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 4 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 306 253
Rank change year-on-year -55 -53 +36
Contract jobs citing PKI 280 211 314
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.78% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.82% 2.16% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 166 211
10th Percentile £424 £352 £363
25th Percentile £478 £463 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £650 £626 £608
90th Percentile £725 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile £93.80 - -
25th Percentile £96.00 - -
Median hourly rate £98.82 - £23.80
75th Percentile - - £27.91
90th Percentile £100.00 - £35.32
UK median hourly rate £98.82 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -56.73%

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 15,389 9,780 10,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.72% 35.93% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,398 6,180 6,309
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £686
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 967 487 466
10th Percentile £14.55 £15.50 £13.97
25th Percentile £18.52 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.77 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.72% -38.46% +16.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.62 £77.50 £75.08
UK median hourly rate £38.53 £30.00 £46.21
% change year-on-year +28.42% -35.07% +7.14%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -21 86 £590 +2.61% 30
London -75 82 £550 -7.17% 93
North of England -30 59 £525 +6.71% 25
North West -24 35 £525 +6.71% 12
South West -64 31 £670 +21.82% 35
Yorkshire -18 24 £500 -16.67% 10
East of England -13 9 £500 -4.76% 9
Midlands -71 9 £475 +18.75% 11
West Midlands -70 8 £475 +18.75% 6
East Midlands -21 1 £475 - 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 14 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.29%) Confluence
3 8 (2.86%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.07%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 101 (36.07%) Azure
2 77 (27.50%) AWS
3 45 (16.07%) Entra ID
4 32 (11.43%) GCP
5 16 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (4.64%) Power Platform
7 12 (4.29%) Azure Key Vault
8 11 (3.93%) IaaS
9 10 (3.57%) PaaS
10 9 (3.21%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.50%) SaaS
12 6 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.14%) AWS KMS
12 6 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.14%) GitHub
13 5 (1.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (1.79%) OCI
14 3 (1.07%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.07%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 94 (33.57%) DNS
2 75 (26.79%) DHCP
3 72 (25.71%) Firewall
4 40 (14.29%) VPN
5 32 (11.43%) TCP/IP
6 24 (8.57%) SSL
7 23 (8.21%) Network Security
8 20 (7.14%) LAN
9 19 (6.79%) WAN
10 17 (6.07%) BGP
10 17 (6.07%) IPsec
11 16 (5.71%) VLAN
11 16 (5.71%) VSAN
12 15 (5.36%) OSPF
12 15 (5.36%) Wireless
13 13 (4.64%) Cisco ASA
13 13 (4.64%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (4.64%) Cisco Nexus
13 13 (4.64%) SSH
14 12 (4.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.29%) Power BI
3 7 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.14%) MySQL
5 4 (1.43%) Db2
5 4 (1.43%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.07%) Big Data
6 3 (1.07%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.71%) Metadata
7 2 (0.71%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (5.00%) JIRA
2 12 (4.29%) Git
3 10 (3.57%) GitLab
4 7 (2.50%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.71%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.71%) Gatling
6 2 (0.71%) Gradle
6 2 (0.71%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.71%) MSI
6 2 (0.71%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.71%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
General
1 59 (21.07%) Social Skills
2 34 (12.14%) Finance
3 30 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.36%) 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%) Law
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%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 58 (20.71%) Senior
2 45 (16.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (10.00%) Architect
4 26 (9.29%) Network Engineer
5 21 (7.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (6.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 19 (6.79%) Senior Network Engineer
7 18 (6.43%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (5.71%) Consultant
9 15 (5.36%) Storage Engineer
10 11 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.21%) Active Directory Engineer
12 8 (2.86%) Linux Engineer
12 8 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.50%) Analyst
13 7 (2.50%) Lead
13 7 (2.50%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (2.50%) VMware Engineer
14 6 (2.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (2.14%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (18.21%) Terraform
2 23 (8.21%) 802.1X
3 22 (7.86%) OpenID
4 20 (7.14%) SAML
5 18 (6.43%) LDAP
6 15 (5.36%) OAuth
7 13 (4.64%) REST
8 9 (3.21%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.50%) Kafka
10 6 (2.14%) Keycloak
10 6 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.79%) Middleware
12 4 (1.43%) SailPoint
13 3 (1.07%) FIDO
13 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Graph
13 3 (1.07%) SPIFFE
14 2 (0.71%) Blazor
14 2 (0.71%) eBPF
14 2 (0.71%) Playwright
14 2 (0.71%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 33 (11.79%) 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 9 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
8 8 (2.86%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.86%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.79%) Replication
10 5 (1.79%) Robotics
10 5 (1.79%) Smartcard
11 4 (1.43%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.43%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 141 (50.36%) Windows
2 92 (32.86%) Linux
3 76 (27.14%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.93%) Ubuntu
4 11 (3.93%) Unix
5 10 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (2.14%) Debian
9 5 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.07%) Android
10 3 (1.07%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.07%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (1.07%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.71%) CentOS
11 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (22.86%) Identity Access Management
2 56 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 53 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (17.50%) ITIL
6 48 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
7 46 (16.43%) High Availability
8 42 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
9 40 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 40 (14.29%) DevOps
9 40 (14.29%) Zero Trust
10 39 (13.93%) Key Management
11 37 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 35 (12.50%) Change Management
13 34 (12.14%) Agile
14 32 (11.43%) DevSecOps
15 31 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (11.07%) Cryptography
15 31 (11.07%) Mentoring
15 31 (11.07%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (26.43%) PowerShell
2 58 (20.71%) Python
3 31 (11.07%) Bash
4 16 (5.71%) SQL
5 11 (3.93%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.14%) Java
7 4 (1.43%) Go
8 3 (1.07%) C#
9 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.36%) Bicep
10 1 (0.36%) C++
10 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 152 (54.29%) Security Cleared
2 97 (34.64%) DV Cleared
3 64 (22.86%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.29%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (7.14%) Degree
6 18 (6.43%) CCNP
7 15 (5.36%) CISSP
8 13 (4.64%) Azure Certification
9 12 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (4.29%) VCAP
10 9 (3.21%) AWS Certification
11 7 (2.50%) CISM
12 6 (2.14%) GIAC
13 5 (1.79%) ISTQB
13 5 (1.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 5 (1.79%) JNCIP
13 5 (1.79%) JNCIS
13 5 (1.79%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.79%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.79%) NIST
2 24 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (6.07%) NCSC
4 7 (2.50%) GRC
4 7 (2.50%) JSP 440
5 4 (1.43%) GDPR
5 4 (1.43%) SLA
6 3 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.07%) QA
6 3 (1.07%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.71%) ISA99
7 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.71%) ITGC
7 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.36%) PSD2
System Software
1 130 (46.43%) Active Directory
2 63 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (13.21%) Docker
4 31 (11.07%) VMware NSX
5 29 (10.36%) Hyper-V
6 16 (5.71%) vSphere
7 9 (3.21%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (2.50%) BitLocker
9 6 (2.14%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (1.43%) NFS
10 4 (1.43%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (1.07%) Firmware
11 3 (1.07%) OpenAM
11 3 (1.07%) OpenSSH
11 3 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.71%) XenApp
12 2 (0.71%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 60 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 52 (18.57%) Ansible
3 22 (7.86%) vCenter Server
4 19 (6.79%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (6.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (5.00%) SCOM
6 14 (5.00%) VxRail
7 13 (4.64%) Avamar
8 9 (3.21%) Puppet
9 8 (2.86%) WSUS
10 7 (2.50%) Istio
11 6 (2.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (2.14%) CA Single Sign-On
11 6 (2.14%) FortiGate
11 6 (2.14%) Grafana
11 6 (2.14%) Kibana
11 6 (2.14%) Prometheus
11 6 (2.14%) vMotion
12 5 (1.79%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (1.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 111 (39.64%) Microsoft
2 79 (28.21%) VMware
3 47 (16.79%) Cisco
4 28 (10.00%) Thales
5 26 (9.29%) ServiceNow
6 16 (5.71%) Citrix
7 15 (5.36%) Juniper
8 14 (5.00%) Dell
9 13 (4.64%) CyberArk
9 13 (4.64%) Google
9 13 (4.64%) SolarWinds
9 13 (4.64%) Splunk
10 11 (3.93%) Palo Alto
11 10 (3.57%) BMC
11 10 (3.57%) F5
11 10 (3.57%) Remedy
12 9 (3.21%) CheckPoint
13 8 (2.86%) NetApp
14 6 (2.14%) Fortinet
14 6 (2.14%) HP