PKI Contracts in the South East

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 154 174
Rank change year-on-year +91 +20 0
Contract jobs citing PKI 158 62 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.86% 1.10% 1.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.20% 3.21% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 44 61
10th Percentile - £466 £413
25th Percentile £425 £506 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +20.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £638 £698 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £38.50 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £40.25 £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.80 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -56.73% +4.77% +249.97%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,549 1,931 2,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.07% 34.14% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 933 1,313 1,655
10th Percentile £205 £213 £217
25th Percentile £363 £374 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 93 120
10th Percentile £11.72 £18.08 £13.36
25th Percentile £18.35 £19.00 £16.37
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.08 £21.45
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +124.20% -39.25%
75th Percentile £61.30 £66.21 £45.28
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £61.57
England median hourly rate £33.00 £22.49 £26.99
% change year-on-year +46.76% -16.69% +1.70%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 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
Hampshire +49 110 £600 - 11
Thames Valley +28 41 £605 +16.35% 3
Berkshire +11 33 £605 +10.00% 3
Buckinghamshire +27 8 £465 -9.27%
Surrey +18 5 £675 -
West Sussex -6 2 £193 -72.32%
PKI
England

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 35 (22.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.96%) Confluence
3 3 (1.90%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.27%) Apache
5 1 (0.63%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 64 (40.51%) Azure
2 47 (29.75%) AWS
3 16 (10.13%) Azure Monitor
3 16 (10.13%) Azure Storage
3 16 (10.13%) Entra ID
3 16 (10.13%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.27%) PaaS
5 1 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.63%) Azure Stack
5 1 (0.63%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 54 (34.18%) SSL
2 39 (24.68%) DHCP
2 39 (24.68%) DNS
3 23 (14.56%) Firewall
4 5 (3.16%) SAN
5 4 (2.53%) BGP
5 4 (2.53%) IPsec
5 4 (2.53%) Junos
5 4 (2.53%) MPLS
5 4 (2.53%) NAS
6 3 (1.90%) VPN
6 3 (1.90%) WAN
7 2 (1.27%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.63%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.63%) FCoE
8 1 (0.63%) NGFW
8 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.63%) Skype
8 1 (0.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.06%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.53%) MySQL
4 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (8.86%) JIRA
1 14 (8.86%) Robot Framework
1 14 (8.86%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (1.90%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.27%) Git
3 2 (1.27%) JMeter
3 2 (1.27%) Selenium
4 1 (0.63%) GitLab
4 1 (0.63%) MSI
General
1 28 (17.72%) Social Skills
2 9 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (5.70%) Military
3 4 (2.53%) Public Sector
4 2 (1.27%) Advertising
4 2 (1.27%) Automotive
4 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.63%) Banking
5 1 (0.63%) Finance
5 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 78 (49.37%) Architect
2 24 (15.19%) Security Architect
3 22 (13.92%) Security Engineer
4 16 (10.13%) Active Directory Support
5 14 (8.86%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (8.86%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (8.86%) Support Specialist
6 11 (6.96%) Test Engineer
7 9 (5.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (5.70%) Integration Engineer
7 9 (5.70%) Test and Integration Engineer
8 6 (3.80%) Senior
8 6 (3.80%) Support Engineer
9 5 (3.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 4 (2.53%) Active Directory Engineer
10 4 (2.53%) Operations Engineer
11 3 (1.90%) 3rd Line Support
11 3 (1.90%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 3 (1.90%) Network Engineer
11 3 (1.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (25.95%) Web Services
2 16 (10.13%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.27%) .NET
3 2 (1.27%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.27%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.27%) Kafka
3 2 (1.27%) RESTful
4 1 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.63%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.63%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.13%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (2.53%) Fat Client
2 4 (2.53%) Thin Client
3 3 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.63%) Clustering
5 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (31.65%) Windows
2 47 (29.75%) Windows Server
3 36 (22.78%) Linux
4 34 (21.52%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (10.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (6.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (3.16%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.27%) VMS
9 1 (0.63%) Unix
9 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (32.91%) Agile
2 51 (32.28%) Cryptography
3 41 (25.95%) Key Management
4 25 (15.82%) ITIL
5 24 (15.19%) Service Management
6 20 (12.66%) Release Management
7 17 (10.76%) DevOps
7 17 (10.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (10.13%) Analytics
8 16 (10.13%) CI/CD
8 16 (10.13%) Identity Management
8 16 (10.13%) Log Analytics
8 16 (10.13%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 16 (10.13%) Privileged Identity Management
8 16 (10.13%) RBAC
8 16 (10.13%) Test Automation
9 14 (8.86%) Scrum
10 12 (7.59%) Test Scripting
11 11 (6.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (6.33%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (37.97%) PowerShell
2 34 (21.52%) Python
3 16 (10.13%) Bicep
3 16 (10.13%) C#
3 16 (10.13%) VB
3 16 (10.13%) VBScript
4 12 (7.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 149 (94.30%) Security Cleared
2 90 (56.96%) DV Cleared
3 71 (44.94%) SC Cleared
4 67 (42.41%) Degree
5 16 (10.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 9 (5.70%) MCSA
6 9 (5.70%) MCSE
6 9 (5.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (5.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.63%) CCNA
8 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.43%) RMADS
System Software
1 102 (64.56%) Active Directory
2 27 (17.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (10.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (10.13%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (3.16%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 42 (26.58%) Ansible
2 35 (22.15%) Terraform
3 21 (13.29%) WSUS
4 20 (12.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (12.03%) Kubernetes
6 17 (10.76%) SCCM
7 16 (10.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (10.13%) SCOM
8 6 (3.80%) Nessus
9 5 (3.16%) vCenter Server
10 4 (2.53%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (2.53%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.63%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.63%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.63%) WMI
Vendors
1 43 (27.22%) Microsoft
2 29 (18.35%) VMware
3 7 (4.43%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.80%) Oracle
5 5 (3.16%) Veeam
6 4 (2.53%) Juniper
7 2 (1.27%) SAP
7 2 (1.27%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.63%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (0.63%) Cisco
8 1 (0.63%) F5
8 1 (0.63%) Forcepoint
8 1 (0.63%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.63%) Splunk