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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 309 201
Rank change year-on-year -57 -108 +103
Contract jobs citing PKI 257 199 438
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.73% 1.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.73% 2.08% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 158 314
10th Percentile £411 £358 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £644 £617 £608
90th Percentile £705 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £58.94 - -
25th Percentile £71.60 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile £99.41 - £27.91
90th Percentile £100.00 - £35.32
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -63.94%

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 14,861 9,561 11,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.11% 34.86% 31.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,219 6,063 7,183
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £420 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 799 471 716
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.89 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.66% -17.78% +10.73%
75th Percentile £72.25 £61.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.97 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +46.53% -23.57% +12.14%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -4 106 £590 +2.61% 16
London -55 76 £600 +4.35% 9
North of England -51 36 £471 -4.22% 9
North West -37 22 £418 -15.14% 5
South West -62 22 £550 -4.35% 5
Yorkshire - 14 £500 - 4
Midlands -54 12 £450 +9.09% 5
West Midlands -72 11 £450 +9.09% 3
East of England -15 4 £400 -23.81% 1
East Midlands -13 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 10 (3.89%) Confluence
2 9 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.17%) IIS
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.39%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 84 (32.68%) Azure
2 64 (24.90%) AWS
3 37 (14.40%) Entra ID
4 18 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (6.61%) GCP
6 15 (5.84%) Power Platform
7 12 (4.67%) IaaS
8 11 (4.28%) PaaS
9 10 (3.89%) OpenShift
10 8 (3.11%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (2.72%) SaaS
12 6 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.95%) AWS KMS
14 4 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (1.17%) GitHub
15 3 (1.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 3 (1.17%) OCI
16 2 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
16 2 (0.78%) OneDrive
16 2 (0.78%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 93 (36.19%) DNS
2 76 (29.57%) Firewall
3 74 (28.79%) DHCP
4 38 (14.79%) BGP
4 38 (14.79%) VPN
5 36 (14.01%) WAN
6 35 (13.62%) LAN
7 31 (12.06%) OSPF
8 24 (9.34%) Ethernet VPN
8 24 (9.34%) VXLAN
9 23 (8.95%) BIG-IP
9 23 (8.95%) Junos
10 22 (8.56%) Cisco ISE
10 22 (8.56%) TCP/IP
11 21 (8.17%) SSL
12 19 (7.39%) Network Security
13 17 (6.61%) IPsec
14 15 (5.84%) Cisco ASA
15 14 (5.45%) Wireless
16 13 (5.06%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.39%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.45%) Power BI
3 9 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.56%) Db2
6 3 (1.17%) Big Data
6 3 (1.17%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.17%) MySQL
6 3 (1.17%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.78%) Metadata
8 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (5.06%) JIRA
2 8 (3.11%) Git
3 6 (2.33%) GitLab
4 5 (1.95%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.17%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.78%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.78%) Gatling
6 2 (0.78%) Gradle
6 2 (0.78%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.78%) MSI
6 2 (0.78%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.78%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.78%) Terragrunt
General
1 39 (15.18%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.28%) Finance
3 28 (10.89%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.50%) Banking
5 9 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.33%) Military
7 4 (1.56%) Legal
7 4 (1.56%) Police
8 3 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.17%) Retail
9 2 (0.78%) Automotive
9 2 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Back Office
10 1 (0.39%) Law
10 1 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 59 (22.96%) Senior
2 45 (17.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 31 (12.06%) Network Engineer
4 26 (10.12%) Architect
5 22 (8.56%) Senior Network Engineer
6 20 (7.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 17 (6.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (6.23%) Storage Engineer
9 14 (5.45%) Firewall Specialist
9 14 (5.45%) Network Specialist
10 13 (5.06%) Lead
11 10 (3.89%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.89%) Senior Architect
12 8 (3.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.11%) Analyst
12 8 (3.11%) Linux Engineer
13 7 (2.72%) Consultant
14 6 (2.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
14 6 (2.33%) ITSM Architect
14 6 (2.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.23%) 802.1X
2 18 (7.00%) LDAP
3 17 (6.61%) OpenID
4 15 (5.84%) SAML
5 14 (5.45%) REST
6 11 (4.28%) OAuth
7 6 (2.33%) OAuth2
7 6 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (1.95%) SailPoint
9 4 (1.56%) Middleware
10 3 (1.17%) JSON
10 3 (1.17%) Kafka
10 3 (1.17%) Keycloak
10 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (1.17%) SPIFFE
11 2 (0.78%) Blazor
11 2 (0.78%) eBPF
11 2 (0.78%) FIDO
11 2 (0.78%) Playwright
11 2 (0.78%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 49 (19.07%) Clustering
2 43 (16.73%) Data Centre
3 10 (3.89%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (3.89%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.11%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.11%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.72%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.33%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.95%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.95%) Smartcard
9 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.56%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 140 (54.47%) Windows
2 78 (30.35%) Linux
3 67 (26.07%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.89%) Unix
5 8 (3.11%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.33%) Debian
6 6 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.95%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.17%) Android
9 3 (1.17%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.17%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.78%) CentOS
10 2 (0.78%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.39%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (24.90%) Identity Access Management
2 50 (19.46%) ITIL
3 49 (19.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 49 (19.07%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (18.68%) High Availability
5 42 (16.34%) Cybersecurity
6 36 (14.01%) Agile
7 35 (13.62%) DevOps
8 34 (13.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (12.84%) ITSM
9 33 (12.84%) Observability
9 33 (12.84%) Zero Trust
10 30 (11.67%) Load Balancing
10 30 (11.67%) Service Management
11 29 (11.28%) CI/CD
12 25 (9.73%) Change Management
12 25 (9.73%) Cryptography
12 25 (9.73%) Key Management
13 23 (8.95%) Project Delivery
14 21 (8.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 64 (24.90%) PowerShell
2 49 (19.07%) Python
3 19 (7.39%) Bash
4 14 (5.45%) SQL
5 12 (4.67%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.33%) C#
7 5 (1.95%) Java
8 3 (1.17%) Go
8 3 (1.17%) PHP
9 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.39%) C++
Qualifications
1 142 (55.25%) Security Cleared
2 94 (36.58%) DV Cleared
3 52 (20.23%) SC Cleared
4 35 (13.62%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (7.39%) Degree
6 14 (5.45%) CCNP
7 10 (3.89%) Azure Certification
7 10 (3.89%) CISSP
8 9 (3.50%) JNCIP
8 9 (3.50%) JNCIS
9 8 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (2.72%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (2.72%) GIAC
10 7 (2.72%) JNCIA
11 5 (1.95%) CISM
11 5 (1.95%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.95%) VCAP
12 4 (1.56%) CCNA
12 4 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.67%) NIST
2 19 (7.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.28%) NCSC
4 8 (3.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.33%) QA
6 4 (1.56%) GDPR
7 3 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.17%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.78%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.78%) ISA99
8 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.78%) ITGC
8 2 (0.78%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.39%) GRC
9 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.39%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.39%) SLA
9 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 99 (38.52%) Active Directory
2 58 (22.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (12.84%) Docker
4 27 (10.51%) VMware NSX
5 25 (9.73%) Hyper-V
6 13 (5.06%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (3.50%) BitLocker
8 8 (3.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (2.72%) vSphere
10 5 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (1.56%) Firmware
11 4 (1.56%) NFS
11 4 (1.56%) Terminal Services
11 4 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (1.17%) OpenAM
12 3 (1.17%) OpenSSH
13 2 (0.78%) KVM
13 2 (0.78%) XenApp
13 2 (0.78%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 47 (18.29%) Ansible
2 45 (17.51%) Kubernetes
3 38 (14.79%) Terraform
4 26 (10.12%) vCenter Server
5 23 (8.95%) FortiGate
6 15 (5.84%) SCOM
6 15 (5.84%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (4.67%) Avamar
8 11 (4.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (4.28%) Puppet
9 8 (3.11%) vMotion
10 7 (2.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (2.72%) CA Single Sign-On
10 7 (2.72%) Prometheus
10 7 (2.72%) VxRail
11 6 (2.33%) Grafana
11 6 (2.33%) Kibana
12 5 (1.95%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (1.95%) SCCM
12 5 (1.95%) WSUS
Vendors
1 87 (33.85%) Microsoft
2 75 (29.18%) VMware
3 60 (23.35%) Cisco
4 32 (12.45%) Juniper
4 32 (12.45%) Splunk
5 30 (11.67%) SolarWinds
6 27 (10.51%) F5
7 24 (9.34%) ServiceNow
8 22 (8.56%) Extreme Networks
9 21 (8.17%) Thales
10 18 (7.00%) Citrix
11 14 (5.45%) Dell
12 13 (5.06%) Palo Alto
13 12 (4.67%) BMC
13 12 (4.67%) Remedy
14 9 (3.50%) CyberArk
15 7 (2.72%) Google
15 7 (2.72%) NetApp
16 6 (2.33%) ForeScout
16 6 (2.33%) HP
45 PKI jobs in England