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 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 313 195
Rank change year-on-year -58 -118 +110
Contract jobs citing PKI 253 195 452
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.72% 1.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.71% 2.07% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 157 320
10th Percentile £409 £358 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £643 £619 £608
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £58.94 - -
25th Percentile £71.60 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile £99.41 - £27.91
90th Percentile £100.00 - £35.32
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - £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 14,814 9,440 11,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.11% 34.79% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,210 6,000 7,276
10th Percentile £318 £305 £288
25th Percentile £420 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 791 466 789
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.08 £18.88 £15.62
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.47 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.35% -16.33% +15.54%
75th Percentile £72.50 £62.24 £63.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +39.56% -13.70% +21.67%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -3 104 £590 +2.61% 22
London -51 75 £600 +4.35% 9
North of England -50 34 £446 -9.30% 13
South West -58 23 £538 -6.52% 6
North West -32 22 £418 -15.14% 7
Midlands -62 12 £450 +9.09% 6
Yorkshire - 12 £500 - 6
West Midlands -71 11 £450 +9.09% 3
East of England -21 4 £400 -23.81% 2
East Midlands -12 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 10 (3.95%) Confluence
2 9 (3.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.19%) IIS
4 1 (0.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.40%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 79 (31.23%) Azure
2 61 (24.11%) AWS
3 37 (14.62%) Entra ID
4 17 (6.72%) GCP
5 16 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (5.93%) Power Platform
7 11 (4.35%) IaaS
8 10 (3.95%) OpenShift
8 10 (3.95%) PaaS
9 8 (3.16%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.37%) SaaS
11 5 (1.98%) AWS KMS
12 4 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.19%) GitHub
13 3 (1.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (1.19%) OCI
14 2 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
14 2 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
14 2 (0.79%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 86 (33.99%) DNS
2 69 (27.27%) Firewall
3 67 (26.48%) DHCP
4 39 (15.42%) BGP
5 37 (14.62%) VPN
6 35 (13.83%) WAN
7 33 (13.04%) LAN
8 29 (11.46%) OSPF
9 24 (9.49%) Ethernet VPN
9 24 (9.49%) VXLAN
10 23 (9.09%) BIG-IP
10 23 (9.09%) Junos
11 22 (8.70%) Cisco ISE
12 20 (7.91%) Network Security
12 20 (7.91%) SSL
13 17 (6.72%) TCP/IP
14 15 (5.93%) Cisco ASA
15 14 (5.53%) IPsec
16 12 (4.74%) Wireless
17 11 (4.35%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.51%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.53%) Power BI
3 9 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.19%) Big Data
6 3 (1.19%) Db2
6 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.19%) MySQL
6 3 (1.19%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.79%) Metadata
8 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (5.14%) JIRA
2 7 (2.77%) Git
3 6 (2.37%) GitLab
4 5 (1.98%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.19%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.79%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.79%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.79%) Gatling
6 2 (0.79%) Gradle
6 2 (0.79%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.79%) MSI
6 2 (0.79%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.79%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.79%) Terragrunt
General
1 40 (15.81%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.46%) Finance
3 28 (11.07%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.56%) Banking
7 6 (2.37%) Military
8 4 (1.58%) Legal
9 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.19%) Police
9 3 (1.19%) Retail
10 2 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Automotive
11 1 (0.40%) Back Office
11 1 (0.40%) Law
11 1 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 55 (21.74%) Senior
2 45 (17.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 27 (10.67%) Network Engineer
4 26 (10.28%) Architect
5 19 (7.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 18 (7.11%) Senior Network Engineer
7 16 (6.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (5.93%) Storage Engineer
9 14 (5.53%) Firewall Specialist
9 14 (5.53%) Network Specialist
10 13 (5.14%) Lead
11 10 (3.95%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.95%) Senior Architect
12 9 (3.56%) Security Engineer
13 8 (3.16%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.16%) Analyst
13 8 (3.16%) Linux Engineer
14 7 (2.77%) Consultant
15 6 (2.37%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
15 6 (2.37%) ITSM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.04%) 802.1X
2 20 (7.91%) LDAP
3 17 (6.72%) OpenID
4 15 (5.93%) SAML
5 14 (5.53%) REST
6 11 (4.35%) OAuth
7 6 (2.37%) OAuth2
7 6 (2.37%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (1.98%) SailPoint
9 3 (1.19%) JSON
9 3 (1.19%) Kafka
9 3 (1.19%) Keycloak
9 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (1.19%) Middleware
9 3 (1.19%) SPIFFE
10 2 (0.79%) Blazor
10 2 (0.79%) eBPF
10 2 (0.79%) FIDO
10 2 (0.79%) Playwright
10 2 (0.79%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 49 (19.37%) Clustering
2 38 (15.02%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.56%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.16%) Enterprise Storage
4 8 (3.16%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.16%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.16%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.77%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.37%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.98%) Operational Technology
7 5 (1.98%) Smartcard
8 4 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.58%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.58%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.19%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 135 (53.36%) Windows
2 78 (30.83%) Linux
3 66 (26.09%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.95%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.56%) Unix
6 6 (2.37%) Debian
6 6 (2.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.98%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (1.98%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.19%) Android
9 3 (1.19%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.19%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.79%) CentOS
10 2 (0.79%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (25.30%) Identity Access Management
2 49 (19.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 49 (19.37%) ITIL
3 47 (18.58%) High Availability
4 45 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
6 37 (14.62%) Agile
7 34 (13.44%) DevOps
8 33 (13.04%) Observability
8 33 (13.04%) Zero Trust
9 32 (12.65%) ITSM
10 31 (12.25%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (11.86%) Load Balancing
11 30 (11.86%) Service Management
12 28 (11.07%) CI/CD
13 26 (10.28%) Cryptography
14 25 (9.88%) Key Management
15 23 (9.09%) Change Management
15 23 (9.09%) Project Delivery
16 21 (8.30%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 62 (24.51%) PowerShell
2 47 (18.58%) Python
3 16 (6.32%) Bash
4 14 (5.53%) SQL
5 12 (4.74%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.37%) C#
7 5 (1.98%) Java
8 4 (1.58%) PHP
9 3 (1.19%) Go
10 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.40%) C++
Qualifications
1 139 (54.94%) Security Cleared
2 91 (35.97%) DV Cleared
3 52 (20.55%) SC Cleared
4 32 (12.65%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (7.51%) Degree
6 11 (4.35%) CCNP
7 10 (3.95%) Azure Certification
7 10 (3.95%) CISSP
8 8 (3.16%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (3.16%) GIAC
8 8 (3.16%) JNCIP
8 8 (3.16%) JNCIS
8 8 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.77%) JNCIA
10 5 (1.98%) CISM
10 5 (1.98%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.98%) SSCP
11 4 (1.58%) APMG
11 4 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.58%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.04%) NIST
2 22 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.35%) NCSC
4 9 (3.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.37%) QA
6 4 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.58%) GDPR
7 3 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.79%) ISA99
8 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.79%) ITGC
8 2 (0.79%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.40%) GRC
9 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.40%) PSD2
9 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 95 (37.55%) Active Directory
2 57 (22.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (12.65%) Docker
4 24 (9.49%) Hyper-V
4 24 (9.49%) VMware NSX
5 16 (6.32%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (3.56%) BitLocker
7 8 (3.16%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.98%) vSphere
9 4 (1.58%) Firmware
9 4 (1.58%) Terminal Services
9 4 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (1.19%) NFS
10 3 (1.19%) OpenAM
10 3 (1.19%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.79%) KVM
11 2 (0.79%) XenApp
11 2 (0.79%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 44 (17.39%) Ansible
2 43 (17.00%) Kubernetes
3 35 (13.83%) Terraform
4 28 (11.07%) vCenter Server
5 23 (9.09%) FortiGate
6 15 (5.93%) SCOM
6 15 (5.93%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (4.35%) Avamar
7 11 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (4.35%) Puppet
8 8 (3.16%) vMotion
9 7 (2.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (2.77%) Prometheus
10 6 (2.37%) CA Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.37%) Grafana
10 6 (2.37%) Kibana
11 5 (1.98%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (1.98%) SCCM
11 5 (1.98%) VxRail
11 5 (1.98%) WSUS
Vendors
1 84 (33.20%) Microsoft
2 74 (29.25%) VMware
3 59 (23.32%) Cisco
4 32 (12.65%) Splunk
5 31 (12.25%) Juniper
6 29 (11.46%) SolarWinds
7 27 (10.67%) F5
8 24 (9.49%) ServiceNow
9 22 (8.70%) Extreme Networks
10 19 (7.51%) Thales
11 18 (7.11%) Citrix
12 13 (5.14%) Dell
13 12 (4.74%) BMC
13 12 (4.74%) Palo Alto
13 12 (4.74%) Remedy
14 8 (3.16%) CyberArk
15 7 (2.77%) Google
15 7 (2.77%) NetApp
16 6 (2.37%) ForeScout
16 6 (2.37%) HP