PKI Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 473 535
Rank change year-on-year -2 +62 -30
Permanent jobs citing PKI 150 82 212
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.24% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.91% 0.62% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 118 74 175
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,799 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,446 £49,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -4.89%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,156 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,300 £102,500 £67,968
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 16,453 13,174 23,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.06% 39.02% 31.79%
Number of salaries quoted 10,888 6,005 14,320
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,065 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.13% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,310 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -14.10%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PKI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

PKI job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

PKI
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PKI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PKI

PKI
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PKI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for PKI in the UK excluding London

PKI
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 July 2026. 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
South East -24 50 £65,000 +18.18% 27
Midlands +2 39 £55,000 - 7
East Midlands - 33 £55,000 - 2
North of England +8 29 £48,445 -5.20% 12
South West -55 15 £77,500 +34.78% 30
Yorkshire -19 13 £50,000 +11.86% 5
Wales - 10 £45,000 - 2
North West -6 8 £48,445 -26.60% 7
North East - 8 £42,500 -
East of England -21 6 £78,000 -8.24% 2
West Midlands -19 5 £37,500 -31.82% 5
Scotland +10 1 - - 11
PKI
UK

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (4.00%) IIS
2 4 (2.67%) Confluence
3 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 55 (36.67%) Azure
2 40 (26.67%) AWS
3 19 (12.67%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (8.00%) OCI
5 11 (7.33%) Entra ID
6 9 (6.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (6.00%) Cloudflare
7 4 (2.67%) GitHub
7 4 (2.67%) IaaS
7 4 (2.67%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.00%) PaaS
8 3 (2.00%) Serverless
9 2 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.67%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.67%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (31.33%) Firewall
2 44 (29.33%) DNS
3 34 (22.67%) VPN
4 25 (16.67%) DHCP
4 25 (16.67%) WAN
5 20 (13.33%) Wireshark
6 16 (10.67%) BGP
7 15 (10.00%) MPLS
8 14 (9.33%) LAN
9 13 (8.67%) SSL
9 13 (8.67%) TCP/IP
9 13 (8.67%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (8.00%) Network Security
10 12 (8.00%) NGFW
10 12 (8.00%) VXLAN
11 11 (7.33%) SAN
12 10 (6.67%) NAS
13 8 (5.33%) IPsec
13 8 (5.33%) NetScaler
13 8 (5.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.33%) MySQL
3 1 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (3.33%) GitLab
1 5 (3.33%) JIRA
2 4 (2.67%) Git
3 2 (1.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.33%) Jenkins
General
1 32 (21.33%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 18 (12.00%) Finance
5 8 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.00%) Law
7 2 (1.33%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.67%) Automotive
8 1 (0.67%) Banking
8 1 (0.67%) Electronics
8 1 (0.67%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.67%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.67%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.67%) Marketing
8 1 (0.67%) Retail
8 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (20.00%) Consultant
2 29 (19.33%) Senior
3 28 (18.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 26 (17.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 26 (17.33%) Security Consultant
4 26 (17.33%) Security Technical Consultant
4 26 (17.33%) Technical Consultant
4 26 (17.33%) Technical Security Consultant
5 25 (16.67%) Architect
6 19 (12.67%) Support Engineer
7 18 (12.00%) Network Engineer
8 16 (10.67%) Junior
8 16 (10.67%) Junior Consultant
8 16 (10.67%) Junior Security Consultant
8 16 (10.67%) Junior Technical Consultant
9 14 (9.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (8.00%) Network Manager
10 12 (8.00%) Network Operations Manager
10 12 (8.00%) Operations Manager
10 12 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.00%) LDAP
2 7 (4.67%) Regular Expression
2 7 (4.67%) XMPP
3 5 (3.33%) Middleware
4 4 (2.67%) COM
4 4 (2.67%) DCOM
4 4 (2.67%) OAuth
4 4 (2.67%) OAuth2
4 4 (2.67%) OpenID
4 4 (2.67%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (2.00%) CSS
5 3 (2.00%) Flask
5 3 (2.00%) HTML
5 3 (2.00%) JSON
5 3 (2.00%) JSON Schema
5 3 (2.00%) Vue
5 3 (2.00%) XML
6 2 (1.33%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.33%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.67%) Blog
5 4 (2.67%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.67%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (2.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 4 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.67%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.67%) Smartcard
6 3 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.33%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.33%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.33%) Industry 4.0
7 2 (1.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 56 (37.33%) Windows
2 39 (26.00%) Windows Server
3 35 (23.33%) Linux
4 11 (7.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.67%) Unix
6 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (21.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (20.00%) ITIL
4 29 (19.33%) Mentoring
4 29 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (16.67%) SIEM
6 21 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (14.00%) Cryptography
7 19 (12.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 18 (12.00%) Zero Trust
9 16 (10.67%) Coaching
9 16 (10.67%) Incident Response
10 14 (9.33%) Agile
10 14 (9.33%) Cloud Security
10 14 (9.33%) ITSM
10 14 (9.33%) Process Improvement
11 12 (8.00%) Containerisation
11 12 (8.00%) Creative Thinking
11 12 (8.00%) Load Balancing
11 12 (8.00%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (21.33%) PowerShell
2 30 (20.00%) Python
3 12 (8.00%) SQL
4 9 (6.00%) Bash
5 5 (3.33%) C++
6 4 (2.67%) Bicep
6 4 (2.67%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.00%) C
7 3 (2.00%) C#
7 3 (2.00%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.33%) Java
8 2 (1.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 54 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (23.33%) DV Cleared
3 23 (15.33%) SC Cleared
4 13 (8.67%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (8.00%) Azure Certification
5 12 (8.00%) Degree
6 7 (4.67%) CCIE
6 7 (4.67%) CCNP
7 6 (4.00%) CCNA
7 6 (4.00%) JNCIP
7 6 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (3.33%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.67%) CISM
9 4 (2.67%) CISSP
10 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.33%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (1.33%) HNC
11 2 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.33%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (8.00%) NIST
2 9 (6.00%) GDPR
2 9 (6.00%) NCSC
2 9 (6.00%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.67%) GRC
3 4 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 4 (2.67%) JSP 440
3 4 (2.67%) SLA
4 1 (0.67%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.67%) PSD2
System Software
1 49 (32.67%) Active Directory
2 32 (21.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (17.33%) vSphere
4 25 (16.67%) Hyper-V
5 11 (7.33%) Docker
6 10 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (6.67%) VMware NSX
7 8 (5.33%) KVM
8 7 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (16.67%) Ansible
1 25 (16.67%) Terraform
2 8 (5.33%) Graylog
2 8 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.33%) Proxmox
2 8 (5.33%) ZABBIX
3 7 (4.67%) vCenter Server
4 6 (4.00%) Endace
5 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (3.33%) WSUS
6 4 (2.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (2.67%) Kibana
7 3 (2.00%) SCCM
8 2 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (1.33%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 1 (0.67%) CASB
9 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 47 (31.33%) Microsoft
2 46 (30.67%) VMware
3 19 (12.67%) Veeam
4 12 (8.00%) Arista
4 12 (8.00%) Aruba
4 12 (8.00%) NetScout
5 9 (6.00%) Cisco
5 9 (6.00%) Citrix
6 8 (5.33%) NetApp
6 8 (5.33%) Splunk
7 7 (4.67%) Juniper
7 7 (4.67%) Red Hat
8 6 (4.00%) F5
9 4 (2.67%) IBM
9 4 (2.67%) Salesforce
10 3 (2.00%) McAfee
10 3 (2.00%) Thales
11 2 (1.33%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (1.33%) Dell
11 2 (1.33%) Symantec