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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 312 193
Rank change year-on-year -4 -119 +120
Contract jobs citing PKI 277 162 456
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.66% 1.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.20% 1.95% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 120 306
10th Percentile £401 £413 £363
25th Percentile £499 £473 £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 £738
UK median daily rate £565 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -0.88% +3.64% -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 12,602 8,303 11,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.66% 33.90% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,006 5,384 7,608
10th Percentile £300 £298 £257
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -0.92% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £663
90th Percentile £742 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 627 307 789
10th Percentile £15.62 £16.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.72 £15.39
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +23.64% +18.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.16 £84.40 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £37.10 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +14.15% +18.18% +22.22%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +22 102 £600 -0.41% 22
London +1 93 £625 +19.05% 14
South West -48 26 £594 +3.26% 5
West Midlands -56 25 £400 -25.23% 3
Midlands -56 25 £400 -25.23% 6
North of England -68 18 £482 -32.35% 10
Yorkshire -51 10 £482 -33.52% 6
North West -25 8 £444 -11.25% 4
East of England -17 5 £550 - 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 23 (8.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.81%) Confluence
4 2 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (0.72%) 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 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 54 (19.49%) Azure
2 45 (16.25%) AWS
3 32 (11.55%) IaaS
4 25 (9.03%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (8.66%) Entra ID
6 9 (3.25%) OpenShift
6 9 (3.25%) PaaS
7 8 (2.89%) Power Platform
8 7 (2.53%) GCP
8 7 (2.53%) GitHub
8 7 (2.53%) SaaS
9 6 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.44%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.08%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.72%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (0.72%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 72 (25.99%) Firewall
2 64 (23.10%) DNS
3 46 (16.61%) BGP
4 43 (15.52%) DHCP
5 37 (13.36%) WAN
6 34 (12.27%) VPN
7 29 (10.47%) Network Security
8 26 (9.39%) OSPF
9 25 (9.03%) LAN
10 23 (8.30%) Ethernet VPN
10 23 (8.30%) Junos
10 23 (8.30%) VXLAN
11 22 (7.94%) Cisco ISE
12 21 (7.58%) BIG-IP
13 19 (6.86%) MPLS
14 18 (6.50%) SSL
15 16 (5.78%) IPsec
16 12 (4.33%) TCP/IP
17 11 (3.97%) Cisco IOS
18 8 (2.89%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.25%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.44%) Power BI
4 3 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.72%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (3.97%) JIRA
2 7 (2.53%) GitLab
3 6 (2.17%) Robot Framework
4 4 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.72%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.36%) Git
6 1 (0.36%) JUnit
General
1 41 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (11.91%) Social Skills
3 24 (8.66%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.69%) Finance
5 9 (3.25%) Military
6 5 (1.81%) 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
Job Titles
1 89 (32.13%) Architect
2 42 (15.16%) Senior
3 33 (11.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (7.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 17 (6.14%) Network Engineer
6 14 (5.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (5.05%) Support Engineer
7 11 (3.97%) Network Specialist
7 11 (3.97%) Senior Architect
8 10 (3.61%) 3rd Line Support
8 10 (3.61%) Administrator
8 10 (3.61%) Firewall Specialist
8 10 (3.61%) Platform Manager
8 10 (3.61%) Systems Administrator
8 10 (3.61%) Systems Manager
8 10 (3.61%) Technical Architect
8 10 (3.61%) Wintel Administrator
8 10 (3.61%) Wintel Engineer
8 10 (3.61%) Wintel Systems Administrator
9 9 (3.25%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.91%) REST
2 28 (10.11%) JSON
3 21 (7.58%) 802.1X
4 13 (4.69%) OpenID
5 11 (3.97%) LDAP
5 11 (3.97%) SAML
6 8 (2.89%) OAuth
6 8 (2.89%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.08%) CSS
7 3 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.08%) HTML
7 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.08%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.72%) .NET
8 2 (0.72%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.72%) cloud-init
8 2 (0.72%) eBPF
8 2 (0.72%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.72%) Loki
8 2 (0.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.11%) Clustering
2 26 (9.39%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (9.03%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.61%) Fat Client
4 10 (3.61%) Thin Client
5 8 (2.89%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (2.89%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.89%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.53%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.81%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.81%) Operational Technology
7 5 (1.81%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.81%) Smartcard
8 4 (1.44%) Replication
8 4 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.08%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.72%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 101 (36.46%) Windows
2 54 (19.49%) Linux
3 45 (16.25%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.25%) Windows 7
4 9 (3.25%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (2.53%) CentOS
5 7 (2.53%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.17%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (1.81%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.44%) Unix
9 3 (1.08%) VMS
9 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.72%) Android
11 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.36%) Solaris
11 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (28.52%) Agile
2 54 (19.49%) Key Management
3 50 (18.05%) Identity Access Management
4 40 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 35 (12.64%) CI/CD
6 34 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (11.91%) Cybersecurity
8 31 (11.19%) Change Management
8 31 (11.19%) Configuration Management
8 31 (11.19%) ITIL
9 29 (10.47%) Load Balancing
9 29 (10.47%) Observability
10 25 (9.03%) DevOps
11 23 (8.30%) Service Management
12 22 (7.94%) Cryptography
12 22 (7.94%) High Availability
13 21 (7.58%) Incident Response
13 21 (7.58%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (7.58%) Migration
13 21 (7.58%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 75 (27.08%) PowerShell
2 44 (15.88%) Python
3 17 (6.14%) SQL
4 12 (4.33%) Bash
5 7 (2.53%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.17%) C#
7 4 (1.44%) PHP
8 3 (1.08%) Go
8 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.72%) Java
10 1 (0.36%) C++
10 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 200 (72.20%) Security Cleared
2 105 (37.91%) DV Cleared
3 89 (32.13%) SC Cleared
4 25 (9.03%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (8.30%) Degree
6 19 (6.86%) CISSP
7 16 (5.78%) CISM
8 14 (5.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.89%) GIAC
10 7 (2.53%) JNCIA
10 7 (2.53%) JNCIP
10 7 (2.53%) JNCIS
11 6 (2.17%) MCSE
11 6 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (1.81%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.81%) CCNP
12 5 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.81%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.44%) Azure Certification
13 4 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.50%) NIST
2 17 (6.14%) NCSC
3 16 (5.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.53%) GDPR
6 6 (2.17%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.44%) QA
7 4 (1.44%) SLA
8 3 (1.08%) RMADS
9 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.72%) ISA99
9 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.72%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.72%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (28.52%) Active Directory
2 45 (16.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (7.58%) Docker
4 16 (5.78%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (5.05%) VMware NSX
6 12 (4.33%) Hyper-V
7 9 (3.25%) BitLocker
8 7 (2.53%) Firmware
8 7 (2.53%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (1.81%) vSphere
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%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.36%) NFS
12 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.36%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 34 (12.27%) Ansible
2 31 (11.19%) Kubernetes
3 30 (10.83%) Terraform
4 23 (8.30%) vCenter Server
5 21 (7.58%) FortiGate
6 13 (4.69%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (4.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (3.25%) WMI
9 8 (2.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (2.89%) Prometheus
9 8 (2.89%) SCOM
10 7 (2.53%) Grafana
10 7 (2.53%) Puppet
10 7 (2.53%) vMotion
10 7 (2.53%) WSUS
11 6 (2.17%) SCCM
12 4 (1.44%) QRadar
13 3 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (1.08%) Podman
13 3 (1.08%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 82 (29.60%) Microsoft
2 69 (24.91%) VMware
3 53 (19.13%) Cisco
4 38 (13.72%) Juniper
5 37 (13.36%) Splunk
6 27 (9.75%) SolarWinds
7 24 (8.66%) F5
8 19 (6.86%) Extreme Networks
9 13 (4.69%) Palo Alto
10 11 (3.97%) Citrix
11 8 (2.89%) Google
11 8 (2.89%) ServiceNow
11 8 (2.89%) Thales
12 7 (2.53%) Broadcom
12 7 (2.53%) NetApp
12 7 (2.53%) Veeam
13 6 (2.17%) Dell
13 6 (2.17%) Netskope
14 5 (1.81%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.81%) Zscaler