Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 21 October 2021

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 have cited PKI over the 6 months to 21 October 2021 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
UK
6 months to
21 Oct 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 697 483 723
Rank change year-on-year -214 +240 -103
Permanent jobs citing PKI 368 213 399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.44% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% 1.23% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 248 156 285
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,388 £36,450
25th Percentile £46,938 £45,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.04% +3.48%
75th Percentile £67,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%

PKI is in the Generic IT Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

All Generic IT Skills
UK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 51,105 17,276 48,274
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.50% 35.31% 35.22%
Number of salaries quoted 30,627 14,291 37,055
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £37,565
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,486
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.53% +3.78%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -

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 21 October 2021.

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 21 October 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
England -221 300 £55,000 -4.76% 66
UK excluding London -188 208 £55,000 +4.76% 51
London -191 102 £60,000 -25.00% 19
South East -121 82 £62,500 +19.05% 19
Work from Home -257 65 £77,250 -3.44% 11
South West -65 45 £55,000 -21.43% 6
North of England -135 35 £53,350 -0.28% 10
North West -97 26 £53,350 -0.28% 8
Midlands -100 22 £47,500 -5.00% 9
West Midlands -101 15 £50,000 - 4
Wales -44 11 - - 4
Scotland -93 10 £55,000 +4.76% 1
East of England -104 8 £45,500 -9.00% 2
East Midlands -73 7 £37,500 -25.00% 5
Yorkshire -95 7 £92,500 +27.59% 1
North East - 2 - - 1

For the 6 months to 21 October 2021, IT jobs citing PKI also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for PKI.

1 179 (48.64%) Microsoft
2 171 (46.47%) Active Directory
3 142 (38.59%) Windows
4 136 (36.96%) Linux
5 133 (36.14%) Azure
6 94 (25.54%) VMware
7 77 (20.92%) Firewall
7 77 (20.92%) Windows Server
8 75 (20.38%) DNS
9 71 (19.29%) Microsoft 365
10 70 (19.02%) SSL
11 68 (18.48%) AWS
11 68 (18.48%) Gemalto
12 67 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
13 66 (17.93%) PowerShell
14 65 (17.66%) VMware Infrastructure
15 63 (17.12%) Security Cleared
16 62 (16.85%) Agile Software Development
17 61 (16.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 55 (14.95%) Azure Active Directory
18 55 (14.95%) SCCM
19 54 (14.67%) Microsoft Certification
20 50 (13.59%) LDAP
20 50 (13.59%) SQL Server
21 49 (13.32%) Bash Shell
22 47 (12.77%) Git (software)
23 46 (12.50%) ITIL
23 46 (12.50%) TCP/IP
23 46 (12.50%) Social Skills
24 45 (12.23%) SQL

PKI
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (10.87%) MS Exchange
2 31 (8.42%) IIS
3 17 (4.62%) SharePoint
4 15 (4.08%) Apache
5 13 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.63%) Confluence
7 5 (1.36%) Exchange Server 2013
7 5 (1.36%) Skype for Business
8 4 (1.09%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 4 (1.09%) WebSphere
8 4 (1.09%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (5.16%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 133 (36.14%) Azure
2 71 (19.29%) Microsoft 365
3 68 (18.48%) AWS
4 55 (14.95%) Azure Active Directory
5 36 (9.78%) PaaS
6 29 (7.88%) SaaS
7 28 (7.61%) IaaS
8 23 (6.25%) GCP
9 18 (4.89%) Azure Stack
10 9 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (2.45%) GitHub
11 8 (2.17%) OneDrive
12 7 (1.90%) Mimecast
13 6 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (1.09%) Slack
16 2 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
16 2 (0.54%) Azure Sentinel
16 2 (0.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 77 (20.92%) Firewall
2 75 (20.38%) DNS
3 70 (19.02%) SSL
4 46 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 42 (11.41%) DHCP
6 40 (10.87%) VPN
7 38 (10.33%) LAN
8 36 (9.78%) WAN
9 31 (8.42%) Network Security
10 25 (6.79%) HTTP
11 19 (5.16%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (3.80%) Internet
12 14 (3.80%) SAN
13 13 (3.53%) Remote Desktop
14 12 (3.26%) Wireless
15 11 (2.99%) Cisco ASA
15 11 (2.99%) MPLS
16 10 (2.72%) Cisco ISE
16 10 (2.72%) IPsec
17 9 (2.45%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (13.59%) SQL Server
2 42 (11.41%) MySQL
3 26 (7.07%) MariaDB
4 12 (3.26%) Apache Cassandra
5 10 (2.72%) Hadoop
6 9 (2.45%) Big Data
6 9 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (2.17%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.36%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.09%) Couchbase
10 3 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.82%) DB2
11 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.27%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.27%) Power BI
11 1 (0.27%) SQL Server 2016
11 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (12.77%) Git (software)
2 22 (5.98%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.53%) JIRA
4 10 (2.72%) Artifactory
5 9 (2.45%) GitLab
6 8 (2.17%) Robot Framework
7 7 (1.90%) PHPUnit
8 5 (1.36%) CMake
8 5 (1.36%) JMeter
9 4 (1.09%) Maven
9 4 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.82%) Subversion
10 3 (0.82%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 2 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.27%) Gradle
12 1 (0.27%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 46 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 34 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (9.24%) Finance
3 20 (5.43%) Public Sector
4 18 (4.89%) Manufacturing
5 13 (3.53%) Legal
5 13 (3.53%) Telecoms
6 9 (2.45%) Banking
7 8 (2.17%) French Language
7 8 (2.17%) German Language
7 8 (2.17%) Multimedia
8 7 (1.90%) Back Office
8 7 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.63%) Games
10 5 (1.36%) Electronics
10 5 (1.36%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.36%) Marketing
11 4 (1.09%) Automotive
11 4 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 52 (14.13%) Consultant
2 47 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 36 (9.78%) Developer
4 29 (7.88%) Architect
4 29 (7.88%) Security Consultant
5 26 (7.07%) Cryptography Engineer
5 26 (7.07%) PHP Developer
6 23 (6.25%) Senior Developer
7 21 (5.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 19 (5.16%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
8 19 (5.16%) Senior PHP Developer
9 18 (4.89%) Network Engineer
9 18 (4.89%) Security Engineer
10 17 (4.62%) Analyst
11 13 (3.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (3.53%) Software Engineer
11 13 (3.53%) Systems Engineer
12 12 (3.26%) Infrastructure Architect
13 11 (2.99%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (13.59%) LDAP
2 41 (11.14%) HTML
3 34 (9.24%) LAMP
4 32 (8.70%) REST
5 29 (7.88%) CSS
6 27 (7.34%) SOAP
7 26 (7.07%) jQuery
8 24 (6.52%) SAML
9 19 (5.16%) Kafka
10 15 (4.08%) OpenID
11 12 (3.26%) OAuth
12 10 (2.72%) Web Services
12 10 (2.72%) XML
13 9 (2.45%) OAuth2
14 8 (2.17%) LAPP Stack
15 6 (1.63%) Node.js
15 6 (1.63%) RESTful
16 5 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
16 5 (1.36%) Spring
16 5 (1.36%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.14%) Data Centre
2 37 (10.05%) Clustering
3 26 (7.07%) Algorithms
3 26 (7.07%) Mobile App
4 20 (5.43%) Management Information System
5 19 (5.16%) Enterprise Storage
6 17 (4.62%) Public Cloud
7 12 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.17%) Replication
10 7 (1.90%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.63%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.63%) Cyberthreat
12 5 (1.36%) Device Driver
12 5 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (1.09%) Hedge funds
13 4 (1.09%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 142 (38.59%) Windows
2 136 (36.96%) Linux
3 77 (20.92%) Windows Server
4 36 (9.78%) Windows Server 2012
5 29 (7.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 22 (5.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (5.71%) Unix
8 18 (4.89%) Windows 10
9 16 (4.35%) Mac OS
10 13 (3.53%) Windows Server 2008
11 12 (3.26%) Android
12 8 (2.17%) CentOS
13 7 (1.90%) Apple iOS
14 6 (1.63%) Solaris
15 5 (1.36%) Mac OS X
15 5 (1.36%) Ubuntu
16 4 (1.09%) Embedded Linux
17 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2003
18 2 (0.54%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (16.85%) Agile Software Development
3 61 (16.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 46 (12.50%) ITIL
5 43 (11.68%) Cybersecurity
6 40 (10.87%) DevOps
7 38 (10.33%) Cryptography
8 34 (9.24%) Change Control
8 34 (9.24%) Server Management
9 31 (8.42%) Mentoring
9 31 (8.42%) Software Engineering
10 30 (8.15%) Validation
11 28 (7.61%) Migration
12 27 (7.34%) Service Management
12 27 (7.34%) Unit Testing
13 26 (7.07%) Information Security
14 25 (6.79%) Configuration Management
14 25 (6.79%) SIEM
15 24 (6.52%) High Availability
15 24 (6.52%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (17.93%) PowerShell
2 49 (13.32%) Bash Shell
3 45 (12.23%) SQL
4 42 (11.41%) Python
5 40 (10.87%) JavaScript
6 31 (8.42%) Java
7 26 (7.07%) PHP
8 23 (6.25%) C#
9 16 (4.35%) C
9 16 (4.35%) Go
10 15 (4.08%) Perl
11 14 (3.80%) Shell Script
12 12 (3.26%) C++
12 12 (3.26%) Ruby
13 4 (1.09%) VB
14 3 (0.82%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.82%) VBScript
15 2 (0.54%) Java 11
15 2 (0.54%) Java 8
16 1 (0.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 63 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 54 (14.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 42 (11.41%) SC Cleared
4 33 (8.97%) Degree
5 21 (5.71%) CISSP
6 19 (5.16%) DV Cleared
7 18 (4.89%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (3.26%) CCNA
9 11 (2.99%) MCSA
9 11 (2.99%) MCSE
10 9 (2.45%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (2.17%) SSCP
12 7 (1.90%) CISM
12 7 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (1.90%) MCTS
13 6 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (1.36%) CISA
14 5 (1.36%) ISTQB
14 5 (1.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.07%) PCI DSS
2 22 (5.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (4.08%) NIST
4 12 (3.26%) GDPR
5 11 (2.99%) SLA
6 7 (1.90%) QA
7 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.54%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.54%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.54%) NCSC
8 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 171 (46.47%) Active Directory
2 65 (17.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (8.15%) Docker
4 27 (7.34%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (6.25%) vSphere
6 19 (5.16%) Hyper-V
7 11 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (2.17%) Terminal Services
9 5 (1.36%) BitLocker
9 5 (1.36%) NFS
10 4 (1.09%) ProxySG
10 4 (1.09%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 3 (0.82%) vCloud
12 2 (0.54%) OpenAM
12 2 (0.54%) OpenIDM
12 2 (0.54%) RACF
13 1 (0.27%) Firmware
13 1 (0.27%) Forefront TMG
13 1 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 55 (14.95%) SCCM
2 32 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 30 (8.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 29 (7.88%) Terraform
5 26 (7.07%) SCOM
5 26 (7.07%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (6.25%) Ansible
7 12 (3.26%) FortiGate
8 11 (2.99%) WSUS
9 10 (2.72%) Jamf Pro
9 10 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (2.45%) Opscode Chef
10 9 (2.45%) Puppet
10 9 (2.45%) SCOrch
11 6 (1.63%) McAfee ePO
11 6 (1.63%) Nessus
12 5 (1.36%) Grafana
12 5 (1.36%) Prometheus
13 4 (1.09%) OfficeScan
13 4 (1.09%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 179 (48.64%) Microsoft
2 94 (25.54%) VMware
3 68 (18.48%) Gemalto
4 41 (11.14%) Cisco
5 25 (6.79%) Apple
6 24 (6.52%) Red Hat
7 23 (6.25%) F5
8 20 (5.43%) Citrix
9 18 (4.89%) 3PAR
9 18 (4.89%) Scality
10 16 (4.35%) CheckPoint
11 15 (4.08%) Remedy
12 14 (3.80%) HP
12 14 (3.80%) Veeam
13 11 (2.99%) CyberArk
13 11 (2.99%) IBM
14 10 (2.72%) CA
14 10 (2.72%) Juniper
14 10 (2.72%) Meraki
15 9 (2.45%) Oracle
80 PKI job vacancies Nationwide