PKI Contracts in London

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 321 437
Rank change year-on-year +25 +116 -31
Contract jobs citing PKI 96 183 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.54% 0.68% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.62% 1.89% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 142 120
10th Percentile £379 £400 £457
25th Percentile £513 £500 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £580
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +7.76% +22.11%
75th Percentile £805 £700 £675
90th Percentile £864 £775 £725
England median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Median hourly rate £23.80 £64.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -62.81% - -
England median hourly rate £31.15 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -43.36% +4.77% +249.97%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,911 9,698 14,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.13% 35.88% 36.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,188 6,963 10,356
10th Percentile £304 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +10.09%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £701
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 109 198
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.93 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.93 £21.24 £24.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -21.35% +36.92%
75th Percentile £46.86 £64.50 £55.31
90th Percentile £67.00 £83.15 £71.47
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +2.08%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in London

PKI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in London

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in London

PKI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for PKI in London

PKI
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Central London +32 16 £550 +4.59% 3
East London +1 6 £585 -19.31% 1
West London +19 4 £525 -4.55%
North London - 2 £250 -
South London +14 1 £675 +114.29%
PKI
England

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 19 (19.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.17%) IIS
2 4 (4.17%) nginx
2 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.04%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) Ethereum
4 1 (1.04%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (38.54%) Azure
2 29 (30.21%) AWS
3 21 (21.88%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (10.42%) Entra ID
4 10 (10.42%) GCP
5 9 (9.38%) Mimecast
6 5 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (5.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (5.21%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (5.21%) Serverless
7 4 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (3.13%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.13%) GitHub
8 3 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.13%) SaaS
9 2 (2.08%) IaaS
9 2 (2.08%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (48.96%) Firewall
2 38 (39.58%) WAN
3 31 (32.29%) VPN
4 28 (29.17%) LAN
5 26 (27.08%) DNS
6 24 (25.00%) IPsec
7 21 (21.88%) Wireless
8 20 (20.83%) BGP
8 20 (20.83%) OSPF
9 19 (19.79%) WLAN
10 16 (16.67%) SD-WAN
11 15 (15.63%) DHCP
12 11 (11.46%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (8.33%) Cisco Wireless
13 8 (8.33%) Network Security
14 6 (6.25%) TCP/IP
14 6 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
15 4 (4.17%) SAN
15 4 (4.17%) SNMP
15 4 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.13%) MySQL
3 2 (2.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.04%) CouchDB
4 1 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.04%) Power BI
4 1 (1.04%) Redis
4 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (2.08%) GitLab
2 2 (2.08%) Terragrunt
3 1 (1.04%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.04%) Darcs
3 1 (1.04%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.04%) JIRA
3 1 (1.04%) Mercurial
3 1 (1.04%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (29.17%) Finance
2 11 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (11.46%) Banking
3 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.21%) Social Skills
5 4 (4.17%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.04%) Military
6 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (17.71%) Network Specialist
2 16 (16.67%) Architect
3 13 (13.54%) Security Architect
3 13 (13.54%) Senior
4 12 (12.50%) Consultant
5 9 (9.38%) Security Consultant
6 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) Domain Architect
7 6 (6.25%) Network Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) Wintel Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Cloud Consultant
8 5 (5.21%) Cloud Security Consultant
8 5 (5.21%) Senior Wintel Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Azure Architect
9 4 (4.17%) Azure Consultant
9 4 (4.17%) DevSecOps Consultant
9 4 (4.17%) Senior Network Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) Applications Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.38%) SAML
2 7 (7.29%) LDAP
3 5 (5.21%) SailPoint
4 4 (4.17%) OAuth
4 4 (4.17%) OpenID
5 3 (3.13%) HTML
5 3 (3.13%) React
5 3 (3.13%) REST
6 2 (2.08%) 802.1X
6 2 (2.08%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.08%) CSS
6 2 (2.08%) Jinja
6 2 (2.08%) JSON
6 2 (2.08%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (2.08%) NETCONF
6 2 (2.08%) RESTful
6 2 (2.08%) Software Packaging
6 2 (2.08%) SPML
6 2 (2.08%) XML
6 2 (2.08%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 8 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.29%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.25%) Security Posture
4 4 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (3.13%) Replication
5 3 (3.13%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.08%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.08%) Clustering
6 2 (2.08%) Fat Client
6 2 (2.08%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.08%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.04%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.04%) CBDC
7 1 (1.04%) Digital Currency
7 1 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 26 (27.08%) Windows
2 16 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 12 (12.50%) Linux
4 2 (2.08%) Unix
4 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.04%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (1.04%) CentOS
5 1 (1.04%) Debian
5 1 (1.04%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.21%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (23.96%) Cloud Security
4 21 (21.88%) Identity Access Management
5 19 (19.79%) Agile
5 19 (19.79%) Risk Assessment
6 18 (18.75%) Change Management
7 17 (17.71%) SIEM
8 16 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 14 (14.58%) DevOps
10 14 (14.58%) Threat Management
11 13 (13.54%) Migration
12 12 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
13 11 (11.46%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (11.46%) Key Management
14 10 (10.42%) Data Encryption
14 10 (10.42%) Database Security
14 10 (10.42%) Penetration Testing
14 10 (10.42%) Security Auditing
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.29%) Python
3 5 (5.21%) C#
3 5 (5.21%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (4.17%) SQL
5 3 (3.13%) Bash
5 3 (3.13%) Java
6 2 (2.08%) C++
6 2 (2.08%) Go
7 1 (1.04%) C
7 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.04%) Perl
7 1 (1.04%) PHP
7 1 (1.04%) Ruby
7 1 (1.04%) Rust
7 1 (1.04%) Solidity
7 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (23.96%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.54%) Degree
4 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (9.38%) CISM
5 9 (9.38%) CISSP
6 7 (7.29%) SANS
7 6 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (6.25%) CRISC
8 5 (5.21%) CCNP
9 3 (3.13%) CCIE
9 3 (3.13%) CISA
10 2 (2.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (2.08%) CCNA
10 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.08%) MCSE
11 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (1.04%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (3.13%) NCSC
3 3 (3.13%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.13%) SLA
4 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.08%) NIST
5 1 (1.04%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 28 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.29%) vSphere
3 5 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.17%) Shibboleth
5 3 (3.13%) Docker
5 3 (3.13%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.08%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 2 (2.08%) BitLocker
6 2 (2.08%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (2.08%) NFS
6 2 (2.08%) Squid
6 2 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.08%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (17.71%) Terraform
2 15 (15.63%) FortiGate
3 10 (10.42%) SCOM
4 7 (7.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (6.25%) Kubernetes
6 5 (5.21%) Ansible
6 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (4.17%) Oracle Identity Management
7 4 (4.17%) SCCM
8 2 (2.08%) Backup Exec
8 2 (2.08%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (2.08%) HAProxy
8 2 (2.08%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (2.08%) Nessus
8 2 (2.08%) NetBackup
8 2 (2.08%) SCVMM
8 2 (2.08%) Stealthwatch
8 2 (2.08%) vRealize
8 2 (2.08%) VxRail
8 2 (2.08%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 36 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 30 (31.25%) Cisco
3 26 (27.08%) Palo Alto
4 21 (21.88%) Juniper
5 16 (16.67%) Fortinet
5 16 (16.67%) VMware
6 11 (11.46%) Extreme Networks
7 10 (10.42%) SolarWinds
8 9 (9.38%) Dell
9 7 (7.29%) CyberArk
10 6 (6.25%) Google
10 6 (6.25%) Ping Identity
11 5 (5.21%) ForgeRock
11 5 (5.21%) Oracle
12 4 (4.17%) BeyondTrust
12 4 (4.17%) CA
12 4 (4.17%) HP
12 4 (4.17%) NetIQ
12 4 (4.17%) Thycotic
12 4 (4.17%) WALLIX