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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 287 176
Rank change year-on-year -54 -111 +118
Contract jobs citing PKI 257 187 480
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.77% 1.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.01% 2.25% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 145 330
10th Percentile £411 £413 £363
25th Percentile £500 £492 £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 £733 £713
UK median daily rate £575 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -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 12,816 8,313 11,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.70% 34.08% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,125 5,451 7,510
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £674 £675
90th Percentile £749 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 658 314 815
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.67 £12.27
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.78 £15.14
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.95 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% +30.71% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £58.59
90th Percentile £85.40 £85.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.46% +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 15 April 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 April 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 April 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 +10 102 £610 +5.40% 19
London -19 90 £625 +8.16% 14
South West -55 19 £606 +5.43% 7
North of England -67 19 £482 -27.25% 4
West Midlands -63 16 £413 -2.94%
Midlands -65 16 £413 -2.94% 7
Yorkshire -49 10 £482 -33.52% 2
North West -41 9 £520 +4.84% 2
East of England -27 6 £475 -9.52% 1
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 16 (6.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.95%) Confluence
3 3 (1.17%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.78%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.39%) IIS
5 1 (0.39%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.39%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 58 (22.57%) Azure
2 48 (18.68%) AWS
3 33 (12.84%) IaaS
4 24 (9.34%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (8.56%) Entra ID
6 10 (3.89%) PaaS
6 10 (3.89%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.50%) GCP
7 9 (3.50%) OpenShift
8 7 (2.72%) SaaS
9 5 (1.95%) AWS KMS
10 4 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (1.56%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.17%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.78%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 1 (0.39%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 67 (26.07%) Firewall
2 57 (22.18%) DNS
3 43 (16.73%) DHCP
4 42 (16.34%) BGP
5 34 (13.23%) WAN
6 29 (11.28%) OSPF
6 29 (11.28%) VPN
7 28 (10.89%) LAN
8 26 (10.12%) Junos
9 25 (9.73%) Cisco ISE
9 25 (9.73%) Ethernet VPN
9 25 (9.73%) VXLAN
10 24 (9.34%) BIG-IP
11 23 (8.95%) Network Security
12 19 (7.39%) SSL
13 13 (5.06%) MPLS
14 11 (4.28%) TCP/IP
15 10 (3.89%) Cisco IOS
15 10 (3.89%) IPsec
16 8 (3.11%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (3.11%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.33%) Power BI
3 2 (0.78%) Metadata
4 1 (0.39%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.39%) MySQL
4 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (4.28%) JIRA
2 6 (2.33%) Robot Framework
3 5 (1.95%) GitLab
4 4 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.78%) Git
5 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.39%) JUnit
6 1 (0.39%) MSI
General
1 38 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (10.12%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.56%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.61%) Finance
5 7 (2.72%) Military
6 5 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.17%) Banking
8 2 (0.78%) Legal
8 2 (0.78%) Local Government
8 2 (0.78%) Retail
9 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.39%) Back Office
9 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (31.13%) Architect
2 37 (14.40%) Senior
3 36 (14.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (7.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 17 (6.61%) Network Engineer
6 14 (5.45%) Network Specialist
6 14 (5.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (5.06%) Firewall Specialist
8 10 (3.89%) Senior Architect
8 10 (3.89%) Support Engineer
9 9 (3.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (3.50%) Security Engineer
9 9 (3.50%) Senior Network Engineer
10 7 (2.72%) 3rd Line Support
10 7 (2.72%) Administrator
10 7 (2.72%) Platform Manager
10 7 (2.72%) Storage Engineer
10 7 (2.72%) Systems Administrator
10 7 (2.72%) Systems Manager
10 7 (2.72%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.62%) REST
2 30 (11.67%) JSON
3 24 (9.34%) 802.1X
4 13 (5.06%) OpenID
5 12 (4.67%) LDAP
5 12 (4.67%) SAML
6 8 (3.11%) OAuth
7 6 (2.33%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.17%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.78%) CSS
9 2 (0.78%) eBPF
9 2 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.78%) HTML
9 2 (0.78%) Loki
9 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.78%) SPIFFE
9 2 (0.78%) Web Services
10 1 (0.39%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.39%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.01%) Clustering
2 27 (10.51%) Data Centre
3 26 (10.12%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.89%) Enterprise Storage
5 9 (3.50%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.11%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.33%) Fat Client
8 6 (2.33%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.33%) Thin Client
9 5 (1.95%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.95%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.95%) Operational Technology
9 5 (1.95%) Smartcard
10 4 (1.56%) Replication
11 3 (1.17%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.78%) CESG
12 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.78%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 94 (36.58%) Windows
2 49 (19.07%) Linux
3 43 (16.73%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.11%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (2.72%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.72%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (2.33%) Windows 7
7 5 (1.95%) CentOS
7 5 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.17%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.78%) Debian
9 2 (0.78%) VMS
9 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.39%) Android
10 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.39%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.39%) Solaris
10 1 (0.39%) Unix
10 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (28.40%) Agile
2 55 (21.40%) Key Management
3 51 (19.84%) Identity Access Management
4 43 (16.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 34 (13.23%) Cybersecurity
6 33 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (12.06%) ITIL
8 30 (11.67%) Configuration Management
8 30 (11.67%) High Availability
8 30 (11.67%) Load Balancing
8 30 (11.67%) Observability
9 29 (11.28%) CI/CD
10 28 (10.89%) Change Management
11 24 (9.34%) DevOps
12 23 (8.95%) Migration
13 22 (8.56%) Cryptography
14 21 (8.17%) ITSM
14 21 (8.17%) Service Management
15 19 (7.39%) Platform Engineering
15 19 (7.39%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 74 (28.79%) PowerShell
2 33 (12.84%) Python
3 15 (5.84%) SQL
4 12 (4.67%) Bash
5 8 (3.11%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.33%) C#
7 4 (1.56%) PHP
8 3 (1.17%) Go
9 2 (0.78%) Java
10 1 (0.39%) C++
10 1 (0.39%) Perl
10 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 185 (71.98%) Security Cleared
2 98 (38.13%) DV Cleared
3 79 (30.74%) SC Cleared
4 25 (9.73%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (7.00%) Degree
6 16 (6.23%) CISSP
7 15 (5.84%) CISM
8 9 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (3.11%) GIAC
10 7 (2.72%) JNCIA
10 7 (2.72%) JNCIP
10 7 (2.72%) JNCIS
11 5 (1.95%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.95%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.56%) APMG
12 4 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.56%) MCSE
12 4 (1.56%) SSCP
13 3 (1.17%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.78%) NIST
2 17 (6.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (5.45%) NCSC
4 9 (3.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.33%) GDPR
6 5 (1.95%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.56%) QA
8 3 (1.17%) RMADS
8 3 (1.17%) SLA
9 2 (0.78%) ISA99
9 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.78%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 73 (28.40%) Active Directory
2 41 (15.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (6.61%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (6.23%) Docker
5 14 (5.45%) Hyper-V
6 13 (5.06%) VMware NSX
7 10 (3.89%) BitLocker
8 8 (3.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (2.72%) Firmware
10 3 (1.17%) vSphere
11 2 (0.78%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 2 (0.78%) KVM
11 2 (0.78%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.78%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.39%) NFS
12 1 (0.39%) Squid
12 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (12.45%) Ansible
2 30 (11.67%) Kubernetes
3 28 (10.89%) Terraform
4 23 (8.95%) FortiGate
5 22 (8.56%) vCenter Server
6 12 (4.67%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (4.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (3.50%) Puppet
9 8 (3.11%) Prometheus
9 8 (3.11%) vMotion
10 7 (2.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (2.72%) Grafana
11 6 (2.33%) SCOM
11 6 (2.33%) WMI
12 4 (1.56%) SCCM
12 4 (1.56%) WSUS
13 3 (1.17%) CA Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.78%) Cilium
14 2 (0.78%) PingFederate
15 1 (0.39%) VxRail
Vendors
1 74 (28.79%) Microsoft
2 62 (24.12%) VMware
3 50 (19.46%) Cisco
4 36 (14.01%) Juniper
5 35 (13.62%) Splunk
6 27 (10.51%) F5
6 27 (10.51%) SolarWinds
7 22 (8.56%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (5.45%) Citrix
9 13 (5.06%) ServiceNow
10 12 (4.67%) Palo Alto
11 9 (3.50%) NetApp
12 8 (3.11%) Thales
13 7 (2.72%) Broadcom
14 6 (2.33%) BMC
14 6 (2.33%) Netskope
14 6 (2.33%) Remedy
15 5 (1.95%) Fortinet
15 5 (1.95%) Google
15 5 (1.95%) Red Hat