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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 321 217
Rank change year-on-year -51 -104 +81
Contract jobs citing PKI 280 206 368
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.74% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.83% 2.08% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 163 258
10th Percentile £418 £358 £363
25th Percentile £475 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £568 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% +5.58% -6.52%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £608
90th Percentile £738 £693 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £92.70 - -
25th Percentile £96.00 - -
Median hourly rate £98.82 - £23.80
75th Percentile £99.12 - £27.91
90th Percentile £100.00 - £35.32
UK median hourly rate £98.82 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -63.94%

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 15,309 9,886 10,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.51% 35.63% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,366 6,242 6,543
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 944 501 506
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £19.53
Median hourly rate £42.40 £32.71 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.62% -34.58% +8.98%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.70 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +41.67% -33.33% +2.66%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 24 August 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 93 £590 +2.61% 14
London -63 81 £597 +0.76% 21
North of England -22 58 £519 +4.64% 9
North West -23 35 £525 +6.71% 4
South West -63 28 £683 +18.83% 15
Yorkshire -15 23 £500 -16.67% 5
Midlands -65 9 £475 +18.75% 6
East of England -20 8 £500 -4.76% 4
West Midlands -65 8 £475 +18.75% 3
East Midlands -12 1 £475 - 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 12 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.93%) Confluence
3 8 (2.86%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.07%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (3.93%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 97 (34.64%) Azure
2 74 (26.43%) AWS
3 40 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 30 (10.71%) GCP
5 16 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 12 (4.29%) Azure Key Vault
7 12 (4.29%) IaaS
8 11 (3.93%) PaaS
9 10 (3.57%) OpenShift
10 7 (2.50%) SaaS
11 6 (2.14%) AWS KMS
11 6 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.79%) GitHub
13 4 (1.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (1.43%) OCI
14 3 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (1.07%) Azure Sentinel
15 2 (0.71%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 95 (33.93%) DNS
2 78 (27.86%) Firewall
3 76 (27.14%) DHCP
4 40 (14.29%) VPN
5 32 (11.43%) TCP/IP
6 25 (8.93%) SSL
7 24 (8.57%) LAN
8 23 (8.21%) WAN
9 22 (7.86%) BGP
9 22 (7.86%) Network Security
10 19 (6.79%) OSPF
11 17 (6.07%) IPsec
11 17 (6.07%) VSAN
12 16 (5.71%) VLAN
13 15 (5.36%) Wireless
14 13 (4.64%) Cisco ASA
14 13 (4.64%) Cisco Firepower
14 13 (4.64%) SSH
15 12 (4.29%) Cisco ISE
15 12 (4.29%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.64%) Power BI
3 8 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.79%) MySQL
6 4 (1.43%) Db2
7 3 (1.07%) Big Data
7 3 (1.07%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.07%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.71%) Metadata
9 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (4.64%) Git
1 13 (4.64%) JIRA
2 8 (2.86%) GitLab
3 6 (2.14%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.71%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.71%) Gatling
5 2 (0.71%) Gradle
5 2 (0.71%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.71%) MSI
5 2 (0.71%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.71%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.71%) Terragrunt
General
1 54 (19.29%) Social Skills
2 36 (12.86%) Finance
3 27 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (4.64%) Banking
7 5 (1.79%) Police
8 4 (1.43%) Automotive
8 4 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.43%) Legal
9 3 (1.07%) Military
9 3 (1.07%) Retail
10 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.71%) Law
10 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 59 (21.07%) Senior
2 47 (16.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (10.00%) Architect
4 27 (9.64%) Network Engineer
5 21 (7.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 20 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
7 18 (6.43%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (5.71%) Storage Engineer
9 14 (5.00%) Consultant
10 10 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.21%) Lead
12 8 (2.86%) Firewall Specialist
12 8 (2.86%) Linux Engineer
12 8 (2.86%) Network Specialist
12 8 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.50%) Analyst
13 7 (2.50%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (2.50%) Senior Architect
13 7 (2.50%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (18.93%) Terraform
2 26 (9.29%) 802.1X
3 21 (7.50%) OpenID
4 18 (6.43%) LDAP
4 18 (6.43%) SAML
5 14 (5.00%) OAuth
6 13 (4.64%) REST
7 8 (2.86%) OAuth2
8 6 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (1.79%) Kafka
9 5 (1.79%) Keycloak
9 5 (1.79%) Middleware
10 3 (1.07%) JSON
10 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (1.07%) SailPoint
10 3 (1.07%) SPIFFE
10 3 (1.07%) Web Services
11 2 (0.71%) Node.js
11 2 (0.71%) React
11 2 (0.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.64%) Data Centre
2 38 (13.57%) Clustering
3 16 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 15 (5.36%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.93%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
8 8 (2.86%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.50%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.79%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.79%) Robotics
10 5 (1.79%) Smartcard
11 4 (1.43%) Replication
11 4 (1.43%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 144 (51.43%) Windows
2 93 (33.21%) Linux
3 76 (27.14%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.93%) Unix
5 10 (3.57%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.14%) Debian
8 5 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (1.07%) Android
10 3 (1.07%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.07%) CentOS
10 3 (1.07%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (23.57%) Identity Access Management
2 57 (20.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 53 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (18.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (17.50%) Cybersecurity
5 49 (17.50%) High Availability
6 48 (17.14%) ITIL
7 40 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 40 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
8 38 (13.57%) DevOps
8 38 (13.57%) Zero Trust
9 37 (13.21%) Key Management
10 35 (12.50%) Agile
11 34 (12.14%) Cryptography
11 34 (12.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 33 (11.79%) Change Management
13 31 (11.07%) DevSecOps
13 31 (11.07%) Platform Engineering
14 30 (10.71%) ITSM
14 30 (10.71%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 73 (26.07%) PowerShell
2 57 (20.36%) Python
3 30 (10.71%) Bash
4 16 (5.71%) SQL
5 12 (4.29%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.14%) Java
7 4 (1.43%) C#
8 3 (1.07%) Go
8 3 (1.07%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.36%) Bicep
9 1 (0.36%) C++
9 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 152 (54.29%) Security Cleared
2 99 (35.36%) DV Cleared
3 59 (21.07%) SC Cleared
4 30 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (7.50%) Degree
6 18 (6.43%) CCNP
7 15 (5.36%) CISSP
8 12 (4.29%) Azure Certification
8 12 (4.29%) VCAP
9 10 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (3.21%) AWS Certification
11 7 (2.50%) CISM
12 6 (2.14%) GIAC
12 6 (2.14%) JNCIP
12 6 (2.14%) JNCIS
12 6 (2.14%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.79%) ISTQB
13 5 (1.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.43%) NIST
2 22 (7.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.71%) NCSC
4 6 (2.14%) GRC
4 6 (2.14%) JSP 440
5 5 (1.79%) QA
6 4 (1.43%) GDPR
6 4 (1.43%) SLA
7 3 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.71%) ISA99
8 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.71%) ITGC
8 2 (0.71%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.36%) PSD2
System Software
1 124 (44.29%) Active Directory
2 63 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (13.21%) Docker
4 32 (11.43%) VMware NSX
5 29 (10.36%) Hyper-V
6 16 (5.71%) vSphere
7 10 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (2.86%) BitLocker
9 7 (2.50%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (1.43%) Firmware
11 4 (1.43%) NFS
11 4 (1.43%) Terminal Services
11 4 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (1.07%) OpenAM
12 3 (1.07%) OpenSSH
13 2 (0.71%) XenApp
13 2 (0.71%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 61 (21.79%) Kubernetes
2 55 (19.64%) Ansible
3 23 (8.21%) vCenter Server
4 16 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (5.36%) VxRail
6 13 (4.64%) Avamar
6 13 (4.64%) SCOM
7 11 (3.93%) Puppet
8 10 (3.57%) FortiGate
9 7 (2.50%) Istio
9 7 (2.50%) vMotion
10 6 (2.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (2.14%) CA Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.14%) Kibana
10 6 (2.14%) WSUS
11 5 (1.79%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (1.79%) Grafana
11 5 (1.79%) Prometheus
12 4 (1.43%) systemd
Vendors
1 104 (37.14%) Microsoft
2 80 (28.57%) VMware
3 49 (17.50%) Cisco
4 29 (10.36%) Thales
5 27 (9.64%) ServiceNow
6 19 (6.79%) Juniper
7 18 (6.43%) Splunk
8 17 (6.07%) Citrix
8 17 (6.07%) SolarWinds
9 15 (5.36%) Dell
10 14 (5.00%) F5
11 12 (4.29%) CyberArk
11 12 (4.29%) Google
11 12 (4.29%) Palo Alto
12 11 (3.93%) BMC
12 11 (3.93%) Remedy
13 10 (3.57%) Extreme Networks
14 9 (3.21%) CheckPoint
15 8 (2.86%) NetApp
16 6 (2.14%) HP