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 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 226 260
Rank change year-on-year -29 +34 -60
Permanent jobs citing PKI 26 4 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.17% 0.072% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.71% 0.17% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 13 4 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36,250 £52,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile - £61,250 £50,313
90th Percentile £81,000 £68,000 £51,251
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -23.08%

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 3,661 2,299 2,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.28% 41.51% 28.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,298 1,155 1,016
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -16.67% +2.86%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £56,400 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.55% -8.33% -4.00%

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
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PKI in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for PKI in the Midlands

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 October 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
East Midlands - 20 £55,000 - 3
West Midlands -34 6 £37,500 -31.82% 12
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (15.38%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.85%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) AWS KMS
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) Firewall
2 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 3 (11.54%) DHCP
3 3 (11.54%) DNS
3 3 (11.54%) NX-OS
4 1 (3.85%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) GitLab
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
General
1 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Law
3 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) Consultant
1 15 (57.69%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 15 (57.69%) Security Consultant
1 15 (57.69%) Security Technical Consultant
1 15 (57.69%) Technical Consultant
1 15 (57.69%) Technical Security Consultant
2 8 (30.77%) Junior
2 8 (30.77%) Junior Consultant
2 8 (30.77%) Junior Security Consultant
2 8 (30.77%) Junior Technical Consultant
3 5 (19.23%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Support Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Technical Support
4 4 (15.38%) Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Cryptography Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) COM
1 4 (15.38%) DCOM
1 4 (15.38%) LDAP
1 4 (15.38%) Middleware
2 3 (11.54%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
1 4 (15.38%) Mobile App
1 4 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
1 4 (15.38%) Smartcard
2 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.85%) IoT
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (23.08%) DevOps
3 5 (19.23%) Customer Service
4 4 (15.38%) Case Management
4 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
4 4 (15.38%) Customer Experience
4 4 (15.38%) Information Security
4 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (15.38%) Process Improvement
5 3 (11.54%) Availability Management
5 3 (11.54%) Digital Forensics
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (11.54%) ITIL
5 3 (11.54%) Product Management
5 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
5 3 (11.54%) Project Management
5 3 (11.54%) Server Management
5 3 (11.54%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
1 4 (15.38%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Degree
2 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) CCNA
3 4 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (11.54%) MCSE
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.85%) CCNP
6 1 (3.85%) CISM
6 1 (3.85%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) SLA
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (23.08%) Active Directory
3 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (11.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.85%) SCCM
2 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Salesforce
3 3 (11.54%) Cisco
3 3 (11.54%) VMware
4 2 (7.69%) FIS
5 1 (3.85%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (3.85%) Okta