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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing PKI 1 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.13% - 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% - 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £273
25th Percentile - - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile - - £625
90th Percentile - - £700
England median daily rate £550 £542 £587
% change year-on-year +1.43% -7.55% -4.24%

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 268 238 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 33.97% 29.97% 26.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 131 165
10th Percentile £273 £270 £213
25th Percentile £358 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% -7.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £555 £588
90th Percentile £644 £625 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 9
10th Percentile £16.16 £13.09 £17.51
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.10 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.35 £16.63 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.35% -20.81% +19.59%
75th Percentile £21.92 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £25.11 - £93.75
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the East Midlands

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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

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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

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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 18 September 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

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 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