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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 329 194
Rank change year-on-year +16 -135 +108
Contract jobs citing PKI 270 152 468
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.62% 1.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.19% 1.82% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 115 313
10th Percentile £401 £409 £363
25th Percentile £500 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £725 £638 £638
90th Percentile £838 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £563 £550 £554
% change year-on-year +2.27% -0.72% -7.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £61.41 - £56.61
25th Percentile £70.50 - £56.93
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £59.70
75th Percentile £96.25 - £64.73
90th Percentile £101.65 - £66.39
UK median hourly rate £79.50 - £59.70
% change year-on-year - - +8.55%

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 12,309 8,347 11,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.69% 33.84% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,809 5,352 7,650
10th Percentile £294 £285 £257
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.71% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 611 289 792
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.91 £12.71
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.72 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.32 £34.00 £28.13
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +20.89% +25.00%
75th Percentile £67.25 £66.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £83.53 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% +16.07% +24.53%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +16 98 £600 -0.83% 20
London +11 92 £625 +19.05% 16
South West -45 27 £563 - 3
West Midlands -50 24 £400 -5.88% 4
Midlands -54 24 £400 -5.88% 7
North of England -63 18 £482 -32.35% 4
Yorkshire -51 10 £482 -33.52%
North West -30 8 £444 -11.25% 4
East of England - 3 £550 - 4
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 25 (9.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.85%) Confluence
4 2 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (0.74%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (0.74%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.37%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 51 (18.89%) Azure
2 43 (15.93%) AWS
3 31 (11.48%) IaaS
4 24 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (8.52%) Entra ID
6 9 (3.33%) OpenShift
7 8 (2.96%) PaaS
8 7 (2.59%) GCP
8 7 (2.59%) GitHub
8 7 (2.59%) Power Platform
8 7 (2.59%) SaaS
9 6 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.11%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.11%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.74%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (0.74%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 68 (25.19%) Firewall
2 64 (23.70%) DNS
3 46 (17.04%) BGP
4 43 (15.93%) DHCP
5 37 (13.70%) WAN
6 30 (11.11%) VPN
7 27 (10.00%) Network Security
8 26 (9.63%) OSPF
9 25 (9.26%) LAN
10 23 (8.52%) Ethernet VPN
10 23 (8.52%) Junos
10 23 (8.52%) VXLAN
11 21 (7.78%) BIG-IP
12 20 (7.41%) Cisco ISE
13 19 (7.04%) MPLS
14 18 (6.67%) SSL
15 14 (5.19%) IPsec
16 12 (4.44%) TCP/IP
17 11 (4.07%) Cisco IOS
18 8 (2.96%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.96%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.11%) Power BI
4 2 (0.74%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.37%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (4.07%) JIRA
2 7 (2.59%) GitLab
3 6 (2.22%) Robot Framework
4 4 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.74%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.37%) Git
6 1 (0.37%) JUnit
General
1 42 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (12.22%) Social Skills
3 24 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.44%) Finance
5 9 (3.33%) Military
6 5 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.48%) Banking
7 4 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.74%) Legal
8 2 (0.74%) Local Government
9 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.37%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 86 (31.85%) Architect
2 40 (14.81%) Senior
3 32 (11.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (7.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 17 (6.30%) Network Engineer
6 14 (5.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (5.19%) Support Engineer
7 12 (4.44%) Wintel Engineer
8 11 (4.07%) Network Specialist
9 10 (3.70%) 3rd Line Support
9 10 (3.70%) Administrator
9 10 (3.70%) Firewall Specialist
9 10 (3.70%) Lead
9 10 (3.70%) Platform Manager
9 10 (3.70%) Systems Administrator
9 10 (3.70%) Systems Manager
9 10 (3.70%) Wintel Administrator
9 10 (3.70%) Wintel Systems Administrator
10 9 (3.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 9 (3.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.85%) REST
2 28 (10.37%) JSON
3 21 (7.78%) 802.1X
4 13 (4.81%) OpenID
5 11 (4.07%) LDAP
5 11 (4.07%) SAML
6 8 (2.96%) OAuth
6 8 (2.96%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.11%) CSS
7 3 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.11%) HTML
7 3 (1.11%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.74%) .NET
8 2 (0.74%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.74%) cloud-init
8 2 (0.74%) eBPF
8 2 (0.74%) Kafka
8 2 (0.74%) Loki
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.00%) Clustering
2 26 (9.63%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (9.26%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.70%) Fat Client
4 10 (3.70%) Thin Client
5 8 (2.96%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.59%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.59%) Enterprise Storage
7 6 (2.22%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.85%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.85%) Smartcard
9 4 (1.48%) Replication
9 4 (1.48%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.11%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.11%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.74%) CESG
11 2 (0.74%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 99 (36.67%) Windows
2 49 (18.15%) Linux
3 44 (16.30%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.33%) Windows 7
5 8 (2.96%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (2.59%) CentOS
6 7 (2.59%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.85%) Windows 10
8 5 (1.85%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (1.48%) Unix
10 3 (1.11%) VMS
10 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.37%) Android
11 1 (0.37%) Solaris
11 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (28.52%) Agile
2 55 (20.37%) Key Management
3 49 (18.15%) Identity Access Management
4 39 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 34 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (12.22%) CI/CD
7 31 (11.48%) Change Management
7 31 (11.48%) Configuration Management
7 31 (11.48%) ITIL
8 30 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
9 29 (10.74%) Load Balancing
9 29 (10.74%) Observability
10 25 (9.26%) DevOps
11 23 (8.52%) Service Management
12 22 (8.15%) Cryptography
12 22 (8.15%) High Availability
13 21 (7.78%) Platform Engineering
14 20 (7.41%) Cloud Security
14 20 (7.41%) SIEM
15 19 (7.04%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 70 (25.93%) PowerShell
2 42 (15.56%) Python
3 17 (6.30%) SQL
4 12 (4.44%) Bash
5 6 (2.22%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.85%) C#
7 4 (1.48%) PHP
8 3 (1.11%) Go
8 3 (1.11%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.74%) Java
10 1 (0.37%) C++
10 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 193 (71.48%) Security Cleared
2 101 (37.41%) DV Cleared
3 87 (32.22%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.63%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (8.89%) Degree
6 19 (7.04%) CISSP
7 16 (5.93%) CISM
8 15 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.96%) GIAC
10 7 (2.59%) JNCIA
10 7 (2.59%) JNCIP
10 7 (2.59%) JNCIS
10 7 (2.59%) MCSE
11 6 (2.22%) CCNP
11 6 (2.22%) Master's Degree
11 6 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (1.85%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.48%) APMG
13 4 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.93%) NIST
2 14 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.81%) NCSC
4 7 (2.59%) GDPR
5 6 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.22%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.48%) QA
6 4 (1.48%) SLA
7 3 (1.11%) RMADS
8 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.74%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.74%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (29.26%) Active Directory
2 41 (15.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (7.41%) Docker
4 15 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (4.44%) VMware NSX
6 11 (4.07%) Hyper-V
7 7 (2.59%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.59%) Firmware
8 6 (2.22%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (2.22%) vSphere
9 4 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.74%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 2 (0.74%) KVM
10 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.74%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.37%) NFS
11 1 (0.37%) Squid
11 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 33 (12.22%) Ansible
2 30 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 30 (11.11%) Terraform
3 22 (8.15%) vCenter Server
4 21 (7.78%) FortiGate
5 12 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (3.33%) SCOM
7 9 (3.33%) WMI
8 8 (2.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 8 (2.96%) Prometheus
8 8 (2.96%) WSUS
9 7 (2.59%) Grafana
9 7 (2.59%) SCCM
10 6 (2.22%) Puppet
10 6 (2.22%) vMotion
11 4 (1.48%) QRadar
12 3 (1.11%) Podman
12 3 (1.11%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.74%) VxRail
Vendors
1 78 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 66 (24.44%) VMware
3 50 (18.52%) Cisco
4 38 (14.07%) Juniper
4 38 (14.07%) Splunk
5 28 (10.37%) SolarWinds
6 24 (8.89%) F5
7 19 (7.04%) Extreme Networks
8 11 (4.07%) Palo Alto
9 10 (3.70%) Citrix
10 8 (2.96%) Google
10 8 (2.96%) Thales
10 8 (2.96%) Veeam
11 7 (2.59%) Broadcom
11 7 (2.59%) Dell
11 7 (2.59%) ServiceNow
12 6 (2.22%) NetApp
13 5 (1.85%) Aruba
13 5 (1.85%) Netskope
13 5 (1.85%) Red Hat