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 cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 559 530
Rank change year-on-year +41 -29 +127
Permanent jobs citing PKI 186 82 359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.20% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.76% 0.51% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 111 61 316
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,799 £42,200
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £53,688 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.40% -11.99% -4.31%
75th Percentile £77,462 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £102,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £51,251 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.17% -6.82% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,405 15,964 33,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.20% 38.92% 36.33%
Number of salaries quoted 12,534 9,072 22,728
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,358 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,446 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,400 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -9.09%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

PKI job vacancy trend in the UK

PKI
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PKI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PKI

PKI
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PKI over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for PKI in the UK

PKI
Top 16 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 11 April 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
England -6 148 £61,418 +14.40% 52
UK excluding London -39 96 £58,000 +13.17% 44
Work from Home +43 55 £55,000 +6.02% 22
London +21 50 £70,000 -3.45% 11
South East -21 32 £58,000 +5.45% 20
Midlands -35 23 £55,000 +6.05% 5
North of England -47 22 £48,445 -0.32% 7
East Midlands -33 18 £55,000 +57.14% 3
Yorkshire -44 13 £50,000 +11.86% 4
South West -57 9 £77,500 +55.00% 6
North West -29 5 £48,445 -11.92% 3
East of England -38 5 £81,000 -10.00% 5
West Midlands -23 4 £60,750 +15.78% 2
Wales - 4 £65,000 - 3
North East - 4 £48,445 -
Scotland - 1 - - 1

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 14 (7.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.54%) Apache
3 1 (0.54%) IIS
3 1 (0.54%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Exchequer
1 1 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 61 (32.80%) Azure
2 60 (32.26%) AWS
3 23 (12.37%) Entra ID
4 20 (10.75%) GCP
4 20 (10.75%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (8.06%) OCI
6 12 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (6.45%) GitHub
7 10 (5.38%) Google Workspace
7 10 (5.38%) OpenShift
8 7 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.76%) IaaS
8 7 (3.76%) PaaS
8 7 (3.76%) SaaS
9 6 (3.23%) Datadog
9 6 (3.23%) Nutanix
10 5 (2.69%) Serverless
11 3 (1.61%) Cloudflare
11 3 (1.61%) Mimecast
12 2 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 56 (30.11%) Firewall
2 35 (18.82%) DNS
3 31 (16.67%) VPN
4 27 (14.52%) Network Security
5 24 (12.90%) WAN
6 23 (12.37%) BGP
7 20 (10.75%) Wireshark
8 17 (9.14%) DHCP
8 17 (9.14%) MPLS
8 17 (9.14%) SAN
8 17 (9.14%) VXLAN
9 16 (8.60%) Cisco Firepower
9 16 (8.60%) Cisco ISE
10 15 (8.06%) NGFW
10 15 (8.06%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (7.53%) SSL
12 12 (6.45%) SD-WAN
13 9 (4.84%) Cisco IOS
13 9 (4.84%) Junos
13 9 (4.84%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.54%) MySQL
2 1 (0.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (7.53%) TeamCity
2 8 (4.30%) Git
3 4 (2.15%) GitLab
4 3 (1.61%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.61%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (30.65%) Public Sector
2 25 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.90%) Finance
4 23 (12.37%) Social Skills
5 10 (5.38%) Retail
6 9 (4.84%) Banking
7 4 (2.15%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.61%) Advertising
8 3 (1.61%) Military
9 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.08%) Electronics
9 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.08%) Law
10 1 (0.54%) Automotive
10 1 (0.54%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Legal
10 1 (0.54%) Marketing
10 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (26.88%) Senior
2 49 (26.34%) Consultant
3 36 (19.35%) Architect
4 27 (14.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 25 (13.44%) Senior Consultant
6 20 (10.75%) Security Consultant
7 19 (10.22%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 18 (9.68%) Network Engineer
9 16 (8.60%) Support Engineer
10 15 (8.06%) Network Manager
10 15 (8.06%) Network Operations Manager
10 15 (8.06%) Operations Manager
11 14 (7.53%) Security Architect
12 13 (6.99%) Security Technical Consultant
12 13 (6.99%) Technical Consultant
12 13 (6.99%) Technical Security Consultant
13 8 (4.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 8 (4.30%) Security Engineer
14 7 (3.76%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 7 (3.76%) Junior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.84%) OAuth
2 8 (4.30%) OAuth2
2 8 (4.30%) OpenID
3 5 (2.69%) CSS
3 5 (2.69%) Flask
3 5 (2.69%) HTML
4 4 (2.15%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.61%) Middleware
5 3 (1.61%) Vue
6 2 (1.08%) eBPF
7 1 (0.54%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.54%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (0.54%) FIDO
7 1 (0.54%) JSON
7 1 (0.54%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.54%) Regular Expression
7 1 (0.54%) REST
7 1 (0.54%) Web Services
7 1 (0.54%) XMPP
7 1 (0.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.83%) Data Centre
2 18 (9.68%) Security Posture
3 17 (9.14%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.84%) Cloud Security Posture
4 9 (4.84%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.76%) Blog
5 7 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (2.69%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.69%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.08%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.54%) CCTV
11 1 (0.54%) Clustering
11 1 (0.54%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 43 (23.12%) Windows
2 39 (20.97%) Linux
3 27 (14.52%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.69%) Unix
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (23.66%) Cloud Security
1 44 (23.66%) Cryptography
2 41 (22.04%) Cybersecurity
3 38 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (19.89%) Security Architecture
5 29 (15.59%) SIEM
6 28 (15.05%) Agile
7 27 (14.52%) Mentoring
7 27 (14.52%) Zero Trust
8 25 (13.44%) ITSM
9 22 (11.83%) Containerisation
9 22 (11.83%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (11.29%) Incident Response
10 21 (11.29%) Network Monitoring
11 20 (10.75%) RBAC
12 19 (10.22%) Coaching
12 19 (10.22%) Collaborative Culture
12 19 (10.22%) Threat Modelling
13 18 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 18 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 47 (25.27%) Python
2 28 (15.05%) PowerShell
3 16 (8.60%) JavaScript
4 14 (7.53%) C#
4 14 (7.53%) SQL
5 13 (6.99%) Java
6 12 (6.45%) C++
7 10 (5.38%) Kotlin
8 8 (4.30%) Google Apps Script
9 6 (3.23%) Bicep
10 5 (2.69%) Bash
11 3 (1.61%) Go
12 2 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.54%) C
Qualifications
1 76 (40.86%) Security Cleared
2 51 (27.42%) DV Cleared
3 28 (15.05%) SC Cleared
4 23 (12.37%) AWS Certification
5 16 (8.60%) CISSP
6 15 (8.06%) CISM
7 14 (7.53%) Azure Certification
8 12 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (3.76%) CCNP
9 7 (3.76%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (3.23%) Degree
11 5 (2.69%) CCNA
12 4 (2.15%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (1.61%) CISA
14 2 (1.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 1 (0.54%) GIAC
15 1 (0.54%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (16.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (15.05%) PCI DSS
3 25 (13.44%) NIST
4 17 (9.14%) GDPR
5 16 (8.60%) NCSC
6 14 (7.53%) GRC
7 8 (4.30%) SOC 2
8 6 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 6 (3.23%) JSP 440
9 4 (2.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (1.61%) NIST 800
10 3 (1.61%) RMADS
11 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.54%) AUTOSAR
12 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.54%) PSD2
System Software
1 33 (17.74%) Active Directory
2 31 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (12.37%) vSphere
4 22 (11.83%) Docker
5 17 (9.14%) VMware NSX
6 10 (5.38%) Firmware
6 10 (5.38%) Hyper-V
7 8 (4.30%) KVM
7 8 (4.30%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.61%) vCloud
9 1 (0.54%) iptables
9 1 (0.54%) NLBS
9 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (25.27%) Terraform
2 36 (19.35%) Ansible
3 24 (12.90%) Kubernetes
4 15 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (8.06%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (6.99%) vCenter Server
6 11 (5.91%) WSUS
7 9 (4.84%) Grafana
8 6 (3.23%) Cilium
8 6 (3.23%) Endace
9 4 (2.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.15%) CASB
9 4 (2.15%) HP Fortify
9 4 (2.15%) VxRail
10 3 (1.61%) Puppet
11 2 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.54%) QRadar
Vendors
1 38 (20.43%) VMware
2 36 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 29 (15.59%) Cisco
4 26 (13.98%) HP
5 24 (12.90%) Arista
6 17 (9.14%) Aruba
6 17 (9.14%) Juniper
6 17 (9.14%) SolarWinds
7 16 (8.60%) Splunk
8 15 (8.06%) NetScout
9 14 (7.53%) Google
10 12 (6.45%) F5
11 11 (5.91%) Broadcom
12 9 (4.84%) Palo Alto
13 7 (3.76%) McAfee
14 6 (3.23%) ForeScout
14 6 (3.23%) Infoblox
14 6 (3.23%) SevOne
15 5 (2.69%) NetApp
15 5 (2.69%) Veeam