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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 321 201
Rank change year-on-year -53 -120 +114
Contract jobs citing PKI 247 190 451
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.72% 1.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.69% 2.06% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 153 319
10th Percentile £411 £358 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £641 £619 £608
90th Percentile £704 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -5.82%
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 14,612 9,228 11,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.93% 34.73% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,072 5,886 7,346
10th Percentile £313 £304 £281
25th Percentile £415 £408 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 787 441 822
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.24
25th Percentile £21.08 £18.90 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.89 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.66% -12.29% +36.36%
75th Percentile £71.00 £59.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.81 £36.02
% change year-on-year +41.21% -14.48% +38.55%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -2 106 £590 +2.61% 23
London -70 73 £550 -4.35% 16
North of England -46 34 £425 -13.62% 13
North West -29 23 £418 -15.14% 7
South West -65 15 £538 -6.52% 21
Midlands -65 11 £450 +17.65% 9
Yorkshire - 11 £500 - 5
West Midlands -68 10 £400 +4.58% 4
East of England -28 4 £400 -23.81% 2
East Midlands -15 1 £475 - 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 10 (4.05%) Confluence
2 9 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.64%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.21%) IIS
4 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (4.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.40%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 76 (30.77%) Azure
2 59 (23.89%) AWS
3 34 (13.77%) Entra ID
4 19 (7.69%) GCP
5 14 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (5.67%) Power Platform
6 12 (4.86%) IaaS
7 11 (4.45%) PaaS
8 9 (3.64%) OpenShift
9 8 (3.24%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.43%) SaaS
11 5 (2.02%) AWS KMS
12 3 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.21%) GitHub
13 2 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (0.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (0.81%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.81%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 74 (29.96%) DNS
2 61 (24.70%) Firewall
3 57 (23.08%) DHCP
4 39 (15.79%) BGP
5 37 (14.98%) WAN
6 34 (13.77%) VPN
7 33 (13.36%) LAN
8 30 (12.15%) OSPF
9 25 (10.12%) Ethernet VPN
9 25 (10.12%) VXLAN
10 24 (9.72%) BIG-IP
11 23 (9.31%) Cisco ISE
11 23 (9.31%) Junos
11 23 (9.31%) Network Security
12 17 (6.88%) SSL
13 12 (4.86%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (4.86%) IPsec
14 11 (4.45%) MPLS
15 10 (4.05%) SSH
15 10 (4.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.29%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.26%) Power BI
3 9 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.21%) Big Data
6 3 (1.21%) Db2
6 3 (1.21%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.21%) MySQL
6 3 (1.21%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.81%) Metadata
8 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (5.26%) JIRA
2 6 (2.43%) Git
2 6 (2.43%) GitLab
3 5 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.62%) Robot Framework
4 4 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.81%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.81%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.81%) Gatling
5 2 (0.81%) Gradle
5 2 (0.81%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.81%) MSI
5 2 (0.81%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.81%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.81%) Terragrunt
General
1 37 (14.98%) Social Skills
2 27 (10.93%) Finance
3 24 (9.72%) Public Sector
4 11 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.83%) Banking
7 5 (2.02%) Military
8 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.21%) Legal
8 3 (1.21%) Retail
9 2 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.81%) Police
9 2 (0.81%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.40%) Back Office
10 1 (0.40%) Law
10 1 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 46 (18.62%) Senior
2 41 (16.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 31 (12.55%) Architect
4 24 (9.72%) Network Engineer
5 19 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 15 (6.07%) Storage Engineer
7 14 (5.67%) Firewall Specialist
7 14 (5.67%) Network Specialist
7 14 (5.67%) Senior Network Engineer
8 13 (5.26%) Lead
8 13 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.05%) Senior Architect
10 9 (3.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (3.64%) Security Engineer
11 8 (3.24%) Analyst
11 8 (3.24%) Linux Engineer
12 6 (2.43%) Consultant
12 6 (2.43%) ITSM Architect
13 5 (2.02%) Active Directory Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.36%) 802.1X
2 19 (7.69%) LDAP
3 17 (6.88%) OpenID
4 15 (6.07%) SAML
5 13 (5.26%) REST
6 11 (4.45%) OAuth
7 6 (2.43%) OAuth2
7 6 (2.43%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (2.02%) SailPoint
9 3 (1.21%) JSON
9 3 (1.21%) Kafka
9 3 (1.21%) Keycloak
9 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (1.21%) Middleware
9 3 (1.21%) SPIFFE
10 2 (0.81%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.81%) Blazor
10 2 (0.81%) eBPF
10 2 (0.81%) FIDO
10 2 (0.81%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 48 (19.43%) Clustering
2 34 (13.77%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.64%) Enterprise Storage
4 8 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.24%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.83%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.83%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.83%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.43%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.02%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.02%) Smartcard
8 4 (1.62%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.62%) Fat Client
8 4 (1.62%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.62%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 127 (51.42%) Windows
2 68 (27.53%) Linux
3 65 (26.32%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.64%) Ubuntu
4 9 (3.64%) Unix
5 6 (2.43%) Debian
5 6 (2.43%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (2.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.62%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.21%) Android
7 3 (1.21%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.21%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.81%) CentOS
8 2 (0.81%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.40%) VMS
9 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (24.70%) Identity Access Management
2 46 (18.62%) ITIL
3 45 (18.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 43 (17.41%) High Availability
5 40 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (14.98%) Agile
7 36 (14.57%) Cybersecurity
8 35 (14.17%) Zero Trust
9 33 (13.36%) DevOps
10 32 (12.96%) Observability
11 30 (12.15%) ITSM
11 30 (12.15%) Load Balancing
12 27 (10.93%) Cryptography
12 27 (10.93%) Key Management
12 27 (10.93%) Service Management
13 24 (9.72%) Project Delivery
14 22 (8.91%) Change Management
14 22 (8.91%) CI/CD
15 21 (8.50%) Infrastructure as Code
16 20 (8.10%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 56 (22.67%) PowerShell
2 42 (17.00%) Python
3 14 (5.67%) SQL
4 12 (4.86%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.83%) Bash
6 6 (2.43%) C#
7 5 (2.02%) Java
8 4 (1.62%) PHP
9 3 (1.21%) Go
10 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.40%) C++
Qualifications
1 139 (56.28%) Security Cleared
2 90 (36.44%) DV Cleared
3 52 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 32 (12.96%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (8.10%) Degree
6 13 (5.26%) CISSP
7 10 (4.05%) CCNP
8 9 (3.64%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.64%) GIAC
9 8 (3.24%) CISM
9 8 (3.24%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (2.83%) JNCIA
10 7 (2.83%) JNCIP
10 7 (2.83%) JNCIS
11 5 (2.02%) Master's Degree
11 5 (2.02%) SSCP
12 4 (1.62%) CCNA
12 4 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.62%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.55%) NIST
2 21 (8.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (5.67%) NCSC
4 9 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.43%) QA
6 4 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.62%) GDPR
7 3 (1.21%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.81%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.81%) ISA99
8 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.81%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.81%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.81%) RMADS
8 2 (0.81%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.40%) GRC
9 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 84 (34.01%) Active Directory
2 48 (19.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (10.53%) Docker
4 18 (7.29%) VMware NSX
5 17 (6.88%) Hyper-V
5 17 (6.88%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (4.05%) BitLocker
7 9 (3.64%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.62%) Firmware
9 4 (1.62%) Terminal Services
9 4 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (1.21%) NFS
10 3 (1.21%) OpenAM
10 3 (1.21%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.81%) KVM
11 2 (0.81%) XenApp
11 2 (0.81%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (14.98%) Ansible
2 35 (14.17%) Kubernetes
3 28 (11.34%) Terraform
3 28 (11.34%) vCenter Server
4 23 (9.31%) FortiGate
5 14 (5.67%) SCOM
6 13 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (4.86%) Puppet
8 11 (4.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (4.05%) Avamar
10 9 (3.64%) vMotion
11 7 (2.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (2.83%) Prometheus
12 6 (2.43%) CA Single Sign-On
12 6 (2.43%) Grafana
13 5 (2.02%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (2.02%) Kibana
13 5 (2.02%) SCCM
13 5 (2.02%) WMI
13 5 (2.02%) WSUS
Vendors
1 81 (32.79%) Microsoft
2 66 (26.72%) VMware
3 57 (23.08%) Cisco
4 32 (12.96%) Splunk
5 30 (12.15%) Juniper
6 28 (11.34%) F5
7 27 (10.93%) SolarWinds
8 23 (9.31%) ServiceNow
9 22 (8.91%) Extreme Networks
10 19 (7.69%) Citrix
11 18 (7.29%) Thales
12 12 (4.86%) Dell
12 12 (4.86%) Palo Alto
13 11 (4.45%) BMC
13 11 (4.45%) Remedy
14 8 (3.24%) NetApp
15 7 (2.83%) ForeScout
15 7 (2.83%) Google
16 6 (2.43%) Fortinet
16 6 (2.43%) HP