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 2 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 192 188
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 -41
Permanent jobs citing PKI 19 10 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.25% 0.26% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.96% 0.64% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 16 10 7
10th Percentile - - £48,915
25th Percentile £60,000 £31,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £40,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -29.23% -
75th Percentile £67,813 £52,500 £59,388
90th Percentile £68,750 £53,000 £69,450
South East median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £53,050
% change year-on-year +11.36% +3.68% -11.58%

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 1,982 1,553 1,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.43% 40.65% 31.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 670 643
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,400
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,854 £38,560
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,510 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.77% -12.83% -5.22%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -3.51%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +5 11 £66,250 +65.63% 7
Buckinghamshire - 8 £61,250 - 3
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 (21.05%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Azure Sentinel
2 8 (42.11%) Cloudflare
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (73.68%) Firewall
2 8 (42.11%) VPN
3 7 (36.84%) DNS
4 4 (21.05%) NAS
4 4 (21.05%) NetScaler
4 4 (21.05%) SAN
4 4 (21.05%) Wireshark
5 3 (15.79%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (10.53%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
1 2 (10.53%) Police
1 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Italian Language
2 1 (5.26%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) Network Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) Security Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) Architect
4 5 (26.32%) Senior
5 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (15.79%) Applications Architect
6 3 (15.79%) Senior Security Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (5.26%) Design Engineer
8 1 (5.26%) Software Architect
8 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) Regular Expression
1 6 (31.58%) XMPP
2 4 (21.05%) LDAP
3 3 (15.79%) JSON
3 3 (15.79%) JSON Schema
3 3 (15.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (78.95%) Linux
1 15 (78.95%) Windows
2 7 (36.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (36.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 12 (63.16%) SIEM
2 9 (47.37%) Zero Trust
3 8 (42.11%) ITIL
3 8 (42.11%) Validation
3 8 (42.11%) Vulnerability Management
3 8 (42.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (15.79%) Antivirus Management
5 3 (15.79%) Data Integration
5 3 (15.79%) Pattern Matching
5 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) High Availability
6 2 (10.53%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (10.53%) Migration
6 2 (10.53%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Server Migrations
6 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Bash
1 8 (42.11%) PowerShell
1 8 (42.11%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 9 (47.37%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Active Directory
1 10 (52.63%) Hyper-V
2 8 (42.11%) KVM
2 8 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (36.84%) vSphere
4 2 (10.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Graylog
1 8 (42.11%) Proxmox
1 8 (42.11%) ZABBIX
2 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) VMware
2 14 (73.68%) Microsoft
3 8 (42.11%) Veeam
4 6 (31.58%) Red Hat
5 4 (21.05%) Citrix
5 4 (21.05%) IBM
5 4 (21.05%) NetApp
6 3 (15.79%) McAfee