PKI Jobs 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 512 573
Rank change year-on-year +28 +61 +61
Permanent jobs citing PKI 95 265 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.70% 1.08% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 56 164 117
10th Percentile £41,125 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - +1.66%
75th Percentile £72,875 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £67,968 £87,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £59,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.69% -9.23% +8.33%

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 13,541 24,499 24,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.12% 32.71% 42.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,957 15,292 10,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the UK excluding London

PKI
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PKI in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for PKI in the UK excluding London

PKI
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PKI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 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
South East +26 45 £55,000 -6.78% 23
East of England +71 26 £85,000 +36.00% 6
West Midlands +34 9 £53,688 +24.20% 3
Midlands +26 9 £53,688 +21.40% 8
South West +73 7 £47,500 -13.64% 14
North of England -3 6 £51,100 -18.42% 11
North West -24 4 £66,000 +5.60% 7
Yorkshire +43 2 £44,700 -28.48% 2
Scotland +106 1 £74,500 +41.90% 2
Northern Ireland +36 1 - - 5
PKI
UK

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (17.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.21%) Apache
2 4 (4.21%) IIS
2 4 (4.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.05%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 53 (55.79%) AWS
2 35 (36.84%) Azure
3 26 (27.37%) AWS Lambda
3 26 (27.37%) Serverless
4 17 (17.89%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (8.42%) IaaS
6 7 (7.37%) GCP
7 6 (6.32%) Entra ID
7 6 (6.32%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (3.16%) PaaS
9 3 (3.16%) SaaS
10 2 (2.11%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (2.11%) Asana
10 2 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.05%) Cloudflare
11 1 (1.05%) Mimecast
11 1 (1.05%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 31 (32.63%) Firewall
2 28 (29.47%) SSL
3 27 (28.42%) SSH
4 26 (27.37%) Broadband
5 24 (25.26%) DNS
6 19 (20.00%) DHCP
7 11 (11.58%) SMTP
8 8 (8.42%) Network Security
9 7 (7.37%) SAN
9 7 (7.37%) VPN
10 6 (6.32%) IPsec
10 6 (6.32%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (5.26%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (5.26%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (5.26%) VLAN
12 4 (4.21%) Internet
12 4 (4.21%) LAN
12 4 (4.21%) OSPF
12 4 (4.21%) VoIP
12 4 (4.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.16%) JIRA
2 2 (2.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.05%) GitLab
General
1 45 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (5.26%) Police
4 4 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Finance
6 2 (2.11%) Local Government
6 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Advertising
7 1 (1.05%) Automotive
7 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (32.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (30.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (14.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (12.63%) Infrastructure Support
5 10 (10.53%) Senior
6 9 (9.47%) Support Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Architect
7 7 (7.37%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Network Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
10 4 (4.21%) Active Directory Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Head of Engineering
10 4 (4.21%) Security Architect
10 4 (4.21%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (4.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Software Engineer
11 3 (3.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 3 (3.16%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 3 (3.16%) SOC Manager
11 3 (3.16%) Technical Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (29.47%) Web Services
2 26 (27.37%) RESTful
3 12 (12.63%) SAML
4 5 (5.26%) LDAP
5 4 (4.21%) Keycloak
5 4 (4.21%) OAuth
5 4 (4.21%) OAuth2
5 4 (4.21%) OpenID
5 4 (4.21%) SOAP
6 3 (3.16%) YAML
7 2 (2.11%) 802.1X
7 2 (2.11%) JDBC
7 2 (2.11%) JSON
7 2 (2.11%) JWT
7 2 (2.11%) REST
8 1 (1.05%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 30 (31.58%) Management Information System
2 26 (27.37%) Cyber Threat
2 26 (27.37%) Cyberattack
2 26 (27.37%) Onboarding
3 8 (8.42%) Clustering
4 6 (6.32%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.21%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Licensing
5 4 (4.21%) Private Cloud
5 4 (4.21%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.11%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) Replication
8 1 (1.05%) SCADA
8 1 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (29.47%) Windows
2 22 (23.16%) Windows Server
3 10 (10.53%) Linux
4 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (40.00%) DevOps
2 37 (38.95%) Cybersecurity
3 32 (33.68%) Roadmaps
4 30 (31.58%) Key Management
5 28 (29.47%) Use Case
5 28 (29.47%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 26 (27.37%) Deployment Automation
6 26 (27.37%) Programme Delivery
7 20 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 15 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (14.74%) Agile
10 10 (10.53%) SIEM
11 9 (9.47%) Incident Management
12 8 (8.42%) Cloud Security
12 8 (8.42%) Presales
12 8 (8.42%) RBAC
12 8 (8.42%) Scrum
13 7 (7.37%) Disaster Recovery
13 7 (7.37%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (7.37%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (29.47%) Python
2 15 (15.79%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.32%) Java
4 3 (3.16%) SQL
5 2 (2.11%) C++
5 2 (2.11%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.05%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (41.05%) Security Cleared
2 31 (32.63%) DV Cleared
3 12 (12.63%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.47%) Degree
5 8 (8.42%) CCNA
5 8 (8.42%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (6.32%) CISSP
7 5 (5.26%) Azure Certification
7 5 (5.26%) CCNP
7 5 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.11%) A+ Certification
8 2 (2.11%) APMG
8 2 (2.11%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.11%) Cyber Scheme
8 2 (2.11%) GIAC
8 2 (2.11%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.11%) PMP
8 2 (2.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (33.68%) NIST
2 28 (29.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.26%) SLA
4 2 (2.11%) GDPR
4 2 (2.11%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.11%) NCSC
5 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 62 (65.26%) Active Directory
2 20 (21.05%) Hyper-V
3 18 (18.95%) VMware ESXi
3 18 (18.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (13.68%) Docker
5 8 (8.42%) BitLocker
5 8 (8.42%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (8.42%) Terminal Services
6 7 (7.37%) vSphere
7 3 (3.16%) Firmware
7 3 (3.16%) VMware NSX
8 2 (2.11%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (1.05%) NFS
9 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (32.63%) Terraform
2 13 (13.68%) Kubernetes
3 12 (12.63%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (11.58%) Ansible
4 11 (11.58%) vCenter Server
5 8 (8.42%) vMotion
6 6 (6.32%) Nagios
6 6 (6.32%) Puppet
7 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (3.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (3.16%) QRadar
9 2 (2.11%) Argo
9 2 (2.11%) Graylog
9 2 (2.11%) Nessus
9 2 (2.11%) Proxmox
9 2 (2.11%) WSUS
10 1 (1.05%) CASB
10 1 (1.05%) cPanel
10 1 (1.05%) FortiGate
10 1 (1.05%) WMI
Vendors
1 28 (29.47%) Thales
2 26 (27.37%) Microsoft
2 26 (27.37%) VMware
3 10 (10.53%) Google
4 8 (8.42%) Cisco
4 8 (8.42%) Citrix
5 6 (6.32%) HP
5 6 (6.32%) Symantec
5 6 (6.32%) Veeam
6 5 (5.26%) Splunk
7 4 (4.21%) SolarWinds
8 3 (3.16%) Broadcom
8 3 (3.16%) Juniper
9 2 (2.11%) CheckPoint
9 2 (2.11%) ForgeRock
9 2 (2.11%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.05%) Avaya
10 1 (1.05%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (1.05%) F5
10 1 (1.05%) Zscaler