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 31 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 310 190
Rank change year-on-year -28 -120 +110
Contract jobs citing PKI 267 171 470
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.70% 1.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.11% 2.07% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 130 318
10th Percentile £401 £407 £363
25th Percentile £500 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £725 £638 £638
90th Percentile £838 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £565 £565 £550
% change year-on-year - +2.73% -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 12,662 8,268 11,603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.28% 34.06% 30.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,047 5,421 7,581
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £670
90th Percentile £749 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 636 313 803
10th Percentile £15.79 £16.68 £12.49
25th Percentile £19.75 £22.72 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.00 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.75 £84.80 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £42.60 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +31.08% +18.18% +22.30%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +17 105 £600 - 20
London -17 91 £625 +19.05% 11
West Midlands -52 23 £400 -5.88% 2
Midlands -62 23 £400 -5.88% 5
South West -57 19 £606 +5.43% 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 -31 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 (7.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.25%) Confluence
3 5 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.75%) 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 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.37%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 55 (20.60%) Azure
2 45 (16.85%) AWS
3 32 (11.99%) IaaS
4 25 (9.36%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (8.99%) Entra ID
6 9 (3.37%) OpenShift
6 9 (3.37%) PaaS
6 9 (3.37%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.62%) GCP
7 7 (2.62%) SaaS
8 5 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (1.87%) GitHub
9 4 (1.50%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.12%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.75%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.37%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.37%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 70 (26.22%) Firewall
2 60 (22.47%) DNS
3 44 (16.48%) BGP
4 42 (15.73%) DHCP
5 36 (13.48%) WAN
6 32 (11.99%) VPN
7 27 (10.11%) OSPF
8 26 (9.74%) LAN
9 25 (9.36%) Network Security
10 24 (8.99%) Junos
11 23 (8.61%) Cisco ISE
11 23 (8.61%) Ethernet VPN
11 23 (8.61%) VXLAN
12 22 (8.24%) BIG-IP
13 18 (6.74%) SSL
14 17 (6.37%) MPLS
15 14 (5.24%) IPsec
16 11 (4.12%) Cisco IOS
16 11 (4.12%) TCP/IP
17 8 (3.00%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.87%) Power BI
4 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.75%) Metadata
5 1 (0.37%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (4.49%) JIRA
2 6 (2.25%) Robot Framework
3 5 (1.87%) GitLab
4 4 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.12%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.37%) Git
6 1 (0.37%) JUnit
6 1 (0.37%) Terragrunt
General
1 37 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (10.86%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.24%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.99%) Finance
5 7 (2.62%) Military
6 4 (1.50%) Banking
6 4 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.75%) Legal
8 2 (0.75%) Local Government
8 2 (0.75%) Retail
9 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.37%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 83 (31.09%) Architect
2 38 (14.23%) Senior
3 34 (12.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (7.12%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 17 (6.37%) Network Engineer
6 14 (5.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (4.87%) Support Engineer
8 12 (4.49%) Network Specialist
9 11 (4.12%) Firewall Specialist
10 9 (3.37%) 3rd Line Support
10 9 (3.37%) Administrator
10 9 (3.37%) Platform Manager
10 9 (3.37%) Security Engineer
10 9 (3.37%) Senior Architect
10 9 (3.37%) Senior Network Engineer
10 9 (3.37%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (3.37%) Systems Manager
10 9 (3.37%) Wintel Administrator
10 9 (3.37%) Wintel Systems Administrator
11 8 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.73%) REST
2 28 (10.49%) JSON
3 22 (8.24%) 802.1X
4 12 (4.49%) LDAP
5 11 (4.12%) OpenID
6 10 (3.75%) SAML
7 6 (2.25%) OAuth
7 6 (2.25%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.12%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.75%) CSS
9 2 (0.75%) eBPF
9 2 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.75%) HTML
9 2 (0.75%) Loki
9 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.75%) Web Services
10 1 (0.37%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.37%) cloud-init
10 1 (0.37%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.37%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.99%) Clustering
2 26 (9.74%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (9.36%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.37%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (3.00%) Fat Client
5 8 (3.00%) Thin Client
6 7 (2.62%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.25%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.87%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.87%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.87%) Smartcard
9 4 (1.50%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.50%) Replication
9 4 (1.50%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.12%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.75%) CESG
11 2 (0.75%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 96 (35.96%) Windows
2 52 (19.48%) Linux
3 42 (15.73%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.00%) Windows 7
4 8 (3.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (2.25%) CentOS
5 6 (2.25%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.25%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.50%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.12%) Unix
8 3 (1.12%) VMS
8 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.75%) Android
9 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.37%) Debian
10 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.37%) Solaris
10 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (29.21%) Agile
2 52 (19.48%) Key Management
3 51 (19.10%) Identity Access Management
4 41 (15.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 34 (12.73%) Cybersecurity
6 32 (11.99%) ITIL
7 31 (11.61%) Change Management
7 31 (11.61%) CI/CD
7 31 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (11.24%) Configuration Management
9 29 (10.86%) Load Balancing
10 28 (10.49%) Observability
11 25 (9.36%) DevOps
11 25 (9.36%) High Availability
12 23 (8.61%) Migration
13 22 (8.24%) Cryptography
13 22 (8.24%) Service Management
14 20 (7.49%) Platform Engineering
15 19 (7.12%) Incident Response
15 19 (7.12%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 74 (27.72%) PowerShell
2 37 (13.86%) Python
3 14 (5.24%) SQL
4 11 (4.12%) Bash
5 7 (2.62%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.25%) C#
7 4 (1.50%) PHP
8 2 (0.75%) Go
8 2 (0.75%) Java
8 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.37%) C++
9 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 193 (72.28%) Security Cleared
2 103 (38.58%) DV Cleared
3 83 (31.09%) SC Cleared
4 22 (8.24%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (7.49%) Degree
6 16 (5.99%) CISM
6 16 (5.99%) CISSP
7 11 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (3.00%) GIAC
9 7 (2.62%) JNCIA
9 7 (2.62%) JNCIP
9 7 (2.62%) JNCIS
10 5 (1.87%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.50%) APMG
11 4 (1.50%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.50%) MCSE
11 4 (1.50%) SSCP
12 3 (1.12%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.37%) NIST
2 15 (5.62%) NCSC
3 14 (5.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.62%) GDPR
6 4 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.50%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.50%) QA
6 4 (1.50%) SLA
7 3 (1.12%) RMADS
8 2 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.75%) ISA99
8 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.75%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (28.09%) Active Directory
2 41 (15.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (6.37%) Docker
4 16 (5.99%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (4.87%) VMware NSX
6 12 (4.49%) Hyper-V
7 9 (3.37%) BitLocker
8 7 (2.62%) Firmware
8 7 (2.62%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (1.50%) vSphere
10 3 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.75%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 2 (0.75%) KVM
11 2 (0.75%) 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 32 (11.99%) Ansible
2 27 (10.11%) Kubernetes
3 26 (9.74%) Terraform
4 22 (8.24%) vCenter Server
5 21 (7.87%) FortiGate
6 13 (4.87%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (4.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (3.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 8 (3.00%) WMI
9 7 (2.62%) Prometheus
9 7 (2.62%) Puppet
9 7 (2.62%) SCOM
9 7 (2.62%) vMotion
10 6 (2.25%) Grafana
11 5 (1.87%) SCCM
11 5 (1.87%) WSUS
12 4 (1.50%) QRadar
13 3 (1.12%) CA Single Sign-On
13 3 (1.12%) Podman
13 3 (1.12%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 79 (29.59%) Microsoft
2 64 (23.97%) VMware
3 51 (19.10%) Cisco
4 37 (13.86%) Juniper
5 36 (13.48%) Splunk
6 26 (9.74%) SolarWinds
7 25 (9.36%) F5
8 20 (7.49%) Extreme Networks
9 12 (4.49%) Citrix
9 12 (4.49%) Palo Alto
10 11 (4.12%) ServiceNow
11 8 (3.00%) Google
11 8 (3.00%) Thales
12 7 (2.62%) Broadcom
12 7 (2.62%) NetApp
13 6 (2.25%) Netskope
14 5 (1.87%) BMC
14 5 (1.87%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.87%) Remedy
14 5 (1.87%) Zscaler