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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 299 187
Rank change year-on-year -54 -112 +110
Contract jobs citing PKI 248 192 478
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.78% 1.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 2.29% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 150 333
10th Percentile £413 £413 £363
25th Percentile £500 £500 £460
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 £710
UK median daily rate £565 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -1.74% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £61.41 - £26.39
25th Percentile £70.50 - £30.28
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £38.50
75th Percentile £96.25 - £53.88
90th Percentile £101.65 - £62.05
UK median hourly rate £79.50 - £38.50
% change year-on-year - - -35.29%

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 12,951 8,370 11,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.62% 34.06% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,203 5,478 7,558
10th Percentile £304 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.44% -0.41% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.53% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 662 320 819
10th Percentile £16.10 £16.64 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.02 £15.13
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.45 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.26% +25.47% +25.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £85.49 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +39.88% +16.07% +24.44%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +3 99 £600 +4.35% 34
London -21 87 £623 +11.96% 43
South West -59 18 £563 -2.17% 8
North of England -62 18 £485 -26.87% 4
West Midlands -63 15 £450 +5.88%
Midlands -64 15 £450 +5.88% 4
Yorkshire -48 10 £482 -33.52% 2
North West -36 8 £535 +7.86% 2
East of England -24 6 £475 -9.52% 17
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 (5.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.02%) Confluence
3 3 (1.21%) IIS
3 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.40%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 59 (23.79%) Azure
2 48 (19.35%) AWS
3 32 (12.90%) IaaS
4 23 (9.27%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (8.47%) Entra ID
6 11 (4.44%) Power Platform
7 10 (4.03%) PaaS
8 9 (3.63%) GCP
8 9 (3.63%) OpenShift
9 8 (3.23%) SaaS
10 5 (2.02%) AWS KMS
11 4 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (1.61%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.81%) Google Workspace
13 2 (0.81%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 1 (0.40%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 64 (25.81%) Firewall
2 59 (23.79%) DNS
3 45 (18.15%) DHCP
4 39 (15.73%) BGP
5 32 (12.90%) WAN
6 28 (11.29%) OSPF
7 27 (10.89%) LAN
8 26 (10.48%) Junos
8 26 (10.48%) VPN
9 25 (10.08%) Cisco ISE
9 25 (10.08%) Ethernet VPN
9 25 (10.08%) VXLAN
10 24 (9.68%) BIG-IP
11 22 (8.87%) Network Security
12 19 (7.66%) SSL
13 11 (4.44%) MPLS
13 11 (4.44%) TCP/IP
14 10 (4.03%) Cisco IOS
15 8 (3.23%) SMTP
15 8 (3.23%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.63%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.82%) Power BI
4 2 (0.81%) Metadata
5 1 (0.40%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.40%) MySQL
5 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (4.44%) JIRA
2 6 (2.42%) Robot Framework
3 5 (2.02%) GitLab
4 4 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.81%) Git
5 2 (0.81%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.40%) JUnit
6 1 (0.40%) MSI
General
1 35 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (9.27%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.47%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.85%) Finance
5 6 (2.42%) Military
6 5 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.21%) Banking
7 3 (1.21%) Retail
8 2 (0.81%) Legal
8 2 (0.81%) Local Government
9 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 75 (30.24%) Architect
2 36 (14.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 36 (14.52%) Senior
3 17 (6.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 17 (6.85%) Network Engineer
4 13 (5.24%) Firewall Specialist
4 13 (5.24%) Network Specialist
4 13 (5.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (4.03%) Senior Architect
6 9 (3.63%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (3.63%) Security Engineer
6 9 (3.63%) Senior Network Engineer
6 9 (3.63%) Support Engineer
7 8 (3.23%) Administrator
8 7 (2.82%) NetApp Engineer
8 7 (2.82%) Storage Engineer
9 6 (2.42%) ITSM Architect
9 6 (2.42%) Systems Manager
9 6 (2.42%) Wintel Administrator
9 6 (2.42%) Wintel Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.11%) REST
2 28 (11.29%) JSON
3 24 (9.68%) 802.1X
4 14 (5.65%) OpenID
5 13 (5.24%) LDAP
5 13 (5.24%) SAML
6 9 (3.63%) OAuth
7 7 (2.82%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.21%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.81%) CSS
9 2 (0.81%) eBPF
9 2 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.81%) HTML
9 2 (0.81%) Loki
9 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.81%) SPIFFE
9 2 (0.81%) Web Services
10 1 (0.40%) EJB
10 1 (0.40%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.40%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.73%) Clustering
2 27 (10.89%) Data Centre
3 25 (10.08%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.03%) Enterprise Storage
5 9 (3.63%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.23%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.42%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.02%) Fat Client
9 5 (2.02%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.02%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.02%) Operational Technology
9 5 (2.02%) Smartcard
9 5 (2.02%) Thin Client
10 4 (1.61%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.61%) Replication
11 2 (0.81%) CESG
11 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.81%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 93 (37.50%) Windows
2 47 (18.95%) Linux
3 44 (17.74%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (2.82%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.82%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.02%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.61%) CentOS
7 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.81%) Debian
9 2 (0.81%) VMS
9 2 (0.81%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.40%) Android
10 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.40%) Solaris
10 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (28.23%) Agile
2 53 (21.37%) Key Management
3 48 (19.35%) Identity Access Management
4 42 (16.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 33 (13.31%) Cybersecurity
6 32 (12.90%) High Availability
6 32 (12.90%) ITIL
6 32 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (12.10%) CI/CD
7 30 (12.10%) Observability
8 29 (11.69%) Configuration Management
8 29 (11.69%) Load Balancing
9 26 (10.48%) Change Management
10 25 (10.08%) DevOps
11 24 (9.68%) Migration
12 22 (8.87%) ITSM
13 21 (8.47%) Cryptography
13 21 (8.47%) Service Management
14 19 (7.66%) Platform Engineering
15 18 (7.26%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 71 (28.63%) PowerShell
2 32 (12.90%) Python
3 15 (6.05%) SQL
4 12 (4.84%) Bash
5 9 (3.63%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.42%) C#
7 4 (1.61%) PHP
8 3 (1.21%) Go
9 2 (0.81%) Java
10 1 (0.40%) C++
10 1 (0.40%) Perl
10 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 175 (70.56%) Security Cleared
2 94 (37.90%) DV Cleared
3 73 (29.44%) SC Cleared
4 25 (10.08%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (6.45%) CISSP
5 16 (6.45%) Degree
6 15 (6.05%) CISM
7 8 (3.23%) GIAC
7 8 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.82%) JNCIA
8 7 (2.82%) JNCIP
8 7 (2.82%) JNCIS
9 5 (2.02%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.02%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (1.61%) APMG
10 4 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.61%) SSCP
11 3 (1.21%) CCNP
11 3 (1.21%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.06%) NIST
2 17 (6.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.24%) NCSC
4 9 (3.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.42%) GDPR
6 5 (2.02%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.61%) QA
8 3 (1.21%) RMADS
8 3 (1.21%) SLA
9 2 (0.81%) ISA99
9 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.81%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 73 (29.44%) Active Directory
2 43 (17.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (6.85%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (6.45%) Docker
5 14 (5.65%) Hyper-V
6 13 (5.24%) VMware NSX
7 10 (4.03%) BitLocker
8 8 (3.23%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (2.82%) Firmware
10 3 (1.21%) vSphere
10 3 (1.21%) XenApp
11 2 (0.81%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 2 (0.81%) KVM
11 2 (0.81%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.81%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.81%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.40%) NFS
12 1 (0.40%) Squid
12 1 (0.40%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 32 (12.90%) Ansible
2 31 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 28 (11.29%) Terraform
4 22 (8.87%) FortiGate
4 22 (8.87%) vCenter Server
5 11 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (3.63%) Puppet
7 8 (3.23%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.23%) vMotion
8 7 (2.82%) Grafana
9 6 (2.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (2.42%) SCCM
9 6 (2.42%) SCOM
10 5 (2.02%) WMI
10 5 (2.02%) WSUS
11 3 (1.21%) CA Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.81%) Cilium
12 2 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.81%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 71 (28.63%) Microsoft
2 61 (24.60%) VMware
3 48 (19.35%) Cisco
4 34 (13.71%) Splunk
5 33 (13.31%) Juniper
6 27 (10.89%) F5
6 27 (10.89%) SolarWinds
7 21 (8.47%) Extreme Networks
8 16 (6.45%) Citrix
9 14 (5.65%) ServiceNow
10 11 (4.44%) Palo Alto
11 9 (3.63%) NetApp
12 8 (3.23%) Thales
13 7 (2.82%) BMC
13 7 (2.82%) Broadcom
13 7 (2.82%) Remedy
14 6 (2.42%) Netskope
15 5 (2.02%) Aruba
16 4 (1.61%) CyberArk
16 4 (1.61%) Symantec