PKI Contracts in Berkshire

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 89 107
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 +11
Contract jobs citing PKI 9 35 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.77% 1.76% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.20% 5.84% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 24 7
10th Percentile £410 £381 £489
25th Percentile £481 £603 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £605 £543
Median % change year-on-year -13.22% +11.52% -1.36%
75th Percentile £539 £608 £662
90th Percentile £567 £657 £750
South East median daily rate £575 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -4.96% +0.83% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £50.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -7.73% -

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

PKI falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 409 599 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 34.87% 30.19% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 334 393
10th Percentile £307 £205 £313
25th Percentile £424 £281 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £619
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 31 16
10th Percentile £26.40 £11.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £32.05 £22.25 £47.56
Median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +44.69% -34.29% +187.64%
75th Percentile £87.28 £62.23 £74.25
90th Percentile £91.05 £67.50 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for PKI in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wokingham - 8 £525 - 1
PKI
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 5 (55.56%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Storage
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) IaaS
3 1 (11.11%) PaaS
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) DNS
2 5 (55.56%) NetScaler
2 5 (55.56%) SMTP
3 2 (22.22%) DHCP
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall
4 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security
4 1 (11.11%) VPN
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Support
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Coordinator
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Project Coordinator
2 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Coordinator
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Clustering
2 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (11.11%) Cyberattack
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
3 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (22.22%) Linux
5 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Agile
1 2 (22.22%) Analytics
1 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (22.22%) Log Analytics
1 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) Kanban
2 1 (11.11%) RBAC
2 1 (11.11%) Release Management
2 1 (11.11%) Scrum
2 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Service Management
2 1 (11.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 5 (55.56%) Shell Script
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) VB
3 1 (11.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) CCSK
3 1 (11.11%) CEH
3 1 (11.11%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) GIAC
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (11.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 5 (55.56%) vSphere
2 5 (55.56%) XenApp
2 5 (55.56%) XenDesktop
3 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (66.67%) WSUS
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (11.11%) CASB
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) SCCM
3 1 (11.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (77.78%) VMware
3 5 (55.56%) Citrix
3 5 (55.56%) Dell
3 5 (55.56%) HP
4 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
4 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
4 1 (11.11%) Forcepoint
4 1 (11.11%) Google
4 1 (11.11%) IBM
4 1 (11.11%) Intel
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle