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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 102 114
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 -7
Contract jobs citing PKI 38 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.94% 0.62% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.60% 1.77% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 11 17
10th Percentile £394 £510 £444
25th Percentile £603 £534 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £625 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +11.11% +18.42%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £638
90th Percentile - £750 £723
South East median daily rate £605 £613 £500
% change year-on-year -1.22% +22.50% -

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 576 622 773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 29.42% 34.96% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 398 472
10th Percentile £205 £313 £232
25th Percentile £306 £406 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +4.85% +9.59%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £588
90th Percentile £650 £708 £662
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 17 15
10th Percentile £11.82 £18.50 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £56.88 £17.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £70.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.23% -39.53%
75th Percentile £61.06 £74.25 £64.88
90th Percentile £66.50 £79.19 £75.54
South East median hourly rate £54.00 £54.37 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.68% +152.88% -40.45%

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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 21 June 2024.

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 21 June 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
Reading +4 23 £605 -19.33% 2
Bracknell - 15 £375 -
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 21 (55.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 30 (78.95%) Azure
2 21 (55.26%) Azure Monitor
2 21 (55.26%) Azure Storage
2 21 (55.26%) Entra ID
2 21 (55.26%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (23.68%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (65.79%) DHCP
1 25 (65.79%) DNS
2 21 (55.26%) Firewall
3 8 (21.05%) SSL
4 4 (10.53%) NAS
4 4 (10.53%) SAN
5 3 (7.89%) BGP
5 3 (7.89%) IPsec
5 3 (7.89%) Junos
5 3 (7.89%) MPLS
5 3 (7.89%) VPN
6 2 (5.26%) WAN
7 1 (2.63%) 4G
7 1 (2.63%) 5G
7 1 (2.63%) Network Security
7 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (10.53%) MySQL
1 4 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
General
1 21 (55.26%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.63%) Advertising
2 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (55.26%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (36.84%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (36.84%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (36.84%) Support Specialist
3 11 (28.95%) Support Engineer
4 9 (23.68%) Architect
5 7 (18.42%) Active Directory Engineer
5 7 (18.42%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 7 (18.42%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Network Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure Support
9 1 (2.63%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (55.26%) ARM Templates
2 8 (21.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (55.26%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (10.53%) Fat Client
2 4 (10.53%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.63%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 33 (86.84%) Linux
2 25 (65.79%) Windows
2 25 (65.79%) Windows Server
2 25 (65.79%) Windows Server 2019
3 21 (55.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (10.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (57.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 21 (55.26%) Agile
2 21 (55.26%) Analytics
2 21 (55.26%) CI/CD
2 21 (55.26%) DevOps
2 21 (55.26%) Identity Management
2 21 (55.26%) ITIL
2 21 (55.26%) Log Analytics
2 21 (55.26%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 21 (55.26%) Privileged Identity Management
2 21 (55.26%) RBAC
2 21 (55.26%) Release Management
2 21 (55.26%) Service Management
3 8 (21.05%) Cryptography
3 8 (21.05%) Key Management
4 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (10.53%) Mentoring
6 2 (5.26%) Load Balancing
7 1 (2.63%) Incident Management
7 1 (2.63%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 26 (68.42%) PowerShell
2 21 (55.26%) Bicep
2 21 (55.26%) C#
2 21 (55.26%) VB
2 21 (55.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (92.11%) Security Cleared
2 29 (76.32%) Degree
3 25 (65.79%) SC Cleared
4 23 (60.53%) DV Cleared
5 21 (55.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.63%) CCSP
6 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.63%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) COBIT
1 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (86.84%) Active Directory
2 21 (55.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 21 (55.26%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (65.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 25 (65.79%) WSUS
2 22 (57.89%) SCCM
3 21 (55.26%) Kubernetes
3 21 (55.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (55.26%) SCOM
4 5 (13.16%) Ansible
5 4 (10.53%) Nessus
5 4 (10.53%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (10.53%) vCenter Server
5 4 (10.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (65.79%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) VMware
3 4 (10.53%) Oracle
3 4 (10.53%) Red Hat
3 4 (10.53%) Veeam
4 3 (7.89%) Juniper