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 17 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 327 191
Rank change year-on-year +5 -136 +110
Contract jobs citing PKI 275 153 459
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.62% 1.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.22% 1.84% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 116 308
10th Percentile £401 £410 £363
25th Percentile £500 £467 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £725 £639 £638
90th Percentile £838 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £565 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.73% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £61.41 - £56.61
25th Percentile £70.50 - £56.93
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £59.70
75th Percentile £96.25 - £64.73
90th Percentile £101.65 - £66.39
UK median hourly rate £79.50 - £59.70
% change year-on-year - - +8.55%

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 12,380 8,316 11,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.61% 33.85% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,863 5,377 7,632
10th Percentile £299 £296 £258
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% - -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £663
90th Percentile £749 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 301 787
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.75 £12.58
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.27 £15.46
Median hourly rate £37.58 £32.81 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% +17.18% +17.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £84.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% +16.07% +24.44%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +28 100 £600 -0.83% 22
London +9 93 £625 +19.05% 13
South West -46 26 £594 +5.56% 2
Midlands -44 25 £400 -8.57% 7
West Midlands -53 25 £400 -8.57% 4
North of England -67 18 £482 -32.35% 5
Yorkshire -50 10 £482 -33.52% 2
North West -29 8 £444 -11.25% 3
East of England -24 5 £550 - 4
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 24 (8.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.82%) Confluence
4 2 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (0.73%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.36%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 51 (18.55%) Azure
2 43 (15.64%) AWS
3 32 (11.64%) IaaS
4 24 (8.73%) Entra ID
4 24 (8.73%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (3.27%) OpenShift
5 9 (3.27%) PaaS
6 8 (2.91%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.55%) GCP
7 7 (2.55%) GitHub
7 7 (2.55%) SaaS
8 6 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.09%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.09%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.73%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (0.73%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 72 (26.18%) Firewall
2 64 (23.27%) DNS
3 46 (16.73%) BGP
4 43 (15.64%) DHCP
5 37 (13.45%) WAN
6 34 (12.36%) VPN
7 29 (10.55%) Network Security
8 26 (9.45%) OSPF
9 25 (9.09%) LAN
10 23 (8.36%) Ethernet VPN
10 23 (8.36%) Junos
10 23 (8.36%) VXLAN
11 22 (8.00%) Cisco ISE
12 21 (7.64%) BIG-IP
13 19 (6.91%) MPLS
13 19 (6.91%) SSL
14 16 (5.82%) IPsec
15 12 (4.36%) TCP/IP
16 11 (4.00%) Cisco IOS
17 8 (2.91%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.27%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.45%) Power BI
4 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (4.00%) JIRA
2 7 (2.55%) GitLab
3 6 (2.18%) Robot Framework
4 4 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.73%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.36%) Git
6 1 (0.36%) JUnit
General
1 41 (14.91%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 24 (8.73%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.73%) Finance
5 9 (3.27%) Military
6 5 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.45%) Banking
7 4 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.73%) Legal
8 2 (0.73%) Local Government
9 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.36%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 87 (31.64%) Architect
2 41 (14.91%) Senior
3 33 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (7.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 17 (6.18%) Network Engineer
6 14 (5.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (5.09%) Support Engineer
7 11 (4.00%) Network Specialist
7 11 (4.00%) Wintel Engineer
8 10 (3.64%) 3rd Line Support
8 10 (3.64%) Administrator
8 10 (3.64%) Firewall Specialist
8 10 (3.64%) Lead
8 10 (3.64%) Platform Manager
8 10 (3.64%) Systems Administrator
8 10 (3.64%) Systems Manager
8 10 (3.64%) Wintel Administrator
8 10 (3.64%) Wintel Systems Administrator
9 9 (3.27%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 9 (3.27%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.00%) REST
2 28 (10.18%) JSON
3 21 (7.64%) 802.1X
4 13 (4.73%) OpenID
5 11 (4.00%) LDAP
5 11 (4.00%) SAML
6 8 (2.91%) OAuth
6 8 (2.91%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.09%) CSS
7 3 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.09%) HTML
7 3 (1.09%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.73%) .NET
8 2 (0.73%) cloud-init
8 2 (0.73%) eBPF
8 2 (0.73%) Kafka
8 2 (0.73%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.73%) Loki
8 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.18%) Clustering
2 26 (9.45%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.64%) Fat Client
4 10 (3.64%) Thin Client
5 8 (2.91%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (2.91%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.55%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.18%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.82%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.82%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.82%) Smartcard
9 4 (1.45%) Replication
9 4 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.09%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.73%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 100 (36.36%) Windows
2 52 (18.91%) Linux
3 45 (16.36%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.27%) Windows 7
5 8 (2.91%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (2.55%) CentOS
6 7 (2.55%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (2.18%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (1.82%) Windows 10
9 4 (1.45%) Unix
10 3 (1.09%) VMS
10 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.36%) Android
11 1 (0.36%) Solaris
11 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (28.73%) Agile
2 55 (20.00%) Key Management
3 50 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
4 40 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 34 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 33 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
7 31 (11.27%) Change Management
7 31 (11.27%) Configuration Management
7 31 (11.27%) ITIL
8 29 (10.55%) Load Balancing
8 29 (10.55%) Observability
9 25 (9.09%) DevOps
10 23 (8.36%) Service Management
11 22 (8.00%) Cryptography
11 22 (8.00%) High Availability
12 21 (7.64%) Cloud Security
12 21 (7.64%) Incident Response
12 21 (7.64%) Platform Engineering
13 20 (7.27%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 73 (26.55%) PowerShell
2 44 (16.00%) Python
3 17 (6.18%) SQL
4 12 (4.36%) Bash
5 7 (2.55%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.18%) C#
7 4 (1.45%) PHP
8 3 (1.09%) Go
8 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.73%) Java
10 1 (0.36%) C++
10 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 198 (72.00%) Security Cleared
2 104 (37.82%) DV Cleared
3 88 (32.00%) SC Cleared
4 25 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (8.36%) Degree
6 19 (6.91%) CISSP
7 16 (5.82%) CISM
8 14 (5.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.91%) GIAC
10 7 (2.55%) JNCIA
10 7 (2.55%) JNCIP
10 7 (2.55%) JNCIS
11 6 (2.18%) MCSE
11 6 (2.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (1.82%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.82%) CCNP
12 5 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.82%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.45%) APMG
13 4 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 16 (5.82%) NIST
2 15 (5.45%) NCSC
3 7 (2.55%) GDPR
4 6 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (2.18%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (1.45%) QA
5 4 (1.45%) SLA
6 3 (1.09%) RMADS
7 2 (0.73%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.73%) ISA99
7 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.73%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.73%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 80 (29.09%) Active Directory
2 43 (15.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (7.64%) Docker
4 16 (5.82%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (4.36%) Hyper-V
5 12 (4.36%) VMware NSX
6 8 (2.91%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.55%) Firmware
7 7 (2.55%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (2.18%) vSphere
9 4 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.73%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 2 (0.73%) KVM
10 2 (0.73%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.36%) NFS
11 1 (0.36%) Squid
11 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.36%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 34 (12.36%) Ansible
2 31 (11.27%) Kubernetes
3 30 (10.91%) Terraform
4 23 (8.36%) vCenter Server
5 21 (7.64%) FortiGate
6 13 (4.73%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (3.27%) SCOM
8 9 (3.27%) WMI
9 8 (2.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (2.91%) Prometheus
10 7 (2.55%) Grafana
10 7 (2.55%) Puppet
10 7 (2.55%) vMotion
10 7 (2.55%) WSUS
11 6 (2.18%) SCCM
12 4 (1.45%) QRadar
13 3 (1.09%) Podman
13 3 (1.09%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.73%) VxRail
Vendors
1 80 (29.09%) Microsoft
2 68 (24.73%) VMware
3 51 (18.55%) Cisco
4 38 (13.82%) Juniper
5 37 (13.45%) Splunk
6 27 (9.82%) SolarWinds
7 24 (8.73%) F5
8 19 (6.91%) Extreme Networks
9 11 (4.00%) Citrix
9 11 (4.00%) Palo Alto
10 8 (2.91%) Google
10 8 (2.91%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.91%) Thales
11 7 (2.55%) Broadcom
11 7 (2.55%) Dell
11 7 (2.55%) NetApp
11 7 (2.55%) Veeam
12 6 (2.18%) Netskope
13 5 (1.82%) Red Hat
13 5 (1.82%) Zscaler