PKI Contracts in the Thames Valley

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 135 141
Rank change year-on-year +35 +6 -15
Contract jobs citing PKI 43 13 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.61% 0.44% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.41% 1.38% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 12 15
10th Percentile £406 £484 £411
25th Percentile £465 £506 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% -1.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £557 £570
90th Percentile £614 £732 £651
South East median daily rate £605 £600 £500
% change year-on-year +0.83% +20.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
South East median hourly rate £50.75 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 795 939 1,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.75% 31.96% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 618 696
10th Percentile £205 £280 £200
25th Percentile £280 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £660
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 24 30
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.08 £17.42
25th Percentile £22.50 £19.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £48.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +143.75% -21.57%
75th Percentile £59.97 £70.90 £26.88
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.93 £67.57
South East median hourly rate £47.19 £51.25 £21.50
% change year-on-year -7.93% +138.37% -33.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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
Berkshire +24 35 £605 +11.52% 7
Buckinghamshire +29 8 £465 -9.27% 1
PKI
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 23 (53.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 25 (58.14%) Azure
2 16 (37.21%) Azure Monitor
2 16 (37.21%) Azure Storage
2 16 (37.21%) Entra ID
3 15 (34.88%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (18.60%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (69.77%) DHCP
1 30 (69.77%) DNS
2 16 (37.21%) Firewall
3 8 (18.60%) SSL
4 4 (9.30%) NAS
4 4 (9.30%) SAN
5 3 (6.98%) BGP
5 3 (6.98%) IPsec
5 3 (6.98%) Junos
5 3 (6.98%) MPLS
5 3 (6.98%) VPN
6 2 (4.65%) WAN
7 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.30%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (9.30%) MySQL
2 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (6.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Axure RP
General
1 16 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.33%) Advertising
3 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (34.88%) Active Directory Support
1 15 (34.88%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (32.56%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (32.56%) Support Specialist
3 11 (25.58%) Architect
4 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (6.98%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 1 (2.33%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.88%) ARM Templates
2 8 (18.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (37.21%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (9.30%) Fat Client
2 4 (9.30%) Thin Client
3 3 (6.98%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.65%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (62.79%) Linux
2 22 (51.16%) Windows
3 19 (44.19%) Windows Server
3 19 (44.19%) Windows Server 2019
4 15 (34.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (9.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (55.81%) Agile
1 24 (55.81%) ITIL
2 20 (46.51%) Release Management
3 17 (39.53%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 16 (37.21%) Analytics
4 16 (37.21%) Identity Management
4 16 (37.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (37.21%) Log Analytics
4 16 (37.21%) Privileged Identity Management
4 16 (37.21%) RBAC
4 16 (37.21%) Service Management
5 15 (34.88%) CI/CD
5 15 (34.88%) DevOps
6 10 (23.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (23.26%) Key Management
7 8 (18.60%) Cryptography
7 8 (18.60%) Incident Management
8 7 (16.28%) Problem Management
9 4 (9.30%) Mentoring
9 4 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 23 (53.49%) PowerShell
2 16 (37.21%) C#
2 16 (37.21%) VB
2 16 (37.21%) VBScript
3 15 (34.88%) Bicep
4 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (95.35%) Security Cleared
2 31 (72.09%) Degree
3 27 (62.79%) SC Cleared
4 25 (58.14%) DV Cleared
5 16 (37.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 36 (83.72%) Active Directory
2 16 (37.21%) Virtual Desktop
2 16 (37.21%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (9.30%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (46.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 20 (46.51%) WSUS
2 17 (39.53%) SCCM
3 16 (37.21%) Kubernetes
3 16 (37.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (37.21%) SCOM
4 7 (16.28%) Ansible
5 4 (9.30%) Nessus
5 4 (9.30%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (9.30%) vCenter Server
5 4 (9.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (65.12%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) VMware
3 4 (9.30%) Oracle
3 4 (9.30%) Red Hat
3 4 (9.30%) Veeam
4 3 (6.98%) Juniper
5 2 (4.65%) Citrix