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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 296 181
Rank change year-on-year -47 -115 +127
Contract jobs citing PKI 267 178 481
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.73% 1.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.07% 2.15% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 137 327
10th Percentile £403 £410 £363
25th Percentile £500 £490 £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 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £565 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -1.74% +4.55% -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 12,894 8,296 11,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.97% 34.06% 30.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,192 5,451 7,567
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% -0.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £673
90th Percentile £749 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 656 312 812
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.68 £12.29
25th Percentile £20.79 £22.66 £15.16
Median hourly rate £45.46 £34.50 £28.13
Median % change year-on-year +31.77% +22.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £85.00 £66.98
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% +16.07% +24.53%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +16 105 £600 - 20
London -16 95 £625 +8.70% 11
South West -54 19 £606 +5.43% 6
North of England -65 19 £482 -33.52% 7
West Midlands -61 18 £400 -5.88% 2
Midlands -65 18 £400 -5.88% 5
Yorkshire -51 10 £482 -33.52% 4
North West -26 9 £520 -10.54% 3
East of England -31 6 £475 -9.52% 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 18 (6.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.87%) Confluence
3 4 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.75%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.37%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 61 (22.85%) Azure
2 48 (17.98%) AWS
3 33 (12.36%) IaaS
4 26 (9.74%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (8.99%) Entra ID
6 10 (3.75%) PaaS
6 10 (3.75%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.37%) GCP
7 9 (3.37%) OpenShift
8 7 (2.62%) SaaS
9 5 (1.87%) AWS KMS
9 5 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.50%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (1.50%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.50%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.12%) GitHub
12 2 (0.75%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 68 (25.47%) Firewall
2 60 (22.47%) DNS
3 44 (16.48%) DHCP
4 43 (16.10%) BGP
5 35 (13.11%) WAN
6 32 (11.99%) VPN
7 28 (10.49%) OSPF
8 27 (10.11%) LAN
9 25 (9.36%) Junos
10 24 (8.99%) Cisco ISE
10 24 (8.99%) Ethernet VPN
10 24 (8.99%) Network Security
10 24 (8.99%) VXLAN
11 23 (8.61%) BIG-IP
12 19 (7.12%) SSL
13 15 (5.62%) MPLS
14 12 (4.49%) IPsec
15 11 (4.12%) Cisco IOS
15 11 (4.12%) TCP/IP
16 8 (3.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (3.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.25%) Power BI
3 2 (0.75%) Metadata
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.37%) MySQL
4 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (4.12%) JIRA
2 6 (2.25%) Robot Framework
3 5 (1.87%) GitLab
4 4 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.75%) Git
5 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.37%) JUnit
6 1 (0.37%) MSI
General
1 38 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (10.49%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.24%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.74%) Finance
5 7 (2.62%) Military
6 5 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.50%) Banking
8 2 (0.75%) Legal
8 2 (0.75%) Local Government
8 2 (0.75%) Retail
9 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.37%) Back Office
9 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (30.71%) Architect
2 39 (14.61%) Senior
3 38 (14.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (7.12%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 17 (6.37%) Network Engineer
6 15 (5.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (4.87%) Network Specialist
8 12 (4.49%) Firewall Specialist
8 12 (4.49%) Support Engineer
9 10 (3.75%) Senior Architect
10 9 (3.37%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.37%) Security Engineer
10 9 (3.37%) Senior Network Engineer
11 8 (3.00%) 3rd Line Support
11 8 (3.00%) Administrator
11 8 (3.00%) Platform Manager
11 8 (3.00%) Systems Administrator
11 8 (3.00%) Systems Manager
11 8 (3.00%) Wintel Administrator
11 8 (3.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.11%) REST
2 30 (11.24%) JSON
3 23 (8.61%) 802.1X
4 13 (4.87%) OpenID
5 12 (4.49%) LDAP
5 12 (4.49%) SAML
6 8 (3.00%) OAuth
7 6 (2.25%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (1.12%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.75%) CSS
9 2 (0.75%) eBPF
9 2 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.75%) HTML
9 2 (0.75%) Loki
9 2 (0.75%) SPIFFE
9 2 (0.75%) Web Services
10 1 (0.37%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.37%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.37%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.11%) Clustering
2 26 (9.74%) Data Centre
2 26 (9.74%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.75%) Enterprise Storage
4 9 (3.37%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.00%) Algorithms
5 8 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.62%) Fat Client
6 7 (2.62%) Thin Client
7 6 (2.25%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.87%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.87%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.87%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.87%) Smartcard
9 4 (1.50%) Replication
10 3 (1.12%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.75%) CESG
11 2 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.75%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 98 (36.70%) Windows
2 52 (19.48%) Linux
3 45 (16.85%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (2.62%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.62%) Windows 7
5 7 (2.62%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (1.87%) CentOS
6 5 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.12%) VMS
7 3 (1.12%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.75%) Android
8 2 (0.75%) Debian
9 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.37%) Solaris
9 1 (0.37%) Unix
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (28.09%) Agile
2 55 (20.60%) Key Management
3 53 (19.85%) Identity Access Management
4 45 (16.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 35 (13.11%) Cybersecurity
6 34 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (12.36%) ITIL
8 31 (11.61%) CI/CD
9 30 (11.24%) Configuration Management
9 30 (11.24%) Load Balancing
10 29 (10.86%) Change Management
10 29 (10.86%) High Availability
10 29 (10.86%) Observability
11 26 (9.74%) DevOps
12 24 (8.99%) Migration
13 23 (8.61%) Cryptography
13 23 (8.61%) Service Management
14 21 (7.87%) ITSM
15 20 (7.49%) Infrastructure as Code
16 19 (7.12%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 78 (29.21%) PowerShell
2 36 (13.48%) Python
3 15 (5.62%) SQL
4 12 (4.49%) Bash
5 8 (3.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.25%) C#
7 4 (1.50%) PHP
8 3 (1.12%) Go
9 2 (0.75%) Java
10 1 (0.37%) C++
10 1 (0.37%) Perl
10 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 192 (71.91%) Security Cleared
2 103 (38.58%) DV Cleared
3 82 (30.71%) SC Cleared
4 24 (8.99%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (7.12%) Degree
6 16 (5.99%) CISSP
7 15 (5.62%) CISM
8 11 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (3.00%) GIAC
10 7 (2.62%) JNCIA
10 7 (2.62%) JNCIP
10 7 (2.62%) JNCIS
11 6 (2.25%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.87%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (1.50%) APMG
13 4 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.50%) MCSE
13 4 (1.50%) SSCP
14 3 (1.12%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.87%) NIST
2 17 (6.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (5.24%) NCSC
4 9 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.62%) GDPR
6 5 (1.87%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.50%) QA
7 4 (1.50%) SLA
8 3 (1.12%) RMADS
9 2 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.75%) ISA99
9 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.75%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (28.84%) Active Directory
2 42 (15.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.74%) Docker
4 17 (6.37%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (5.24%) Hyper-V
6 13 (4.87%) VMware NSX
7 10 (3.75%) BitLocker
8 8 (3.00%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (2.62%) Firmware
10 4 (1.50%) vSphere
11 2 (0.75%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 2 (0.75%) KVM
11 2 (0.75%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.75%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.37%) NFS
12 1 (0.37%) Squid
12 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 34 (12.73%) Ansible
2 30 (11.24%) Kubernetes
3 28 (10.49%) Terraform
4 22 (8.24%) FortiGate
4 22 (8.24%) vCenter Server
5 13 (4.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (4.87%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (3.37%) Puppet
7 8 (3.00%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.00%) vMotion
8 7 (2.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (2.62%) Grafana
8 7 (2.62%) SCOM
8 7 (2.62%) WMI
9 5 (1.87%) SCCM
10 4 (1.50%) WSUS
11 3 (1.12%) CA Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.75%) PingFederate
12 2 (0.75%) Podman
12 2 (0.75%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 79 (29.59%) Microsoft
2 65 (24.34%) VMware
3 51 (19.10%) Cisco
4 37 (13.86%) Juniper
5 34 (12.73%) Splunk
6 26 (9.74%) F5
6 26 (9.74%) SolarWinds
7 21 (7.87%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (5.24%) Citrix
9 13 (4.87%) ServiceNow
10 12 (4.49%) Palo Alto
11 9 (3.37%) NetApp
12 8 (3.00%) Thales
13 7 (2.62%) Broadcom
14 6 (2.25%) BMC
14 6 (2.25%) Netskope
14 6 (2.25%) Remedy
15 5 (1.87%) Fortinet
15 5 (1.87%) Google
15 5 (1.87%) Red Hat