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 11 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 175 178
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 +65
Permanent jobs citing PKI 8 1 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.18% 0.031% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.70% 0.091% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 40
10th Percentile £52,750 - £42,200
25th Percentile £55,000 - £51,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £56,525
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £59,000
90th Percentile £67,250 - £75,575
South East median annual salary £56,500 £53,050 £56,525
% change year-on-year +6.50% -6.15% -9.56%

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 1,147 1,104 1,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.30% 33.84% 32.69%
Number of salaries quoted 660 489 1,195
10th Percentile £27,979 £36,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £64,375
90th Percentile £76,375 £95,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -9.09%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 - 8 £60,000 - 7
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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (12.50%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) BGP
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) HTTP
3 1 (12.50%) MPLS
3 1 (12.50%) S/MIME
3 1 (12.50%) SNMP
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (12.50%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Cryptography
1 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Key Management
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (12.50%) SIEM
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Test Management
3 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bicep
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CCIE
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) CEH
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) GIAC
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) NIST 800
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
1 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Endace
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) 3PAR
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
2 1 (12.50%) Thales
2 1 (12.50%) Veeam