PKI Job Trends in the Midlands

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 220 226 222
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +102
Permanent jobs citing PKI 4 20 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.051% 0.31% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.90% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 8
10th Percentile £63,000 £47,501 £32,517
25th Percentile £63,750 - £35,204
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £51,251 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.70% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £53,079 £67,875
90th Percentile £72,000 £53,688 £98,250
England median annual salary £58,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% -23.08% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,712 2,214 1,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.67% 34.70% 33.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,117 909 1,538
10th Percentile £26,000 £31,850 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

PKI job vacancy trend in the Midlands

PKI
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PKI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PKI

PKI
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +6 4 £67,500 +31.70% 3
PKI
England

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Internet
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) TimescaleDB
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SOC Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Derivative
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) CASB
1 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) QRadar
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) Netskope
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk