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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 381 475
Rank change year-on-year +6 +94 +286
Permanent jobs citing PKI 108 187 128
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.60% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.25% 1.75% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 25 96 108
10th Percentile £31,250 £43,239 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,799 £48,500 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -26.53% +19.02%
75th Percentile £76,250 £63,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,000 £73,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -17.29% +10.83%

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 8,615 10,702 13,121
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.47% 34.51% 38.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,909 7,811 10,153
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £39,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £64,987
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.37% +3.98%

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 20 July 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 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.85%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) IIS
4 1 (0.93%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 88 (81.48%) AWS
2 82 (75.93%) AWS Lambda
2 82 (75.93%) Serverless
3 16 (14.81%) Azure
3 16 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (6.48%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.63%) IaaS
6 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.85%) SaaS
8 1 (0.93%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.93%) GCP
8 1 (0.93%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.93%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 86 (79.63%) SSL
2 82 (75.93%) Broadband
2 82 (75.93%) SSH
3 8 (7.41%) Firewall
4 7 (6.48%) VPN
5 5 (4.63%) DNS
5 5 (4.63%) SAN
6 4 (3.70%) DHCP
6 4 (3.70%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.78%) BGP
7 3 (2.78%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (2.78%) IPsec
7 3 (2.78%) OSPF
7 3 (2.78%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (2.78%) S/MIME
7 3 (2.78%) X.509
8 2 (1.85%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (1.85%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.85%) VLAN
8 2 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Fiddler
General
1 97 (89.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.48%) Legal
3 4 (3.70%) Law
4 3 (2.78%) Agriculture
4 3 (2.78%) Finance
4 3 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.85%) Local Government
5 2 (1.85%) Police
6 1 (0.93%) Electronics
6 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.93%) Marketing
6 1 (0.93%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (76.85%) Cloud Engineer
2 82 (75.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (4.63%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (4.63%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (3.70%) Analyst
4 4 (3.70%) Information Analyst
4 4 (3.70%) Information Security Analyst
4 4 (3.70%) Security Analyst
5 3 (2.78%) Architect
5 3 (2.78%) Head of Engineering
5 3 (2.78%) IAM Specialist
5 3 (2.78%) Security Architect
6 2 (1.85%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (1.85%) Network Engineer
7 1 (0.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (0.93%) Security Engineer
7 1 (0.93%) Security Specialist
7 1 (0.93%) Server Engineer
7 1 (0.93%) Support Engineer
7 1 (0.93%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (75.93%) RESTful
1 82 (75.93%) Web Services
2 11 (10.19%) SAML
3 5 (4.63%) OAuth
4 4 (3.70%) OpenID
5 3 (2.78%) EJB
5 3 (2.78%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 82 (75.93%) Cyber Threat
1 82 (75.93%) Cyberattack
1 82 (75.93%) Management Information System
1 82 (75.93%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.78%) Algorithms
2 3 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Licensing
2 3 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.41%) Windows
2 7 (6.48%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.93%) Linux
3 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (80.56%) Cybersecurity
2 85 (78.70%) Key Management
2 85 (78.70%) Roadmaps
3 83 (76.85%) DevOps
4 82 (75.93%) Deployment Automation
4 82 (75.93%) Programme Delivery
4 82 (75.93%) Use Case
4 82 (75.93%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 9 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (7.41%) Presales
7 7 (6.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (4.63%) Customer Service
8 5 (4.63%) Innovative Thinking
8 5 (4.63%) Project Management
8 5 (4.63%) SIEM
9 4 (3.70%) B2C
9 4 (3.70%) Data Loss Prevention
9 4 (3.70%) Information Security
9 4 (3.70%) Risk Management
9 4 (3.70%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 83 (76.85%) Python
2 3 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (7.41%) Degree
2 7 (6.48%) CCNA
3 6 (5.56%) CCNP
3 6 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.63%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (3.70%) CISSP
6 3 (2.78%) CISM
6 3 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.93%) CEH
7 1 (0.93%) MCSA
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.93%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (78.70%) NIST
2 83 (76.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.56%) SLA
4 5 (4.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 97 (89.81%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 5 (4.63%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.93%) pfSense
4 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 83 (76.85%) Terraform
2 8 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.78%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.85%) Ansible
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 85 (78.70%) Thales
2 15 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.56%) VMware
4 5 (4.63%) Veeam
5 4 (3.70%) Cisco
6 2 (1.85%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.93%) Google
7 1 (0.93%) Imperva
7 1 (0.93%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.93%) SAP
7 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds