PKI Contract Job Trends 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 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing PKI 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.19% - 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% - 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £570
25th Percentile £525 - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £621
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.33%
75th Percentile £575 - £652
90th Percentile - - £666
England median daily rate £550 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -8.00%

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 510 387 566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.10% 35.77% 33.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 189 306
10th Percentile £185 £250 £204
25th Percentile £328 £350 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.75% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £560
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 47 90
10th Percentile £12.79 £30.07 £16.98
25th Percentile £15.65 £46.88 £35.54
Median hourly rate £32.00 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.59% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £67.63 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -24.32% -1.99% +57.29%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

PKI job vacancy trend in the East of England

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

PKI
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

PKI
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 15 January 2026. 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 - 3 £550 - 5
PKI
England

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) VMS
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) Wyse