PKI Contracts 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 192 306
Rank change year-on-year -117 +114 +119
Contract jobs citing PKI 166 460 388
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.68% 1.26% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.99% 4.13% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 327 292
10th Percentile £419 £363 £413
25th Percentile £503 £434 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% -8.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £702 £677 £750
UK median daily rate £565 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +2.73% -4.35% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - £24.40
25th Percentile - - £38.50
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year - -62.81% +21.92%
75th Percentile - £32.03 £74.50
90th Percentile - £36.96 £79.60
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -63.38% +13.04%

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 8,336 11,140 16,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.06% 30.62% 33.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,449 7,304 11,283
10th Percentile £300 £268 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £572
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.76% +3.91%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 813 575
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.45 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.91 £34.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% +51.21% -17.49%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £31.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year +0.83% +40.09% -19.70%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PKI in England

PKI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PKI in England.

Daily rate trend for PKI in England

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in England

PKI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PKI in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 17 May 2025. 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 +2 49 £580 +2.65% 32
South West -17 40 £575 +4.55% 11
South East -51 35 £575 -4.56% 23
Midlands -43 19 £425 +13.33% 5
West Midlands -48 19 £425 +13.33% 3
North of England +14 9 £492 -14.43% 17
North West +14 7 £492 -18.00% 12
East of England +26 4 £525 -19.23% 5
North East -6 1 £350 -18.79% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £725 - 4
PKI
UK

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 29 (17.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.63%) Confluence
3 9 (5.42%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.42%) Skype for Business
4 7 (4.22%) IIS
5 4 (2.41%) Apache
5 4 (2.41%) Camunda
6 3 (1.81%) nginx
6 3 (1.81%) Traefik
7 2 (1.20%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.60%) CMS
8 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (7.23%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.81%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 60 (36.14%) AWS
2 49 (29.52%) Azure
3 26 (15.66%) Entra ID
4 16 (9.64%) GCP
5 14 (8.43%) IaaS
5 14 (8.43%) PaaS
6 9 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (5.42%) OpenShift
7 8 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (4.22%) AWS KMS
8 7 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.61%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.41%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (2.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (36.14%) DNS
2 40 (24.10%) Firewall
2 40 (24.10%) VPN
3 36 (21.69%) DHCP
4 19 (11.45%) WAN
5 18 (10.84%) SMTP
6 17 (10.24%) Network Security
6 17 (10.24%) SSL
7 15 (9.04%) BGP
7 15 (9.04%) TCP/IP
8 14 (8.43%) Skype
9 13 (7.83%) MPLS
10 11 (6.63%) IPsec
11 8 (4.82%) Kerberos
12 6 (3.61%) HTTPS
12 6 (3.61%) NetScaler
12 6 (3.61%) Unified Communications
12 6 (3.61%) VSAN
12 6 (3.61%) Wireless
13 5 (3.01%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.64%) MongoDB
2 13 (7.83%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.42%) Big Data
4 9 (5.42%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (5.42%) MySQL
5 7 (4.22%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.01%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.41%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.20%) GIS
8 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.20%) Redis
9 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (9.04%) GitLab
2 11 (6.63%) JIRA
3 7 (4.22%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.01%) JUnit
5 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.81%) Gradle
6 3 (1.81%) Maven
7 1 (0.60%) Git
7 1 (0.60%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.60%) Terragrunt
General
1 43 (25.90%) Public Sector
2 36 (21.69%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.63%) Military
5 6 (3.61%) Aerospace
5 6 (3.61%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.81%) Finance
7 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Electronics
8 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Law
8 1 (0.60%) Legal
8 1 (0.60%) Marketing
8 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (23.49%) Architect
2 21 (12.65%) Support Engineer
3 20 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (12.05%) Senior
4 12 (7.23%) Network Engineer
5 11 (6.63%) Developer
5 11 (6.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (6.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 9 (5.42%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 9 (5.42%) 2nd Line Support
7 9 (5.42%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 9 (5.42%) 3rd Line Support
7 9 (5.42%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 9 (5.42%) Security Architect
8 8 (4.82%) ForgeRock Engineer
8 8 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.82%) Technical Architect
8 8 (4.82%) Wintel Engineer
9 7 (4.22%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
9 7 (4.22%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.63%) .NET
1 11 (6.63%) OAuth
1 11 (6.63%) OpenID
2 10 (6.02%) Kafka
3 8 (4.82%) HTML
3 8 (4.82%) Keycloak
3 8 (4.82%) OAuth2
3 8 (4.82%) SOAP
3 8 (4.82%) Spring
3 8 (4.82%) Spring Boot
4 6 (3.61%) JDBC
5 5 (3.01%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.01%) LDAP
5 5 (3.01%) Web Services
5 5 (3.01%) XML
6 4 (2.41%) cloud-init
6 4 (2.41%) Hibernate
6 4 (2.41%) JPA
6 4 (2.41%) REST
6 4 (2.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.25%) Data Centre
2 19 (11.45%) Clustering
3 7 (4.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.22%) Replication
3 7 (4.22%) Taxonomies
4 5 (3.01%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.41%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.41%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.81%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.20%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.60%) CESG
8 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.60%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) RSA SecurID
8 1 (0.60%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 72 (43.37%) Windows
2 54 (32.53%) Windows Server
3 28 (16.87%) Linux
4 16 (9.64%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (9.04%) Windows 10
6 13 (7.83%) Windows Server 2003
7 12 (7.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (3.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (3.01%) Unix
10 4 (2.41%) CentOS
11 3 (1.81%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (1.81%) Solaris
11 3 (1.81%) VMS
12 2 (1.20%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.60%) Android
13 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (17.47%) Agile
2 28 (16.87%) DevOps
3 26 (15.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 25 (15.06%) CI/CD
5 24 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (13.25%) Identity Access Management
6 22 (13.25%) ITIL
7 21 (12.65%) Microservices
8 20 (12.05%) Cloud Security
8 20 (12.05%) DevSecOps
9 17 (10.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (10.24%) RBAC
10 16 (9.64%) Key Management
10 16 (9.64%) Mentoring
11 15 (9.04%) High Availability
11 15 (9.04%) Identity Management
12 14 (8.43%) Migration
12 14 (8.43%) Service Management
13 12 (7.23%) Artificial Intelligence
13 12 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 49 (29.52%) PowerShell
2 23 (13.86%) Python
3 22 (13.25%) Java
4 20 (12.05%) SQL
5 13 (7.83%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.22%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.01%) Bash
8 4 (2.41%) C#
8 4 (2.41%) Go
9 3 (1.81%) VB
10 2 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.20%) VBScript
11 1 (0.60%) Bicep
11 1 (0.60%) Ruby
11 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 117 (70.48%) Security Cleared
2 74 (44.58%) SC Cleared
3 47 (28.31%) DV Cleared
4 34 (20.48%) Degree
5 21 (12.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (8.43%) MCSE
7 13 (7.83%) AWS Certification
8 8 (4.82%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (4.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (3.61%) MCSA
10 5 (3.01%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.01%) CCIE
11 4 (2.41%) CISSP
11 4 (2.41%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.81%) CCNP
12 3 (1.81%) CISA
12 3 (1.81%) CISM
12 3 (1.81%) CRISC
12 3 (1.81%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.04%) NCSC
2 14 (8.43%) NIST
3 9 (5.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.61%) GDPR
5 5 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.41%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.20%) FIPS 140-2
7 2 (1.20%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (1.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.20%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.60%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (41.57%) Active Directory
2 29 (17.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (13.86%) Hyper-V
4 21 (12.65%) Docker
5 15 (9.04%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (6.63%) BitLocker
7 10 (6.02%) Microsoft App-V
7 10 (6.02%) Terminal Services
8 9 (5.42%) vSphere
9 7 (4.22%) VMware NSX
10 6 (3.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (3.61%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (3.61%) XenApp
10 6 (3.61%) XenDesktop
11 5 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (1.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (17.47%) Kubernetes
2 21 (12.65%) Terraform
3 19 (11.45%) Ansible
4 18 (10.84%) WSUS
5 13 (7.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (7.83%) vCenter Server
6 12 (7.23%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (6.63%) Puppet
8 10 (6.02%) vMotion
9 9 (5.42%) Nagios
10 8 (4.82%) SCCM
11 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Clustering
12 6 (3.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (3.61%) Istio
12 6 (3.61%) OPNET
13 5 (3.01%) Grafana
13 5 (3.01%) Prometheus
13 5 (3.01%) Rancher
13 5 (3.01%) SCOM
14 4 (2.41%) Consul
Vendors
1 74 (44.58%) Microsoft
2 43 (25.90%) VMware
3 17 (10.24%) Citrix
4 16 (9.64%) HP
5 15 (9.04%) Google
6 13 (7.83%) Cisco
7 12 (7.23%) Palo Alto
8 10 (6.02%) ForgeRock
8 10 (6.02%) Juniper
9 9 (5.42%) Symantec
10 7 (4.22%) Atlassian
10 7 (4.22%) Dell
10 7 (4.22%) Ping Identity
11 5 (3.01%) Ericsson
11 5 (3.01%) Fortinet
11 5 (3.01%) Okta
11 5 (3.01%) Oracle
11 5 (3.01%) Veeam
12 4 (2.41%) Apple
12 4 (2.41%) Red Hat