PKI Contracts in England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) UK / England
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	428	371	369
Rank change year-on-year	-57	-2
Contract jobs citing PKI	154	278	270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.36%	0.56%	0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	1.08%	1.69%	1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted	99	162	143
Median daily rate	£475	£494	£360
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-3.79%	+37.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£365	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£599	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£439	£475	£370
% change year-on-year	-7.63%	+28.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	2	5
Median hourly rate	£50.00	£32.04	£20.19
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+56.06%	+58.71%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£50.00	£32.04	£20.19
% change year-on-year	+56.06%	+58.71%

PKI is in the generic IT skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Generic IT Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	14239	16461	16386
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	33.53%	33.34%	32.11%
Number of daily rates quoted	9338	10948	10465
Median daily rate	£463	£440	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.11%	+3.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£280	£270	£251
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£613	£606
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£390	£375
% change year-on-year	+2.56%	+4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	440	530	597
Median hourly rate	£22.00	£21.00	£18.61
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+4.76%	+12.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£12.45	£12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.33	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£25.00	£22.50	£18.69
% change year-on-year	+11.11%	+20.38%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing PKI as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Miscellaneous category.

PKI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing PKI in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for PKI in England

PKI
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing PKI in England over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for PKI in England

PKI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend 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 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	+22	79	£475	-7.31%	5
South East	-48	24	£478	+0.52%	6
North West	-13	20	£280	-34.31%	2
South West	-1	13	£475	+13.63%	2
East of England	-2	7	£475	-20.83%	4
West Midlands	+25	5	£400	-11.11%	5
Yorkshire	+21	4	£475	-7.31%
East Midlands	-8	1	-	-
PKI UK

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing PKI also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for PKI.

1	139 (41.99%)	Security Cleared
2	126 (38.07%)	Windows
3	125 (37.76%)	Active Directory
4	108 (32.63%)	SC Cleared
5	100 (30.21%)	Microsoft
6	85 (25.68%)	Firewall
7	73 (22.05%)	Linux
8	69 (20.85%)	VMware
9	68 (20.54%)	DNS
10	58 (17.52%)	SSL
10	58 (17.52%)	VPN
11	49 (14.80%)	Amazon AWS
12	47 (14.20%)	Finance
12	47 (14.20%)	Unix
12	47 (14.20%)	Windows Server

13	46 (13.90%)	SQL
13	46 (13.90%)	Cisco
14	44 (13.29%)	Office 365
15	43 (12.99%)	Agile Software Development
16	41 (12.39%)	Java
17	40 (12.08%)	Oracle
17	40 (12.08%)	Citrix
18	39 (11.78%)	DHCP
18	39 (11.78%)	PowerShell
19	38 (11.48%)	SCCM
20	37 (11.18%)	Data Centre
21	35 (10.57%)	Puppet
21	35 (10.57%)	MS Exchange
22	34 (10.27%)	SQL Server
22	34 (10.27%)	Red Hat

PKI
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	35 (10.57%)	MS Exchange
2	27 (8.16%)	SharePoint
3	21 (6.34%)	Apache
4	20 (6.04%)	IIS
5	17 (5.14%)	Skype for Business
6	15 (4.53%)	JBoss
7	12 (3.63%)	Exchange Server 2010
7	12 (3.63%)	WebSphere
8	11 (3.32%)	Exchange Server 2013
9	8 (2.42%)	SAS
9	8 (2.42%)	SharePoint Server
9	8 (2.42%)	Tomcat
10	7 (2.11%)	Confluence
11	5 (1.51%)	WebLogic
12	4 (1.21%)	Exchange Server 2003
13	3 (0.91%)	ArcGIS
13	3 (0.91%)	Oracle SOA Suite
13	3 (0.91%)	SharePoint 2013
14	2 (0.60%)	nginx
14	2 (0.60%)	OpenStack

Applications
1	2 (0.60%)	HipChat
1	2 (0.60%)	Microsoft Excel
1	2 (0.60%)	Microsoft Office
1	2 (0.60%)	MS Visio
2	1 (0.30%)	Microsoft Project

Business Applications
1	1 (0.30%)	SAP Oil and Gas
1	1 (0.30%)	Sentinel

Cloud Services
1	49 (14.80%)	Amazon AWS
2	44 (13.29%)	Office 365
3	22 (6.65%)	Microsoft Azure
4	21 (6.34%)	IaaS
5	17 (5.14%)	SaaS
6	10 (3.02%)	AWS CloudFormation
6	10 (3.02%)	PaaS
7	8 (2.42%)	Amazon CloudWatch
7	8 (2.42%)	Amazon EC2
7	8 (2.42%)	Amazon S3
8	5 (1.51%)	AWS Lambda
8	5 (1.51%)	Route 53
8	5 (1.51%)	Virtual Private Cloud
9	4 (1.21%)	Azure Active Directory
9	4 (1.21%)	Cloud Computing
10	2 (0.60%)	AWS OpsWorks
10	2 (0.60%)	OneDrive
11	1 (0.30%)	Google Cloud Platform

Communications & Networking
1	85 (25.68%)	Firewall
2	68 (20.54%)	DNS
3	58 (17.52%)	SSL
3	58 (17.52%)	VPN
4	39 (11.78%)	DHCP
5	26 (7.85%)	Network Security
6	25 (7.55%)	Internet
7	24 (7.25%)	HTTP
7	24 (7.25%)	TCP/IP
8	22 (6.65%)	LAN
8	22 (6.65%)	SNMP
9	21 (6.34%)	LDAP
10	20 (6.04%)	SSH
11	19 (5.74%)	IPsec
12	16 (4.83%)	WAN
13	14 (4.23%)	Kerberos
14	13 (3.93%)	Cisco ASA
15	11 (3.32%)	Remote Desktop
15	11 (3.32%)	SAN
16	10 (3.02%)	Reverse Proxy

Database & Business Intelligence
1	34 (10.27%)	SQL Server
2	19 (5.74%)	PostgreSQL
3	16 (4.83%)	Oracle Database
4	9 (2.72%)	Hadoop
5	8 (2.42%)	Oracle Database 11g
5	8 (2.42%)	Oracle Database 12c
5	8 (2.42%)	Relational Database
6	7 (2.11%)	MySQL
6	7 (2.11%)	RDBMS
7	6 (1.81%)	Big Data
8	5 (1.51%)	SQL Server 2008
8	5 (1.51%)	SQL Server 2012
9	3 (0.91%)	Amazon RDS
9	3 (0.91%)	MongoDB
9	3 (0.91%)	NoSQL
10	2 (0.60%)	Redis
10	2 (0.60%)	SQL Server 2005
10	2 (0.60%)	SQL Server 2014
11	1 (0.30%)	Blockchain
11	1 (0.30%)	SQL Server 2016

Development Applications
1	28 (8.46%)	Jenkins
2	16 (4.83%)	Bitbucket
2	16 (4.83%)	Git (software)
3	15 (4.53%)	JIRA
4	9 (2.72%)	Maven
5	8 (2.42%)	Subversion
6	7 (2.11%)	Sonatype Nexus
7	5 (1.51%)	Atlassian Bamboo
7	5 (1.51%)	GitLab
7	5 (1.51%)	Team Foundation Server
7	5 (1.51%)	Xcode
8	3 (0.91%)	Octopus Deploy
8	3 (0.91%)	TeamCity
9	2 (0.60%)	Ant
10	1 (0.30%)	FishEye

General
1	47 (14.20%)	Finance
2	10 (3.02%)	Banking
2	10 (3.02%)	Telecoms
3	9 (2.72%)	Financial Institution
4	8 (2.42%)	Local Government
5	2 (0.60%)	Investment Banking
5	2 (0.60%)	Legal
5	2 (0.60%)	Marketing
5	2 (0.60%)	Multimedia
6	1 (0.30%)	Billing
6	1 (0.30%)	Electronics
6	1 (0.30%)	Manufacturing
6	1 (0.30%)	Retail

Job Titles
1	88 (26.59%)	Architect
2	49 (14.80%)	Consultant
3	24 (7.25%)	Security Architect
4	21 (6.34%)	Technical Architect
5	19 (5.74%)	AWS Architect
5	19 (5.74%)	Infrastructure Engineer
6	16 (4.83%)	Developer
7	15 (4.53%)	Cloud Architect
7	15 (4.53%)	Security Engineer
8	14 (4.23%)	Administrator
8	14 (4.23%)	Infrastructure Architect
8	14 (4.23%)	Network Engineer
9	12 (3.63%)	Analyst
10	11 (3.32%)	Security Consultant
11	10 (3.02%)	Security Specialist
11	10 (3.02%)	Solutions Architect
12	9 (2.72%)	Designer
12	9 (2.72%)	DevOps Engineer
12	9 (2.72%)	Network Specialist
12	9 (2.72%)	Systems Administrator

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	27 (8.16%)	Web Services
2	21 (6.34%)	SAML
3	16 (4.83%)	Oracle GoldenGate
4	14 (4.23%)	OAuth
5	12 (3.63%)	RESTful
6	11 (3.32%)	OpenID
7	9 (2.72%)	Elastic Stack
7	9 (2.72%)	JSON
7	9 (2.72%)	Middleware
8	8 (2.42%)	802.1X
8	8 (2.42%)	REST
8	8 (2.42%)	SOAP
9	7 (2.11%)	.NET
9	7 (2.11%)	XML
10	6 (1.81%)	Java EE
10	6 (1.81%)	Node.js
10	6 (1.81%)	OAuth2
11	5 (1.51%)	ADSI
11	5 (1.51%)	Cocoa Touch
11	5 (1.51%)	Core Data

Miscellaneous
1	37 (11.18%)	Data Centre
2	20 (6.04%)	Analytical Skills
2	20 (6.04%)	Management Information System
3	17 (5.14%)	Computer Science
4	12 (3.63%)	Clustering
5	11 (3.32%)	Replication
6	9 (2.72%)	Linux Command Line
6	9 (2.72%)	Smart Meter
7	8 (2.42%)	CESG
8	7 (2.11%)	Smartcard
9	6 (1.81%)	User Experience
10	5 (1.51%)	Animation
10	5 (1.51%)	Blackberry
10	5 (1.51%)	Hybrid Cloud
10	5 (1.51%)	Public Cloud
10	5 (1.51%)	Virtual Team
10	5 (1.51%)	YubiKey
11	4 (1.21%)	Mainframe
12	3 (0.91%)	Enterprise Cloud
12	3 (0.91%)	Machine to Machine

Operating Systems
1	126 (38.07%)	Windows
2	73 (22.05%)	Linux
3	47 (14.20%)	Unix
3	47 (14.20%)	Windows Server
4	32 (9.67%)	Windows Server 2012
5	29 (8.76%)	Windows 10
6	28 (8.46%)	Windows Server 2008
7	22 (6.65%)	Windows Server 2003
8	21 (6.34%)	CentOS
9	14 (4.23%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10	10 (3.02%)	AIX
11	8 (2.42%)	Apple iOS
12	6 (1.81%)	Windows 2000 Server
13	5 (1.51%)	Solaris
14	4 (1.21%)	SUSE
15	1 (0.30%)	Android
15	1 (0.30%)	Debian
15	1 (0.30%)	Windows 7

Processes & Methodologies
1	43 (12.99%)	Agile Software Development
2	33 (9.97%)	DevOps
2	33 (9.97%)	Migration
3	31 (9.37%)	Information Security
3	31 (9.37%)	ITIL
4	28 (8.46%)	Continuous Integration
5	25 (7.55%)	Cryptography
6	22 (6.65%)	Continuous Improvement
7	18 (5.44%)	Multi-Factor Authentication
7	18 (5.44%)	SIEM
7	18 (5.44%)	TDD
8	17 (5.14%)	Open Source
8	17 (5.14%)	TOGAF
9	16 (4.83%)	Identity Access Management
9	16 (4.83%)	Network Design
10	15 (4.53%)	Cybersecurity
10	15 (4.53%)	Test Automation
11	14 (4.23%)	Configuration Management
12	12 (3.63%)	Asset Management
12	12 (3.63%)	Penetration Testing

Programming Languages
1	46 (13.90%)	SQL
2	41 (12.39%)	Java
3	39 (11.78%)	PowerShell
4	20 (6.04%)	Python
5	19 (5.74%)	Shell Script
6	17 (5.14%)	C
7	10 (3.02%)	Ruby
8	6 (1.81%)	Bash Shell
8	6 (1.81%)	VB.NET
9	5 (1.51%)	Apple Swift
9	5 (1.51%)	Objective-C
10	4 (1.21%)	C#
10	4 (1.21%)	C++
10	4 (1.21%)	JavaScript
10	4 (1.21%)	JCL
10	4 (1.21%)	PHP
11	3 (0.91%)	Perl
12	2 (0.60%)	C-shell
12	2 (0.60%)	Korn
13	1 (0.30%)	VBScript

Qualifications
1	139 (41.99%)	Security Cleared
2	108 (32.63%)	SC Cleared
3	27 (8.16%)	Microsoft Certification
4	25 (7.55%)	Degree
5	22 (6.65%)	CISSP
5	22 (6.65%)	DV Cleared
6	18 (5.44%)	RHCE
7	17 (5.14%)	Cisco Certification
8	13 (3.93%)	RHCSA
9	12 (3.63%)	MCSE
10	10 (3.02%)	Computer Science Degree
11	8 (2.42%)	BPSS Clearance
11	8 (2.42%)	CCIE
12	7 (2.11%)	CCNA
12	7 (2.11%)	ITIL Certification
12	7 (2.11%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13	6 (1.81%)	VCP6
14	5 (1.51%)	JNCIA
14	5 (1.51%)	JNCIS
14	5 (1.51%)	MCITP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	20 (6.04%)	ISO/IEC 27001
2	15 (4.53%)	PCI DSS
3	10 (3.02%)	QA
4	6 (1.81%)	GDPR
4	6 (1.81%)	SLA
5	5 (1.51%)	COBIT
6	4 (1.21%)	GPG13
7	3 (0.91%)	Disclosure Scotland
8	2 (0.60%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
8	2 (0.60%)	RMADS
8	2 (0.60%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
9	1 (0.30%)	COSO
9	1 (0.30%)	ISAE 3402
9	1 (0.30%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9	1 (0.30%)	SSAE 16

System Software
1	125 (37.76%)	Active Directory
2	29 (8.76%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	18 (5.44%)	Docker
4	16 (4.83%)	vSphere
5	13 (3.93%)	XenApp
6	8 (2.42%)	BitLocker
7	7 (2.11%)	Virtual Machines
8	6 (1.81%)	DFS Replication
8	6 (1.81%)	vCloud
9	5 (1.51%)	Hyper-V
10	4 (1.21%)	Citrix Presentation Server
10	4 (1.21%)	Microsoft App-V
10	4 (1.21%)	VMware ESXi
10	4 (1.21%)	XenDesktop
11	2 (0.60%)	Firmware
11	2 (0.60%)	NFS
11	2 (0.60%)	Terminal Services
11	2 (0.60%)	UAG
12	1 (0.30%)	Apache ZooKeeper
12	1 (0.30%)	XenServer

Systems Management
1	38 (11.48%)	SCCM
2	35 (10.57%)	Puppet
3	31 (9.37%)	SCOM
4	17 (5.14%)	Ansible
4	17 (5.14%)	Kubernetes
5	15 (4.53%)	vCenter Server
6	14 (4.23%)	Microsoft Intune
7	13 (3.93%)	Rsyslog
8	12 (3.63%)	Opscode Chef
9	8 (2.42%)	Consul
9	8 (2.42%)	Forefront Identity Manager
9	8 (2.42%)	Packer
9	8 (2.42%)	Terraform
9	8 (2.42%)	yum
9	8 (2.42%)	ZABBIX
10	6 (1.81%)	Cobbler
10	6 (1.81%)	Nessus
10	6 (1.81%)	WSUS
11	5 (1.51%)	CA Single Sign-On
11	5 (1.51%)	Norton AntiVirus

Vendors
1	100 (30.21%)	Microsoft
2	69 (20.85%)	VMware
3	46 (13.90%)	Cisco
4	40 (12.08%)	Citrix
4	40 (12.08%)	Oracle
5	34 (10.27%)	Red Hat
6	21 (6.34%)	Atlassian
7	20 (6.04%)	Juniper
8	19 (5.74%)	CA
9	17 (5.14%)	McAfee
10	13 (3.93%)	F5
10	13 (3.93%)	HP
10	13 (3.93%)	IBM
11	12 (3.63%)	Qualys
12	11 (3.32%)	Palo Alto
12	11 (3.32%)	Thales
13	9 (2.72%)	3PAR
13	9 (2.72%)	SolarWinds
13	9 (2.72%)	Symantec
14	8 (2.42%)	AppDynamics