PKI Contracts in the Midlands

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 135 173
Rank change year-on-year +81 +38 -45
Contract jobs citing PKI 86 30 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.17% 0.90% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.41% 2.76% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 16 16
10th Percentile £300 £438 £332
25th Percentile £313 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £544 £465
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +16.94% +1.92%
75th Percentile £388 £700 £616
90th Percentile - £725 £744
England median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
England median hourly rate £23.80 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -56.73% +4.77% +249.97%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 826 1,086 1,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.42% 32.46% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 723 1,049
10th Percentile £213 £238 £213
25th Percentile £350 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% +15.85%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £575
90th Percentile £744 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 43 52
10th Percentile £10.47 £16.88 £12.04
25th Percentile £13.93 £18.19 £14.77
Median hourly rate £19.50 £24.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +45.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £28.88 £53.13 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £23.70
England median hourly rate £33.00 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +46.76% -16.66% +3.34%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
West Midlands +76 86 £363 -42.80% 6
PKI
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (6.98%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.98%) Azure
1 6 (6.98%) Entra ID
1 6 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
1 6 (6.98%) OneDrive
1 6 (6.98%) Power Automate
1 6 (6.98%) Power Platform
1 6 (6.98%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 60 (69.77%) WAN
2 58 (67.44%) BGP
2 58 (67.44%) IPsec
2 58 (67.44%) MPLS
3 44 (51.16%) VPN
4 43 (50.00%) Junos
5 17 (19.77%) Firewall
6 6 (6.98%) DNS
6 6 (6.98%) Unified Communications
7 5 (5.81%) DHCP
7 5 (5.81%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (5.81%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (5.81%) SAN
8 4 (4.65%) LAN
9 2 (2.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.98%) Power BI
General
1 10 (11.63%) Public Sector
2 8 (9.30%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (38.37%) Network Support
2 28 (32.56%) WAN Engineer
3 25 (29.07%) 3rd Line Support
4 24 (27.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 17 (19.77%) 1st Line Engineer
6 14 (16.28%) 2nd Line Support
7 13 (15.12%) Network Engineer
7 13 (15.12%) Support Engineer
8 8 (9.30%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 7 (8.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 6 (6.98%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 6 (6.98%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Engineer
10 6 (6.98%) Network Support Engineer
11 5 (5.81%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 5 (5.81%) Administrator
11 5 (5.81%) Server Administrator
11 5 (5.81%) VMWare Administrator
12 4 (4.65%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
13 2 (2.33%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (27.91%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.98%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.79%) Windows
1 11 (12.79%) Windows Server
2 6 (6.98%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (6.98%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (4.65%) CentOS
3 4 (4.65%) Linux
3 4 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (56.98%) Load Balancing
2 20 (23.26%) Network Design
3 17 (19.77%) Impact Assessments
4 9 (10.47%) Incident Management
5 6 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (6.98%) Customer Service
5 6 (6.98%) ITIL
5 6 (6.98%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 6 (6.98%) Service Delivery
6 5 (5.81%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 4 (4.65%) Change Control
7 4 (4.65%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (4.65%) Patch Management
7 4 (4.65%) Task Automation
8 3 (3.49%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.63%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.65%) Bash
Qualifications
1 49 (56.98%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (12.79%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.81%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.81%) VMware NSX
2 5 (5.81%) VMware Server
2 5 (5.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (6.98%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (5.81%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 58 (67.44%) Juniper
2 17 (19.77%) CA
3 11 (12.79%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.98%) Oracle
5 5 (5.81%) VMware