PKI Job Trends in Lancashire

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
North West > Lancashire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in permanent job vacancies in Lancashire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - 86
Rank change year-on-year - - -13
Permanent jobs citing PKI 6 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 0.41% - 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.94% - 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,446 - £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 - £62,783
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.24%
75th Percentile £50,443 - £67,968
90th Percentile £63,934 - -
North West median annual salary £48,445 £66,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -26.60% +5.60% -39.02%

All Generic Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 310 736 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 21.17% 64.45% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 234 89 281
10th Percentile £30,750 £22,425 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £24,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £38,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -22.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £65,603
90th Percentile £74,689 £63,750 £72,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

PKI job vacancy trend in Lancashire

PKI
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing PKI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing PKI

PKI
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing PKI in Lancashire over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for PKI in Lancashire

PKI
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Blackpool - 6 £48,445 -
PKI
North West

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) OCI
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) NGFW
1 4 (66.67%) VXLAN
1 4 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (66.67%) Wireshark
2 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 6 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Network Manager
1 4 (66.67%) Network Operations Manager
1 4 (66.67%) Operations Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (16.67%) OpenID
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Coaching
1 6 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (66.67%) Creative Thinking
2 4 (66.67%) ITSM
2 4 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 4 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Cryptography
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Privileged Identity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Secrets Management
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Arista
1 4 (66.67%) Aruba
1 4 (66.67%) NetScout
2 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft