PKI Contracts in the City of London

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 151 181
Rank change year-on-year +38 +30 -36
Contract jobs citing PKI 16 21 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.72% 0.58% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.33% 1.60% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 9
10th Percentile £432 £373 £449
25th Percentile £456 £441 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £518
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +15.83% +15.11%
75th Percentile £584 £675 £585
90th Percentile £655 £763 £648
Central London median daily rate £550 £581 £509
% change year-on-year -5.38% +14.19% +13.11%

All Generic Skills
City of London

PKI is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 687 1,313 1,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.92% 36.01% 35.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 885 1,108
10th Percentile £275 £346 £406
25th Percentile £425 £499 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £840 £850 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 24
10th Percentile £12.75 £17.69 £20.53
25th Percentile £16.00 £35.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £52.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.77% +8.33% +167.04%
75th Percentile £27.50 £87.16 £61.75
90th Percentile £54.95 £88.30 £64.78
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -34.29% -27.08% +140.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PKI in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for PKI in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PKI in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) WAN
2 3 (18.75%) BGP
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (18.75%) Firewall
2 3 (18.75%) IPsec
2 3 (18.75%) LAN
2 3 (18.75%) OSPF
2 3 (18.75%) SD-WAN
2 3 (18.75%) VPN
2 3 (18.75%) Wireless
2 3 (18.75%) WLAN
3 1 (6.25%) DHCP
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) MQTT
3 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (6.25%) CouchDB
1 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) Redis
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) CircleCI
2 1 (6.25%) Darcs
2 1 (6.25%) Jaeger
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Mercurial
2 1 (6.25%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Financial Institution
4 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
5 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Consultant
2 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Security Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) Network Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) Applications Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) IAM Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Information Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) CSS
1 2 (12.50%) React
1 2 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) gRPC
2 1 (6.25%) HTML
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) OpenID
2 1 (6.25%) SailPoint
2 1 (6.25%) SAML
2 1 (6.25%) Svelte
2 1 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.25%) CBDC
2 1 (6.25%) Digital Currency
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (31.25%) Data Loss Prevention
2 5 (31.25%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (25.00%) Key Management
3 4 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 4 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (25.00%) SIEM
3 4 (25.00%) Zero Trust
4 3 (18.75%) Application Security
4 3 (18.75%) Change Management
4 3 (18.75%) Data Encryption
4 3 (18.75%) Database Security
4 3 (18.75%) ERP
4 3 (18.75%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (18.75%) Security Auditing
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) C#
1 2 (12.50%) Go
1 2 (12.50%) Java
1 2 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) C
2 1 (6.25%) C++
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Rust
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (6.25%) ISO 20022
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) FortiGate
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) CASB
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Kibana
3 1 (6.25%) logstash
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco
2 3 (18.75%) Juniper
2 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
3 2 (12.50%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
4 1 (6.25%) ForgeRock
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Ping Identity
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk