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 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 119 116 151
Rank change year-on-year -3 +35 +31
Contract jobs citing PKI 10 17 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.50% 0.70% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.47% 2.27% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 16
10th Percentile £440 £438 £356
25th Percentile £450 £474 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £526
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.59% +1.52%
75th Percentile £472 £619 £675
90th Percentile £605 £650 -
London median daily rate £537 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -6.61% -8.00% +7.76%

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 681 749 1,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.10% 30.62% 36.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 524 960
10th Percentile £361 £275 £313
25th Percentile £465 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £750
90th Percentile £780 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 16
10th Percentile £23.78 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.73 £24.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.25 £84.89
90th Percentile £72.40 £29.78 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for PKI in Central London

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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

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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 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
City of London -4 5 £525 -4.55% 3
West End of London - 5 £450 - 2
Camden - 5 £450 -
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 (10.00%) Alfresco
1 1 (10.00%) Camunda
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) IaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) S/MIME
1 6 (60.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JUnit
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Angular Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Support
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) Spring
1 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Key Management
2 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (60.00%) Migration
2 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Application Security
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (10.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (10.00%) SDLC
4 1 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (10.00%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 6 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (10.00%) BitLocker
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) CASB
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) Nessus
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Apple
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix
2 1 (10.00%) Nexthink
2 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (10.00%) Qualys
2 1 (10.00%) Remedy
2 1 (10.00%) Tenable
2 1 (10.00%) Tripwire