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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 467 739
Rank change year-on-year -106 +272 -12
Permanent jobs citing PKI 211 315 458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.53% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.88% 1.39% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 134 225 332
10th Percentile £47,165 £42,769 £38,933
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £56,519 £88,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -

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 23,890 22,599 64,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.58% 38.01% 45.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11,124 16,431 31,543
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,113 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,383 £45,638 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%

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 23 October 2024.

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 23 October 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 -94 203 £50,000 -23.08% 36
UK excluding London -102 153 £50,000 -13.04% 28
Work from Home 0 73 £53,050 -24.21% 97
South West +9 66 £50,000 -23.08% 6
London -14 56 £68,900 -30.23% 7
South East -74 34 £53,050 -7.74% 8
North of England -23 23 £48,256 -8.08% 4
Midlands -35 20 £50,000 -4.76% 8
West Midlands -29 18 £40,626 -57.24% 7
North West -10 16 £48,256 +1.59% 3
North East -27 5 - -
Wales +10 4 £52,772 -
East of England -40 4 £110,000 +158.82% 2
Yorkshire +20 2 £42,500 -22.73% 1
Scotland -12 2 £52,500 -16.00%
East Midlands -36 2 £50,000 - 1

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 25 (11.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.21%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.42%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (1.42%) IIS
3 3 (1.42%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 62 (29.38%) Azure
2 38 (18.01%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (17.06%) Entra ID
4 25 (11.85%) AWS
5 15 (7.11%) GCP
6 10 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (4.74%) Azure Storage
7 9 (4.27%) IaaS
7 9 (4.27%) PaaS
8 8 (3.79%) SaaS
9 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.90%) AWS KMS
11 3 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.42%) Mimecast
12 2 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.95%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.95%) Rubrik
13 1 (0.47%) Cloudflare
13 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 72 (34.12%) Firewall
2 46 (21.80%) DNS
3 32 (15.17%) DHCP
4 26 (12.32%) VPN
5 20 (9.48%) Wi-Fi
6 19 (9.00%) Network Security
7 17 (8.06%) WAN
8 16 (7.58%) NGFW
8 16 (7.58%) VXLAN
8 16 (7.58%) Wireshark
9 15 (7.11%) Intrusion Detection
9 15 (7.11%) Skype
9 15 (7.11%) TCP/IP
10 13 (6.16%) SAN
11 11 (5.21%) Internet
11 11 (5.21%) LAN
12 10 (4.74%) IPsec
13 9 (4.27%) Wireless
14 8 (3.79%) DMZ
15 5 (2.37%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.42%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.95%) Redis
4 1 (0.47%) MySQL
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.37%) Git
1 5 (2.37%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.95%) JIRA
3 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.47%) MSI
3 1 (0.47%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (22.27%) Social Skills
2 29 (13.74%) Finance
3 24 (11.37%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.69%) Legal
5 8 (3.79%) Law
6 7 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.32%) Military
7 5 (2.37%) Police
8 4 (1.90%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.47%) Back Office
9 1 (0.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 63 (29.86%) Administrator
2 62 (29.38%) Systems Administrator
3 58 (27.49%) Wintel Administrator
3 58 (27.49%) Wintel Systems Administrator
4 24 (11.37%) Senior
5 22 (10.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (9.95%) Network Engineer
7 18 (8.53%) Security Engineer
8 13 (6.16%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (5.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
9 12 (5.69%) Security Specialist
10 10 (4.74%) Active Directory Specialist
10 10 (4.74%) Active Directory Support
10 10 (4.74%) Azure Specialist
10 10 (4.74%) Support Specialist
10 10 (4.74%) Wintel Engineer
11 9 (4.27%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 8 (3.79%) Senior Network Engineer
13 7 (3.32%) Architect
13 7 (3.32%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.21%) OAuth
2 10 (4.74%) ARM Templates
3 8 (3.79%) OpenID
4 6 (2.84%) Micronaut
4 6 (2.84%) OAuth2
4 6 (2.84%) Quarkus
4 6 (2.84%) RESTful
4 6 (2.84%) Spring
4 6 (2.84%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.84%) Web Services
5 5 (2.37%) SAML
6 4 (1.90%) LDAP
7 3 (1.42%) .NET
8 2 (0.95%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.47%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.47%) Kafka
9 1 (0.47%) ModSecurity
9 1 (0.47%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.37%) Data Centre
2 15 (7.11%) Clustering
3 14 (6.64%) Management Information System
4 13 (6.16%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.74%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.32%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.84%) Fat Client
7 6 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.84%) Thin Client
8 5 (2.37%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.37%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.37%) Replication
8 5 (2.37%) Smartphone
9 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.90%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.42%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 136 (64.45%) Windows
2 60 (28.44%) Windows Server
3 38 (18.01%) Linux
4 21 (9.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (8.06%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (6.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (5.21%) Windows 10
8 5 (2.37%) Android
8 5 (2.37%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.42%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.47%) CentOS
10 1 (0.47%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.47%) Solaris
10 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (21.80%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (17.06%) Service Management
3 33 (15.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 29 (13.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (12.80%) Cloud Security
6 26 (12.32%) Identity Management
7 25 (11.85%) ITIL
8 21 (9.95%) Coaching
8 21 (9.95%) Information Security
8 21 (9.95%) Network Monitoring
8 21 (9.95%) RBAC
8 21 (9.95%) Roadmaps
9 20 (9.48%) Load Balancing
9 20 (9.48%) Mentoring
10 19 (9.00%) Key Management
11 18 (8.53%) Agile
11 18 (8.53%) ITSM
12 17 (8.06%) Identity Access Management
13 16 (7.58%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 15 (7.11%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 51 (24.17%) PowerShell
2 31 (14.69%) Python
3 17 (8.06%) VB
4 16 (7.58%) SQL
5 12 (5.69%) C#
6 10 (4.74%) Bicep
6 10 (4.74%) Java
6 10 (4.74%) VBScript
7 7 (3.32%) ActionScript
8 6 (2.84%) Bash
9 3 (1.42%) C++
10 2 (0.95%) C
Qualifications
1 98 (46.45%) Security Cleared
2 78 (36.97%) DV Cleared
3 48 (22.75%) Degree
4 27 (12.80%) CISSP
5 25 (11.85%) SC Cleared
6 14 (6.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (5.69%) Azure Certification
8 11 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (4.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 8 (3.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (3.79%) CCSP
11 7 (3.32%) CISM
12 6 (2.84%) GIAC
12 6 (2.84%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (2.37%) AWS Certification
13 5 (2.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (2.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 5 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (2.37%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.74%) NIST
3 9 (4.27%) GDPR
3 9 (4.27%) SLA
4 7 (3.32%) NCSC
5 5 (2.37%) COBIT
6 3 (1.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.42%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.95%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.47%) GRC
8 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.47%) JTAG
8 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 65 (30.81%) Active Directory
2 36 (17.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (11.85%) vSphere
4 19 (9.00%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (5.69%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (5.21%) VMware NSX
7 10 (4.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (3.79%) Hyper-V
9 7 (3.32%) OpenSSH
9 7 (3.32%) XenApp
10 3 (1.42%) Firmware
10 3 (1.42%) vCloud
10 3 (1.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.95%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.47%) Docker
12 1 (0.47%) NFS
Systems Management
1 27 (12.80%) Ansible
2 21 (9.95%) Terraform
3 20 (9.48%) SCCM
4 17 (8.06%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (7.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (7.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (7.58%) SCOM
6 14 (6.64%) vCenter Server
6 14 (6.64%) WSUS
7 11 (5.21%) Kubernetes
8 7 (3.32%) IBM BigFix
8 7 (3.32%) PowerCLI
9 5 (2.37%) CASB
9 5 (2.37%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Clustering
9 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 4 (1.90%) Nessus
11 3 (1.42%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (1.42%) NetBackup
11 3 (1.42%) NetCrunch
Vendors
1 70 (33.18%) Microsoft
2 43 (20.38%) VMware
3 18 (8.53%) BMC
4 16 (7.58%) Arista
4 16 (7.58%) Aruba
4 16 (7.58%) NetScout
5 10 (4.74%) Google
5 10 (4.74%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.79%) SolarWinds
7 7 (3.32%) Citrix
7 7 (3.32%) IBM
7 7 (3.32%) Remedy
8 6 (2.84%) Dell
8 6 (2.84%) Juniper
9 5 (2.37%) Alibaba
9 5 (2.37%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.37%) Splunk
10 4 (1.90%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.42%) NetApp
11 3 (1.42%) Veritas