YubiKey Job Trends

Yubico YubiKey
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term YubiKey in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited YubiKey over the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing YubiKey 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.005% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.014% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £53,000 - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £85,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

YubiKey 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 20,836 20,539 19,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.73% 36.86% 37.29%
Number of salaries quoted 10,496 9,893 14,189
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,199 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £54,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.09% -1.59% -

YubiKey
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing YubiKey relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

YubiKey job vacancy trend in the UK

YubiKey
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing YubiKey.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing YubiKey

YubiKey
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing YubiKey over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Salary histogram for YubiKey in the UK

YubiKey
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing YubiKey within the UK over the 6 months to 27 December 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
South West - 3 £80,000 - 2
England - 3 £80,000 - 2
UK excluding London - 3 £80,000 - 2
Work from Home - 1 £50,000 - 1

YubiKey
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Principal Security Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Tenable
2 2 (66.67%) Qualys
2 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 2 (66.67%) VMware