PKI Jobs in the North West

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 261 281
Rank change year-on-year -24 +20 +27
Permanent jobs citing PKI 4 30 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.051% 0.29% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.94% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2 15 12
10th Percentile £57,100 £48,777 -
25th Percentile £58,375 £51,250 £47,564
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -3.85% +21.84%
75th Percentile £77,875 £67,968 £113,438
90th Percentile £81,700 - £120,000
England median annual salary £58,000 £59,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.69% -9.23% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,560 3,182 3,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 32.62% 30.58% 42.16%
Number of salaries quoted 907 2,284 1,463
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £32,572
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,603 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the North West

PKI
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PKI in the North West.

Salary trend for PKI in the North West

PKI
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing PKI in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PKI in the North West

PKI
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
Cumbria - 2 - -
Manchester +44 1 £57,500 -8.41% 4
Cheshire - 1 £74,500 - 3
PKI
England

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Broadband
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (25.00%) SSH
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JDBC
1 1 (25.00%) ModSecurity
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (25.00%) Key Management
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (25.00%) Server Hardening
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Management
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CEH
1 1 (25.00%) MCSA
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (25.00%) NCSC
3 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (25.00%) cPanel
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) ForgeRock
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Thales