PKI Jobs

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 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) UK
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	668	608	762
Rank change year-on-year	-60	+154
Permanent jobs citing PKI	204	327	210
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.23%	0.34%	0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.55%	0.81%	0.46%
Number of salaries quoted	150	233	140
Median salary	£53,000	£58,500	£55,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	-9.40%	+5.40%
90% offered a salary of more than	£37,500	£40,000	£37,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£77,500	£70,000	£70,000
UK excluding London median salary	£50,000	£55,000	£47,500
% change year-on-year	-9.09%	+15.78%

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

Generic IT Skills UK
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	37011	40133	45320
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	42.02%	41.34%	40.94%
Number of salaries quoted	28923	32860	36156
Median salary	£50,000	£50,000	£47,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	-	+5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than	£30,000	£29,500	£28,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£80,000	£75,000	£77,500
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£42,500	£40,000
% change year-on-year	-	+6.25%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing PKI as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Miscellaneous category.

PKI
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PKI.

PKI
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing PKI over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

PKI
Top 30 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 3 months to 25 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-47	195	£52,750	-9.82%	25
London	+26	86	£56,000	-6.66%	6
South East	+3	53	£55,000	+4.76%	6
City of London	+43	22	£39,000	-29.09%	2
Surrey	+22	18	£90,000	+38.46%
East of England	+2	16	£47,250	-19.23%	4
North West	-31	16	£37,500	-19.78%	2
West Midlands	-3	12	£69,713	+16.18%	5
Oxfordshire	-	11	£35,000	-	2
Cheshire	-	10	£40,750	-
Essex	-	10	£50,000	-
Chelmsford	-	10	£50,000	-
Oxford	-	9	£35,000	-	1
Berkshire	-9	8	£52,500	-	4
Reading	-4	7	£53,750	+19.44%	2
Birmingham	-11	6	£50,000	-20.00%	3
South West	-24	6	£37,500	-31.81%	2
Knutsford	-	6	£50,000	-
East Sussex	-	5	£44,000	-
Hampshire	+11	4	£35,000	-41.66%
Manchester	-27	4	£37,500	-19.78%	1
Telford	-	4	£69,713	-	1
Staines	-	4	-	-
Shropshire	-	4	£69,713	-	1
West Yorkshire	+15	3	£41,500	-7.77%
Wiltshire	+7	3	£37,500	-25.00%	1
Yorkshire	+6	3	£41,500	+9.21%
Leeds	+5	3	£41,500	-7.77%
West Sussex	+4	3	£62,000	+18.09%
Swindon	+1	3	£37,500	-25.00%

PKI
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT jobs citing PKI also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads with a requirement for PKI.

1	214 (48.42%)	Windows
2	197 (44.57%)	Active Directory
3	184 (41.63%)	Microsoft
4	152 (34.39%)	VMware
5	135 (30.54%)	DNS
6	130 (29.41%)	Firewall
7	125 (28.28%)	Cisco
8	122 (27.60%)	Linux
9	107 (24.21%)	Windows Server
10	102 (23.08%)	DHCP
11	95 (21.49%)	Hyper-V
12	85 (19.23%)	Security Cleared
13	82 (18.55%)	Degree
14	80 (18.10%)	ITIL
14	80 (18.10%)	VMware Infrastructure

15	77 (17.42%)	Microsoft Azure
16	72 (16.29%)	Amazon AWS
16	72 (16.29%)	Windows Server 2012
17	71 (16.06%)	SC Cleared
18	69 (15.61%)	PowerShell
18	69 (15.61%)	VPN
19	68 (15.38%)	Oracle
19	68 (15.38%)	DevOps
20	67 (15.16%)	Information Security
20	67 (15.16%)	Agile Software Development
21	65 (14.71%)	SAN
22	64 (14.48%)	SCOM
23	62 (14.03%)	PaaS
24	61 (13.80%)	IaaS
25	60 (13.57%)	Identity Management

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
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	57 (12.90%)	MS Exchange
2	48 (10.86%)	Skype for Business
3	30 (6.79%)	IIS
4	28 (6.33%)	Exchange Server 2013
5	26 (5.88%)	SharePoint
6	24 (5.43%)	Apache
6	24 (5.43%)	Exchange Server 2010
7	18 (4.07%)	Elasticsearch
8	17 (3.85%)	Apache Pig
8	17 (3.85%)	Apache Spark
9	15 (3.39%)	Tomcat
10	13 (2.94%)	Confluence
10	13 (2.94%)	SharePoint 2013
11	10 (2.26%)	Exchange Server 2007
12	9 (2.04%)	WebLogic
13	8 (1.81%)	WebSphere
14	5 (1.13%)	JBoss
15	4 (0.90%)	MQSeries
15	4 (0.90%)	Office Communications Server
16	3 (0.68%)	SharePoint 2010

Applications
1	14 (3.17%)	Microsoft Office
2	4 (0.90%)	Microsoft Excel
3	3 (0.68%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	1 (0.23%)	Microsoft Project
4	1 (0.23%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	5 (1.13%)	Remedy ITSM
2	1 (0.23%)	Oracle EBS
2	1 (0.23%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	1 (0.23%)	Workfront

Cloud Services
1	77 (17.42%)	Microsoft Azure
2	72 (16.29%)	Amazon AWS
3	62 (14.03%)	PaaS
4	61 (13.80%)	IaaS
5	54 (12.22%)	Office 365
6	22 (4.98%)	AWS CloudFormation
6	22 (4.98%)	Azure Active Directory
7	21 (4.75%)	SaaS
8	14 (3.17%)	Amazon CloudWatch
8	14 (3.17%)	Amazon EC2
8	14 (3.17%)	Amazon S3
9	12 (2.71%)	Virtual Private Cloud
10	11 (2.49%)	Amazon SQS
11	5 (1.13%)	Cloud Computing
11	5 (1.13%)	G Suite
12	1 (0.23%)	Amazon ELB
12	1 (0.23%)	GitHub
12	1 (0.23%)	Mimecast
12	1 (0.23%)	Route 53
12	1 (0.23%)	SoftLayer

Communications & Networking
1	135 (30.54%)	DNS
2	130 (29.41%)	Firewall
3	102 (23.08%)	DHCP
4	69 (15.61%)	VPN
5	65 (14.71%)	SAN
6	56 (12.67%)	WAN
7	47 (10.63%)	SSL
8	46 (10.41%)	LDAP
9	45 (10.18%)	Network Security
10	42 (9.50%)	Skype
11	36 (8.14%)	IPsec
12	34 (7.69%)	Cisco Nexus
12	34 (7.69%)	Internet
13	32 (7.24%)	TCP/IP
14	31 (7.01%)	LAN
15	30 (6.79%)	Kerberos
16	26 (5.88%)	Fibre Channel
17	24 (5.43%)	SSH
18	23 (5.20%)	Wireless
19	22 (4.98%)	iSCSI

Database & Business Intelligence
1	50 (11.31%)	SQL Server
2	27 (6.11%)	Hadoop
3	25 (5.66%)	MySQL
4	23 (5.20%)	Relational Database
5	22 (4.98%)	MongoDB
6	21 (4.75%)	RDBMS
7	19 (4.30%)	Big Data
8	17 (3.85%)	Amazon RDS
8	17 (3.85%)	Apache Hive
9	11 (2.49%)	PostgreSQL
10	7 (1.58%)	NoSQL
10	7 (1.58%)	Oracle Database
11	6 (1.36%)	Oracle Database 11g
12	5 (1.13%)	Apache Cassandra
13	4 (0.90%)	Couchbase
13	4 (0.90%)	DB2
14	3 (0.68%)	OLTP
14	3 (0.68%)	Oracle ODI
14	3 (0.68%)	Redis
14	3 (0.68%)	SQL Server 2014

Development Applications
1	26 (5.88%)	Jenkins
2	19 (4.30%)	JIRA
3	18 (4.07%)	Git (software)
4	14 (3.17%)	Atlassian Bamboo
4	14 (3.17%)	TeamCity
5	13 (2.94%)	Octopus Deploy
6	6 (1.36%)	Bitbucket
7	3 (0.68%)	Oracle APEX
8	2 (0.45%)	Ant
8	2 (0.45%)	Eclipse
8	2 (0.45%)	Hudson
8	2 (0.45%)	Maven
8	2 (0.45%)	Mercurial
9	1 (0.23%)	Metasploit
9	1 (0.23%)	Selenium
9	1 (0.23%)	Vagrant

General
1	53 (11.99%)	Finance
2	22 (4.98%)	Banking
3	20 (4.52%)	Telecoms
4	14 (3.17%)	Law
5	10 (2.26%)	Marketing
6	7 (1.58%)	Military
7	6 (1.36%)	Legal
8	5 (1.13%)	Investment Banking
8	5 (1.13%)	Retail
9	1 (0.23%)	Billing
9	1 (0.23%)	Electronics
9	1 (0.23%)	Financial Institution
9	1 (0.23%)	German Language
9	1 (0.23%)	Japanese Language
9	1 (0.23%)	Manufacturing
9	1 (0.23%)	Multimedia

Job Titles
1	81 (18.33%)	Analyst
2	79 (17.87%)	Architect
3	62 (14.03%)	Infrastructure Engineer
4	59 (13.35%)	Security Engineer
5	43 (9.73%)	Security Architect
6	35 (7.92%)	Consultant
7	31 (7.01%)	Security Analyst
8	25 (5.66%)	Network Engineer
8	25 (5.66%)	Systems Engineer
9	23 (5.20%)	DevOps Engineer
9	23 (5.20%)	Infrastructure Analyst
10	21 (4.75%)	Support Engineer
11	20 (4.52%)	Infrastructure Architect
12	18 (4.07%)	Developer
13	17 (3.85%)	Cloud Engineer
13	17 (3.85%)	Exchange Engineer
13	17 (3.85%)	Wintel Engineer
14	16 (3.62%)	Active Directory Engineer
14	16 (3.62%)	AWS Engineer
14	16 (3.62%)	Messaging Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	39 (8.82%)	Middleware
2	34 (7.69%)	SAML
3	20 (4.52%)	XMPP
4	19 (4.30%)	Web Services
5	18 (4.07%)	Java EE
6	16 (3.62%)	Spring
7	15 (3.39%)	Apache Camel
7	15 (3.39%)	Hibernate
8	12 (2.71%)	Node.js
9	10 (2.26%)	CSS
9	10 (2.26%)	CSS3
9	10 (2.26%)	HTML
9	10 (2.26%)	HTML5
9	10 (2.26%)	LAMP
10	9 (2.04%)	AngularJS
10	9 (2.04%)	Elastic Stack
10	9 (2.04%)	jQuery
10	9 (2.04%)	JSON
11	6 (1.36%)	Oracle GoldenGate
12	5 (1.13%)	REST

Miscellaneous
1	57 (12.90%)	Computer Science
1	57 (12.90%)	Data Centre
2	48 (10.86%)	Analytical Skills
3	30 (6.79%)	Management Information System
4	28 (6.33%)	Security Operations Centre
5	20 (4.52%)	Linux Command Line
6	18 (4.07%)	Clustering
7	14 (3.17%)	BYOD
7	14 (3.17%)	Enterprise Storage
8	13 (2.94%)	CESG
8	13 (2.94%)	Private Cloud
8	13 (2.94%)	Replication
9	12 (2.71%)	Greenfield Project
10	11 (2.49%)	Derivative
11	10 (2.26%)	Fintech
12	9 (2.04%)	Smartcard
13	8 (1.81%)	Algorithms
13	8 (1.81%)	Cyberthreat
13	8 (1.81%)	Public Cloud
13	8 (1.81%)	Smart Meter

Operating Systems
1	214 (48.42%)	Windows
2	122 (27.60%)	Linux
3	107 (24.21%)	Windows Server
4	72 (16.29%)	Windows Server 2012
5	41 (9.28%)	Unix
6	40 (9.05%)	Windows Server 2008
7	36 (8.14%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8	25 (5.66%)	CentOS
8	25 (5.66%)	Solaris
9	23 (5.20%)	Ubuntu
10	20 (4.52%)	Debian
11	18 (4.07%)	Mac OS X
12	16 (3.62%)	Kali Linux
13	15 (3.39%)	AIX
14	14 (3.17%)	Windows Server 2003
15	13 (2.94%)	Data ONTAP
16	9 (2.04%)	Windows 10
17	5 (1.13%)	VMS
17	5 (1.13%)	Windows 2000
17	5 (1.13%)	Windows NT

Processes & Methodologies
1	80 (18.10%)	ITIL
2	68 (15.38%)	DevOps
3	67 (15.16%)	Agile Software Development
3	67 (15.16%)	Information Security
4	60 (13.57%)	Identity Management
5	57 (12.90%)	Multi-Factor Authentication
5	57 (12.90%)	SIEM
6	53 (11.99%)	Cybersecurity
7	48 (10.86%)	Security Architecture
8	40 (9.05%)	Data Protection
8	40 (9.05%)	Security Operations
9	39 (8.82%)	High Availability
10	36 (8.14%)	Fraud Detection
10	36 (8.14%)	Vulnerability Management
11	32 (7.24%)	Disaster Recovery
11	32 (7.24%)	Kalman Filter
12	31 (7.01%)	Change Control
13	30 (6.79%)	Cryptography
13	30 (6.79%)	Network Design
14	28 (6.33%)	Patch Management

Programming Languages
1	69 (15.61%)	PowerShell
2	49 (11.09%)	SQL
3	44 (9.95%)	Java
4	42 (9.50%)	Python
5	33 (7.47%)	Perl
6	20 (4.52%)	Shell Script
7	19 (4.30%)	Ruby
8	18 (4.07%)	C#
9	17 (3.85%)	C
10	16 (3.62%)	JavaScript
11	12 (2.71%)	VB
12	9 (2.04%)	Bash Shell
13	8 (1.81%)	C-shell
14	5 (1.13%)	Korn
15	4 (0.90%)	C++
16	3 (0.68%)	Bourne shell
17	2 (0.45%)	Assembly Language
17	2 (0.45%)	JCL
17	2 (0.45%)	Objective-C
17	2 (0.45%)	REXX

Qualifications
1	85 (19.23%)	Security Cleared
2	82 (18.55%)	Degree
3	71 (16.06%)	SC Cleared
4	47 (10.63%)	Cisco Certification
5	44 (9.95%)	Microsoft Certification
6	35 (7.92%)	CISSP
7	30 (6.79%)	MCSE
8	23 (5.20%)	CISM
9	22 (4.98%)	CCNP
10	20 (4.52%)	CCSP
10	20 (4.52%)	CESG Certified Professional
11	17 (3.85%)	CEH
12	15 (3.39%)	CCDP
12	15 (3.39%)	MCSA
13	14 (3.17%)	CCNA
14	13 (2.94%)	AWS Certification
14	13 (2.94%)	Computer Science Degree
14	13 (2.94%)	DV Cleared
14	13 (2.94%)	Numerate Degree
15	10 (2.26%)	CCSA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	49 (11.09%)	ISO/IEC 27001
2	37 (8.37%)	PCI DSS
3	22 (4.98%)	SLA
4	14 (3.17%)	QA
5	11 (2.49%)	Cyber Essentials
6	3 (0.68%)	FISMA
6	3 (0.68%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7	2 (0.45%)	COBIT
7	2 (0.45%)	FIPS 140-2
7	2 (0.45%)	GDPR
7	2 (0.45%)	ISO 22301
7	2 (0.45%)	ISO/IEC 20000
8	1 (0.23%)	COSO
8	1 (0.23%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
8	1 (0.23%)	SAS 70

System Software
1	197 (44.57%)	Active Directory
2	95 (21.49%)	Hyper-V
3	80 (18.10%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	45 (10.18%)	vSphere
5	21 (4.75%)	Virtual Machines
6	18 (4.07%)	XenDesktop
7	16 (3.62%)	XenApp
8	15 (3.39%)	NFS
8	15 (3.39%)	Snort
9	13 (2.94%)	pfSense
9	13 (2.94%)	VMware ESXi
10	10 (2.26%)	Docker
11	7 (1.58%)	UAG
12	5 (1.13%)	Forefront TMG
12	5 (1.13%)	ISA Server
12	5 (1.13%)	vCloud
12	5 (1.13%)	Veritas Cluster Server
13	4 (0.90%)	VMware Workstation
14	3 (0.68%)	ProxySG
14	3 (0.68%)	Terminal Services

Systems Management
1	64 (14.48%)	SCOM
2	37 (8.37%)	vCenter Server
3	35 (7.92%)	Ansible
3	35 (7.92%)	Puppet
4	31 (7.01%)	SCCM
5	20 (4.52%)	Opscode Chef
6	15 (3.39%)	OSSEC
6	15 (3.39%)	Terraform
7	13 (2.94%)	Cisco Prime
8	12 (2.71%)	vMotion
8	12 (2.71%)	WSUS
9	11 (2.49%)	Salt
10	10 (2.26%)	Nessus
11	7 (1.58%)	EMC Navisphere
11	7 (1.58%)	FortiGate
11	7 (1.58%)	Kubernetes
11	7 (1.58%)	Microsoft Clustering
11	7 (1.58%)	NetBackup
11	7 (1.58%)	Packer
11	7 (1.58%)	SolarWinds Orion

Vendors
1	184 (41.63%)	Microsoft
2	152 (34.39%)	VMware
3	125 (28.28%)	Cisco
4	68 (15.38%)	Oracle
5	40 (9.05%)	Juniper
6	36 (8.14%)	Red Hat
7	30 (6.79%)	F5
7	30 (6.79%)	HP
8	28 (6.33%)	Citrix
9	24 (5.43%)	CheckPoint
10	23 (5.20%)	Palo Alto
11	19 (4.30%)	Atlassian
11	19 (4.30%)	McAfee
12	18 (4.07%)	SolarWinds
13	17 (3.85%)	CA
13	17 (3.85%)	LogRhythm
13	17 (3.85%)	MobileIron
14	16 (3.62%)	NetApp
15	15 (3.39%)	EMC
15	15 (3.39%)	Sourcefire