PKI Contract Job Trends in England

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 302 191
Rank change year-on-year -21 -111 +107
Contract jobs citing PKI 270 167 461
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 0.69% 1.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.14% 2.02% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 128 308
10th Percentile £401 £407 £363
25th Percentile £500 £467 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £725 £638 £638
90th Percentile £838 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £61.41 - £38.93
25th Percentile £70.50 - £42.19
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £50.75
75th Percentile £96.25 - £60.69
90th Percentile £101.65 - £64.78
UK median hourly rate £79.50 - £50.75
% change year-on-year - - -14.71%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,618 8,255 11,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.50% 34.07% 30.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,010 5,413 7,575
10th Percentile £300 £300 £258
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £671
90th Percentile £749 £775 £783
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 309 795
10th Percentile £15.73 £16.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.46 £22.50 £15.21
Median hourly rate £42.71 £34.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.78% +23.21% +20.95%
75th Percentile £69.44 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £85.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +29.05% +18.18% +22.22%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

PKI job vacancy trend in England

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PKI

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in England over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in England

PKI
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PKI

PKI
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PKI in England over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PKI in England

PKI
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 March 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
South East +16 106 £600 - 20
London -18 90 £625 +19.05% 11
West Midlands -53 25 £400 -5.88% 2
Midlands -61 25 £400 -5.88% 5
South West -51 20 £563 - 6
North of England -65 18 £482 -32.35% 7
Yorkshire -50 10 £482 -33.52% 4
North West -30 8 £444 -11.25% 3
East of England -27 5 £550 - 5
PKI
UK

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 19 (7.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.48%) Confluence
4 2 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.37%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 53 (19.63%) Azure
2 43 (15.93%) AWS
3 32 (11.85%) IaaS
4 25 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (8.15%) Entra ID
6 9 (3.33%) OpenShift
6 9 (3.33%) PaaS
6 9 (3.33%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.59%) SaaS
8 5 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (1.85%) GCP
8 5 (1.85%) GitHub
9 4 (1.48%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.11%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.74%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.37%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.37%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 72 (26.67%) Firewall
2 60 (22.22%) DNS
3 47 (17.41%) BGP
4 42 (15.56%) DHCP
5 38 (14.07%) WAN
6 34 (12.59%) VPN
7 27 (10.00%) Network Security
7 27 (10.00%) OSPF
8 26 (9.63%) LAN
9 24 (8.89%) Ethernet VPN
9 24 (8.89%) Junos
9 24 (8.89%) VXLAN
10 23 (8.52%) Cisco ISE
11 22 (8.15%) BIG-IP
12 19 (7.04%) MPLS
13 16 (5.93%) IPsec
13 16 (5.93%) SSL
14 11 (4.07%) Cisco IOS
14 11 (4.07%) TCP/IP
15 8 (2.96%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.85%) Power BI
4 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.37%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (3.70%) JIRA
2 6 (2.22%) GitLab
2 6 (2.22%) Robot Framework
3 4 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.11%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.37%) Git
5 1 (0.37%) JUnit
5 1 (0.37%) Terragrunt
General
1 37 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (10.74%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.15%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.19%) Finance
5 7 (2.59%) Military
6 5 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.48%) Banking
8 3 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.74%) Legal
9 2 (0.74%) Local Government
10 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.37%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 85 (31.48%) Architect
2 38 (14.07%) Senior
3 34 (12.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (7.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 17 (6.30%) Network Engineer
6 14 (5.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (5.19%) Support Engineer
7 12 (4.44%) Network Specialist
8 11 (4.07%) Firewall Specialist
9 10 (3.70%) 3rd Line Support
9 10 (3.70%) Administrator
9 10 (3.70%) Platform Manager
9 10 (3.70%) Systems Administrator
9 10 (3.70%) Systems Manager
9 10 (3.70%) Wintel Administrator
9 10 (3.70%) Wintel Systems Administrator
10 9 (3.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 9 (3.33%) Security Engineer
10 9 (3.33%) Senior Architect
10 9 (3.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.59%) REST
2 28 (10.37%) JSON
3 22 (8.15%) 802.1X
4 10 (3.70%) LDAP
5 9 (3.33%) OpenID
6 8 (2.96%) SAML
7 4 (1.48%) OAuth
7 4 (1.48%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.11%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.74%) CSS
9 2 (0.74%) eBPF
9 2 (0.74%) HTML
9 2 (0.74%) Loki
9 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.74%) Web Services
10 1 (0.37%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.37%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.37%) cloud-init
10 1 (0.37%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.11%) Clustering
2 26 (9.63%) Data Centre
2 26 (9.63%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.70%) Fat Client
3 10 (3.70%) Thin Client
4 9 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.96%) Enterprise Storage
6 7 (2.59%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.22%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.85%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.85%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.85%) Smartcard
9 4 (1.48%) Replication
9 4 (1.48%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.11%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.74%) CESG
11 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.74%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 99 (36.67%) Windows
2 53 (19.63%) Linux
3 43 (15.93%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.33%) Windows 7
5 8 (2.96%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (2.59%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.22%) CentOS
7 6 (2.22%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.48%) Windows 10
10 3 (1.11%) Unix
10 3 (1.11%) VMS
10 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.74%) Android
11 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.37%) Debian
12 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.37%) Solaris
12 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (29.26%) Agile
2 52 (19.26%) Key Management
3 51 (18.89%) Identity Access Management
4 41 (15.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 34 (12.59%) Cybersecurity
6 32 (11.85%) CI/CD
7 31 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (11.11%) Change Management
8 30 (11.11%) Configuration Management
8 30 (11.11%) ITIL
8 30 (11.11%) Load Balancing
9 29 (10.74%) Observability
10 23 (8.52%) DevOps
10 23 (8.52%) High Availability
11 22 (8.15%) Cryptography
11 22 (8.15%) Service Management
12 21 (7.78%) Migration
13 20 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (7.41%) Platform Engineering
14 19 (7.04%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 74 (27.41%) PowerShell
2 39 (14.44%) Python
3 15 (5.56%) SQL
4 11 (4.07%) Bash
5 7 (2.59%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.22%) C#
7 4 (1.48%) PHP
8 2 (0.74%) Go
8 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.37%) C++
9 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 198 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 106 (39.26%) DV Cleared
3 85 (31.48%) SC Cleared
4 23 (8.52%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (7.41%) Degree
6 17 (6.30%) CISSP
7 16 (5.93%) CISM
8 11 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.96%) GIAC
10 7 (2.59%) JNCIA
10 7 (2.59%) JNCIP
10 7 (2.59%) JNCIS
11 5 (1.85%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.48%) APMG
12 4 (1.48%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.48%) CCNP
12 4 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.48%) MCSE
12 4 (1.48%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.67%) NIST
2 16 (5.93%) NCSC
3 14 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.85%) GDPR
6 4 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.48%) QA
6 4 (1.48%) SLA
7 3 (1.11%) RMADS
8 2 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.74%) ISA99
8 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.74%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.74%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 42 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.67%) Docker
4 16 (5.93%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (5.19%) VMware NSX
6 12 (4.44%) Hyper-V
7 9 (3.33%) BitLocker
8 7 (2.59%) Firmware
8 7 (2.59%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (1.48%) vSphere
10 3 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.74%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 2 (0.74%) KVM
11 2 (0.74%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.37%) NFS
12 1 (0.37%) Squid
12 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 33 (12.22%) Ansible
2 28 (10.37%) Kubernetes
3 27 (10.00%) Terraform
4 22 (8.15%) FortiGate
4 22 (8.15%) vCenter Server
5 11 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (4.07%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (3.33%) WMI
7 8 (2.96%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.59%) Grafana
8 7 (2.59%) Puppet
8 7 (2.59%) SCOM
8 7 (2.59%) vMotion
9 6 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (1.85%) SCCM
10 5 (1.85%) WSUS
11 4 (1.48%) QRadar
12 3 (1.11%) Podman
12 3 (1.11%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.74%) VxRail
Vendors
1 78 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 66 (24.44%) VMware
3 52 (19.26%) Cisco
4 39 (14.44%) Juniper
5 37 (13.70%) Splunk
6 26 (9.63%) SolarWinds
7 25 (9.26%) F5
8 20 (7.41%) Extreme Networks
9 13 (4.81%) Palo Alto
10 12 (4.44%) Citrix
11 9 (3.33%) ServiceNow
12 8 (2.96%) Google
12 8 (2.96%) Thales
13 7 (2.59%) Broadcom
13 7 (2.59%) NetApp
14 6 (2.22%) Netskope
15 5 (1.85%) Aruba
15 5 (1.85%) BMC
15 5 (1.85%) Red Hat
15 5 (1.85%) Zscaler