PKI Contracts in Berkshire

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 107 120
Rank change year-on-year +24 +13 -25
Contract jobs citing PKI 35 8 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.78% 0.44% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.87% 1.29% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 7 12
10th Percentile £381 £489 £414
25th Percentile £603 £522 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £543 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.52% +0.93% +13.16%
75th Percentile £608 £662 £591
90th Percentile £657 £750 £658
South East median daily rate £605 £600 £500
% change year-on-year +0.83% +20.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
South East median hourly rate £50.75 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

PKI is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 596 619 782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 30.25% 34.09% 32.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 397 473
10th Percentile £205 £313 £221
25th Percentile £280 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +5.71%
75th Percentile £608 £615 £596
90th Percentile £675 £700 £658
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 18
10th Percentile £11.79 £19.25 -
25th Percentile £22.25 £47.56 £17.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £64.68 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% +187.64% -27.47%
75th Percentile £62.23 £74.25 £64.03
90th Percentile £67.50 £79.19 £71.89
South East median hourly rate £47.19 £51.25 £21.50
% change year-on-year -7.93% +138.37% -33.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for PKI in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PKI in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for PKI in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PKI in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for PKI in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +10 18 £605 -19.33% 4
Bracknell - 15 £375 - 3
PKI
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 25 (71.43%) Azure
2 16 (45.71%) Azure Monitor
2 16 (45.71%) Azure Storage
2 16 (45.71%) Entra ID
3 15 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (22.86%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (62.86%) DHCP
1 22 (62.86%) DNS
2 16 (45.71%) Firewall
3 8 (22.86%) SSL
4 4 (11.43%) NAS
4 4 (11.43%) SAN
5 3 (8.57%) BGP
5 3 (8.57%) IPsec
5 3 (8.57%) Junos
5 3 (8.57%) MPLS
5 3 (8.57%) VPN
6 2 (5.71%) WAN
7 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.43%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (11.43%) MySQL
2 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (8.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Axure RP
General
1 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.86%) Advertising
3 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Active Directory Support
1 15 (42.86%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (40.00%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (40.00%) Support Specialist
3 11 (31.43%) Architect
4 5 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (8.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Network Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (2.86%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (42.86%) ARM Templates
2 8 (22.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (45.71%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (11.43%) Fat Client
2 4 (11.43%) Thin Client
3 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.71%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (77.14%) Linux
2 20 (57.14%) Windows
3 19 (54.29%) Windows Server
3 19 (54.29%) Windows Server 2019
4 15 (42.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (11.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 16 (45.71%) Agile
2 16 (45.71%) Analytics
2 16 (45.71%) Identity Management
2 16 (45.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (45.71%) ITIL
2 16 (45.71%) Log Analytics
2 16 (45.71%) Privileged Identity Management
2 16 (45.71%) RBAC
2 16 (45.71%) Release Management
2 16 (45.71%) Service Management
3 15 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 15 (42.86%) DevOps
4 10 (28.57%) Key Management
5 8 (22.86%) Cryptography
6 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (11.43%) Mentoring
8 3 (8.57%) Privileged Access Management
8 3 (8.57%) SIEM
9 2 (5.71%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 21 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 16 (45.71%) C#
2 16 (45.71%) VB
2 16 (45.71%) VBScript
3 15 (42.86%) Bicep
4 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (94.29%) Security Cleared
2 23 (65.71%) Degree
3 21 (60.00%) DV Cleared
4 20 (57.14%) SC Cleared
5 16 (45.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 28 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (45.71%) Virtual Desktop
2 16 (45.71%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (11.43%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (57.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 20 (57.14%) WSUS
2 17 (48.57%) SCCM
3 16 (45.71%) Kubernetes
3 16 (45.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (45.71%) SCOM
4 5 (14.29%) Ansible
5 4 (11.43%) Nessus
5 4 (11.43%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (11.43%) vCenter Server
5 4 (11.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) VMware
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle
3 4 (11.43%) Red Hat
3 4 (11.43%) Veeam
4 3 (8.57%) Juniper
5 2 (5.71%) Citrix