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 have cited PKI over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 659 829
Rank change year-on-year +141 +170 -199
Permanent jobs citing PKI 427 339 419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.33% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.22% 0.76% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 297 209 262
10th Percentile £43,227 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -1.74%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £70,938
90th Percentile £100,500 £109,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,100
% change year-on-year - +1.66% +3.05%

All Generic Skills
UK

PKI is in the General and Transferable 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PKI in the UK

PKI
Top 17 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 3 May 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 +143 384 £60,250 -7.31% 64
UK excluding London +90 253 £55,000 - 59
Work from Home +161 198 £59,000 -15.71% 50
London +133 160 £75,000 - 12
South East +47 97 £59,000 +2.61% 21
North of England +50 46 £62,783 -10.31% 4
Midlands +30 43 £47,112 -0.82% 13
South West +11 39 £57,500 -17.86% 11
North West +22 29 £62,641 -28.00% 3
West Midlands +36 27 £55,000 - 8
East Midlands -8 16 £44,225 -6.90% 5
Scotland -51 16 £66,250 -17.19% 7
Yorkshire +71 15 £62,500 -16.67% 1
Wales +8 9 - - 1
North East -6 8 £62,500 +66.67%
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 1
East of England +2 5 £62,500 - 2

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 31 (7.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.64%) IIS
2 7 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.41%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.70%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 223 (52.22%) Azure
2 161 (37.70%) AWS
3 140 (32.79%) Microsoft 365
4 110 (25.76%) GCP
5 84 (19.67%) SaaS
6 66 (15.46%) Entra ID
7 23 (5.39%) Azure Monitor
8 18 (4.22%) Azure Storage
9 16 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (2.81%) AWS KMS
10 12 (2.81%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (2.34%) Power Platform
12 8 (1.87%) IaaS
13 5 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.17%) PaaS
14 4 (0.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 4 (0.94%) Nutanix
15 3 (0.70%) Cloudflare
15 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Purview
15 3 (0.70%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 104 (24.36%) DNS
2 90 (21.08%) Firewall
3 66 (15.46%) DHCP
4 61 (14.29%) WAN
5 51 (11.94%) LAN
6 50 (11.71%) VPN
7 33 (7.73%) IPsec
8 29 (6.79%) Network Security
8 29 (6.79%) Wireless
9 26 (6.09%) TCP/IP
10 25 (5.85%) SAN
10 25 (5.85%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (4.92%) IPv4
11 21 (4.92%) IPv6
12 16 (3.75%) BGP
13 13 (3.04%) SD-WAN
13 13 (3.04%) VSAN
14 12 (2.81%) Internet
15 11 (2.58%) OSPF
15 11 (2.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.58%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.34%) Power BI
3 9 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.41%) InfluxDB
5 6 (1.41%) MariaDB
5 6 (1.41%) MySQL
6 3 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.70%) Redis
7 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (4.68%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.41%) Robot Framework
2 6 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (1.17%) Git
4 4 (0.94%) MSI
5 3 (0.70%) GitLab
6 2 (0.47%) JIRA
General
1 81 (18.97%) Presentation Skills
2 71 (16.63%) Social Skills
3 41 (9.60%) Finance
4 29 (6.79%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.34%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.11%) Law
8 6 (1.41%) Police
9 5 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.17%) Military
10 4 (0.94%) Banking
10 4 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.94%) Legal
11 3 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.70%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.47%) Electronics
12 2 (0.47%) Games
12 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 134 (31.38%) Architect
2 81 (18.97%) Cloud Architect
3 77 (18.03%) Senior
4 56 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 52 (12.18%) Security Engineer
6 35 (8.20%) Network Engineer
7 31 (7.26%) Senior Security Engineer
8 30 (7.03%) Security Architect
9 27 (6.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 27 (6.32%) Technical Architect
10 21 (4.92%) Linux Engineer
11 20 (4.68%) Active Directory Specialist
11 20 (4.68%) Administrator
11 20 (4.68%) Azure Specialist
11 20 (4.68%) Software Engineer
12 17 (3.98%) Security Technical Architect
13 16 (3.75%) Systems Administrator
14 15 (3.51%) Support Specialist
15 14 (3.28%) Active Directory Support
16 13 (3.04%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.45%) .NET
2 18 (4.22%) ARM Templates
3 12 (2.81%) EJB
4 10 (2.34%) GTK
5 7 (1.64%) HTML
5 7 (1.64%) web3js
6 6 (1.41%) OAuth
7 5 (1.17%) Web Services
8 4 (0.94%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (0.94%) JWT
9 3 (0.70%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.47%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.47%) LAMP
10 2 (0.47%) LDAP
10 2 (0.47%) Middleware
10 2 (0.47%) V-Ray
11 1 (0.23%) Micronaut
11 1 (0.23%) RESTful
11 1 (0.23%) SAML
11 1 (0.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 100 (23.42%) Public Cloud
2 30 (7.03%) Data Centre
3 19 (4.45%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (3.98%) Clustering
6 16 (3.75%) Management Information System
7 14 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.11%) NHS
10 8 (1.87%) Hedge funds
11 7 (1.64%) Blockchain
11 7 (1.64%) Cyberattack
11 7 (1.64%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.64%) Web3
12 6 (1.41%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.41%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.41%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
14 4 (0.94%) Enterprise Storage
14 4 (0.94%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 153 (35.83%) Windows
2 118 (27.63%) Linux
3 94 (22.01%) Windows Server
4 35 (8.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 33 (7.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 26 (6.09%) Windows Server 2012
7 23 (5.39%) Ubuntu
8 20 (4.68%) Android
8 20 (4.68%) Apple iOS
9 16 (3.75%) Debian
10 11 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (2.34%) CentOS
12 7 (1.64%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.70%) VMS
14 2 (0.47%) Unix
15 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (23.89%) Cybersecurity
2 96 (22.48%) Actionable Insight
3 94 (22.01%) Project Management
4 91 (21.31%) TOGAF
5 86 (20.14%) Migration
6 84 (19.67%) Presales
7 82 (19.20%) Configuration Management
8 81 (18.97%) Application Virtualisation
9 71 (16.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 68 (15.93%) DevOps
11 62 (14.52%) Cryptography
12 56 (13.11%) Agile
12 56 (13.11%) Identity Management
12 56 (13.11%) ITIL
13 48 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (9.60%) Key Management
15 36 (8.43%) Information Security
16 33 (7.73%) CI/CD
17 31 (7.26%) Infrastructure as Code
17 31 (7.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 81 (18.97%) PowerShell
2 62 (14.52%) Python
3 37 (8.67%) C#
4 35 (8.20%) C
5 31 (7.26%) Bash
6 30 (7.03%) VB
7 20 (4.68%) VBScript
8 15 (3.51%) SQL
9 14 (3.28%) Bicep
10 11 (2.58%) Java
11 10 (2.34%) ActionScript
11 10 (2.34%) C++
12 7 (1.64%) JavaScript
13 5 (1.17%) Perl
14 4 (0.94%) Go
14 4 (0.94%) Lua
14 4 (0.94%) Ruby
14 4 (0.94%) Rust
15 2 (0.47%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 131 (30.68%) Security Cleared
2 82 (19.20%) Degree
3 76 (17.80%) DV Cleared
4 43 (10.07%) SC Cleared
5 36 (8.43%) CISSP
6 29 (6.79%) CISM
7 27 (6.32%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (3.98%) CCNA
9 16 (3.75%) GIAC
9 16 (3.75%) Master's Degree
10 15 (3.51%) CRISC
10 15 (3.51%) ISSMP
11 14 (3.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 10 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (2.11%) DBS Check
13 9 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (1.87%) CEH
15 7 (1.64%) AWS Certification
16 6 (1.41%) CCIE
17 5 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.51%) COBIT
2 12 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.34%) GDPR
3 10 (2.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 10 (2.34%) SLA
4 9 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.47%) NCSC
5 2 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 136 (31.85%) Active Directory
2 80 (18.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (9.13%) vSphere
4 33 (7.73%) VMware ESXi
5 27 (6.32%) Hyper-V
6 22 (5.15%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (4.92%) Docker
8 17 (3.98%) VMware NSX
9 16 (3.75%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (3.04%) XenApp
11 10 (2.34%) OpenSSH
12 8 (1.87%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 7 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (1.64%) VMware Server
14 3 (0.70%) Firmware
14 3 (0.70%) KVM
14 3 (0.70%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.47%) pfSense
15 2 (0.47%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 42 (9.84%) Ansible
2 34 (7.96%) Single Sign-On
3 33 (7.73%) Kubernetes
3 33 (7.73%) Terraform
4 30 (7.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 27 (6.32%) SCCM
6 23 (5.39%) WSUS
7 21 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (4.68%) SCOM
9 18 (4.22%) vCenter Server
10 14 (3.28%) PowerCLI
11 12 (2.81%) CA Single Sign-On
12 10 (2.34%) IBM BigFix
13 9 (2.11%) Nessus
14 7 (1.64%) Cisco CUCM
14 7 (1.64%) Stealthwatch
15 6 (1.41%) Puppet
16 5 (1.17%) Red Hat Spacewalk
16 5 (1.17%) SCOrch
17 4 (0.94%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 239 (55.97%) Microsoft
2 97 (22.72%) Google
3 88 (20.61%) VMware
4 31 (7.26%) Cisco
5 21 (4.92%) Juniper
6 20 (4.68%) Citrix
7 19 (4.45%) Fortinet
8 15 (3.51%) Alibaba
8 15 (3.51%) ServiceNow
8 15 (3.51%) SolarWinds
9 14 (3.28%) CA
10 13 (3.04%) Splunk
11 12 (2.81%) CyberArk
11 12 (2.81%) IBM
12 11 (2.58%) HP
13 9 (2.11%) Dell
14 6 (1.41%) Red Hat
14 6 (1.41%) Veeam
15 4 (0.94%) 3PAR
15 4 (0.94%) Brocade