PKI Contracts in Cheshire

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 53 56 54
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing PKI 5 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.11% 0.40% 1.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.16% 1.28% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £474 £397 £520
25th Percentile - £414 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £445 £565
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% -21.24% -1.74%
75th Percentile - £474 £584
90th Percentile £497 £490 £608
North West median daily rate £492 £575 £593
% change year-on-year -14.43% -2.95% -5.20%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 158 156 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 35.19% 30.95% 46.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 101 143
10th Percentile £314 £297 £263
25th Percentile £358 £425 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.88% +13.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile £553 £567 £580
90th Percentile £636 £606 £648
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 7
10th Percentile £29.46 £14.15 £21.89
25th Percentile £29.80 £17.72 £23.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £36.50 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +30.45% +47.26%
75th Percentile £33.75 £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile £55.50 - £66.25
North West median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for PKI in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the Cheshire 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
Knutsford - 5 £492 - 2
PKI
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) HTTPS
2 2 (40.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) JDBC
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (60.00%) OpenID
1 3 (60.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Taxonomies
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) API Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Coaching
2 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (60.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (60.00%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Open Source
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Forensic Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) ForgeRock
2 3 (60.00%) Ping Identity