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 30 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 316 277
Rank change year-on-year -43 -39 -4
Contract jobs citing PKI 305 204 264
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.74% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 2.03% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 169 172
10th Percentile £421 £353 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year +4.36% +2.09% -8.69%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £608
90th Percentile £705 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £541
% change year-on-year - +1.67% -5.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile £94.90 - -
25th Percentile £96.00 - -
Median hourly rate £97.41 - £23.80
75th Percentile £98.82 - -
90th Percentile £100.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £97.41 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -56.73%

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 15,933 10,040 9,926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.23% 36.18% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,602 6,300 6,006
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,124 510 375
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £15.55
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.05 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.46% -47.60% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68.11 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.81 £73.88 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £29.27 £50.00
% change year-on-year +22.99% -41.46% +11.73%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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
London -52 99 £550 -4.56% 96
South East -10 80 £575 - 29
North of England -26 69 £525 +6.71% 24
North West -26 36 £525 +6.71% 12
South West -54 36 £648 +17.73% 30
Yorkshire -13 31 £570 -5.00% 9
East of England -20 9 £600 +14.29% 14
Midlands -58 8 £475 +18.75% 12
West Midlands -65 7 £475 +18.75% 9
North East - 2 £426 - 3
East Midlands -17 1 £475 - 3
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 13 (4.26%) Confluence
1 13 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.64%) IIS
4 3 (0.98%) nginx
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 8 (2.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 109 (35.74%) Azure
2 82 (26.89%) AWS
3 57 (18.69%) Entra ID
4 37 (12.13%) GCP
5 13 (4.26%) Azure Key Vault
6 11 (3.61%) Power Platform
7 10 (3.28%) IaaS
7 10 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (3.28%) OpenShift
7 10 (3.28%) SaaS
8 9 (2.95%) PaaS
9 8 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (2.62%) GitHub
10 7 (2.30%) AWS KMS
11 6 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.97%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (1.64%) OCI
13 4 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.31%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 97 (31.80%) DNS
2 72 (23.61%) DHCP
2 72 (23.61%) Firewall
3 41 (13.44%) VPN
4 34 (11.15%) TCP/IP
5 30 (9.84%) SSL
6 24 (7.87%) Network Security
7 17 (5.57%) LAN
8 16 (5.25%) VLAN
8 16 (5.25%) WAN
9 15 (4.92%) IPsec
9 15 (4.92%) Wireless
10 14 (4.59%) BGP
10 14 (4.59%) SSH
10 14 (4.59%) VSAN
10 14 (4.59%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (4.26%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (4.26%) Cisco Firepower
11 13 (4.26%) Cisco Nexus
12 12 (3.93%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.28%) Power BI
3 8 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.30%) MySQL
5 6 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.64%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.31%) Db2
7 4 (1.31%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.98%) Big Data
8 3 (0.98%) Metadata
8 3 (0.98%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.66%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (4.92%) JIRA
2 14 (4.59%) Git
2 14 (4.59%) GitLab
3 11 (3.61%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.66%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.66%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.66%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.66%) Gatling
5 2 (0.66%) Gradle
5 2 (0.66%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.66%) MSI
5 2 (0.66%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.66%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 72 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 37 (12.13%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (11.80%) Finance
4 26 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.23%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.92%) Banking
7 7 (2.30%) Military
8 6 (1.97%) Police
9 5 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.31%) Automotive
10 4 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.31%) Law
10 4 (1.31%) Legal
11 2 (0.66%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Retail
11 2 (0.66%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Local Government
12 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 57 (18.69%) Senior
2 45 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 42 (13.77%) Architect
4 25 (8.20%) Network Engineer
5 21 (6.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (6.23%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (5.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 18 (5.90%) Senior Network Engineer
8 15 (4.92%) Consultant
8 15 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (4.92%) Storage Engineer
9 12 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.28%) Active Directory Engineer
11 9 (2.95%) Security Architect
11 9 (2.95%) Security Engineer
12 8 (2.62%) Analyst
12 8 (2.62%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (2.62%) Integration Engineer
12 8 (2.62%) Lead
13 7 (2.30%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (19.02%) Terraform
2 29 (9.51%) OpenID
3 24 (7.87%) SAML
4 23 (7.54%) 802.1X
5 21 (6.89%) OAuth
6 18 (5.90%) LDAP
7 16 (5.25%) REST
8 12 (3.93%) Kafka
9 11 (3.61%) OAuth2
10 10 (3.28%) Keycloak
11 6 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.64%) FIDO
12 5 (1.64%) Middleware
12 5 (1.64%) SailPoint
13 4 (1.31%) Apache NiFi
13 4 (1.31%) WebAuthn
14 3 (0.98%) eBPF
14 3 (0.98%) RESTful
14 3 (0.98%) SPIFFE
14 3 (0.98%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.16%) Data Centre
2 28 (9.18%) Clustering
3 19 (6.23%) Cloud Native
4 15 (4.92%) Onboarding
5 14 (4.59%) Public Cloud
6 12 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.93%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (3.93%) Security Posture
7 11 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.61%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.30%) Enterprise Storage
10 7 (2.30%) Replication
11 6 (1.97%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.97%) Smartcard
12 5 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.64%) Operational Technology
12 5 (1.64%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 143 (46.89%) Windows
2 98 (32.13%) Linux
3 77 (25.25%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.93%) Unix
5 11 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.61%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.97%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.64%) Debian
8 5 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.31%) Android
9 4 (1.31%) Apple iOS
9 4 (1.31%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.31%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.98%) CentOS
10 3 (0.98%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (21.31%) Identity Access Management
2 62 (20.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 58 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (18.69%) Cybersecurity
5 56 (18.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (16.07%) ITIL
7 48 (15.74%) CI/CD
8 47 (15.41%) High Availability
9 46 (15.08%) DevOps
9 46 (15.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 46 (15.08%) Technical Leadership
10 45 (14.75%) Key Management
11 44 (14.43%) Zero Trust
12 39 (12.79%) Change Management
13 36 (11.80%) Mentoring
14 35 (11.48%) Platform Engineering
15 34 (11.15%) Secrets Management
16 33 (10.82%) Agile
16 33 (10.82%) Cryptography
16 33 (10.82%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 78 (25.57%) PowerShell
2 68 (22.30%) Python
3 33 (10.82%) Bash
4 17 (5.57%) SQL
5 11 (3.61%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.30%) Go
6 7 (2.30%) Java
7 3 (0.98%) C#
7 3 (0.98%) C++
8 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.33%) Bicep
9 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 161 (52.79%) Security Cleared
2 99 (32.46%) DV Cleared
3 74 (24.26%) SC Cleared
4 25 (8.20%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (6.89%) CISSP
6 19 (6.23%) Degree
7 18 (5.90%) Azure Certification
7 18 (5.90%) CCNP
8 13 (4.26%) AWS Certification
9 12 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (3.93%) VCAP
10 10 (3.28%) CISM
11 6 (1.97%) GIAC
11 6 (1.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.64%) ISTQB
12 5 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (1.64%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.64%) MCSE
13 4 (1.31%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.46%) NIST
2 28 (9.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (5.57%) NCSC
4 8 (2.62%) JSP 440
5 7 (2.30%) GRC
6 5 (1.64%) SLA
7 4 (1.31%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.98%) GDPR
8 3 (0.98%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.98%) QA
9 2 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.66%) ITGC
9 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 144 (47.21%) Active Directory
2 67 (21.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (12.13%) Docker
4 29 (9.51%) Hyper-V
5 28 (9.18%) VMware NSX
6 16 (5.25%) vSphere
7 12 (3.93%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.31%) BitLocker
9 4 (1.31%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (1.31%) NFS
9 4 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.98%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.98%) OpenSSH
10 3 (0.98%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.66%) Firmware
11 2 (0.66%) XenApp
11 2 (0.66%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 67 (21.97%) Kubernetes
2 56 (18.36%) Ansible
3 22 (7.21%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (6.89%) vCenter Server
5 19 (6.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (6.23%) VxRail
6 16 (5.25%) SCOM
7 14 (4.59%) Avamar
8 10 (3.28%) Grafana
8 10 (3.28%) Prometheus
8 10 (3.28%) Puppet
9 9 (2.95%) Istio
10 8 (2.62%) SCCM
10 8 (2.62%) WSUS
11 6 (1.97%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (1.97%) Kibana
12 5 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (1.64%) CA Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.64%) McAfee ePO
12 5 (1.64%) Nessus
Vendors
1 123 (40.33%) Microsoft
2 82 (26.89%) VMware
3 40 (13.11%) Cisco
4 30 (9.84%) Thales
5 26 (8.52%) ServiceNow
6 20 (6.56%) Dell
7 14 (4.59%) Citrix
7 14 (4.59%) CyberArk
8 13 (4.26%) Google
9 12 (3.93%) Juniper
10 10 (3.28%) Fortinet
10 10 (3.28%) Palo Alto
10 10 (3.28%) SolarWinds
11 9 (2.95%) CheckPoint
12 8 (2.62%) BMC
12 8 (2.62%) McAfee
12 8 (2.62%) Remedy
13 7 (2.30%) F5
13 7 (2.30%) Splunk
14 6 (1.97%) NetApp