PKI Contracts in England

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 312 425
Rank change year-on-year +128 +113 +30
Contract jobs citing PKI 461 377 392
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.27% 0.79% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.13% 2.34% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 284 284
10th Percentile £363 £418 £413
25th Percentile £434 £500 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £598 £555
Median % change year-on-year -8.08% +7.81% +16.84%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £675 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £561
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.45% +18.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - £24.40 £24.84
25th Percentile - £38.50 £35.48
Median hourly rate £23.80 £64.00 £54.43
Median % change year-on-year -62.81% +17.58% +262.87%
75th Percentile £32.03 £74.50 £57.20
90th Percentile £36.96 £79.60 £58.13
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £65.00 £61.75
% change year-on-year -63.38% +5.26% +64.67%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,151 16,135 24,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.68% 33.61% 33.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,312 11,229 17,197
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £414 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £539 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 815 572 638
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.03
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -15.15% +1.09%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.19 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.60
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +41.54% -17.57% +3.85%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in England

PKI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in England

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in England

PKI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for PKI in England

PKI
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PKI in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PKI in England

PKI
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the England region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
South East +88 161 £605 +0.83% 30
South West +73 110 £550 -4.35% 15
London +19 84 £558 -7.08% 16
West Midlands +70 83 £375 -33.92% 9
Midlands +69 83 £375 -30.23% 12
North of England -13 14 £575 +1.86% 8
North West -11 10 £600 +9.09% 5
East of England 0 5 £650 -7.14% 2
North East +9 4 £431 -45.24%
PKI
UK

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 75 (16.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (5.21%) Confluence
3 21 (4.56%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.52%) nginx
5 3 (0.65%) Apache
5 3 (0.65%) IIS
6 2 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.43%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.43%) Traefik
7 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.22%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.22%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 116 (25.16%) Azure
2 82 (17.79%) AWS
3 50 (10.85%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (8.46%) Entra ID
5 22 (4.77%) Azure Monitor
6 18 (3.90%) Azure Storage
7 14 (3.04%) GCP
8 8 (1.74%) Mimecast
8 8 (1.74%) OneDrive
9 7 (1.52%) PaaS
9 7 (1.52%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.30%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.30%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 5 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.08%) GitHub
11 5 (1.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 98 (21.26%) DNS
2 91 (19.74%) Firewall
2 91 (19.74%) WAN
3 75 (16.27%) DHCP
3 75 (16.27%) IPsec
4 72 (15.62%) VPN
5 71 (15.40%) BGP
6 61 (13.23%) MPLS
7 56 (12.15%) SSL
8 47 (10.20%) Junos
9 27 (5.86%) LAN
10 21 (4.56%) Network Security
11 18 (3.90%) SD-WAN
12 16 (3.47%) SAN
12 16 (3.47%) VSAN
12 16 (3.47%) Wireless
13 15 (3.25%) OSPF
14 11 (2.39%) WLAN
15 10 (2.17%) NAS
15 10 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.25%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.52%) MySQL
3 7 (1.52%) Power BI
4 6 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.43%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.43%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.43%) Tableau
6 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.22%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.22%) Redis
6 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (5.64%) JIRA
2 14 (3.04%) Robot Framework
2 14 (3.04%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (2.39%) Git
4 6 (1.30%) GitLab
5 5 (1.08%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.65%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.43%) JMeter
7 2 (0.43%) Selenium
7 2 (0.43%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.22%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.22%) Darcs
8 1 (0.22%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.22%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.22%) MSI
8 1 (0.22%) Travis CI
General
1 63 (13.67%) Social Skills
2 39 (8.46%) Public Sector
3 34 (7.38%) Finance
4 28 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (4.56%) Military
6 14 (3.04%) Banking
7 6 (1.30%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.65%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.65%) Automotive
9 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.65%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.43%) Advertising
10 2 (0.43%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.22%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 98 (21.26%) Architect
2 46 (9.98%) Administrator
3 41 (8.89%) Systems Administrator
3 41 (8.89%) Wintel Administrator
3 41 (8.89%) Wintel Systems Administrator
4 40 (8.68%) Security Architect
5 33 (7.16%) Network Support
6 30 (6.51%) 3rd Line Support
6 30 (6.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 30 (6.51%) Security Engineer
7 29 (6.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 26 (5.64%) WAN Engineer
9 22 (4.77%) Support Engineer
10 20 (4.34%) Senior
11 18 (3.90%) Active Directory Support
11 18 (3.90%) Network Engineer
11 18 (3.90%) Test Engineer
12 17 (3.69%) 1st Line Engineer
12 17 (3.69%) Integration Engineer
12 17 (3.69%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.89%) Web Services
2 18 (3.90%) ARM Templates
3 9 (1.95%) SAML
4 7 (1.52%) LDAP
5 5 (1.08%) .NET
5 5 (1.08%) OAuth
5 5 (1.08%) OpenID
5 5 (1.08%) SailPoint
6 4 (0.87%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.87%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (0.87%) JSON
6 4 (0.87%) REST
6 4 (0.87%) RESTful
6 4 (0.87%) XML
7 3 (0.65%) Kafka
7 3 (0.65%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (0.65%) React
8 2 (0.43%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.43%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.98%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (5.64%) Data Centre
3 12 (2.60%) Public Cloud
4 11 (2.39%) Security Posture
5 9 (1.95%) Clustering
6 8 (1.74%) Fat Client
6 8 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.74%) Thin Client
7 6 (1.30%) Digital Signage
8 4 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.65%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.65%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.65%) Replication
9 3 (0.65%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.43%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.43%) IoT
10 2 (0.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 164 (35.57%) Windows
2 94 (20.39%) Windows Server
3 82 (17.79%) Linux
4 50 (10.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 33 (7.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 25 (5.42%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (2.17%) Ubuntu
9 9 (1.95%) CentOS
10 8 (1.74%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.65%) Unix
11 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.43%) VMS
12 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.22%) Debian
13 1 (0.22%) Solaris
13 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (17.79%) Agile
2 55 (11.93%) Cryptography
2 55 (11.93%) Load Balancing
3 53 (11.50%) Key Management
4 45 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (9.76%) ITIL
4 45 (9.76%) Service Management
5 40 (8.68%) Cybersecurity
5 40 (8.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 38 (8.24%) DevOps
7 32 (6.94%) Change Management
7 32 (6.94%) Identity Access Management
8 30 (6.51%) CI/CD
9 27 (5.86%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 25 (5.42%) Change Control
11 24 (5.21%) Cloud Security
11 24 (5.21%) SIEM
12 23 (4.99%) Identity Management
12 23 (4.99%) RBAC
13 22 (4.77%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 104 (22.56%) PowerShell
2 50 (10.85%) Python
3 33 (7.16%) SQL
4 21 (4.56%) C#
5 18 (3.90%) Bicep
5 18 (3.90%) VB
5 18 (3.90%) VBScript
6 11 (2.39%) Bash
7 5 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.87%) Go
9 3 (0.65%) Ruby
10 2 (0.43%) C++
10 2 (0.43%) Java
10 2 (0.43%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.22%) C
11 1 (0.22%) Perl
11 1 (0.22%) PHP
11 1 (0.22%) Rust
11 1 (0.22%) Solidity
11 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 331 (71.80%) Security Cleared
2 184 (39.91%) DV Cleared
3 127 (27.55%) SC Cleared
4 91 (19.74%) Degree
5 47 (10.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (4.77%) MCSE
7 18 (3.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 18 (3.90%) MCSA
7 18 (3.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.74%) CISM
8 8 (1.74%) CISSP
9 6 (1.30%) CCNP
9 6 (1.30%) SANS
10 5 (1.08%) CRISC
11 4 (0.87%) CCNA
11 4 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.65%) CCIE
12 3 (0.65%) CISA
12 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.04%) JSP 440
2 13 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 7 (1.52%) RMADS
5 6 (1.30%) NCSC
6 5 (1.08%) SLA
7 3 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.43%) NIST
9 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.22%) QA
System Software
1 171 (37.09%) Active Directory
2 64 (13.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (6.29%) VMware ESXi
4 28 (6.07%) vSphere
5 26 (5.64%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (5.21%) VMware NSX
7 21 (4.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (2.39%) Docker
8 11 (2.39%) Hyper-V
9 5 (1.08%) VMware Server
10 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.87%) Shibboleth
10 4 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.65%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.43%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 2 (0.43%) Squid
13 1 (0.22%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 60 (13.02%) Terraform
2 57 (12.36%) Ansible
3 31 (6.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 31 (6.72%) Kubernetes
3 31 (6.72%) SCOM
4 29 (6.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (6.29%) SCCM
5 26 (5.64%) WSUS
6 23 (4.99%) OPNET
7 15 (3.25%) vCenter Server
8 14 (3.04%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (2.17%) FortiGate
10 8 (1.74%) Nessus
11 6 (1.30%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.87%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (0.87%) Oracle Identity Management
12 4 (0.87%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.87%) VxRail
13 3 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 143 (31.02%) Microsoft
2 93 (20.17%) VMware
3 74 (16.05%) Juniper
4 27 (5.86%) Cisco
5 26 (5.64%) CA
6 20 (4.34%) Palo Alto
7 19 (4.12%) Oracle
8 16 (3.47%) Red Hat
9 15 (3.25%) SolarWinds
10 11 (2.39%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.95%) Dell
11 9 (1.95%) Google
12 8 (1.74%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.30%) Extreme Networks
13 6 (1.30%) ForgeRock
13 6 (1.30%) Ping Identity
13 6 (1.30%) Splunk
13 6 (1.30%) Veeam
14 5 (1.08%) HP
15 4 (0.87%) NetIQ