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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 309 193
Rank change year-on-year -30 -116 +106
Contract jobs citing PKI 267 167 460
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.69% 1.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.10% 2.02% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 129 307
10th Percentile £401 £407 £363
25th Percentile £500 £469 £463
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 £738
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £61.41 - £38.93
25th Percentile £70.50 - £42.19
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £50.75
75th Percentile £96.25 - £60.69
90th Percentile £101.65 - £64.78
UK median hourly rate £79.50 - £50.75
% change year-on-year - - -14.71%

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 12,712 8,266 11,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.48% 34.08% 30.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,069 5,420 7,571
10th Percentile £300 £300 £259
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £670
90th Percentile £748 £775 £780
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 636 312 798
10th Percentile £15.77 £16.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.75 £22.66 £15.19
Median hourly rate £43.60 £34.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.47% +26.36% +20.88%
75th Percentile £69.99 £68.56 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.75 £84.90 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +29.05% +18.18% +22.22%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 +15 105 £600 - 20
London -2 91 £625 +19.05% 11
West Midlands -54 23 £400 -5.88% 2
Midlands -72 23 £400 -5.88% 5
South West -54 19 £606 +7.78% 6
North of England -63 18 £482 -32.35% 7
Yorkshire -50 10 £482 -33.52% 4
North West -35 8 £444 -11.25% 3
East of England -26 5 £550 - 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 19 (7.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.87%) Confluence
2 5 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.75%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.37%) IIS
4 1 (0.37%) nginx
4 1 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.37%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 54 (20.22%) Azure
2 44 (16.48%) AWS
3 32 (11.99%) IaaS
4 25 (9.36%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (8.61%) Entra ID
6 9 (3.37%) OpenShift
6 9 (3.37%) PaaS
6 9 (3.37%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.62%) SaaS
8 6 (2.25%) GCP
9 5 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.87%) GitHub
10 4 (1.50%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.12%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.75%) Google Workspace
13 1 (0.37%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 71 (26.59%) Firewall
2 60 (22.47%) DNS
3 45 (16.85%) BGP
4 42 (15.73%) DHCP
5 36 (13.48%) WAN
6 32 (11.99%) VPN
7 27 (10.11%) OSPF
8 26 (9.74%) LAN
8 26 (9.74%) Network Security
9 24 (8.99%) Ethernet VPN
9 24 (8.99%) Junos
9 24 (8.99%) VXLAN
10 23 (8.61%) Cisco ISE
11 22 (8.24%) BIG-IP
12 17 (6.37%) MPLS
12 17 (6.37%) SSL
13 14 (5.24%) IPsec
14 11 (4.12%) Cisco IOS
14 11 (4.12%) TCP/IP
15 8 (3.00%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.37%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (1.87%) Power BI
4 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.37%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.37%) Metadata
5 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (4.12%) JIRA
2 6 (2.25%) GitLab
2 6 (2.25%) Robot Framework
3 4 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.37%) Git
5 1 (0.37%) JUnit
5 1 (0.37%) Terragrunt
General
1 37 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (10.86%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.24%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.62%) Finance
5 7 (2.62%) Military
6 5 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.50%) Banking
8 3 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.75%) Legal
9 2 (0.75%) Local Government
10 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.37%) Back Office
10 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 84 (31.46%) Architect
2 38 (14.23%) Senior
3 34 (12.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (7.12%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 17 (6.37%) Network Engineer
6 14 (5.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (4.87%) Support Engineer
8 12 (4.49%) Network Specialist
9 11 (4.12%) Firewall Specialist
10 9 (3.37%) 3rd Line Support
10 9 (3.37%) Administrator
10 9 (3.37%) Platform Manager
10 9 (3.37%) Security Engineer
10 9 (3.37%) Senior Architect
10 9 (3.37%) Senior Network Engineer
10 9 (3.37%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (3.37%) Systems Manager
10 9 (3.37%) Wintel Administrator
10 9 (3.37%) Wintel Systems Administrator
11 8 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.73%) REST
2 28 (10.49%) JSON
3 22 (8.24%) 802.1X
4 11 (4.12%) LDAP
5 10 (3.75%) OpenID
6 9 (3.37%) SAML
7 5 (1.87%) OAuth
7 5 (1.87%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.12%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.75%) CSS
9 2 (0.75%) eBPF
9 2 (0.75%) HTML
9 2 (0.75%) Loki
9 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.75%) Web Services
10 1 (0.37%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.37%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.37%) cloud-init
10 1 (0.37%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.61%) Clustering
2 26 (9.74%) Data Centre
2 26 (9.74%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (3.37%) Fat Client
3 9 (3.37%) Public Cloud
3 9 (3.37%) Thin Client
4 8 (3.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (2.62%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.25%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.87%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.87%) Operational Technology
7 5 (1.87%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.87%) Smartcard
8 4 (1.50%) Replication
8 4 (1.50%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.12%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.75%) CESG
10 2 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.75%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 97 (36.33%) Windows
2 53 (19.85%) Linux
3 43 (16.10%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.00%) Windows 7
4 8 (3.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (2.62%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.25%) CentOS
6 6 (2.25%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.50%) Windows 10
9 3 (1.12%) Unix
9 3 (1.12%) VMS
9 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.75%) Android
10 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.37%) Debian
11 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.37%) Solaris
11 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (29.21%) Agile
2 52 (19.48%) Key Management
3 51 (19.10%) Identity Access Management
4 41 (15.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 34 (12.73%) Cybersecurity
6 32 (11.99%) CI/CD
7 31 (11.61%) ITIL
7 31 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (11.24%) Change Management
8 30 (11.24%) Configuration Management
9 29 (10.86%) Load Balancing
9 29 (10.86%) Observability
10 24 (8.99%) DevOps
10 24 (8.99%) High Availability
11 22 (8.24%) Cryptography
11 22 (8.24%) Migration
11 22 (8.24%) Service Management
12 20 (7.49%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (7.49%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (7.12%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 74 (27.72%) PowerShell
2 38 (14.23%) Python
3 15 (5.62%) SQL
4 11 (4.12%) Bash
5 7 (2.62%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.25%) C#
7 4 (1.50%) PHP
8 2 (0.75%) Go
8 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.37%) C++
9 1 (0.37%) Java
9 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 194 (72.66%) Security Cleared
2 104 (38.95%) DV Cleared
3 83 (31.09%) SC Cleared
4 23 (8.61%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (7.49%) Degree
6 17 (6.37%) CISSP
7 16 (5.99%) CISM
8 11 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (3.00%) GIAC
10 7 (2.62%) JNCIA
10 7 (2.62%) JNCIP
10 7 (2.62%) JNCIS
11 5 (1.87%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.50%) APMG
12 4 (1.50%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.50%) CCNP
12 4 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.50%) MCSE
12 4 (1.50%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.74%) NIST
2 16 (5.99%) NCSC
3 14 (5.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.25%) GDPR
6 4 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.50%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.50%) QA
6 4 (1.50%) SLA
7 3 (1.12%) RMADS
8 2 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.75%) ISA99
8 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.75%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.75%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (28.09%) Active Directory
2 42 (15.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.74%) Docker
4 16 (5.99%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (5.24%) VMware NSX
6 12 (4.49%) Hyper-V
7 9 (3.37%) BitLocker
8 7 (2.62%) Firmware
8 7 (2.62%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (1.50%) vSphere
10 3 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.75%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 2 (0.75%) KVM
11 2 (0.75%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.37%) NFS
12 1 (0.37%) Squid
12 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 33 (12.36%) Ansible
2 28 (10.49%) Kubernetes
3 27 (10.11%) Terraform
4 22 (8.24%) FortiGate
4 22 (8.24%) vCenter Server
5 12 (4.49%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (4.12%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (3.00%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.00%) WMI
8 7 (2.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (2.62%) Grafana
8 7 (2.62%) Puppet
8 7 (2.62%) SCOM
8 7 (2.62%) vMotion
9 5 (1.87%) SCCM
9 5 (1.87%) WSUS
10 4 (1.50%) QRadar
11 3 (1.12%) Podman
11 3 (1.12%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.75%) VxRail
Vendors
1 78 (29.21%) Microsoft
2 65 (24.34%) VMware
3 51 (19.10%) Cisco
4 37 (13.86%) Juniper
4 37 (13.86%) Splunk
5 26 (9.74%) SolarWinds
6 25 (9.36%) F5
7 20 (7.49%) Extreme Networks
8 13 (4.87%) Palo Alto
9 12 (4.49%) Citrix
10 10 (3.75%) ServiceNow
11 8 (3.00%) Google
11 8 (3.00%) Thales
12 7 (2.62%) Broadcom
12 7 (2.62%) NetApp
13 6 (2.25%) Netskope
14 5 (1.87%) Aruba
14 5 (1.87%) Dell
14 5 (1.87%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.87%) Zscaler