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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 521 654
Rank change year-on-year -6 +133 +174
Permanent jobs citing PKI 177 430 334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.41% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.85% 1.20% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 74 298 202
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,227 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,875 £48,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £59,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -9.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £79,688 £76,875 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £92,500 £108,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% - +1.66%

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 20,763 35,685 41,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.18% 34.42% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9,606 23,135 22,550
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,085 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PKI in the UK

PKI
Top 14 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 31 May 2025. 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 -15 175 £58,000 -1.69% 107
Work from Home +33 103 £52,500 -6.69% 53
UK excluding London +28 95 £56,250 +2.27% 74
London 0 46 £73,750 -1.67% 44
South East +26 45 £55,000 -6.78% 23
East of England +71 26 £85,000 +36.00% 6
West Midlands +34 9 £53,688 +24.20% 3
Midlands +26 9 £53,688 +21.40% 8
South West +73 7 £47,500 -13.64% 14
North of England -3 6 £51,100 -18.42% 11
North West -24 4 £66,000 +5.60% 7
Yorkshire +43 2 £44,700 -28.48% 2
Scotland +106 1 £74,500 +41.90% 2
Northern Ireland +36 1 - - 5

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 18 (10.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.26%) Apache
2 4 (2.26%) IIS
2 4 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.56%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 120 (67.80%) AWS
2 83 (46.89%) AWS Lambda
2 83 (46.89%) Serverless
3 48 (27.12%) Azure
4 25 (14.12%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (7.91%) Entra ID
5 14 (7.91%) GCP
6 10 (5.65%) IaaS
7 7 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (3.39%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (2.82%) PaaS
10 4 (2.26%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (1.69%) SaaS
12 2 (1.13%) Amazon Cognito
12 2 (1.13%) Asana
12 2 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.56%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 86 (48.59%) SSL
2 83 (46.89%) SSH
3 82 (46.33%) Broadband
4 43 (24.29%) Firewall
5 27 (15.25%) DNS
6 19 (10.73%) DHCP
7 16 (9.04%) VPN
8 11 (6.21%) SMTP
9 9 (5.08%) SAN
10 8 (4.52%) Network Security
11 6 (3.39%) IPsec
11 6 (3.39%) Kerberos
11 6 (3.39%) Remote Desktop
12 5 (2.82%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (2.82%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (2.82%) VLAN
12 5 (2.82%) WAN
13 4 (2.26%) Internet
13 4 (2.26%) LAN
13 4 (2.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.26%) JIRA
2 2 (1.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.56%) GitLab
General
1 118 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.04%) Finance
3 10 (5.65%) Legal
4 9 (5.08%) Law
5 7 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.82%) Police
7 4 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.26%) Marketing
8 3 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.13%) Local Government
10 1 (0.56%) Advertising
10 1 (0.56%) Automotive
10 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 87 (49.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 86 (48.59%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (9.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (7.91%) Senior
5 12 (6.78%) Infrastructure Support
6 10 (5.65%) Analyst
6 10 (5.65%) Security Analyst
7 9 (5.08%) Architect
7 9 (5.08%) Support Engineer
8 8 (4.52%) Security Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) Identity Management Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) Network Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Information Analyst
10 6 (3.39%) Information Security Analyst
10 6 (3.39%) Security Architect
10 6 (3.39%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.82%) 2nd Line Support
12 4 (2.26%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (47.46%) Web Services
2 83 (46.89%) RESTful
3 17 (9.60%) SAML
4 12 (6.78%) OAuth
5 11 (6.21%) OpenID
6 10 (5.65%) LDAP
7 7 (3.95%) OAuth2
8 5 (2.82%) SailPoint
8 5 (2.82%) SOAP
9 4 (2.26%) Keycloak
10 3 (1.69%) 802.1X
10 3 (1.69%) JDBC
10 3 (1.69%) JSON
10 3 (1.69%) YAML
11 2 (1.13%) EJB
11 2 (1.13%) JWT
11 2 (1.13%) REST
12 1 (0.56%) Micronaut
12 1 (0.56%) ModSecurity
12 1 (0.56%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 87 (49.15%) Management Information System
1 87 (49.15%) Onboarding
2 82 (46.33%) Cyber Threat
2 82 (46.33%) Cyberattack
3 8 (4.52%) Clustering
4 6 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.39%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (3.39%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.82%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.26%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Licensing
6 4 (2.26%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.69%) Replication
7 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.69%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.13%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 39 (22.03%) Windows
2 30 (16.95%) Windows Server
3 14 (7.91%) Linux
4 3 (1.69%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (59.32%) Cybersecurity
2 94 (53.11%) DevOps
3 91 (51.41%) Key Management
3 91 (51.41%) Roadmaps
4 89 (50.28%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 84 (47.46%) Use Case
6 82 (46.33%) Deployment Automation
6 82 (46.33%) Programme Delivery
7 26 (14.69%) SIEM
8 23 (12.99%) Agile
9 22 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (9.60%) Data Loss Prevention
12 16 (9.04%) Cloud Security
13 15 (8.47%) Information Security
13 15 (8.47%) Risk Management
14 14 (7.91%) Disaster Recovery
14 14 (7.91%) Identity Access Management
14 14 (7.91%) Infrastructure as Code
15 13 (7.34%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 89 (50.28%) Python
2 25 (14.12%) PowerShell
3 9 (5.08%) Java
4 3 (1.69%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.69%) SQL
5 2 (1.13%) C++
6 1 (0.56%) Bash
6 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 33 (18.64%) DV Cleared
3 19 (10.73%) CISSP
4 17 (9.60%) Degree
5 15 (8.47%) SC Cleared
6 12 (6.78%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (4.52%) CCNA
8 7 (3.95%) CISM
9 6 (3.39%) CCNP
9 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (2.82%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.82%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.69%) CCSK
11 3 (1.69%) CCSP
11 3 (1.69%) OSCP
12 2 (1.13%) A+ Certification
12 2 (1.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (52.54%) NIST
2 86 (48.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (5.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (4.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (3.39%) GDPR
6 5 (2.82%) SLA
7 2 (1.13%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.13%) NCSC
8 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 132 (74.58%) Active Directory
2 22 (12.43%) Hyper-V
3 20 (11.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (10.17%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (7.91%) Docker
6 8 (4.52%) BitLocker
6 8 (4.52%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (4.52%) Terminal Services
7 7 (3.95%) vSphere
8 3 (1.69%) Firmware
8 3 (1.69%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.13%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.56%) NFS
10 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 94 (53.11%) Terraform
2 18 (10.17%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (7.34%) Kubernetes
4 12 (6.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (6.21%) Ansible
5 11 (6.21%) vCenter Server
6 8 (4.52%) QRadar
6 8 (4.52%) vMotion
7 6 (3.39%) Nagios
7 6 (3.39%) Puppet
8 4 (2.26%) CASB
9 3 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.13%) Argo
10 2 (1.13%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (1.13%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.13%) Graylog
10 2 (1.13%) Nessus
10 2 (1.13%) Proxmox
10 2 (1.13%) WSUS
11 1 (0.56%) WMI
Vendors
1 86 (48.59%) Thales
2 41 (23.16%) Microsoft
3 28 (15.82%) VMware
4 10 (5.65%) Cisco
4 10 (5.65%) Google
4 10 (5.65%) Splunk
5 9 (5.08%) SolarWinds
5 9 (5.08%) Symantec
6 8 (4.52%) Citrix
7 6 (3.39%) HP
7 6 (3.39%) Veeam
8 4 (2.26%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.26%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.69%) Broadcom
9 3 (1.69%) Dell
9 3 (1.69%) ForgeRock
9 3 (1.69%) Juniper
10 2 (1.13%) CheckPoint
10 2 (1.13%) EMC
10 2 (1.13%) SonicWALL