PKI Jobs in England

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 489 596
Rank change year-on-year -24 +107 +222
Permanent jobs citing PKI 174 389 322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.43% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.94% 1.28% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 72 292 201
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,228 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,625 £48,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £59,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -9.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £79,063 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,000 £94,750 £108,750
UK median annual salary £58,000 £59,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.69% -9.23% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
England

PKI falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,503 30,294 38,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.79% 33.86% 44.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8,514 20,923 20,470
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,000 £35,764
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,000 £46,749
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in England

PKI
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for PKI in England

PKI
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PKI in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PKI in England

PKI
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the England region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
London +6 46 £73,750 -1.67% 36
South East +36 44 £55,000 -6.78% 76
East of England +68 26 £85,000 +36.00% 31
Midlands +48 9 £53,688 +21.40% 37
West Midlands +37 9 £53,688 +9.31% 17
South West +66 7 £47,500 -13.64% 32
North of England +11 6 £51,100 -18.42% 40
North West -17 4 £66,000 +5.60% 19
Yorkshire +47 2 £44,700 -28.48% 15
PKI
UK

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 18 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.30%) Apache
2 4 (2.30%) IIS
2 4 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.72%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.57%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 119 (68.39%) AWS
2 83 (47.70%) AWS Lambda
2 83 (47.70%) Serverless
3 47 (27.01%) Azure
4 24 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (8.05%) GCP
6 13 (7.47%) Entra ID
7 10 (5.75%) IaaS
8 7 (4.02%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (3.45%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (2.87%) PaaS
11 4 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (1.72%) SaaS
13 2 (1.15%) Amazon Cognito
13 2 (1.15%) Asana
13 2 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
14 1 (0.57%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 86 (49.43%) SSL
2 83 (47.70%) SSH
3 82 (47.13%) Broadband
4 42 (24.14%) Firewall
5 26 (14.94%) DNS
6 18 (10.34%) DHCP
7 16 (9.20%) VPN
8 11 (6.32%) SMTP
9 9 (5.17%) SAN
10 7 (4.02%) Network Security
11 6 (3.45%) IPsec
11 6 (3.45%) Kerberos
11 6 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
12 5 (2.87%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (2.87%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (2.87%) VLAN
12 5 (2.87%) WAN
13 4 (2.30%) Internet
13 4 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (2.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.15%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.30%) JIRA
2 2 (1.15%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.57%) GitLab
General
1 117 (67.24%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.20%) Finance
3 10 (5.75%) Legal
4 9 (5.17%) Law
5 7 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.87%) Police
7 4 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.30%) Marketing
8 3 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.15%) Local Government
10 1 (0.57%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) Automotive
10 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 87 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 86 (49.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (7.47%) Senior
5 12 (6.90%) Infrastructure Support
6 10 (5.75%) Analyst
6 10 (5.75%) Security Analyst
7 9 (5.17%) Support Engineer
8 8 (4.60%) Architect
8 8 (4.60%) Security Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) Identity Management Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) Network Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Information Analyst
10 6 (3.45%) Information Security Analyst
11 5 (2.87%) 2nd Line Support
11 5 (2.87%) Security Architect
11 5 (2.87%) Software Engineer
12 4 (2.30%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (48.28%) Web Services
2 83 (47.70%) RESTful
3 17 (9.77%) SAML
4 11 (6.32%) OAuth
5 10 (5.75%) LDAP
5 10 (5.75%) OpenID
6 6 (3.45%) OAuth2
7 5 (2.87%) SailPoint
8 4 (2.30%) Keycloak
8 4 (2.30%) SOAP
9 3 (1.72%) 802.1X
9 3 (1.72%) JSON
9 3 (1.72%) YAML
10 2 (1.15%) EJB
10 2 (1.15%) JDBC
10 2 (1.15%) JWT
10 2 (1.15%) REST
11 1 (0.57%) OpenAPI
11 1 (0.57%) Quarkus
11 1 (0.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 87 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 87 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 82 (47.13%) Cyber Threat
2 82 (47.13%) Cyberattack
3 8 (4.60%) Clustering
4 6 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (3.45%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.87%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.30%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Licensing
6 4 (2.30%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.72%) Replication
7 3 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.72%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.15%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (21.84%) Windows
2 29 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 14 (8.05%) Linux
4 3 (1.72%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (60.34%) Cybersecurity
2 94 (54.02%) DevOps
3 91 (52.30%) Key Management
3 91 (52.30%) Roadmaps
4 89 (51.15%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 84 (48.28%) Use Case
6 82 (47.13%) Deployment Automation
6 82 (47.13%) Programme Delivery
7 26 (14.94%) SIEM
8 23 (13.22%) Agile
9 21 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (9.77%) Data Loss Prevention
11 15 (8.62%) Cloud Security
11 15 (8.62%) Information Security
11 15 (8.62%) Risk Management
12 14 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (7.47%) Disaster Recovery
13 13 (7.47%) RBAC
13 13 (7.47%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 89 (51.15%) Python
2 25 (14.37%) PowerShell
3 8 (4.60%) Java
4 3 (1.72%) SQL
5 2 (1.15%) C++
5 2 (1.15%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.57%) Bash
6 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (23.56%) Security Cleared
2 33 (18.97%) DV Cleared
3 19 (10.92%) CISSP
4 17 (9.77%) Degree
5 14 (8.05%) SC Cleared
6 12 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (4.60%) CCNA
8 7 (4.02%) CISM
9 6 (3.45%) CCNP
9 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (2.87%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.87%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.72%) CCSK
11 3 (1.72%) CCSP
11 3 (1.72%) OSCP
12 2 (1.15%) A+ Certification
12 2 (1.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (53.45%) NIST
2 86 (49.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (5.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (4.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (3.45%) GDPR
6 5 (2.87%) SLA
7 2 (1.15%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 131 (75.29%) Active Directory
2 21 (12.07%) Hyper-V
3 19 (10.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (9.77%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (8.05%) Docker
6 8 (4.60%) BitLocker
6 8 (4.60%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (4.60%) Terminal Services
7 7 (4.02%) vSphere
8 3 (1.72%) Firmware
8 3 (1.72%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.15%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.57%) NFS
10 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 94 (54.02%) Terraform
2 17 (9.77%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (7.47%) Kubernetes
4 12 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (6.32%) Ansible
5 11 (6.32%) vCenter Server
6 8 (4.60%) QRadar
6 8 (4.60%) vMotion
7 6 (3.45%) Nagios
7 6 (3.45%) Puppet
8 3 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.72%) CASB
9 2 (1.15%) Argo
9 2 (1.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (1.15%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.15%) Graylog
9 2 (1.15%) Nessus
9 2 (1.15%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.15%) WSUS
10 1 (0.57%) cPanel
Vendors
1 86 (49.43%) Thales
2 39 (22.41%) Microsoft
3 27 (15.52%) VMware
4 10 (5.75%) Cisco
4 10 (5.75%) Google
4 10 (5.75%) Splunk
5 9 (5.17%) SolarWinds
5 9 (5.17%) Symantec
6 8 (4.60%) Citrix
7 6 (3.45%) HP
7 6 (3.45%) Veeam
8 3 (1.72%) Broadcom
8 3 (1.72%) Dell
8 3 (1.72%) Juniper
8 3 (1.72%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.72%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.15%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.15%) EMC
9 2 (1.15%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.15%) SonicWALL