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 16 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 320 193
Rank change year-on-year -61 -127 +126
Contract jobs citing PKI 229 172 453
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.70% 1.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.64% 2.02% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 138 319
10th Percentile £410 £411 £363
25th Percentile £463 £492 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £724 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £559 £550
% change year-on-year -1.57% +1.59% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £47.22 - -
25th Percentile £56.01 - -
Median hourly rate £71.33 - £23.80
75th Percentile £72.27 - £27.91
90th Percentile £72.43 - £35.32
UK median hourly rate £71.33 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -63.38%

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 13,957 8,527 11,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.57% 34.53% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,710 5,491 7,300
10th Percentile £316 £300 £275
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.24% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 755 381 852
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.24
25th Percentile £21.15 £20.64 £15.35
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.64% -7.10% +62.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.46 £82.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +28.79% -7.04% +57.88%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +2 97 £595 +3.48% 28
London -66 71 £550 -4.35% 26
North of England -49 30 £425 -13.62% 2
North West -26 21 £422 -14.33%
South West -56 13 £538 -8.12% 9
Midlands -67 10 £400 -8.57% 6
West Midlands -68 10 £400 -8.57% 3
Yorkshire - 9 £650 - 2
East of England -30 4 £400 -23.81% 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 10 (4.37%) Confluence
2 8 (3.49%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.31%) IIS
5 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (4.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.44%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 66 (28.82%) Azure
2 50 (21.83%) AWS
3 29 (12.66%) Entra ID
4 18 (7.86%) GCP
5 13 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (5.68%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.37%) IaaS
7 9 (3.93%) PaaS
8 7 (3.06%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.75%) AWS KMS
10 4 (1.75%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.31%) GitHub
11 3 (1.31%) SaaS
12 2 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (0.87%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.87%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 64 (27.95%) DNS
2 56 (24.45%) Firewall
3 50 (21.83%) DHCP
4 38 (16.59%) BGP
5 36 (15.72%) WAN
6 32 (13.97%) LAN
6 32 (13.97%) VPN
7 29 (12.66%) OSPF
8 27 (11.79%) Network Security
9 26 (11.35%) Ethernet VPN
9 26 (11.35%) VXLAN
10 25 (10.92%) BIG-IP
11 24 (10.48%) Cisco ISE
12 23 (10.04%) Junos
13 15 (6.55%) SSL
14 12 (5.24%) MPLS
15 10 (4.37%) Cisco ASA
15 10 (4.37%) IPsec
15 10 (4.37%) SMTP
15 10 (4.37%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.11%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.24%) Power BI
3 9 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.31%) Big Data
6 3 (1.31%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.31%) MySQL
7 2 (0.87%) Metadata
7 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.80%) JIRA
2 7 (3.06%) GitLab
3 6 (2.62%) Git
4 5 (2.18%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.18%) Robot Framework
4 5 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.87%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.87%) Gatling
5 2 (0.87%) Gradle
5 2 (0.87%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.87%) MSI
5 2 (0.87%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.87%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.44%) JUnit
General
1 24 (10.48%) Public Sector
2 23 (10.04%) Finance
2 23 (10.04%) Social Skills
3 9 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.06%) Banking
4 7 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (1.75%) Military
6 3 (1.31%) Legal
6 3 (1.31%) Local Government
6 3 (1.31%) Retail
7 2 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.87%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.44%) Back Office
8 1 (0.44%) Law
Job Titles
1 40 (17.47%) Senior
2 39 (17.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 29 (12.66%) Architect
4 21 (9.17%) Network Engineer
5 20 (8.73%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 14 (6.11%) Firewall Specialist
6 14 (6.11%) Network Specialist
6 14 (6.11%) Storage Engineer
7 12 (5.24%) Senior Network Engineer
8 11 (4.80%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.37%) Security Engineer
9 10 (4.37%) Senior Architect
10 9 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (3.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.93%) Support Engineer
11 8 (3.49%) Lead
11 8 (3.49%) Linux Engineer
12 6 (2.62%) Administrator
12 6 (2.62%) Analyst
12 6 (2.62%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.85%) 802.1X
2 14 (6.11%) OpenID
3 12 (5.24%) LDAP
3 12 (5.24%) REST
3 12 (5.24%) SAML
4 8 (3.49%) OAuth
5 6 (2.62%) OAuth2
5 6 (2.62%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.75%) SailPoint
7 3 (1.31%) JSON
7 3 (1.31%) Kafka
7 3 (1.31%) Keycloak
7 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.31%) SPIFFE
8 2 (0.87%) .NET
8 2 (0.87%) Blazor
8 2 (0.87%) eBPF
8 2 (0.87%) Playwright
8 2 (0.87%) Quarkus
8 2 (0.87%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 45 (19.65%) Clustering
2 29 (12.66%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.37%) Enterprise Storage
4 8 (3.49%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.06%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.06%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.06%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.06%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.18%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.75%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.31%) Smartcard
9 3 (1.31%) Tandem
10 2 (0.87%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 118 (51.53%) Windows
2 65 (28.38%) Linux
3 58 (25.33%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.93%) Ubuntu
5 7 (3.06%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (2.62%) Debian
6 6 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (2.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.75%) Unix
8 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.31%) Android
9 3 (1.31%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.31%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.87%) CentOS
10 2 (0.87%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.44%) VMS
11 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (24.89%) Identity Access Management
2 42 (18.34%) High Availability
2 42 (18.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 39 (17.03%) Agile
4 37 (16.16%) ITIL
5 34 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (14.41%) Observability
7 30 (13.10%) Cybersecurity
7 30 (13.10%) DevOps
7 30 (13.10%) Load Balancing
8 28 (12.23%) Zero Trust
9 27 (11.79%) ITSM
10 25 (10.92%) Service Management
11 24 (10.48%) Key Management
12 23 (10.04%) CI/CD
12 23 (10.04%) Cryptography
13 22 (9.61%) Change Management
14 21 (9.17%) Infrastructure as Code
15 20 (8.73%) RBAC
16 19 (8.30%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 55 (24.02%) PowerShell
2 35 (15.28%) Python
3 13 (5.68%) SQL
4 11 (4.80%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.06%) Bash
6 6 (2.62%) C#
7 4 (1.75%) Java
7 4 (1.75%) PHP
8 3 (1.31%) Go
9 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.44%) C++
Qualifications
1 135 (58.95%) Security Cleared
2 93 (40.61%) DV Cleared
3 42 (18.34%) SC Cleared
4 30 (13.10%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (7.42%) Degree
6 12 (5.24%) CISSP
7 10 (4.37%) CISM
8 9 (3.93%) GIAC
9 8 (3.49%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.49%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (3.06%) CCNP
10 7 (3.06%) JNCIA
10 7 (3.06%) JNCIP
10 7 (3.06%) JNCIS
11 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.75%) APMG
12 4 (1.75%) CCNA
12 4 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (1.75%) SSCP
13 3 (1.31%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.66%) NIST
2 20 (8.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (5.24%) NCSC
4 9 (3.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.62%) QA
6 4 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.75%) GDPR
7 3 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.31%) RMADS
8 2 (0.87%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.87%) ISA99
8 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.87%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.87%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.87%) SLA
9 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 70 (30.57%) Active Directory
2 48 (20.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (9.61%) Docker
4 17 (7.42%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (7.42%) VMware NSX
5 14 (6.11%) Hyper-V
6 11 (4.80%) BitLocker
7 10 (4.37%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.75%) Firmware
9 4 (1.75%) Terminal Services
9 4 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.87%) KVM
10 2 (0.87%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.87%) XenApp
10 2 (0.87%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.44%) Squid
11 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (16.16%) Ansible
2 32 (13.97%) Kubernetes
3 28 (12.23%) Terraform
4 26 (11.35%) vCenter Server
5 23 (10.04%) FortiGate
6 15 (6.55%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (5.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (5.68%) Puppet
8 12 (5.24%) SCOM
9 10 (4.37%) vMotion
10 8 (3.49%) Avamar
10 8 (3.49%) Prometheus
11 7 (3.06%) Grafana
12 5 (2.18%) SCCM
12 5 (2.18%) WMI
13 3 (1.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.31%) CA Single Sign-On
13 3 (1.31%) Istio
13 3 (1.31%) Nagios
14 2 (0.87%) Cilium
Vendors
1 70 (30.57%) Microsoft
2 67 (29.26%) VMware
3 54 (23.58%) Cisco
4 32 (13.97%) Splunk
5 31 (13.54%) Juniper
6 29 (12.66%) F5
7 27 (11.79%) SolarWinds
8 22 (9.61%) Extreme Networks
8 22 (9.61%) ServiceNow
9 20 (8.73%) Citrix
10 16 (6.99%) Thales
11 13 (5.68%) Palo Alto
12 10 (4.37%) BMC
12 10 (4.37%) Dell
12 10 (4.37%) Remedy
13 9 (3.93%) NetApp
14 8 (3.49%) ForeScout
15 7 (3.06%) Google
16 6 (2.62%) Fortinet
16 6 (2.62%) HP