PKI Job Trends in the South East

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 244 302
Rank change year-on-year -24 +58 +27
Permanent jobs citing PKI 32 35 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.22% 0.44% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.90% 1.08% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 30 32 85
10th Percentile £51,250 £31,250 £43,239
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -6.78% -1.67%
75th Percentile £69,688 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,350 £67,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £58,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +7.76% -1.69% -9.23%

All Generic Skills
South 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,550 3,228 5,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.38% 40.97% 33.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,282 1,490 3,855
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -12.90%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,625 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -15.38%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

PKI job vacancy trend in the South East

PKI
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PKI

PKI
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing PKI in the South East over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for PKI in the South East

PKI
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Thames Valley +25 18 £62,500 +56.25% 9
Hampshire -46 12 £70,000 +21.74% 14
Berkshire +8 10 £67,500 +68.75% 5
Buckinghamshire - 8 £61,250 - 3
Surrey - 2 - - 2
PKI
England

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) AWS
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 8 (25.00%) Cloudflare
3 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.13%) Mimecast
3 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
3 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (53.13%) Firewall
2 15 (46.88%) VPN
3 10 (31.25%) Cisco Firepower
4 9 (28.13%) DNS
4 9 (28.13%) SAN
5 8 (25.00%) NAS
5 8 (25.00%) NetScaler
5 8 (25.00%) Wireshark
6 7 (21.88%) WAN
7 6 (18.75%) BGP
7 6 (18.75%) HTTP
7 6 (18.75%) MPLS
7 6 (18.75%) SNMP
8 4 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (12.50%) Junos
8 4 (12.50%) NX-OS
9 2 (6.25%) VLAN
10 1 (3.13%) SSH
10 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Power BI
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Architect
2 12 (37.50%) Network Engineer
3 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) Applications Architect
6 4 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Security Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Senior
8 2 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Design Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) Lead
9 1 (3.13%) Network Architect
9 1 (3.13%) Python Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) Senior Architect
9 1 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) Regular Expression
1 4 (12.50%) XMPP
2 1 (3.13%) REST
2 1 (3.13%) RESTful
2 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.13%) Clustering
2 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.13%) Cyberattack
2 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (59.38%) Windows
2 18 (56.25%) Linux
3 11 (34.38%) Windows Server
4 8 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 12 (37.50%) SIEM
2 10 (31.25%) ITIL
3 8 (25.00%) Cryptography
3 8 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 8 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 8 (25.00%) Zero Trust
4 7 (21.88%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (18.75%) Capacity Management
5 6 (18.75%) Customer Requirements
5 6 (18.75%) Incident Response
5 6 (18.75%) Performance Testing
5 6 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (15.63%) ITSM
6 5 (15.63%) Network Design
6 5 (15.63%) Requirements Analysis
7 4 (12.50%) Change Management
7 4 (12.50%) Pattern Matching
7 4 (12.50%) Service Management
7 4 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 9 (28.13%) Python
3 8 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (3.13%) Bicep
4 1 (3.13%) C#
4 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (59.38%) Security Cleared
2 18 (56.25%) DV Cleared
3 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) CCIE
4 1 (3.13%) CCNA
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.13%) NCSC
1 1 (3.13%) NIST
1 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) Active Directory
2 10 (31.25%) Hyper-V
3 9 (28.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (25.00%) KVM
4 8 (25.00%) vSphere
5 5 (15.63%) VMware NSX
6 4 (12.50%) Firmware
7 1 (3.13%) Docker
7 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Graylog
1 8 (25.00%) Proxmox
1 8 (25.00%) ZABBIX
2 6 (18.75%) Endace
3 5 (15.63%) vCenter Server
4 2 (6.25%) Terraform
5 1 (3.13%) Ansible
5 1 (3.13%) Kibana
5 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (53.13%) Microsoft
1 17 (53.13%) VMware
2 10 (31.25%) Cisco
2 10 (31.25%) Juniper
3 9 (28.13%) Veeam
4 8 (25.00%) Citrix
4 8 (25.00%) NetApp
5 6 (18.75%) F5
6 5 (15.63%) SolarWinds
7 4 (12.50%) Broadcom
7 4 (12.50%) IBM
7 4 (12.50%) Red Hat
8 1 (3.13%) 3PAR
8 1 (3.13%) BMC
8 1 (3.13%) HP
8 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.13%) Remedy
8 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.13%) Thales