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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 315 209
Rank change year-on-year -53 -106 +93
Contract jobs citing PKI 275 206 396
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.74% 1.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.80% 2.09% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 163 291
10th Percentile £419 £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 £695 £670
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £91.60 - -
25th Percentile £97.41 - -
Median hourly rate £98.82 - £23.80
75th Percentile £99.41 - £27.91
90th Percentile £100.00 - £35.32
UK median hourly rate £98.82 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -68.05%

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 15,313 9,854 10,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.51% 35.45% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,390 6,209 6,628
10th Percentile £325 £306 £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 £682
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 915 498 528
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.48 £12.68
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £31.18 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.31% -34.36% +11.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -34.44% +10.86%

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 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 17 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 17 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 -2 99 £590 +2.61% 26
London -63 81 £600 +2.56% 54
North of England -32 52 £500 +0.81% 22
North West -23 29 £484 -1.68% 11
South West -65 26 £697 +21.13% 12
Yorkshire -12 23 £500 -16.67% 8
East of England -17 7 £500 -4.76% 4
Midlands -65 7 £475 +18.75% 9
West Midlands -71 6 £475 +18.75% 7
East Midlands -16 1 £475 - 2
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 11 (4.00%) Confluence
2 10 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.91%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.09%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 96 (34.91%) Azure
2 75 (27.27%) AWS
3 41 (14.91%) Entra ID
4 29 (10.55%) GCP
5 17 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (5.45%) Power Platform
7 12 (4.36%) IaaS
8 11 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 11 (4.00%) PaaS
9 10 (3.64%) OpenShift
10 7 (2.55%) SaaS
11 6 (2.18%) AWS KMS
11 6 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.45%) GitHub
13 4 (1.45%) OCI
14 3 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (1.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 2 (0.73%) Azure Monitor
15 2 (0.73%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 93 (33.82%) DNS
2 77 (28.00%) Firewall
3 75 (27.27%) DHCP
4 37 (13.45%) VPN
5 31 (11.27%) TCP/IP
6 25 (9.09%) LAN
6 25 (9.09%) SSL
7 24 (8.73%) BGP
7 24 (8.73%) WAN
8 20 (7.27%) Network Security
8 20 (7.27%) OSPF
9 19 (6.91%) VSAN
10 16 (5.82%) IPsec
11 15 (5.45%) VLAN
11 15 (5.45%) Wireless
12 13 (4.73%) BIG-IP
12 13 (4.73%) Cisco ASA
12 13 (4.73%) Cisco Firepower
12 13 (4.73%) Cisco ISE
12 13 (4.73%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.64%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.09%) Power BI
3 8 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.82%) MySQL
6 4 (1.45%) Db2
7 3 (1.09%) Big Data
7 3 (1.09%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.09%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.73%) 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 (4.73%) Git
1 13 (4.73%) JIRA
2 7 (2.55%) GitLab
3 6 (2.18%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.09%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.73%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.73%) Gatling
5 2 (0.73%) Gradle
5 2 (0.73%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.73%) MSI
5 2 (0.73%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.73%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.73%) Terragrunt
General
1 51 (18.55%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.82%) Finance
3 25 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.73%) Banking
5 13 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.82%) Police
7 4 (1.45%) Automotive
7 4 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.45%) Legal
8 3 (1.09%) Military
8 3 (1.09%) Retail
9 2 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.73%) Law
9 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.36%) Local Government
10 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 60 (21.82%) Senior
2 45 (16.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 30 (10.91%) Architect
4 27 (9.82%) Network Engineer
5 20 (7.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 20 (7.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (7.27%) Senior Network Engineer
6 17 (6.18%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (5.82%) Storage Engineer
8 11 (4.00%) Lead
9 9 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.27%) Firewall Specialist
9 9 (3.27%) Network Specialist
9 9 (3.27%) Senior Architect
10 8 (2.91%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.55%) Analyst
11 7 (2.55%) Consultant
11 7 (2.55%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (2.55%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.82%) 802.1X
2 21 (7.64%) OpenID
3 18 (6.55%) SAML
4 17 (6.18%) LDAP
5 14 (5.09%) OAuth
5 14 (5.09%) REST
6 8 (2.91%) OAuth2
7 6 (2.18%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (1.82%) Middleware
9 4 (1.45%) Kafka
9 4 (1.45%) Keycloak
10 3 (1.09%) JSON
10 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (1.09%) SailPoint
10 3 (1.09%) SPIFFE
10 3 (1.09%) Web Services
11 2 (0.73%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.73%) Node.js
11 2 (0.73%) React
11 2 (0.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.27%) Data Centre
2 40 (14.55%) Clustering
3 17 (6.18%) Public Cloud
4 15 (5.45%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.36%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (3.64%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.91%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.55%) Security Posture
10 6 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.18%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (1.82%) Robotics
11 5 (1.82%) Smartcard
12 4 (1.45%) Mainframe
12 4 (1.45%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.45%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 143 (52.00%) Windows
2 92 (33.45%) Linux
3 74 (26.91%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.00%) Unix
5 9 (3.27%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.18%) Debian
6 6 (2.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (2.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (1.09%) Android
8 3 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.09%) CentOS
8 3 (1.09%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.73%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (24.73%) Identity Access Management
2 54 (19.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 52 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (17.82%) High Availability
5 49 (17.82%) ITIL
6 45 (16.36%) Cybersecurity
7 42 (15.27%) CI/CD
8 38 (13.82%) DevOps
8 38 (13.82%) Technical Leadership
8 38 (13.82%) Zero Trust
9 37 (13.45%) Agile
10 35 (12.73%) Cryptography
11 34 (12.36%) Key Management
12 33 (12.00%) Change Management
12 33 (12.00%) DevSecOps
13 32 (11.64%) ITSM
14 30 (10.91%) Mentoring
14 30 (10.91%) Service Management
14 30 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (26.91%) PowerShell
2 58 (21.09%) Python
3 29 (10.55%) Bash
4 16 (5.82%) SQL
5 13 (4.73%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.18%) Java
7 5 (1.82%) C#
8 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.73%) Go
10 1 (0.36%) C++
10 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 144 (52.36%) Security Cleared
2 98 (35.64%) DV Cleared
3 54 (19.64%) SC Cleared
4 31 (11.27%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (7.27%) Degree
6 17 (6.18%) CCNP
7 15 (5.45%) CISSP
8 13 (4.73%) Azure Certification
9 12 (4.36%) VCAP
10 10 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (2.91%) AWS Certification
12 7 (2.55%) CISM
12 7 (2.55%) JNCIP
12 7 (2.55%) JNCIS
13 6 (2.18%) GIAC
13 6 (2.18%) Master's Degree
14 5 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (1.82%) ISTQB
14 5 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.91%) NIST
2 19 (6.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (5.09%) NCSC
4 7 (2.55%) QA
5 5 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.82%) JSP 440
6 4 (1.45%) GDPR
6 4 (1.45%) SLA
7 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.73%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.73%) ISA99
8 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.73%) ITGC
8 2 (0.73%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.73%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) PSD2
System Software
1 119 (43.27%) Active Directory
2 65 (23.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (13.09%) Docker
4 35 (12.73%) VMware NSX
5 28 (10.18%) Hyper-V
6 16 (5.82%) vSphere
7 9 (3.27%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (2.91%) BitLocker
9 7 (2.55%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (1.45%) Firmware
11 4 (1.45%) NFS
11 4 (1.45%) Terminal Services
11 4 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (1.09%) OpenAM
12 3 (1.09%) OpenSSH
13 2 (0.73%) XenApp
13 2 (0.73%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.36%) KVM
14 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 60 (21.82%) Kubernetes
2 56 (20.36%) Ansible
3 53 (19.27%) Terraform
4 23 (8.36%) vCenter Server
5 16 (5.82%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (5.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (5.45%) VxRail
7 13 (4.73%) Avamar
7 13 (4.73%) SCOM
8 12 (4.36%) FortiGate
9 11 (4.00%) Puppet
10 7 (2.55%) Istio
10 7 (2.55%) vMotion
11 6 (2.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (2.18%) CA Single Sign-On
11 6 (2.18%) Kibana
12 5 (1.82%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (1.82%) WSUS
13 4 (1.45%) Prometheus
13 4 (1.45%) systemd
Vendors
1 101 (36.73%) Microsoft
2 83 (30.18%) VMware
3 50 (18.18%) Cisco
4 27 (9.82%) Thales
5 26 (9.45%) ServiceNow
6 21 (7.64%) Juniper
7 20 (7.27%) Splunk
8 19 (6.91%) SolarWinds
9 17 (6.18%) Citrix
9 17 (6.18%) F5
10 15 (5.45%) Dell
11 13 (4.73%) Palo Alto
12 12 (4.36%) BMC
12 12 (4.36%) Extreme Networks
12 12 (4.36%) Remedy
13 11 (4.00%) CyberArk
13 11 (4.00%) Google
14 7 (2.55%) CheckPoint
15 6 (2.18%) HP
15 6 (2.18%) NetApp