PKI Contracts in the North West

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 98 141
Rank change year-on-year -31 +43 -18
Contract jobs citing PKI 10 60 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 1.86% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.32% 5.48% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 45 27
10th Percentile £420 £463 £420
25th Percentile £471 £500 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +51.52%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile - £688 £700
England median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.60
25th Percentile - - £27.38
Median hourly rate - - £38.00
75th Percentile - - £48.88
90th Percentile - - £54.80
England median hourly rate £31.15 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -43.36% +4.77% +249.97%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 756 1,095 1,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.16% 33.99% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 739 1,060
10th Percentile £297 £295 £213
25th Percentile £417 £400 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +22.07%
75th Percentile £581 £626 £586
90th Percentile £668 £680 £670
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 50 63
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.77 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.48 £12.27
Median hourly rate £25.25 £31.49 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% +70.22% +3.35%
75th Percentile £37.50 £65.00 £39.14
90th Percentile £46.18 £70.00 £48.19
England median hourly rate £28.50 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +26.67% -15.09% +1.92%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in the North West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Manchester -23 4 £625 +2.04% 4
Cheshire -1 2 £445 -21.24%
PKI
England

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (20.00%) nginx
2 2 (20.00%) Traefik
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (10.00%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) DMZ
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) Skype
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Clustering
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) CentOS
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (20.00%) Data Encryption
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Bash
1 2 (20.00%) Go
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) Ruby
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) CA Single Sign-On
2 2 (20.00%) Consul
2 2 (20.00%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (20.00%) Graphite
2 2 (20.00%) HAProxy
2 2 (20.00%) Istio
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) linkerd
2 2 (20.00%) Packer
2 2 (20.00%) Podman
2 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (20.00%) Puppet
2 2 (20.00%) ZABBIX
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) CA
3 3 (30.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) PagerDuty
4 2 (20.00%) Splunk
5 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
5 1 (10.00%) F5
5 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (10.00%) Proofpoint
5 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (10.00%) Sophos