PKI Contracts in Central London

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 121 158
Rank change year-on-year 0 +37 +28
Contract jobs citing PKI 7 16 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.35% 0.67% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.00% 2.12% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 15
10th Percentile £466 £438 £378
25th Percentile £536 £492 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £641 £558 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.02% -7.08% +2.56%
75th Percentile £712 £650 £675
90th Percentile £742 £695 £700
London median daily rate £575 £540 £630
% change year-on-year +6.48% -14.29% +1.82%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 701 754 1,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.88% 31.76% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 512 879
10th Percentile £352 £313 £313
25th Percentile £469 £444 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -6.12% +6.52%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 17
10th Percentile £17.08 £12.75 £18.78
25th Percentile £23.52 £15.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.40 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year +24.23% -41.25% -14.34%
75th Percentile £50.79 £27.00 £83.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £33.98 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.00 £28.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% -20.00% -13.58%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in Central London

PKI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in Central London

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in Central London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in Central London

PKI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for PKI in Central London

PKI
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
City of London 0 7 £641 +15.02% 8
PKI
London

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (14.29%) Alfresco
1 1 (14.29%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) OCI
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SSH
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Angular Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Smart Meter
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Key Management
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Application Security
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Offensive Security
4 1 (14.29%) RBAC
4 1 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CREST Certified
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) GIAC
2 1 (14.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) CASB
2 1 (14.29%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) IBM
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
1 1 (14.29%) Qualys
1 1 (14.29%) Tenable
1 1 (14.29%) Thales
1 1 (14.29%) Tripwire