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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 315 198
Rank change year-on-year -72 -117 +126
Contract jobs citing PKI 228 171 453
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.70% 1.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.64% 2.02% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 137 319
10th Percentile £411 £410 £363
25th Percentile £463 £492 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £723 £686 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £47.22 - -
25th Percentile £56.01 - -
Median hourly rate £71.33 - £23.80
75th Percentile £72.27 - £27.91
90th Percentile £72.43 - £35.32
UK median hourly rate £71.33 - £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 13,903 8,469 11,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.56% 34.43% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,688 5,462 7,333
10th Percentile £316 £300 £275
25th Percentile £415 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.43% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 750 374 853
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.04 £20.73 £15.39
Median hourly rate £42.30 £33.91 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.74% -7.10% +62.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.55 £83.82 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £33.05 £35.58
% change year-on-year +24.05% -7.10% +58.75%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -1 97 £595 +3.48% 29
London -46 70 £550 -3.72% 14
North of England -38 30 £425 -13.62% 1
North West -22 21 £422 -14.33%
South West -49 13 £538 -8.12% 10
West Midlands -63 10 £400 -8.57% 3
Midlands -67 10 £400 -8.57% 5
Yorkshire - 9 £650 - 1
East of England -27 4 £400 -23.81% 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 (4.39%) Confluence
2 8 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.32%) IIS
5 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (4.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.44%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 65 (28.51%) Azure
2 49 (21.49%) AWS
3 27 (11.84%) Entra ID
4 17 (7.46%) GCP
5 13 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (5.70%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.95%) IaaS
7 8 (3.51%) PaaS
8 7 (3.07%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.75%) AWS KMS
11 3 (1.32%) GitHub
11 3 (1.32%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.32%) SaaS
12 2 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (0.88%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 62 (27.19%) DNS
2 57 (25.00%) Firewall
3 48 (21.05%) DHCP
4 40 (17.54%) BGP
5 37 (16.23%) WAN
6 33 (14.47%) LAN
7 31 (13.60%) VPN
8 30 (13.16%) OSPF
9 28 (12.28%) Network Security
10 26 (11.40%) Ethernet VPN
10 26 (11.40%) VXLAN
11 25 (10.96%) BIG-IP
12 24 (10.53%) Cisco ISE
13 23 (10.09%) Junos
14 16 (7.02%) SSL
15 12 (5.26%) MPLS
16 10 (4.39%) Cisco ASA
16 10 (4.39%) IPsec
16 10 (4.39%) SSH
17 9 (3.95%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.14%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.26%) Power BI
3 8 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.32%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.32%) MySQL
6 2 (0.88%) Big Data
6 2 (0.88%) Metadata
6 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (5.26%) JIRA
2 7 (3.07%) GitLab
3 6 (2.63%) Git
4 5 (2.19%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.19%) Robot Framework
4 5 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.88%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.88%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.88%) Gatling
5 2 (0.88%) Gradle
5 2 (0.88%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.88%) MSI
5 2 (0.88%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.88%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.88%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.44%) JUnit
General
1 24 (10.53%) Public Sector
2 23 (10.09%) Finance
2 23 (10.09%) Social Skills
3 9 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.07%) Banking
4 7 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (1.75%) Military
6 3 (1.32%) Legal
6 3 (1.32%) Local Government
6 3 (1.32%) Retail
7 2 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.88%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.44%) Back Office
8 1 (0.44%) Law
Job Titles
1 40 (17.54%) Senior
2 38 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 29 (12.72%) Architect
4 22 (9.65%) Network Engineer
5 19 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 14 (6.14%) Firewall Specialist
6 14 (6.14%) Network Specialist
6 14 (6.14%) Storage Engineer
7 12 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
8 10 (4.39%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (4.39%) Security Engineer
8 10 (4.39%) Senior Architect
9 9 (3.95%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.51%) Lead
10 8 (3.51%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (3.51%) Support Engineer
11 6 (2.63%) ITSM Architect
11 6 (2.63%) NetApp Engineer
11 6 (2.63%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.91%) 802.1X
2 13 (5.70%) OpenID
3 12 (5.26%) LDAP
3 12 (5.26%) REST
4 11 (4.82%) SAML
5 8 (3.51%) OAuth
6 6 (2.63%) OAuth2
6 6 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.75%) SailPoint
8 3 (1.32%) JSON
8 3 (1.32%) Kafka
8 3 (1.32%) Keycloak
8 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (1.32%) SPIFFE
9 2 (0.88%) .NET
9 2 (0.88%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.88%) CSS
9 2 (0.88%) HTML
9 2 (0.88%) Node.js
9 2 (0.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.30%) Clustering
2 29 (12.72%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.39%) Enterprise Storage
4 8 (3.51%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.07%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.07%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.07%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.07%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.19%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.75%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.32%) Smartcard
9 3 (1.32%) Tandem
10 2 (0.88%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 117 (51.32%) Windows
2 64 (28.07%) Linux
3 58 (25.44%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.95%) Ubuntu
5 7 (3.07%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (2.63%) Debian
6 6 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (2.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.75%) Unix
8 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.32%) Android
9 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.32%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.88%) CentOS
10 2 (0.88%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.44%) VMS
11 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 42 (18.42%) High Availability
3 41 (17.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 39 (17.11%) Agile
5 38 (16.67%) ITIL
6 34 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (14.47%) Observability
8 31 (13.60%) Load Balancing
9 30 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
10 29 (12.72%) DevOps
11 28 (12.28%) Zero Trust
12 27 (11.84%) ITSM
13 25 (10.96%) Service Management
14 24 (10.53%) Key Management
15 23 (10.09%) CI/CD
15 23 (10.09%) Cryptography
16 22 (9.65%) Change Management
17 21 (9.21%) Infrastructure as Code
18 20 (8.77%) Project Delivery
18 20 (8.77%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 54 (23.68%) PowerShell
2 35 (15.35%) Python
3 13 (5.70%) SQL
4 12 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.07%) Bash
6 6 (2.63%) C#
7 4 (1.75%) Java
7 4 (1.75%) PHP
8 3 (1.32%) Go
9 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.44%) C++
Qualifications
1 135 (59.21%) Security Cleared
2 92 (40.35%) DV Cleared
3 43 (18.86%) SC Cleared
4 31 (13.60%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (7.46%) Degree
6 12 (5.26%) CISSP
7 10 (4.39%) CISM
8 9 (3.95%) GIAC
9 8 (3.51%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.51%) CCNP
9 8 (3.51%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (3.07%) JNCIA
10 7 (3.07%) JNCIP
10 7 (3.07%) JNCIS
11 5 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.75%) APMG
12 4 (1.75%) CCNA
12 4 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (1.75%) SSCP
13 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.72%) NIST
2 20 (8.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (5.26%) NCSC
4 9 (3.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.63%) QA
6 4 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.75%) GDPR
7 3 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.32%) RMADS
8 2 (0.88%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.88%) ISA99
8 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.88%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.88%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.88%) SLA
9 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 69 (30.26%) Active Directory
2 48 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (9.21%) Docker
4 18 (7.89%) VMware NSX
5 16 (7.02%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (5.70%) Hyper-V
7 10 (4.39%) BitLocker
8 9 (3.95%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (1.75%) Firmware
11 3 (1.32%) Terminal Services
11 3 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.88%) KVM
12 2 (0.88%) OpenSSH
12 2 (0.88%) XenApp
12 2 (0.88%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.44%) Squid
13 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (15.79%) Ansible
2 31 (13.60%) Kubernetes
3 28 (12.28%) Terraform
4 25 (10.96%) vCenter Server
5 23 (10.09%) FortiGate
6 13 (5.70%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (5.26%) Puppet
7 12 (5.26%) SCOM
8 9 (3.95%) vMotion
9 8 (3.51%) Avamar
9 8 (3.51%) Prometheus
10 7 (3.07%) Grafana
11 5 (2.19%) SCCM
11 5 (2.19%) WMI
12 3 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.32%) CA Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.32%) Istio
13 2 (0.88%) Cilium
13 2 (0.88%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 68 (29.82%) Microsoft
2 67 (29.39%) VMware
3 55 (24.12%) Cisco
4 32 (14.04%) Splunk
5 31 (13.60%) Juniper
6 29 (12.72%) F5
7 27 (11.84%) SolarWinds
8 22 (9.65%) Extreme Networks
8 22 (9.65%) ServiceNow
9 19 (8.33%) Citrix
10 16 (7.02%) Thales
11 14 (6.14%) Palo Alto
12 10 (4.39%) BMC
12 10 (4.39%) Dell
12 10 (4.39%) Remedy
13 9 (3.95%) NetApp
14 8 (3.51%) ForeScout
15 6 (2.63%) Aruba
15 6 (2.63%) Fortinet
15 6 (2.63%) Google