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 in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 112 151
Rank change year-on-year -1 +39 +29
Contract jobs citing PKI 5 15 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.29% 0.69% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% 2.20% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 13
10th Percentile £448 £432 £359
25th Percentile £489 £456 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £704 £631 £675
90th Percentile £739 £655 -
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £526
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.59% -6.51%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 596 681 1,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.33% 31.45% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 460 842
10th Percentile £352 £263 £363
25th Percentile £475 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £820 £838 £860
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £616
% change year-on-year - -6.66% +7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 14
10th Percentile £23.80 £12.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -38.53% -19.54%
75th Percentile £65.50 £27.25 £87.16
90th Percentile £86.20 £36.60 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.76 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.70% -34.29% -24.73%

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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 19 May 2025.

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 (20.00%) Alfresco
1 1 (20.00%) Camunda
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Angular Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Support
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (20.00%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Application Security
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Key Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (20.00%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (20.00%) BitLocker
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) CASB
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Nessus
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Apple
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Nexthink
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Qualys
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy
2 1 (20.00%) Tenable
2 1 (20.00%) Tripwire