PKI Contract Job Trends 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 12 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 90 88
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 +25
Contract jobs citing PKI 14 7 40
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.86% 0.54% 2.07%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.39% 1.64% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 33
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile £394 £513 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £610
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% -11.80% +1.46%
75th Percentile £603 £540 £675
90th Percentile £614 £581 -
South East median daily rate £600 £600 £605
% change year-on-year - -0.83% +8.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £74.80 - -
25th Percentile £82.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £100.00 - -
90th Percentile £103.30 - -
South East median hourly rate £90.00 - £55.70
% change year-on-year - - +1.27%

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 585 427 644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.00% 33.08% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 209 367
10th Percentile £270 £300 £205
25th Percentile £363 £408 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £513 £480
Median % change year-on-year -8.88% +6.77% -4.00%
75th Percentile £596 £620 £604
90th Percentile £665 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £492 £525 £478
% change year-on-year -6.29% +9.95% -9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 13 31
10th Percentile £20.18 £25.53 £20.50
25th Percentile £20.79 £42.88 £42.29
Median hourly rate £58.00 £61.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +2.49% +9.09%
75th Percentile £88.25 £62.24 £63.15
90th Percentile £101.65 £84.61 £72.00
South East median hourly rate £25.72 £35.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -26.51% -28.21% +21.88%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PKI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

PKI job vacancy trend in Berkshire

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PKI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PKI

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in Berkshire

PKI
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PKI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PKI

PKI
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PKI in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PKI in Berkshire

PKI
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 12 February 2026. 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 - 13 £450 - 3
Bracknell - 1 - - 1
PKI
South East

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 5 (35.71%) Azure
4 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (21.43%) Power Automate
5 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
5 3 (21.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DHCP
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
1 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Service Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
1 1 (7.14%) OpenID
1 1 (7.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) DevSecOps
2 5 (35.71%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (28.57%) RBAC
3 4 (28.57%) SIEM
3 4 (28.57%) Validation
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 3 (21.43%) ITSM
4 3 (21.43%) Process Management
4 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
4 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (21.43%) Systems Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Bash
1 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 4 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) AWS Certification
3 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 3 (21.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (21.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (28.57%) Docker
2 4 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
3 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.14%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (7.14%) CyberArk