PKI Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 181 195
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 +4
Permanent jobs citing PKI 22 10 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.36% 0.28% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.42% 0.63% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 21 10 34
10th Percentile £51,250 - £37,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £31,250 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £40,000 £57,025
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -29.86% -22.41%
75th Percentile £68,750 £52,500 £59,000
90th Percentile - £53,000 £63,750
South East median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.70% -23.10%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,545 1,579 2,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.38% 44.28% 31.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,030 656 1,389
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +1.01% -13.91%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

PKI job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

PKI
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PKI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PKI

PKI
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing PKI in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Salary histogram for PKI in the Thames Valley

PKI
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 July 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
Berkshire +10 14 £67,500 +68.75% 7
Buckinghamshire - 8 £61,250 - 4
PKI
South East

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (36.36%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Azure Sentinel
2 8 (36.36%) Cloudflare
3 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.55%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 16 (72.73%) Firewall
2 12 (54.55%) DNS
3 10 (45.45%) VPN
4 8 (36.36%) NAS
4 8 (36.36%) NetScaler
4 8 (36.36%) SAN
4 8 (36.36%) Wireshark
5 3 (13.64%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (9.09%) WAN
7 1 (4.55%) BGP
7 1 (4.55%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (4.55%) DHCP
7 1 (4.55%) HTTP
7 1 (4.55%) MPLS
7 1 (4.55%) SNMP
7 1 (4.55%) VLAN
7 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Architect
2 8 (36.36%) Network Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Security Engineer
4 6 (27.27%) Applications Architect
5 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) Network Security Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) Senior
6 3 (13.64%) Senior Security Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Design Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Network Architect
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Regular Expression
1 7 (31.82%) XMPP
2 3 (13.64%) JSON
2 3 (13.64%) JSON Schema
2 3 (13.64%) LDAP
2 3 (13.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (90.91%) Linux
1 20 (90.91%) Windows
2 12 (54.55%) Windows Server
3 11 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) SIEM
2 12 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (40.91%) ITIL
4 8 (36.36%) Vulnerability Management
4 8 (36.36%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 8 (36.36%) Zero Trust
5 7 (31.82%) Validation
6 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (18.18%) Antivirus Management
7 4 (18.18%) Pattern Matching
7 4 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (13.64%) Data Integration
8 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (9.09%) Decision-Making
10 1 (4.55%) Architectural Design
10 1 (4.55%) Architecture Governance
10 1 (4.55%) Customer Requirements
10 1 (4.55%) DevSecOps
10 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
2 8 (36.36%) Bash
2 8 (36.36%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 12 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 11 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) CCIE
3 1 (4.55%) CCNA
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 11 (50.00%) vSphere
3 9 (40.91%) Hyper-V
4 8 (36.36%) KVM
4 8 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Graylog
1 8 (36.36%) Proxmox
1 8 (36.36%) ZABBIX
2 1 (4.55%) Endace
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (86.36%) VMware
2 17 (77.27%) Microsoft
3 9 (40.91%) Veeam
4 8 (36.36%) Citrix
4 8 (36.36%) NetApp
5 7 (31.82%) Red Hat
6 4 (18.18%) IBM
7 3 (13.64%) McAfee
8 1 (4.55%) 3PAR
8 1 (4.55%) Cisco
8 1 (4.55%) F5
8 1 (4.55%) HP
8 1 (4.55%) Juniper
8 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
8 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds