PKI Contracts in Edinburgh

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 60 62 103
Rank change year-on-year +2 +41 +22
Contract jobs citing PKI 7 10 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.12% 1.23% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.93% 3.66% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 7
10th Percentile £452 £479 £429
25th Percentile £483 £556 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +33.33% -6.74%
75th Percentile £542 £644 £458
90th Percentile £547 £700 £496
Scotland median daily rate £535 £600 £534
% change year-on-year -10.92% +12.29% +6.87%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 239 273 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.24% 33.50% 35.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 147 327
10th Percentile £208 £334 £242
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £510 £479
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% +6.47% -4.20%
75th Percentile £554 £600 £538
90th Percentile £638 £675 £625
Scotland median daily rate £467 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 3
10th Percentile - £14.88 £21.34
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £21.47
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.57 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -5.08% -54.38%
75th Percentile £24.38 £60.19 £37.71
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.75 £47.33
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
% change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for PKI in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PKI in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for PKI in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for PKI in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
1 5 (71.43%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Security Specialist
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (42.86%) Security Posture
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (71.43%) Email Filtering
1 5 (71.43%) Kalman Filter
1 5 (71.43%) Threat Modelling
2 4 (57.14%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (42.86%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
3 3 (42.86%) Security Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Static Application Security Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 2 (28.57%) Service Management
5 1 (14.29%) Cryptography
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Information Security
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (14.29%) MCSE
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (14.29%) PMO
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (71.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) SCCM
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Aruba
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Citrix
1 1 (14.29%) HP
1 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
1 1 (14.29%) VMware