PKI Contract Job Trends 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 3 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 115 131
Rank change year-on-year -15 +16 +36
Contract jobs citing PKI 3 8 12
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.15% 0.38% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 1.22% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 7
10th Percentile £546 £449 £402
25th Percentile £559 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +36.11% -6.25% -26.15%
75th Percentile £659 - £557
90th Percentile £669 £694 £581
London median daily rate £600 £600 £675
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +3.85%

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 754 656 810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 36.80% 31.25% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 415 559
10th Percentile £350 £375 £283
25th Percentile £440 £464 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £695 £713
90th Percentile £788 £790 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 14
10th Percentile £19.27 - £14.03
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.40 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.11 £25.79 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% +22.81% -44.37%
75th Percentile £29.50 £26.19 £34.25
90th Percentile £41.79 - £49.20
London median hourly rate £27.71 £39.00 £28.88
% change year-on-year -28.95% +35.06% -14.62%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

PKI job vacancy trend in Central London

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PKI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PKI

PKI
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PKI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PKI

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 3 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
City of London -11 3 £613 -33.78% 3
PKI
London

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Key Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto