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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 655 793
Rank change year-on-year +133 +138 -156
Permanent jobs citing PKI 418 338 437
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 288 208 267
10th Percentile £43,227 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,470
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,750 £109,125 £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 35,065 43,146 75,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.34% 42.71% 47.68%
Number of salaries quoted 23,057 23,446 33,908
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,014 £34,513
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,000 £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 10 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 10 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 +139 376 £62,500 -3.85% 66
UK excluding London +55 246 £55,000 - 62
Work from Home +132 195 £59,000 -18.62% 30
London +131 159 £75,000 - 10
South East +38 92 £59,000 -1.67% 17
North of England +48 46 £62,783 -10.31% 5
Midlands 0 43 £47,112 -0.82% 11
South West +12 38 £57,500 -17.86% 19
North West +18 29 £62,641 -28.00% 3
West Midlands +18 27 £55,000 - 6
East Midlands -18 16 £44,225 -6.90% 5
Scotland -46 16 £66,250 -17.19% 7
Yorkshire +81 15 £62,500 -16.67% 2
Wales +7 8 - - 1
North East -8 8 £62,500 +66.67%
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 1
East of England +4 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 (7.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.91%) 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 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 223 (53.35%) Azure
2 161 (38.52%) AWS
3 138 (33.01%) Microsoft 365
4 111 (26.56%) GCP
5 84 (20.10%) SaaS
6 67 (16.03%) Entra ID
7 22 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
8 18 (4.31%) Azure Storage
9 16 (3.83%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (2.87%) AWS KMS
10 12 (2.87%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (2.39%) Power Platform
12 9 (2.15%) IaaS
13 6 (1.44%) PaaS
14 5 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 4 (0.96%) Nutanix
16 3 (0.72%) Cloudflare
16 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
17 2 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 104 (24.88%) DNS
2 91 (21.77%) Firewall
3 66 (15.79%) DHCP
4 59 (14.11%) WAN
5 50 (11.96%) LAN
6 47 (11.24%) VPN
7 32 (7.66%) IPsec
8 29 (6.94%) Wireless
9 27 (6.46%) Network Security
10 25 (5.98%) TCP/IP
10 25 (5.98%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (5.26%) SAN
12 21 (5.02%) IPv4
12 21 (5.02%) IPv6
13 15 (3.59%) BGP
14 14 (3.35%) VSAN
15 12 (2.87%) SD-WAN
16 11 (2.63%) Internet
16 11 (2.63%) SSL
17 10 (2.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.63%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.39%) Power BI
3 9 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.44%) InfluxDB
5 6 (1.44%) MariaDB
5 6 (1.44%) MySQL
6 3 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.72%) Redis
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (5.02%) 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 (19.38%) Presentation Skills
2 70 (16.75%) Social Skills
3 43 (10.29%) Finance
4 28 (6.70%) Public Sector
5 16 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.63%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.39%) Law
8 6 (1.44%) Legal
8 6 (1.44%) Police
9 5 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.96%) Banking
10 4 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
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%) Back Office
13 1 (0.24%) Games
Job Titles
1 130 (31.10%) Architect
2 81 (19.38%) Cloud Architect
3 72 (17.22%) Senior
4 52 (12.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 48 (11.48%) Security Engineer
6 34 (8.13%) Network Engineer
7 30 (7.18%) Senior Security Engineer
8 29 (6.94%) Security Architect
9 25 (5.98%) Technical Architect
10 24 (5.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 23 (5.50%) Administrator
12 21 (5.02%) Linux Engineer
13 20 (4.78%) Active Directory Specialist
13 20 (4.78%) Azure Specialist
13 20 (4.78%) Software Engineer
14 19 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
15 16 (3.83%) Security Technical Architect
16 15 (3.59%) Support Specialist
17 14 (3.35%) Active Directory Support
17 14 (3.35%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.55%) .NET
2 18 (4.31%) ARM Templates
3 12 (2.87%) EJB
4 10 (2.39%) GTK
5 7 (1.67%) web3js
6 6 (1.44%) HTML
6 6 (1.44%) OAuth
6 6 (1.44%) Web Services
7 4 (0.96%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (0.96%) JWT
8 3 (0.72%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.48%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.48%) LAMP
9 2 (0.48%) Middleware
9 2 (0.48%) V-Ray
10 1 (0.24%) LDAP
10 1 (0.24%) OpenID
10 1 (0.24%) RESTful
10 1 (0.24%) SAML
10 1 (0.24%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 100 (23.92%) Public Cloud
2 28 (6.70%) Data Centre
3 19 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (4.07%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.59%) Clustering
7 14 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.15%) NHS
10 7 (1.67%) Blockchain
10 7 (1.67%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.67%) Cyberattack
10 7 (1.67%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.67%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.67%) Web3
11 6 (1.44%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
14 3 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 149 (35.65%) Windows
2 114 (27.27%) Linux
3 90 (21.53%) Windows Server
4 36 (8.61%) Windows Server 2019
5 31 (7.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 23 (5.50%) Ubuntu
7 22 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 20 (4.78%) Android
8 20 (4.78%) Apple iOS
9 16 (3.83%) Debian
10 11 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (2.39%) CentOS
12 8 (1.91%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.72%) Unix
14 2 (0.48%) VMS
15 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (23.68%) Cybersecurity
2 95 (22.73%) Actionable Insight
3 94 (22.49%) Project Management
4 91 (21.77%) TOGAF
5 86 (20.57%) Migration
6 84 (20.10%) Presales
7 82 (19.62%) Configuration Management
8 81 (19.38%) Application Virtualisation
9 67 (16.03%) DevOps
10 66 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 61 (14.59%) Cryptography
12 58 (13.88%) ITIL
13 57 (13.64%) Agile
14 54 (12.92%) Identity Management
15 45 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
16 36 (8.61%) Key Management
17 34 (8.13%) Information Security
18 33 (7.89%) CI/CD
19 32 (7.66%) Infrastructure as Code
19 32 (7.66%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (17.70%) PowerShell
2 60 (14.35%) Python
3 36 (8.61%) C#
4 35 (8.37%) C
5 31 (7.42%) Bash
6 30 (7.18%) VB
7 20 (4.78%) VBScript
8 14 (3.35%) Bicep
9 12 (2.87%) SQL
10 11 (2.63%) Java
11 10 (2.39%) ActionScript
11 10 (2.39%) C++
12 7 (1.67%) JavaScript
13 5 (1.20%) Perl
14 4 (0.96%) Go
14 4 (0.96%) Lua
14 4 (0.96%) Ruby
14 4 (0.96%) Rust
15 2 (0.48%) Dart
15 2 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 125 (29.90%) Security Cleared
2 81 (19.38%) Degree
3 73 (17.46%) DV Cleared
4 37 (8.85%) CISSP
4 37 (8.85%) SC Cleared
5 30 (7.18%) CISM
6 27 (6.46%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (4.07%) CCNA
7 17 (4.07%) GIAC
8 16 (3.83%) CRISC
8 16 (3.83%) ISSMP
9 15 (3.59%) Master's Degree
10 14 (3.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 10 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (2.15%) DBS Check
13 8 (1.91%) CEH
14 7 (1.67%) AWS Certification
15 6 (1.44%) CCIE
15 6 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.83%) COBIT
2 13 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.39%) GDPR
3 10 (2.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 10 (2.39%) SLA
4 9 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.48%) NCSC
5 2 (0.48%) PMO
6 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 128 (30.62%) Active Directory
2 75 (17.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (9.09%) vSphere
4 34 (8.13%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (5.26%) Hyper-V
5 22 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (4.78%) Docker
7 16 (3.83%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (3.59%) VMware NSX
9 13 (3.11%) XenApp
10 10 (2.39%) OpenSSH
11 8 (1.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 7 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (1.67%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.96%) Firmware
14 3 (0.72%) KVM
14 3 (0.72%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.48%) pfSense
15 2 (0.48%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 43 (10.29%) Ansible
2 35 (8.37%) Single Sign-On
3 33 (7.89%) Terraform
4 32 (7.66%) Kubernetes
5 30 (7.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (5.74%) SCCM
7 22 (5.26%) WSUS
8 21 (5.02%) SCOM
9 20 (4.78%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (4.55%) vCenter Server
11 14 (3.35%) PowerCLI
12 12 (2.87%) CA Single Sign-On
13 10 (2.39%) IBM BigFix
14 6 (1.44%) Cisco CUCM
14 6 (1.44%) Puppet
14 6 (1.44%) SCOrch
14 6 (1.44%) Stealthwatch
15 5 (1.20%) Nessus
15 5 (1.20%) Red Hat Spacewalk
16 4 (0.96%) WMI
Vendors
1 233 (55.74%) Microsoft
2 98 (23.44%) Google
3 83 (19.86%) VMware
4 28 (6.70%) Cisco
5 19 (4.55%) Citrix
5 19 (4.55%) Fortinet
5 19 (4.55%) Juniper
6 16 (3.83%) Alibaba
6 16 (3.83%) ServiceNow
7 14 (3.35%) CA
7 14 (3.35%) SolarWinds
8 12 (2.87%) CyberArk
9 11 (2.63%) HP
9 11 (2.63%) IBM
9 11 (2.63%) Splunk
10 8 (1.91%) Dell
11 6 (1.44%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.44%) Veeam
12 4 (0.96%) 3PAR
12 4 (0.96%) Nimble Storage