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 27 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 332 202
Rank change year-on-year +26 -130 +99
Contract jobs citing PKI 278 152 437
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 0.59% 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.31% 1.77% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 109 290
10th Percentile £400 £407 £363
25th Percentile £492 £469 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £695 £669 £650
90th Percentile £838 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £61.41 - -
25th Percentile £70.50 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £55.70
75th Percentile £96.25 - £59.18
90th Percentile £101.65 - £64.17
UK median hourly rate £79.50 - £55.70
% change year-on-year - - +1.27%

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 12,040 8,581 11,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.98% 33.38% 30.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,668 5,315 7,613
10th Percentile £283 £275 £257
25th Percentile £409 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 593 265 752
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.13 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £16.47
Median hourly rate £33.50 £37.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +17.46% +40.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.50 £83.33 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £32.81 £30.58
% change year-on-year -0.18% +7.29% +36.00%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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
London +15 95 £610 +16.19% 16
South East +28 91 £600 -0.83% 23
South West -36 36 £550 -4.35% 3
West Midlands -31 28 £375 -11.76% 6
Midlands -36 28 £375 -11.76% 10
North of England -65 17 £482 -32.35% 1
Yorkshire -62 9 £482 -33.52% 1
North West -25 8 £379 -24.25%
East of England - 3 £550 - 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 30 (10.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.40%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.16%) Confluence
3 6 (2.16%) Skype for Business
4 4 (1.44%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 46 (16.55%) Azure
2 39 (14.03%) AWS
3 30 (10.79%) IaaS
4 24 (8.63%) Entra ID
5 23 (8.27%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.88%) GitHub
6 8 (2.88%) OpenShift
7 7 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (2.52%) PaaS
7 7 (2.52%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.52%) SaaS
8 6 (2.16%) GCP
9 5 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.08%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.08%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.08%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.72%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 67 (24.10%) DNS
1 67 (24.10%) Firewall
2 47 (16.91%) BGP
3 41 (14.75%) DHCP
4 36 (12.95%) WAN
5 31 (11.15%) VPN
6 28 (10.07%) Network Security
7 25 (8.99%) OSPF
8 22 (7.91%) LAN
9 21 (7.55%) MPLS
10 20 (7.19%) Junos
10 20 (7.19%) SSL
11 19 (6.83%) Ethernet VPN
11 19 (6.83%) IPsec
11 19 (6.83%) VXLAN
12 18 (6.47%) Cisco ISE
13 17 (6.12%) BIG-IP
14 13 (4.68%) Skype
15 12 (4.32%) TCP/IP
16 11 (3.96%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.04%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.08%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.08%) Power BI
4 1 (0.36%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (4.32%) JIRA
2 8 (2.88%) GitLab
3 5 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.80%) Robot Framework
4 4 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.08%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.36%) JUnit
General
1 45 (16.19%) Analytical Skills
2 41 (14.75%) Social Skills
3 30 (10.79%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.32%) Finance
5 10 (3.60%) Military
6 5 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.44%) Banking
7 4 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.72%) Legal
8 2 (0.72%) Local Government
9 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.36%) Back Office
9 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 90 (32.37%) Architect
2 39 (14.03%) Senior
3 28 (10.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (7.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 18 (6.47%) Network Engineer
5 18 (6.47%) Support Engineer
6 15 (5.40%) Wintel Engineer
7 14 (5.04%) 3rd Line Support
8 13 (4.68%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 12 (4.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.96%) Administrator
10 11 (3.96%) Lead
10 11 (3.96%) Platform Manager
10 11 (3.96%) Systems Administrator
10 11 (3.96%) Systems Manager
10 11 (3.96%) Wintel Administrator
10 11 (3.96%) Wintel Systems Administrator
11 10 (3.60%) Security Architect
12 9 (3.24%) Network Specialist
12 9 (3.24%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.51%) REST
2 27 (9.71%) JSON
3 17 (6.12%) 802.1X
4 15 (5.40%) OpenID
5 11 (3.96%) OAuth
5 11 (3.96%) OAuth2
5 11 (3.96%) SAML
6 10 (3.60%) LDAP
7 4 (1.44%) Kafka
8 3 (1.08%) AWS CDK
8 3 (1.08%) cloud-init
8 3 (1.08%) CSS
8 3 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.08%) HTML
8 3 (1.08%) JDBC
8 3 (1.08%) Keycloak
8 3 (1.08%) SailPoint
8 3 (1.08%) SOAP
9 2 (0.72%) eBPF
9 2 (0.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.71%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (7.55%) Clustering
3 20 (7.19%) Data Centre
4 11 (3.96%) Fat Client
4 11 (3.96%) Thin Client
5 8 (2.88%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.52%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.16%) Enterprise Storage
7 6 (2.16%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.80%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.80%) Smartcard
9 4 (1.44%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.44%) Replication
9 4 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.08%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.08%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.08%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 104 (37.41%) Windows
2 52 (18.71%) Linux
3 46 (16.55%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.60%) Windows 10
4 10 (3.60%) Windows 7
5 8 (2.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (2.52%) CentOS
6 7 (2.52%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.16%) Unix
8 5 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.08%) VMS
11 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.36%) Android
12 1 (0.36%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (28.06%) Agile
2 57 (20.50%) Key Management
3 45 (16.19%) Identity Access Management
4 36 (12.95%) ITIL
5 35 (12.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 34 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (11.87%) Change Management
7 33 (11.87%) CI/CD
8 30 (10.79%) Configuration Management
9 29 (10.43%) Cybersecurity
9 29 (10.43%) Service Management
10 25 (8.99%) DevOps
10 25 (8.99%) Load Balancing
11 23 (8.27%) Observability
12 22 (7.91%) Incident Response
12 22 (7.91%) Platform Engineering
13 20 (7.19%) Cryptography
13 20 (7.19%) Migration
13 20 (7.19%) SIEM
14 19 (6.83%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 71 (25.54%) PowerShell
2 43 (15.47%) Python
3 20 (7.19%) SQL
4 15 (5.40%) Bash
5 9 (3.24%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.80%) Java
7 4 (1.44%) C#
7 4 (1.44%) Go
7 4 (1.44%) PHP
8 3 (1.08%) C++
8 3 (1.08%) Perl
8 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 198 (71.22%) Security Cleared
2 102 (36.69%) DV Cleared
3 94 (33.81%) SC Cleared
4 27 (9.71%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (9.35%) Degree
6 20 (7.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (6.83%) CISSP
8 16 (5.76%) CISM
9 11 (3.96%) CCNP
10 10 (3.60%) MCSE
11 8 (2.88%) GIAC
11 8 (2.88%) JNCIA
11 8 (2.88%) JNCIS
11 8 (2.88%) Master's Degree
12 6 (2.16%) CCNA
12 6 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.16%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (2.16%) JNCIP
12 6 (2.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (1.80%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.76%) NIST
2 14 (5.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (5.04%) NCSC
3 7 (2.52%) GDPR
4 6 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.80%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.44%) RMADS
6 4 (1.44%) SLA
7 3 (1.08%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.72%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.72%) QA
9 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.36%) PSD2
9 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 88 (31.65%) Active Directory
2 46 (16.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.47%) Docker
4 15 (5.40%) VMware NSX
5 13 (4.68%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.96%) Hyper-V
7 8 (2.88%) vSphere
8 7 (2.52%) Firmware
9 5 (1.80%) BitLocker
9 5 (1.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (1.80%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (1.44%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.72%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 2 (0.72%) KVM
11 2 (0.72%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.36%) NFS
12 1 (0.36%) Squid
12 1 (0.36%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 31 (11.15%) Ansible
2 28 (10.07%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.07%) Terraform
3 23 (8.27%) vCenter Server
4 18 (6.47%) FortiGate
5 15 (5.40%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (4.32%) SCCM
6 12 (4.32%) WSUS
7 11 (3.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 11 (3.96%) SCOM
8 10 (3.60%) WMI
9 7 (2.52%) Prometheus
10 6 (2.16%) Grafana
11 4 (1.44%) Puppet
11 4 (1.44%) QRadar
11 4 (1.44%) vMotion
12 3 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (1.08%) Packer
12 3 (1.08%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 88 (31.65%) Microsoft
2 72 (25.90%) VMware
3 57 (20.50%) Cisco
4 39 (14.03%) Juniper
5 35 (12.59%) Splunk
6 30 (10.79%) SolarWinds
7 20 (7.19%) F5
8 16 (5.76%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (5.04%) Veeam
10 13 (4.68%) Palo Alto
11 8 (2.88%) Citrix
12 7 (2.52%) Broadcom
12 7 (2.52%) Google
12 7 (2.52%) Thales
13 6 (2.16%) Dell
13 6 (2.16%) ServiceNow
14 5 (1.80%) Aruba
14 5 (1.80%) CheckPoint
14 5 (1.80%) Fortinet
14 5 (1.80%) Netskope