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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 303 261
Rank change year-on-year -59 -42 +29
Contract jobs citing PKI 287 217 301
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.78% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.83% 2.16% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 172 203
10th Percentile £425 £350 £390
25th Percentile £463 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £648 £625 £608
90th Percentile £725 £693 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 4
10th Percentile £94.90 - -
25th Percentile £96.00 - -
Median hourly rate £97.41 - £23.80
75th Percentile £98.82 - £27.91
90th Percentile £100.00 - £35.32
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 15,693 10,033 10,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.82% 36.06% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,517 6,319 6,321
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
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 £515 £546
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.68% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,029 498 440
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.50 £14.37
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £22.47
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -42.46% +25.16%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +25.00% -36.84% +8.57%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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
South East -12 84 £583 +1.30% 26
London -62 84 £550 -5.98% 45
North of England -21 62 £525 +6.71% 17
North West -18 35 £525 +6.71% 8
South West -63 34 £648 +17.73% 21
Yorkshire -13 26 £533 -11.25% 7
East of England -27 9 £500 -4.76% 5
Midlands -73 9 £475 +18.75% 4
West Midlands -72 8 £475 +18.75% 1
East Midlands -13 1 £475 - 3
North East - 1 £426 - 2
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 14 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.18%) Confluence
3 8 (2.79%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.05%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (3.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 100 (34.84%) Azure
2 76 (26.48%) AWS
3 47 (16.38%) Entra ID
4 34 (11.85%) GCP
5 13 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (4.53%) Power Platform
6 12 (4.18%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (3.83%) IaaS
8 10 (3.48%) PaaS
9 9 (3.14%) OpenShift
10 7 (2.44%) GitHub
10 7 (2.44%) SaaS
11 6 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.09%) AWS KMS
11 6 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (1.74%) OCI
13 4 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.39%) Rubrik
14 3 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 93 (32.40%) DNS
2 74 (25.78%) DHCP
3 72 (25.09%) Firewall
4 41 (14.29%) VPN
5 32 (11.15%) TCP/IP
6 24 (8.36%) Network Security
6 24 (8.36%) SSL
7 19 (6.62%) LAN
8 18 (6.27%) WAN
9 17 (5.92%) IPsec
10 16 (5.57%) BGP
10 16 (5.57%) VLAN
10 16 (5.57%) VSAN
11 15 (5.23%) Wireless
12 14 (4.88%) OSPF
13 13 (4.53%) Cisco ASA
13 13 (4.53%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (4.53%) Cisco Nexus
13 13 (4.53%) SSH
14 12 (4.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.97%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.18%) Power BI
3 7 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.09%) MySQL
5 4 (1.39%) Db2
5 4 (1.39%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.05%) Big Data
6 3 (1.05%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.70%) Metadata
7 2 (0.70%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.35%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (4.88%) JIRA
2 12 (4.18%) Git
3 11 (3.83%) GitLab
4 8 (2.79%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.70%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.70%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.70%) Gatling
6 2 (0.70%) Gradle
6 2 (0.70%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.70%) MSI
6 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.70%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 65 (22.65%) Social Skills
2 35 (12.20%) Finance
3 32 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.92%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (4.53%) Banking
7 6 (2.09%) Military
8 5 (1.74%) Police
9 4 (1.39%) Automotive
9 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.39%) Legal
10 3 (1.05%) Law
10 3 (1.05%) Retail
11 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.70%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Local Government
12 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 58 (20.21%) Senior
2 44 (15.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 35 (12.20%) Architect
4 26 (9.06%) Network Engineer
5 20 (6.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (6.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 19 (6.62%) Senior Network Engineer
7 18 (6.27%) Platform Engineer
8 15 (5.23%) Consultant
8 15 (5.23%) Storage Engineer
9 12 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.14%) Active Directory Engineer
12 8 (2.79%) Linux Engineer
13 7 (2.44%) Analyst
13 7 (2.44%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (2.44%) Lead
13 7 (2.44%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (2.44%) VMware Engineer
14 6 (2.09%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (18.12%) Terraform
2 23 (8.01%) 802.1X
2 23 (8.01%) OpenID
3 21 (7.32%) SAML
4 18 (6.27%) LDAP
5 16 (5.57%) OAuth
6 14 (4.88%) REST
7 10 (3.48%) OAuth2
8 8 (2.79%) Kafka
9 7 (2.44%) Keycloak
10 6 (2.09%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.74%) Middleware
11 5 (1.74%) SailPoint
12 4 (1.39%) FIDO
13 3 (1.05%) eBPF
13 3 (1.05%) Loki
13 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
13 3 (1.05%) SPIFFE
13 3 (1.05%) WebAuthn
14 2 (0.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.85%) Data Centre
2 32 (11.15%) Clustering
3 16 (5.57%) Public Cloud
4 15 (5.23%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.18%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.83%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (3.14%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.79%) Enterprise Storage
9 8 (2.79%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.09%) Replication
11 5 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.74%) Robotics
11 5 (1.74%) Smartcard
12 4 (1.39%) Mainframe
12 4 (1.39%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 142 (49.48%) Windows
2 95 (33.10%) Linux
3 76 (26.48%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.83%) Ubuntu
4 11 (3.83%) Unix
5 10 (3.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (2.09%) Debian
9 5 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.05%) Android
10 3 (1.05%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.05%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (1.05%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.70%) CentOS
11 2 (0.70%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (21.95%) Identity Access Management
2 58 (20.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 54 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (18.12%) Cybersecurity
5 51 (17.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (17.07%) ITIL
7 45 (15.68%) High Availability
8 42 (14.63%) DevOps
8 42 (14.63%) Technical Leadership
8 42 (14.63%) Zero Trust
9 41 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 41 (14.29%) Key Management
10 39 (13.59%) Stakeholder Management
11 36 (12.54%) Change Management
12 34 (11.85%) Agile
13 33 (11.50%) Cryptography
14 32 (11.15%) DevSecOps
15 31 (10.80%) Mentoring
15 31 (10.80%) Secrets Management
15 31 (10.80%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (26.48%) PowerShell
2 61 (21.25%) Python
3 32 (11.15%) Bash
4 16 (5.57%) SQL
5 11 (3.83%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.09%) Java
7 5 (1.74%) Go
8 3 (1.05%) C#
9 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.35%) Bicep
10 1 (0.35%) C++
10 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 159 (55.40%) Security Cleared
2 101 (35.19%) DV Cleared
3 67 (23.34%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.06%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (6.97%) Degree
6 18 (6.27%) CCNP
7 16 (5.57%) CISSP
8 13 (4.53%) Azure Certification
9 12 (4.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (4.18%) VCAP
10 9 (3.14%) AWS Certification
11 8 (2.79%) CISM
12 6 (2.09%) GIAC
13 5 (1.74%) ISTQB
13 5 (1.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (1.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 5 (1.74%) JNCIP
13 5 (1.74%) JNCIS
13 5 (1.74%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.74%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.54%) NIST
2 27 (9.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (6.62%) NCSC
4 8 (2.79%) JSP 440
5 7 (2.44%) GRC
6 4 (1.39%) GDPR
6 4 (1.39%) SLA
6 4 (1.39%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.05%) QA
8 2 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.70%) ISA99
8 2 (0.70%) ITGC
8 2 (0.70%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 134 (46.69%) Active Directory
2 66 (23.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (13.24%) Docker
4 31 (10.80%) VMware NSX
5 29 (10.10%) Hyper-V
6 16 (5.57%) vSphere
7 11 (3.83%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (2.44%) BitLocker
9 6 (2.09%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (1.39%) NFS
10 4 (1.39%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (1.05%) Firmware
11 3 (1.05%) OpenAM
11 3 (1.05%) OpenSSH
11 3 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.70%) XenApp
12 2 (0.70%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 61 (21.25%) Kubernetes
2 53 (18.47%) Ansible
3 22 (7.67%) vCenter Server
4 20 (6.97%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (6.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (5.57%) VxRail
7 14 (4.88%) SCOM
8 13 (4.53%) Avamar
9 9 (3.14%) Puppet
10 8 (2.79%) WSUS
11 7 (2.44%) Grafana
11 7 (2.44%) Istio
11 7 (2.44%) Prometheus
12 6 (2.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (2.09%) CA Single Sign-On
12 6 (2.09%) Kibana
12 6 (2.09%) vMotion
13 5 (1.74%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (1.74%) FortiGate
13 5 (1.74%) SCCM
Vendors
1 116 (40.42%) Microsoft
2 82 (28.57%) VMware
3 46 (16.03%) Cisco
4 28 (9.76%) Thales
5 26 (9.06%) ServiceNow
6 16 (5.57%) Citrix
6 16 (5.57%) Dell
7 14 (4.88%) CyberArk
7 14 (4.88%) Google
7 14 (4.88%) Juniper
8 12 (4.18%) SolarWinds
9 11 (3.83%) Palo Alto
10 10 (3.48%) BMC
10 10 (3.48%) Remedy
11 9 (3.14%) CheckPoint
11 9 (3.14%) F5
11 9 (3.14%) Splunk
12 8 (2.79%) Fortinet
12 8 (2.79%) NetApp
13 6 (2.09%) HP