PKI Contracts with Work from Home Options

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 287 436
Rank change year-on-year +39 +149 -64
Contract jobs citing PKI 93 187 186
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.62% 0.75% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 2.37% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 152 126
10th Percentile £465 £413 £413
25th Percentile £563 £456 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £544 £543
Median % change year-on-year +11.32% +0.09% +20.67%
75th Percentile £638 £642 £625
90th Percentile - £711 £741
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 9
10th Percentile - - £44.55
25th Percentile - £52.50 £56.00
Median hourly rate - £59.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.85% -
75th Percentile - £66.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £59.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +3.48% -4.56%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,326 7,897 13,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.70% 31.48% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,958 5,553 9,859
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £455 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £800 £793 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 154 221
10th Percentile £15.49 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +23.60% +28.99%
75th Percentile £66.94 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%

PKI
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PKI trend for jobs with a WFH option

PKI
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PKI.

PKI daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PKI over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

PKI daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PKI
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PKI.

PKI hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 25 (26.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.15%) Apache
2 2 (2.15%) nginx
3 1 (1.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.08%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.08%) Ethereum
3 1 (1.08%) Hyperledger
3 1 (1.08%) IIS
3 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.08%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.08%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 64 (68.82%) Azure
2 46 (49.46%) AWS
3 20 (21.51%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (20.43%) Entra ID
5 16 (17.20%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (17.20%) Azure Storage
6 3 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (2.15%) GCP
7 2 (2.15%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.08%) Boomi
8 1 (1.08%) GitHub
8 1 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.08%) IaaS
8 1 (1.08%) iPaaS
8 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.08%) PaaS
8 1 (1.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 38 (40.86%) SSL
2 29 (31.18%) DNS
3 27 (29.03%) DHCP
4 24 (25.81%) Firewall
5 6 (6.45%) VPN
5 6 (6.45%) WAN
6 5 (5.38%) LAN
7 4 (4.30%) Network Security
7 4 (4.30%) TCP/IP
7 4 (4.30%) Wireless
8 3 (3.23%) BGP
8 3 (3.23%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (3.23%) IPsec
8 3 (3.23%) OSPF
8 3 (3.23%) WLAN
9 2 (2.15%) SAN
10 1 (1.08%) BIG-IP
10 1 (1.08%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (1.08%) Internet
10 1 (1.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.08%) CouchDB
2 1 (1.08%) MySQL
2 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.08%) Redis
2 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Git
2 2 (2.15%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.15%) Terragrunt
3 1 (1.08%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.08%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.08%) Darcs
3 1 (1.08%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.08%) JIRA
3 1 (1.08%) Mercurial
3 1 (1.08%) Travis CI
General
1 19 (20.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.15%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (2.15%) Finance
3 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.08%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.08%) Automotive
4 1 (1.08%) Banking
4 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.08%) Military
4 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (45.16%) Architect
2 16 (17.20%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (15.05%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (15.05%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (15.05%) Support Specialist
4 8 (8.60%) Senior
5 7 (7.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.38%) Security Architect
7 4 (4.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Active Directory Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Developer
8 3 (3.23%) Network Specialist
9 2 (2.15%) Active Directory Support Engineer
9 2 (2.15%) Administrator
9 2 (2.15%) IT Engineer
9 2 (2.15%) Network Engineer
9 2 (2.15%) Security Engineer
9 2 (2.15%) Senior Network Engineer
9 2 (2.15%) Support Engineer
9 2 (2.15%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (37.63%) Web Services
2 16 (17.20%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.23%) React
3 3 (3.23%) REST
4 2 (2.15%) .NET
4 2 (2.15%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.15%) CSS
5 1 (1.08%) EJB
5 1 (1.08%) HTML
5 1 (1.08%) jQuery
5 1 (1.08%) JWT
5 1 (1.08%) Kafka
5 1 (1.08%) LDAP
5 1 (1.08%) Middleware
5 1 (1.08%) Node.js
5 1 (1.08%) OAuth
5 1 (1.08%) OpenID
5 1 (1.08%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (1.08%) SAML
5 1 (1.08%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.28%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (2.15%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.08%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.08%) CBDC
3 1 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.08%) Digital Currency
3 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.08%) Smartcard
3 1 (1.08%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 34 (36.56%) Linux
2 27 (29.03%) Windows
3 22 (23.66%) Windows Server
4 16 (17.20%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (17.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.15%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.08%) CentOS
6 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (44.09%) Cryptography
2 36 (38.71%) Key Management
3 28 (30.11%) Agile
4 26 (27.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (25.81%) ITIL
6 23 (24.73%) DevOps
7 20 (21.51%) CI/CD
8 19 (20.43%) Release Management
9 17 (18.28%) Identity Management
9 17 (18.28%) RBAC
9 17 (18.28%) Service Management
10 16 (17.20%) Analytics
10 16 (17.20%) Log Analytics
10 16 (17.20%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 16 (17.20%) Privileged Identity Management
11 9 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (7.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 6 (6.45%) Cloud Security
14 6 (6.45%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.66%) PowerShell
2 18 (19.35%) C#
3 16 (17.20%) Bicep
3 16 (17.20%) VB
3 16 (17.20%) VBScript
4 3 (3.23%) Bash
4 3 (3.23%) Java
4 3 (3.23%) Python
4 3 (3.23%) SQL
5 2 (2.15%) C++
5 2 (2.15%) Go
6 1 (1.08%) C
6 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.08%) Perl
6 1 (1.08%) PHP
6 1 (1.08%) Ruby
6 1 (1.08%) Rust
6 1 (1.08%) Solidity
6 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 70 (75.27%) Security Cleared
2 64 (68.82%) Degree
3 52 (55.91%) SC Cleared
4 46 (49.46%) DV Cleared
5 16 (17.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.08%) MCSE
7 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (3.23%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.08%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.08%) NCSC
3 1 (1.08%) NIST
System Software
1 66 (70.97%) Active Directory
2 18 (19.35%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (17.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (3.23%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.15%) Squid
5 2 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.08%) Docker
6 1 (1.08%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.08%) VMware Server
6 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (19.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 18 (19.35%) Kubernetes
1 18 (19.35%) SCCM
2 17 (18.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (17.20%) SCOM
3 16 (17.20%) WSUS
4 9 (9.68%) Terraform
5 6 (6.45%) Ansible
6 3 (3.23%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.15%) HAProxy
7 2 (2.15%) Kibana
8 1 (1.08%) Check_MK
8 1 (1.08%) Grafana
8 1 (1.08%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.08%) logstash
8 1 (1.08%) Nessus
8 1 (1.08%) Nmap
8 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.08%) Puppet
8 1 (1.08%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (31.18%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.45%) Cisco
2 6 (6.45%) Palo Alto
3 4 (4.30%) Fortinet
3 4 (4.30%) Juniper
3 4 (4.30%) VMware
4 2 (2.15%) CyberArk
4 2 (2.15%) Oracle
4 2 (2.15%) SAP
4 2 (2.15%) Splunk
5 1 (1.08%) Axway
5 1 (1.08%) CA
5 1 (1.08%) Citrix
5 1 (1.08%) Dell
5 1 (1.08%) F5
5 1 (1.08%) Google
5 1 (1.08%) HP
5 1 (1.08%) IBM
5 1 (1.08%) Remedy
5 1 (1.08%) SolarWinds