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 2 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 127 118
Rank change year-on-year -6 -9 +31
Contract jobs citing PKI 12 7 16
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.46% 0.34% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.36% 0.93% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 11
10th Percentile £491 £466 £438
25th Percentile £533 £536 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £641 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% +13.50% -5.83%
75th Percentile £638 £712 £650
90th Percentile £669 £742 £700
London median daily rate £600 £585 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% +11.43% -16.67%

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 882 749 732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.81% 36.24% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 504 492
10th Percentile £350 £341 £350
25th Percentile £463 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £710
90th Percentile £775 £800 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 6
10th Percentile £19.44 £17.57 £19.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.28 £22.45
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.29 £25.40
Median % change year-on-year +32.58% +11.36% -27.43%
75th Percentile £59.72 £43.39 £27.00
90th Percentile £69.70 £86.43 £59.75
London median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £30.11
% change year-on-year +29.09% -8.65% -13.99%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in Central London over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in Central London

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 2 August 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 -2 12 £625 -2.53% 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
3 4 (33.33%) AWS
4 3 (25.00%) GCP
4 3 (25.00%) IaaS
4 3 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) DNS
2 6 (50.00%) DHCP
3 3 (25.00%) Firewall
3 3 (25.00%) SMTP
3 3 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (8.33%) SSH
4 1 (8.33%) SSL
4 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (25.00%) Big Data
1 3 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
1 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) OpenID
1 4 (33.33%) SAML
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (8.33%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Clustering
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (33.33%) Linux
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) AI
1 3 (25.00%) DevOps
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (25.00%) Software Deployment
2 2 (16.67%) Cutover Planning
2 2 (16.67%) Dependency Management
2 2 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
2 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (8.33%) Agile
3 1 (8.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (8.33%) Domain Models
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (8.33%) SDLC
3 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Debt
3 1 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (8.33%) QA
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (25.00%) BitLocker
3 3 (25.00%) Docker
3 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (25.00%) Terminal Services
3 3 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (25.00%) Nagios
2 3 (25.00%) Puppet
2 3 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (25.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) Citrix
3 3 (25.00%) Google
3 3 (25.00%) HP
3 3 (25.00%) Symantec
4 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco