PKI Job Trends in the East of England

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 176 141
Rank change year-on-year +23 -35 +55
Permanent jobs citing PKI 6 8 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.14% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.45% 0.60% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile - £60,500 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £65,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% -14.71% +54.55%
75th Percentile £54,375 £110,000 -
90th Percentile £54,750 - £97,000
England median annual salary £58,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% -23.08% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,319 1,338 944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 31.55% 37.94% 38.74%
Number of salaries quoted 614 521 640
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £28,675
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,569
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £86,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PKI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

PKI job vacancy trend in the East of England

PKI
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing PKI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing PKI

PKI
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the East of England region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Cambridgeshire +17 3 - - 3
Hertfordshire +11 3 £52,500 -52.27% 5
PKI
England

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (50.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DMZ
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
1 3 (50.00%) Skype
1 3 (50.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Advertising
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Security Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Blackberry
1 3 (50.00%) Blog
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 3 (50.00%) RSA SecurID
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) AI
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (50.00%) Cryptography
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (50.00%) ISMS
1 3 (50.00%) Key Management
1 3 (50.00%) RBAC
1 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (50.00%) SDLC
1 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (50.00%) Use Case
1 3 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
1 3 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
1 3 (50.00%) GRC
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 3 (50.00%) JSP 440
1 3 (50.00%) NCSC
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
1 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) SCOM
1 3 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) HP
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (50.00%) VMware