.33%) CISA
3 54 (32.34%) CRISC
4 19 (11.38%) Security Cleared
5 16 (9.58%) CISM
6 14 (8.38%) SC Cleared
7 12 (7.19%) DV Cleared
8 11 (6.59%) AWS Certification
9 10 (5.99%) Degree
10 9 (5.39%) Azure Certification
11 8 (4.79%) CREST Certified
12 7 (4.19%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (4.19%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (3.59%) CEH
13 6 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (1.80%) CCSP
14 3 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (1.80%) GCIA
14 3 (1.80%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (53.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 88 (52.69%) NIST
3 41 (24.55%) GRC
4 39 (23.35%) GDPR
5 32 (19.16%) SOC 2
6 25 (14.97%) Cyber Essentials
7 17 (10.18%) NCSC
8 13 (7.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (3.59%) Data Quality
10 5 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 5 (2.99%) JSP 440
10 5 (2.99%) QA
11 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (1.80%) SLA
12 2 (1.20%) COBIT
13 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.60%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.60%) SOC 1
System Software
1 11 (6.59%) Docker
2 7 (4.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.80%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 30 (17.96%) Terraform
2 18 (10.78%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.40%) Ansible
3 4 (2.40%) Cilium
4 3 (1.80%) Argo
4 3 (1.80%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.60%) CASB
5 1 (0.60%) Grafana
5 1 (0.60%) Host Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.59%) Google
3 3 (1.80%) BT
3 3 (1.80%) Fortinet
3 3 (1.80%) Meraki
3 3 (1.80%) Mitel
3 3 (1.80%) Palo Alto
3 3 (1.80%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.80%) Tenable
4 2 (1.20%) Cisco
4 2 (1.20%) Splunk
5 1 (0.60%) Adobe
5 1 (0.60%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.60%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.60%) VMware
5 1 (0.60%) Xero