PKI Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing PKI 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.12% - 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% - 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £253
25th Percentile - - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.63%
75th Percentile - - £500
90th Percentile - - £530
England median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 307 217 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 35.91% 29.52% 23.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 118 146
10th Percentile £274 £247 £213
25th Percentile £358 £352 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -9.65% +5.92%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £588
90th Percentile £638 £575 £674
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 11
10th Percentile £18.87 £21.08 £16.66
25th Percentile £20.74 £30.05 £17.20
Median hourly rate £21.39 £50.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.22% +138.10% +19.59%
75th Percentile £24.06 £55.00 £39.86
90th Percentile £25.13 - £93.75
England median hourly rate £28.00 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -44.00% +12.36% +67.92%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

PKI job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PKI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PKI

PKI
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PKI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PKI

PKI
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Leicestershire - 1 - -
PKI
England

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) IT Audit
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Zerto