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 18 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 196 185
Rank change year-on-year +6 -11 -36
Permanent jobs citing PKI 16 10 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.22% 0.26% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.85% 0.62% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 15 10 10
10th Percentile - - £37,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £31,250 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £40,000 £57,025
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -29.86% -2.12%
75th Percentile £67,500 £52,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £53,000 £62,925
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,050
% change year-on-year +9.09% +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 1,874 1,605 1,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.76% 41.68% 30.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,290 676 714
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £82,500
South East median annual salary £54,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.68% -9.52% -8.58%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +12 8 £65,000 +62.50% 12
Buckinghamshire - 8 £61,250 -
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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
1 8 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 8 (50.00%) Cloudflare
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) Firewall
2 8 (50.00%) VPN
3 7 (43.75%) DNS
4 4 (25.00%) NAS
4 4 (25.00%) NetScaler
4 4 (25.00%) SAN
4 4 (25.00%) Wireshark
5 3 (18.75%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 8 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 8 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Security Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Applications Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Design Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Regular Expression
1 6 (37.50%) XMPP
2 3 (18.75%) JSON
2 3 (18.75%) JSON Schema
2 3 (18.75%) LDAP
2 3 (18.75%) XML
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Linux
1 15 (93.75%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) SIEM
2 10 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (50.00%) ITIL
3 8 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 8 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 8 (50.00%) Zero Trust
4 6 (37.50%) Validation
5 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (18.75%) Antivirus Management
6 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
6 3 (18.75%) Pattern Matching
6 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (6.25%) Architectural Design
7 1 (6.25%) Architecture Governance
7 1 (6.25%) Decision-Making
7 1 (6.25%) Design Patterns
7 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps
7 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineering
7 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Bash
1 8 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 8 (50.00%) KVM
1 8 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 7 (43.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Graylog
1 8 (50.00%) Proxmox
1 8 (50.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) VMware
2 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (50.00%) Veeam
4 6 (37.50%) Red Hat
5 4 (25.00%) Citrix
5 4 (25.00%) IBM
5 4 (25.00%) NetApp
6 3 (18.75%) McAfee