PKI Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 395 556
Rank change year-on-year 0 +161 +156
Permanent jobs citing PKI 20 198 121
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.59% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 1.65% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 18 107 106
10th Percentile £32,125 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -15.71% +27.27%
75th Percentile £73,313 £67,968 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £75,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £58,250 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.80% -3.85% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,001 12,027 16,410
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.17% 35.55% 38.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,871 9,246 11,842
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% -8.77% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

PKI
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PKI trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

PKI
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PKI.

PKI salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

PKI
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing PKI over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

PKI salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (15.00%) IaaS
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) Mimecast
5 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) Firewall
2 6 (30.00%) DNS
2 6 (30.00%) VPN
3 4 (20.00%) IPsec
3 4 (20.00%) VLAN
4 3 (15.00%) DHCP
5 2 (10.00%) BGP
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (10.00%) LAN
5 2 (10.00%) OSPF
5 2 (10.00%) PSTN
5 2 (10.00%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (10.00%) SAN
5 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (10.00%) VoIP
5 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (10.00%) Wireless
5 2 (10.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) Subversion
1 1 (5.00%) TestComplete
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Law
2 4 (20.00%) Legal
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Local Government
4 2 (10.00%) Police
5 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Information Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Information Security Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Security Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Head of Engineering
4 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Service Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) SAML
2 1 (5.00%) EJB
2 1 (5.00%) LDAP
2 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Licensing
1 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) FMCG
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (25.00%) Presales
3 5 (25.00%) SIEM
4 4 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 4 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (20.00%) Information Security
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (15.00%) Generative AI
5 3 (15.00%) ITIL
5 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (15.00%) Software Licensing
5 3 (15.00%) Systems Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (10.00%) Agile
6 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
6 2 (10.00%) Innovative Thinking
6 2 (10.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) CCNA
2 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (20.00%) Degree
3 3 (15.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (10.00%) CCNP
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.00%) CEH
5 1 (5.00%) CISM
5 1 (5.00%) CISSP
5 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) MCSA
5 1 (5.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (10.00%) NIST
3 2 (10.00%) SLA
4 1 (5.00%) GDPR
4 1 (5.00%) ISO 9001
4 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (10.00%) Proxmox
3 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) VMware
3 4 (20.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (10.00%) Veeam
5 1 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.00%) Thales