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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 303 256
Rank change year-on-year -58 -47 +29
Contract jobs citing PKI 283 219 294
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.79% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.83% 2.21% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 174 199
10th Percentile £423 £350 £383
25th Percentile £463 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.91% +2.33% -8.35%
75th Percentile £644 £626 £608
90th Percentile £720 £695 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £542
% change year-on-year - +1.48% -4.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 4
10th Percentile £94.90 - -
25th Percentile £96.00 - -
Median hourly rate £97.41 - £23.80
75th Percentile £98.82 - £27.91
90th Percentile £100.00 - £35.32
UK median hourly rate £97.41 - £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 15,482 9,903 10,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.66% 35.93% 30.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,374 6,220 6,279
10th Percentile £325 £300 £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 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,020 495 428
10th Percentile £14.04 £15.48 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £23.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% -42.65% +24.59%
75th Percentile £68.94 £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +11.11%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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
London -74 83 £544 -7.05% 106
South East -9 81 £575 - 46
North of England -25 64 £525 +6.71% 30
North West -29 36 £525 +6.71% 13
South West -61 34 £648 +17.73% 44
Yorkshire -8 27 £565 -5.83% 14
East of England -25 9 £500 -4.76% 16
Midlands -73 8 £475 +18.75% 17
West Midlands -72 7 £475 +18.75% 8
East Midlands -16 1 £475 - 9
North East - 1 £426 - 3
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 13 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.24%) Confluence
3 8 (2.83%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.06%) IIS
5 2 (0.71%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (3.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 99 (34.98%) Azure
2 76 (26.86%) AWS
3 48 (16.96%) Entra ID
4 33 (11.66%) GCP
5 13 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (4.24%) Azure Key Vault
6 12 (4.24%) Power Platform
7 10 (3.53%) IaaS
8 9 (3.18%) OpenShift
8 9 (3.18%) PaaS
9 7 (2.47%) GitHub
9 7 (2.47%) SaaS
10 6 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.12%) AWS KMS
10 6 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (1.77%) OCI
12 4 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.41%) Rubrik
13 3 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 91 (32.16%) DNS
2 71 (25.09%) DHCP
3 69 (24.38%) Firewall
4 39 (13.78%) VPN
5 33 (11.66%) TCP/IP
6 25 (8.83%) Network Security
7 24 (8.48%) SSL
8 18 (6.36%) LAN
9 17 (6.01%) IPsec
9 17 (6.01%) WAN
10 16 (5.65%) VLAN
10 16 (5.65%) VSAN
11 15 (5.30%) BGP
11 15 (5.30%) Wireless
12 13 (4.59%) Cisco ASA
12 13 (4.59%) Cisco Firepower
12 13 (4.59%) Cisco Nexus
12 13 (4.59%) OSPF
12 13 (4.59%) SSH
12 13 (4.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.71%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.89%) Power BI
3 7 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.12%) MySQL
5 5 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.77%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.41%) Db2
7 3 (1.06%) Big Data
7 3 (1.06%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.71%) Metadata
8 2 (0.71%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.35%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (4.95%) JIRA
2 12 (4.24%) Git
2 12 (4.24%) GitLab
3 9 (3.18%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.71%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.71%) Gatling
5 2 (0.71%) Gradle
5 2 (0.71%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.71%) MSI
5 2 (0.71%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.71%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 65 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 34 (12.01%) Finance
3 33 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.83%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.36%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (4.59%) Banking
7 7 (2.47%) Military
8 5 (1.77%) Police
9 4 (1.41%) Automotive
9 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.41%) Legal
10 3 (1.06%) Law
10 3 (1.06%) Retail
11 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Local Government
12 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 57 (20.14%) Senior
2 42 (14.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 35 (12.37%) Architect
4 25 (8.83%) Network Engineer
5 20 (7.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (6.36%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (6.36%) Senior Network Engineer
7 17 (6.01%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 15 (5.30%) Consultant
9 14 (4.95%) Storage Engineer
10 12 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.18%) Active Directory Engineer
12 8 (2.83%) Linux Engineer
13 7 (2.47%) Analyst
13 7 (2.47%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (2.47%) Lead
13 7 (2.47%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (2.47%) VMware Engineer
14 6 (2.12%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (18.73%) Terraform
2 23 (8.13%) 802.1X
2 23 (8.13%) OpenID
3 21 (7.42%) SAML
4 18 (6.36%) LDAP
5 16 (5.65%) OAuth
6 13 (4.59%) REST
7 10 (3.53%) OAuth2
8 9 (3.18%) Kafka
9 8 (2.83%) Keycloak
10 6 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.77%) Middleware
11 5 (1.77%) SailPoint
12 4 (1.41%) FIDO
13 3 (1.06%) eBPF
13 3 (1.06%) Loki
13 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Graph
13 3 (1.06%) SPIFFE
13 3 (1.06%) WebAuthn
14 2 (0.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.31%) Data Centre
2 29 (10.25%) Clustering
3 16 (5.65%) Public Cloud
4 14 (4.95%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.24%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.89%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.53%) Security Posture
8 9 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.83%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.47%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (2.12%) Replication
11 6 (2.12%) Smartcard
12 5 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.77%) Operational Technology
12 5 (1.77%) SCADA
13 4 (1.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 139 (49.12%) Windows
2 96 (33.92%) Linux
3 74 (26.15%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.24%) Unix
5 11 (3.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.89%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (2.12%) Debian
9 5 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.06%) Android
10 3 (1.06%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.06%) CentOS
10 3 (1.06%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (1.06%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (21.91%) Identity Access Management
2 56 (19.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 54 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (18.73%) Cybersecurity
5 52 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 47 (16.61%) ITIL
7 45 (15.90%) High Availability
8 43 (15.19%) Technical Leadership
9 42 (14.84%) CI/CD
9 42 (14.84%) DevOps
10 41 (14.49%) Key Management
10 41 (14.49%) Zero Trust
11 39 (13.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 36 (12.72%) Change Management
13 33 (11.66%) Agile
14 32 (11.31%) Cryptography
14 32 (11.31%) DevSecOps
14 32 (11.31%) Secrets Management
15 31 (10.95%) Mentoring
16 30 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 74 (26.15%) PowerShell
2 61 (21.55%) Python
3 33 (11.66%) Bash
4 15 (5.30%) SQL
5 10 (3.53%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.12%) Go
6 6 (2.12%) Java
7 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.35%) Bicep
8 1 (0.35%) C#
8 1 (0.35%) C++
8 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 155 (54.77%) Security Cleared
2 97 (34.28%) DV Cleared
3 68 (24.03%) SC Cleared
4 25 (8.83%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (6.71%) Degree
6 18 (6.36%) CCNP
7 16 (5.65%) CISSP
8 14 (4.95%) Azure Certification
9 12 (4.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (4.24%) VCAP
10 10 (3.53%) AWS Certification
11 8 (2.83%) CISM
12 6 (2.12%) GIAC
13 5 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.77%) ISTQB
13 5 (1.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (1.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 5 (1.77%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.77%) MCSE
14 4 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.72%) NIST
2 27 (9.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (7.07%) NCSC
4 8 (2.83%) JSP 440
5 7 (2.47%) GRC
6 4 (1.41%) GDPR
6 4 (1.41%) SLA
6 4 (1.41%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.06%) QA
8 2 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.71%) ISA99
8 2 (0.71%) ITGC
8 2 (0.71%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 132 (46.64%) Active Directory
2 65 (22.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (12.72%) Docker
4 31 (10.95%) VMware NSX
5 27 (9.54%) Hyper-V
6 16 (5.65%) vSphere
7 10 (3.53%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.77%) BitLocker
9 4 (1.41%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (1.41%) NFS
9 4 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (1.06%) OpenAM
10 3 (1.06%) OpenSSH
10 3 (1.06%) Terminal Services
10 3 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.71%) Firmware
11 2 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.71%) XenApp
11 2 (0.71%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 60 (21.20%) Kubernetes
2 52 (18.37%) Ansible
3 20 (7.07%) vCenter Server
4 19 (6.71%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (6.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (6.01%) VxRail
7 14 (4.95%) SCOM
8 13 (4.59%) Avamar
9 8 (2.83%) Grafana
9 8 (2.83%) Istio
9 8 (2.83%) Prometheus
9 8 (2.83%) Puppet
9 8 (2.83%) WSUS
10 6 (2.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (2.12%) CA Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.12%) Kibana
11 5 (1.77%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (1.77%) SCCM
12 4 (1.41%) systemd
12 4 (1.41%) WMI
Vendors
1 115 (40.64%) Microsoft
2 81 (28.62%) VMware
3 45 (15.90%) Cisco
4 28 (9.89%) Thales
5 25 (8.83%) ServiceNow
6 16 (5.65%) Dell
7 14 (4.95%) Citrix
7 14 (4.95%) CyberArk
8 13 (4.59%) Google
8 13 (4.59%) Juniper
9 11 (3.89%) Palo Alto
9 11 (3.89%) SolarWinds
10 9 (3.18%) BMC
10 9 (3.18%) CheckPoint
10 9 (3.18%) Fortinet
10 9 (3.18%) Remedy
10 9 (3.18%) Splunk
11 8 (2.83%) F5
12 6 (2.12%) McAfee
12 6 (2.12%) NetApp