PKI Jobs in the South West

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in permanent job vacancies in the South 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 172 245 262
Rank change year-on-year +73 +17 +22
Permanent jobs citing PKI 7 46 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.20% 0.47% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.62% 1.58% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3 28 6
10th Percentile £45,850 £46,750 -
25th Percentile £46,000 £47,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -21.43% +26.13%
75th Percentile £50,375 £60,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £51,350 £61,650 £87,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £59,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.69% -9.23% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,136 2,920 2,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 32.03% 29.81% 40.41%
Number of salaries quoted 571 2,034 1,371
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,945 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £38,033
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -8.90% +4.54%
75th Percentile £68,525 £65,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £86,250
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the South West

PKI
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for PKI in the South West

PKI
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the South 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
Wiltshire +16 3 £47,500 -9.52% 6
Bristol +54 2 - - 1
Gloucestershire +71 1 - - 4
Devon - 1 - -
PKI
England

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Broadband
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (28.57%) SSH
1 2 (28.57%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Identity Management Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) JWT
1 2 (28.57%) Keycloak
1 2 (28.57%) LDAP
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
1 2 (28.57%) OpenID
1 2 (28.57%) REST
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) SAML
1 2 (28.57%) SOAP
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (28.57%) Cyberattack
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Key Management
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) OWASP
2 2 (28.57%) Principle of Least Privilege
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Programme Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) RBAC
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Use Case
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) NIST
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (28.57%) Argo
2 2 (28.57%) Graylog
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
1 2 (28.57%) Thales