Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 652 819
Rank change year-on-year +128 +167 -187
Permanent jobs citing PKI 417 337 432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.33% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.19% 0.78% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 288 207 263
10th Percentile £43,227 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,985
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £70,625
90th Percentile £97,750 £109,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,100
% change year-on-year - +1.66% +3.05%

All Generic Skills
UK

PKI is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,043 43,311 74,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 42.74% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,056 23,480 33,820
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,550 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the UK

PKI
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PKI.

Salary trend for PKI in the UK

PKI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PKI over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PKI in the UK

PKI
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +145 375 £60,500 -6.92% 65
UK excluding London +67 247 £55,000 - 61
Work from Home +137 194 £59,000 -18.62% 29
London +119 157 £75,000 - 10
South East +32 93 £59,000 -1.67% 17
North of England +54 46 £62,783 -10.31% 5
Midlands +5 43 £47,112 -0.82% 11
South West +11 38 £57,500 -17.86% 18
North West +29 29 £62,641 -28.00% 3
West Midlands +30 27 £55,000 - 6
East Midlands -19 16 £44,225 -6.90% 5
Scotland -53 16 £66,250 -17.19% 7
Yorkshire +83 15 £62,500 -16.67% 2
Wales +4 8 - - 1
North East -6 8 £62,500 +66.67%
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 1
East of England +6 5 £62,500 - 2

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 30 (7.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.68%) IIS
3 6 (1.44%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.72%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.24%) Apache
7 1 (0.24%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (3.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 221 (53.00%) Azure
2 160 (38.37%) AWS
3 136 (32.61%) Microsoft 365
4 110 (26.38%) GCP
5 84 (20.14%) SaaS
6 66 (15.83%) Entra ID
7 22 (5.28%) Azure Monitor
8 18 (4.32%) Azure Storage
9 16 (3.84%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (2.88%) AWS KMS
10 12 (2.88%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (2.40%) Power Platform
12 8 (1.92%) IaaS
13 5 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.20%) PaaS
14 4 (0.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 4 (0.96%) Nutanix
15 3 (0.72%) Cloudflare
15 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
16 2 (0.48%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 102 (24.46%) DNS
2 90 (21.58%) Firewall
3 65 (15.59%) DHCP
4 59 (14.15%) WAN
5 50 (11.99%) LAN
6 47 (11.27%) VPN
7 32 (7.67%) IPsec
8 29 (6.95%) Wireless
9 27 (6.47%) Network Security
10 25 (6.00%) TCP/IP
10 25 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (5.28%) SAN
12 21 (5.04%) IPv4
12 21 (5.04%) IPv6
13 15 (3.60%) BGP
14 14 (3.36%) VSAN
15 12 (2.88%) SD-WAN
16 11 (2.64%) Internet
16 11 (2.64%) SSL
17 10 (2.40%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.40%) Power BI
1 10 (2.40%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.44%) InfluxDB
4 6 (1.44%) MariaDB
4 6 (1.44%) MySQL
5 3 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (4.80%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.44%) Robot Framework
2 6 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (1.20%) Git
4 4 (0.96%) MSI
5 3 (0.72%) GitLab
6 2 (0.48%) JIRA
General
1 81 (19.42%) Presentation Skills
2 69 (16.55%) Social Skills
3 41 (9.83%) Finance
4 28 (6.71%) Public Sector
5 16 (3.84%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.64%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.16%) Law
8 6 (1.44%) Police
9 5 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.96%) Banking
10 4 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.96%) Legal
11 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.72%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.48%) Electronics
12 2 (0.48%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.48%) Military
13 1 (0.24%) Games
13 1 (0.24%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 130 (31.18%) Architect
2 81 (19.42%) Cloud Architect
3 72 (17.27%) Senior
4 52 (12.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 49 (11.75%) Security Engineer
6 34 (8.15%) Network Engineer
7 30 (7.19%) Senior Security Engineer
8 29 (6.95%) Security Architect
9 25 (6.00%) Technical Architect
10 24 (5.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 23 (5.52%) Administrator
12 21 (5.04%) Linux Engineer
13 20 (4.80%) Active Directory Specialist
13 20 (4.80%) Azure Specialist
13 20 (4.80%) Software Engineer
14 19 (4.56%) Systems Administrator
15 16 (3.84%) Security Technical Architect
16 15 (3.60%) Support Specialist
17 14 (3.36%) Active Directory Support
17 14 (3.36%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.56%) .NET
2 18 (4.32%) ARM Templates
3 12 (2.88%) EJB
4 10 (2.40%) GTK
5 7 (1.68%) web3js
6 6 (1.44%) HTML
6 6 (1.44%) OAuth
7 5 (1.20%) Web Services
8 4 (0.96%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (0.96%) JWT
9 3 (0.72%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.48%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.48%) LAMP
10 2 (0.48%) Middleware
10 2 (0.48%) V-Ray
11 1 (0.24%) LDAP
11 1 (0.24%) OpenID
11 1 (0.24%) RESTful
11 1 (0.24%) SAML
11 1 (0.24%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 100 (23.98%) Public Cloud
2 28 (6.71%) Data Centre
3 19 (4.56%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.84%) Management Information System
6 14 (3.36%) Clustering
6 14 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.16%) NHS
9 7 (1.68%) Blockchain
9 7 (1.68%) Cyberattack
9 7 (1.68%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.68%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.68%) Web3
10 6 (1.44%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.44%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.20%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 148 (35.49%) Windows
2 113 (27.10%) Linux
3 89 (21.34%) Windows Server
4 35 (8.39%) Windows Server 2019
5 30 (7.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 23 (5.52%) Ubuntu
7 22 (5.28%) Windows Server 2012
8 20 (4.80%) Android
8 20 (4.80%) Apple iOS
9 16 (3.84%) Debian
10 11 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (2.40%) CentOS
12 7 (1.68%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.48%) Unix
13 2 (0.48%) VMS
14 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (23.50%) Cybersecurity
2 95 (22.78%) Actionable Insight
3 94 (22.54%) Project Management
4 91 (21.82%) TOGAF
5 86 (20.62%) Migration
6 84 (20.14%) Presales
7 82 (19.66%) Configuration Management
8 81 (19.42%) Application Virtualisation
9 67 (16.07%) DevOps
10 66 (15.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 60 (14.39%) Cryptography
12 57 (13.67%) Agile
13 56 (13.43%) ITIL
14 54 (12.95%) Identity Management
15 45 (10.79%) Problem-Solving
16 36 (8.63%) Key Management
17 34 (8.15%) Information Security
18 33 (7.91%) CI/CD
19 32 (7.67%) Infrastructure as Code
20 31 (7.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 74 (17.75%) PowerShell
2 60 (14.39%) Python
3 36 (8.63%) C#
4 35 (8.39%) C
5 31 (7.43%) Bash
6 30 (7.19%) VB
7 20 (4.80%) VBScript
8 14 (3.36%) Bicep
9 11 (2.64%) Java
9 11 (2.64%) SQL
10 10 (2.40%) ActionScript
10 10 (2.40%) C++
11 7 (1.68%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.20%) Perl
13 4 (0.96%) Go
13 4 (0.96%) Lua
13 4 (0.96%) Ruby
13 4 (0.96%) Rust
14 2 (0.48%) Dart
14 2 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 126 (30.22%) Security Cleared
2 80 (19.18%) Degree
3 73 (17.51%) DV Cleared
4 38 (9.11%) SC Cleared
5 36 (8.63%) CISSP
6 29 (6.95%) CISM
7 27 (6.47%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (4.08%) CCNA
9 16 (3.84%) GIAC
10 15 (3.60%) CRISC
10 15 (3.60%) ISSMP
10 15 (3.60%) Master's Degree
11 14 (3.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 9 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (2.16%) DBS Check
12 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (1.92%) CEH
14 7 (1.68%) AWS Certification
15 6 (1.44%) CCIE
16 5 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.60%) COBIT
2 12 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.40%) GDPR
3 10 (2.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 10 (2.40%) SLA
4 9 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.48%) NCSC
5 2 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 128 (30.70%) Active Directory
2 75 (17.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (8.87%) vSphere
4 33 (7.91%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (5.28%) Hyper-V
5 22 (5.28%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (4.80%) Docker
7 16 (3.84%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (3.60%) VMware NSX
9 13 (3.12%) XenApp
10 10 (2.40%) OpenSSH
11 8 (1.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 7 (1.68%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (1.68%) VMware Server
13 3 (0.72%) Firmware
13 3 (0.72%) KVM
13 3 (0.72%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.48%) pfSense
14 2 (0.48%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 42 (10.07%) Ansible
2 34 (8.15%) Single Sign-On
3 33 (7.91%) Terraform
4 32 (7.67%) Kubernetes
5 30 (7.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (5.76%) SCCM
7 22 (5.28%) WSUS
8 20 (4.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (4.80%) SCOM
9 18 (4.32%) vCenter Server
10 14 (3.36%) PowerCLI
11 12 (2.88%) CA Single Sign-On
12 10 (2.40%) IBM BigFix
13 6 (1.44%) Cisco CUCM
13 6 (1.44%) Nessus
13 6 (1.44%) Puppet
13 6 (1.44%) Stealthwatch
14 5 (1.20%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 5 (1.20%) SCOrch
15 4 (0.96%) vRealize
Vendors
1 232 (55.64%) Microsoft
2 97 (23.26%) Google
3 83 (19.90%) VMware
4 28 (6.71%) Cisco
5 19 (4.56%) Citrix
5 19 (4.56%) Fortinet
5 19 (4.56%) Juniper
6 15 (3.60%) Alibaba
6 15 (3.60%) ServiceNow
7 14 (3.36%) CA
7 14 (3.36%) SolarWinds
8 12 (2.88%) CyberArk
9 11 (2.64%) HP
9 11 (2.64%) IBM
9 11 (2.64%) Splunk
10 8 (1.92%) Dell
11 6 (1.44%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.44%) Veeam
12 4 (0.96%) 3PAR
12 4 (0.96%) Nimble Storage