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 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 318 220
Rank change year-on-year +19 -98 +110
Contract jobs citing PKI 267 171 389
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 0.64% 1.08%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.41% 1.96% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 115 235
10th Percentile £400 £413 £397
25th Percentile £482 £475 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £694 £655 £675
90th Percentile £838 £738 £765
UK median daily rate £550 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% -7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £74.80 - £46.38
25th Percentile £82.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £100.00 - £56.40
90th Percentile £103.30 - £63.06
UK median hourly rate £90.00 - £55.00

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 11,066 8,725 11,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.96% 32.58% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,023 5,249 7,614
10th Percentile £283 £275 £263
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £549
% change year-on-year -6.19% -2.91% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 538 253 512
10th Percentile £14.86 £17.30 £15.33
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £19.99
Median hourly rate £28.56 £37.00 £37.95
Median % change year-on-year -22.80% -2.51% +51.81%
75th Percentile £61.55 £67.02 £64.65
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.20 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £34.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.12% -9.33% +50.00%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 14 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
London +30 97 £600 +1.64% 17
South East +17 67 £600 -0.83% 27
West Midlands -9 35 £400 -17.95% 3
Midlands -15 35 £400 -17.95% 8
South West -52 35 £556 +1.14% 23
North of England -52 18 £489 -32.62% 18
North West -20 10 £500 +2.56% 8
Yorkshire -44 8 £487 -32.83% 8
East of England - 3 £550 - 12
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 35 (13.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (5.24%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.00%) Confluence
4 7 (2.62%) IIS
5 6 (2.25%) Skype for Business
6 4 (1.50%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.75%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.37%) Apache
8 1 (0.37%) JBoss
8 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 44 (16.48%) Azure
2 43 (16.10%) AWS
3 29 (10.86%) IaaS
4 20 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (7.12%) Entra ID
6 13 (4.87%) GitHub
7 9 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (3.37%) OpenShift
8 7 (2.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.25%) GCP
9 6 (2.25%) PaaS
9 6 (2.25%) SaaS
10 5 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.87%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (1.50%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.12%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.75%) Google Workspace
13 2 (0.75%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 52 (19.48%) Firewall
2 50 (18.73%) DNS
3 36 (13.48%) BGP
4 33 (12.36%) VPN
5 31 (11.61%) IPsec
6 29 (10.86%) WAN
7 27 (10.11%) Network Security
8 24 (8.99%) SSL
9 23 (8.61%) DHCP
9 23 (8.61%) MPLS
10 16 (5.99%) Skype
11 12 (4.49%) OSPF
12 10 (3.75%) TCP/IP
13 9 (3.37%) S/MIME
14 8 (3.00%) HTTPS
14 8 (3.00%) Junos
15 7 (2.62%) LAN
16 6 (2.25%) Cisco ISE
17 5 (1.87%) Unified Communications
17 5 (1.87%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.12%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.87%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (4.87%) JIRA
2 11 (4.12%) GitLab
3 7 (2.62%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.50%) Robot Framework
4 4 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.50%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.75%) Git
6 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.37%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.37%) JUnit
6 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
General
1 49 (18.35%) Analytical Skills
2 45 (16.85%) Social Skills
3 31 (11.61%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.62%) Finance
5 13 (4.87%) Military
6 4 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.12%) Banking
7 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.75%) Legal
8 2 (0.75%) Local Government
9 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 86 (32.21%) Architect
2 29 (10.86%) Senior
3 26 (9.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 26 (9.74%) Support Engineer
4 20 (7.49%) 3rd Line Support
4 20 (7.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (7.12%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 17 (6.37%) Network Engineer
6 17 (6.37%) Wintel Engineer
7 16 (5.99%) Security Architect
8 15 (5.62%) Administrator
8 15 (5.62%) Platform Manager
8 15 (5.62%) Systems Administrator
8 15 (5.62%) Systems Manager
8 15 (5.62%) Wintel Administrator
8 15 (5.62%) Wintel Systems Administrator
9 10 (3.75%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 10 (3.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.75%) WAN Engineer
10 9 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.24%) REST
2 27 (10.11%) JSON
3 15 (5.62%) OpenID
4 10 (3.75%) OAuth
4 10 (3.75%) OAuth2
4 10 (3.75%) SAML
5 6 (2.25%) Kafka
6 5 (1.87%) cloud-init
6 5 (1.87%) Keycloak
7 4 (1.50%) AWS CDK
7 4 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.50%) LDAP
8 3 (1.12%) .NET
8 3 (1.12%) CSS
8 3 (1.12%) HTML
8 3 (1.12%) JDBC
8 3 (1.12%) SOAP
9 2 (0.75%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.75%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.24%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (4.87%) Algorithms
3 12 (4.49%) Fat Client
3 12 (4.49%) Thin Client
4 10 (3.75%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.62%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.25%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.87%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.87%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.87%) Smartcard
8 4 (1.50%) Clustering
8 4 (1.50%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.50%) Replication
8 4 (1.50%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.12%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.12%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 87 (32.58%) Windows
2 45 (16.85%) Linux
3 42 (15.73%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.87%) Windows 10
5 11 (4.12%) Windows 7
6 8 (3.00%) CentOS
6 8 (3.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (2.62%) Unix
8 6 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (1.87%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.12%) VMS
10 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.37%) Android
11 1 (0.37%) Solaris
11 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (31.09%) Agile
2 60 (22.47%) Key Management
3 36 (13.48%) Change Management
4 34 (12.73%) ITIL
5 31 (11.61%) CI/CD
6 29 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (10.11%) Configuration Management
7 27 (10.11%) DevOps
7 27 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 24 (8.99%) Cryptography
9 22 (8.24%) Identity Access Management
9 22 (8.24%) Incident Response
9 22 (8.24%) Platform Engineering
9 22 (8.24%) Service Management
9 22 (8.24%) SIEM
10 21 (7.87%) Containerisation
10 21 (7.87%) Migration
11 20 (7.49%) Information Security
11 20 (7.49%) Security Architecture
12 18 (6.74%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 67 (25.09%) PowerShell
2 43 (16.10%) Python
3 19 (7.12%) Bash
3 19 (7.12%) SQL
4 7 (2.62%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.25%) Perl
5 6 (2.25%) Shell Script
6 5 (1.87%) C++
6 5 (1.87%) Go
6 5 (1.87%) Java
7 1 (0.37%) C
7 1 (0.37%) C#
7 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 195 (73.03%) Security Cleared
2 96 (35.96%) SC Cleared
3 93 (34.83%) DV Cleared
4 30 (11.24%) Degree
5 23 (8.61%) CISSP
6 22 (8.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (7.49%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (6.37%) CISM
9 14 (5.24%) CCNP
10 10 (3.75%) MCSE
11 8 (3.00%) Master's Degree
12 6 (2.25%) CCNA
12 6 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.25%) IISP
12 6 (2.25%) ISACA
12 6 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (1.87%) GIAC
13 5 (1.87%) JNCIA
13 5 (1.87%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.62%) NCSC
2 13 (4.87%) PCI DSS
3 12 (4.49%) NIST
4 10 (3.75%) GDPR
4 10 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.87%) FIPS 140-2
6 4 (1.50%) RMADS
6 4 (1.50%) SLA
7 3 (1.12%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.75%) SOC 1
9 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.37%) PSD2
9 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (29.21%) Active Directory
2 39 (14.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.74%) Docker
4 11 (4.12%) Firmware
4 11 (4.12%) VMware NSX
5 9 (3.37%) Hyper-V
5 9 (3.37%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (3.37%) vSphere
6 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (1.87%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.50%) BitLocker
7 4 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.12%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.75%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.75%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.37%) NFS
10 1 (0.37%) Squid
10 1 (0.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 28 (10.49%) Ansible
2 27 (10.11%) Kubernetes
3 26 (9.74%) Terraform
4 19 (7.12%) vCenter Server
5 15 (5.62%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (4.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 12 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (4.49%) WSUS
8 11 (4.12%) SCCM
8 11 (4.12%) WMI
9 9 (3.37%) SCOM
10 6 (2.25%) Grafana
10 6 (2.25%) Prometheus
11 5 (1.87%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (1.87%) Packer
12 4 (1.50%) Podman
12 4 (1.50%) QRadar
13 3 (1.12%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.12%) Proxmox
13 3 (1.12%) vMotion
Vendors
1 88 (32.96%) Microsoft
2 63 (23.60%) VMware
3 38 (14.23%) Cisco
4 34 (12.73%) Juniper
5 22 (8.24%) Splunk
6 15 (5.62%) SolarWinds
7 14 (5.24%) Veeam
8 10 (3.75%) Palo Alto
8 10 (3.75%) Thales
9 7 (2.62%) Broadcom
9 7 (2.62%) Citrix
9 7 (2.62%) Dell
10 6 (2.25%) Aruba
10 6 (2.25%) Google
11 5 (1.87%) CheckPoint
11 5 (1.87%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.87%) Netskope
11 5 (1.87%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.87%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.87%) Zscaler