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 14 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 178 142
Rank change year-on-year -11 -36 +123
Permanent jobs citing PKI 10 13 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.29% 1.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.65% 0.93% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 10 7 43
10th Percentile - £48,915 £51,250
25th Percentile £31,250 - £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £56,525 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £52,500 £59,388 £74,250
90th Percentile £53,000 £69,450 -
South East median annual salary £54,375 £53,050 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% -11.58% -4.00%

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 1,535 1,404 1,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.52% 31.25% 36.21%
Number of salaries quoted 679 572 819
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -2.70% +2.31%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,250 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,050
% change year-on-year -18.18% -0.09% -0.09%

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 14 October 2025.

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 14 October 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
Berkshire -4 10 £40,000 -29.86% 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 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) IaaS
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DHCP
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
1 5 (50.00%) SAN
2 3 (30.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (30.00%) Coordinator
2 3 (30.00%) Project Coordinator
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Coordinator
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Project Coordinator
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 5 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 5 (50.00%) Presales
2 5 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 5 (50.00%) Project Management
3 3 (30.00%) Budget Management
4 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 5 (50.00%) CCNA
1 5 (50.00%) CCNP
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 10 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 10 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (50.00%) Veeam