PKI Job Trends in the North East

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in permanent job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 85 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Permanent jobs citing PKI 1 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.096% 0.43% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 1.37% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,446 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 - -
75th Percentile £50,443 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £58,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% -23.08% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 301 292 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 28.86% 31.36% 31.95%
Number of salaries quoted 173 98 206
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,241 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,404 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +6.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,498 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £91,875 £79,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

PKI job vacancy trend in the North East

PKI
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing PKI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing PKI

PKI
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the North East region over the 6 months to 15 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
Tyne and Wear +1 1 £48,445 - 2
PKI
England

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Network Operations Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) NetScout