PKI Contracts in the East of England

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in the East of England. 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 78 107 103
Rank change year-on-year +29 -4 +25
Contract jobs citing PKI 4 5 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.43% 0.26% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.96% 0.98% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 19
10th Percentile - £582 £483
25th Percentile - £625 £661
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -7.14% +64.71%
75th Percentile £606 £675 £707
90th Percentile £655 - £758
England median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 416 512 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 44.35% 26.82% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 253 450
10th Percentile £225 £178 £185
25th Percentile £398 £295 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% +3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 127 52
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.24 £20.54
25th Percentile £26.30 £17.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -12.70% +121.75%
75th Percentile £83.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £70.00 £79.38
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PKI in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for PKI in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PKI in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Hertfordshire +25 2 £675 +3.85% 3
Bedfordshire - 2 £525 -
PKI
England

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Cohesity
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
1 2 (50.00%) X.509
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (25.00%) Skype
2 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (25.00%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) Key Management
1 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) FIPS 140-2
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
1 2 (50.00%) NIST 800
1 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) VMware