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 advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 311 426
Rank change year-on-year +127 +115 +35
Contract jobs citing PKI 459 385 389
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.26% 0.80% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.12% 2.38% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 290 281
10th Percentile £363 £415 £413
25th Percentile £438 £500 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% +17.89%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £677 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £561
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.45% +18.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - £24.40 £24.84
25th Percentile - £38.50 £35.48
Median hourly rate £23.80 £64.00 £54.43
Median % change year-on-year -62.81% +17.58% +262.87%
75th Percentile £32.03 £74.50 £57.20
90th Percentile £36.96 £79.60 £58.13
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £65.00 £61.75
% change year-on-year -63.38% +5.26% +64.67%

All Generic Skills
England

PKI is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,145 16,189 23,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.58% 33.64% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,307 11,254 16,999
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +4.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 814 576 631
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.21
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +3.77%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £49.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +5.33%

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 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PKI in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

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 17 May 2024. 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 +80 159 £605 +0.83% 22
South West +61 111 £550 -4.35% 15
Midlands +81 83 £375 -31.03% 14
West Midlands +78 83 £375 -40.83% 9
London 0 83 £565 -5.83% 12
North of England -13 14 £575 +1.86% 8
North West -20 10 £600 +9.09% 5
East of England -5 5 £650 -7.14% 2
North East +14 4 £431 -45.24%
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 74 (16.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (5.23%) Confluence
3 21 (4.58%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.53%) nginx
5 3 (0.65%) Apache
5 3 (0.65%) IIS
6 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.44%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.44%) Traefik
7 1 (0.22%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.22%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 114 (24.84%) Azure
2 82 (17.86%) AWS
3 49 (10.68%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (8.06%) Entra ID
5 21 (4.58%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (3.70%) Azure Storage
7 14 (3.05%) GCP
8 8 (1.74%) Mimecast
8 8 (1.74%) OneDrive
9 7 (1.53%) PaaS
9 7 (1.53%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.31%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.31%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 5 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.09%) GitHub
11 5 (1.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 97 (21.13%) DNS
2 91 (19.83%) WAN
3 90 (19.61%) Firewall
4 75 (16.34%) IPsec
5 74 (16.12%) DHCP
6 72 (15.69%) VPN
7 71 (15.47%) BGP
8 61 (13.29%) MPLS
9 56 (12.20%) SSL
10 47 (10.24%) Junos
11 27 (5.88%) LAN
12 21 (4.58%) Network Security
13 18 (3.92%) SD-WAN
14 16 (3.49%) SAN
14 16 (3.49%) VSAN
14 16 (3.49%) Wireless
15 15 (3.27%) OSPF
16 11 (2.40%) WLAN
17 10 (2.18%) NAS
17 10 (2.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.27%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.53%) MySQL
3 7 (1.53%) Power BI
4 6 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.44%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.44%) Tableau
6 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.22%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.22%) Redis
6 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (5.66%) JIRA
2 14 (3.05%) Robot Framework
2 14 (3.05%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (2.40%) Git
4 6 (1.31%) GitLab
5 5 (1.09%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.65%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.44%) JMeter
7 2 (0.44%) Selenium
7 2 (0.44%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.22%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.22%) Darcs
8 1 (0.22%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.22%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.22%) MSI
8 1 (0.22%) Travis CI
General
1 61 (13.29%) Social Skills
2 40 (8.71%) Public Sector
3 36 (7.84%) Finance
4 27 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (4.58%) Military
6 13 (2.83%) Banking
7 6 (1.31%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.65%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.65%) Automotive
9 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.65%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.44%) Advertising
10 2 (0.44%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.22%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.22%) Police
11 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 98 (21.35%) Architect
2 46 (10.02%) Administrator
3 41 (8.93%) Systems Administrator
3 41 (8.93%) Wintel Administrator
3 41 (8.93%) Wintel Systems Administrator
4 40 (8.71%) Security Architect
5 33 (7.19%) Network Support
6 30 (6.54%) 3rd Line Support
6 30 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 29 (6.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 29 (6.32%) Security Engineer
8 26 (5.66%) WAN Engineer
9 21 (4.58%) Support Engineer
10 20 (4.36%) Senior
11 18 (3.92%) Network Engineer
11 18 (3.92%) Test Engineer
12 17 (3.70%) 1st Line Engineer
12 17 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
12 17 (3.70%) Test and Integration Engineer
12 17 (3.70%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.93%) Web Services
2 17 (3.70%) ARM Templates
3 7 (1.53%) LDAP
3 7 (1.53%) SAML
4 5 (1.09%) .NET
4 5 (1.09%) SailPoint
5 4 (0.87%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.87%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (0.87%) JSON
5 4 (0.87%) OAuth
5 4 (0.87%) OpenID
5 4 (0.87%) RESTful
5 4 (0.87%) XML
6 3 (0.65%) Kafka
6 3 (0.65%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (0.65%) React
6 3 (0.65%) REST
7 2 (0.44%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.44%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.80%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (5.66%) Data Centre
3 13 (2.83%) Public Cloud
4 11 (2.40%) Security Posture
5 9 (1.96%) Clustering
6 8 (1.74%) Fat Client
6 8 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.74%) Thin Client
7 6 (1.31%) Digital Signage
8 4 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.65%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.65%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.44%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.44%) IoT
10 2 (0.44%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.44%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 163 (35.51%) Windows
2 93 (20.26%) Windows Server
3 81 (17.65%) Linux
4 49 (10.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 32 (6.97%) Windows Server 2016
6 25 (5.45%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (2.18%) Ubuntu
9 9 (1.96%) CentOS
10 8 (1.74%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.65%) Unix
11 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.44%) VMS
12 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.22%) Debian
13 1 (0.22%) Solaris
13 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (17.86%) Agile
2 55 (11.98%) Cryptography
2 55 (11.98%) Load Balancing
3 53 (11.55%) Key Management
4 45 (9.80%) Service Management
5 44 (9.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (9.59%) ITIL
6 40 (8.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 39 (8.50%) Cybersecurity
8 37 (8.06%) DevOps
9 32 (6.97%) Change Management
10 31 (6.75%) Identity Access Management
11 29 (6.32%) CI/CD
12 26 (5.66%) Change Control
13 25 (5.45%) Cloud Security
13 25 (5.45%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 24 (5.23%) SIEM
15 22 (4.79%) Critical Thinking
15 22 (4.79%) Identity Management
15 22 (4.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 101 (22.00%) PowerShell
2 49 (10.68%) Python
3 33 (7.19%) SQL
4 20 (4.36%) C#
5 17 (3.70%) Bicep
5 17 (3.70%) VB
5 17 (3.70%) VBScript
6 11 (2.40%) Bash
7 5 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.87%) Go
9 3 (0.65%) Ruby
10 2 (0.44%) C++
10 2 (0.44%) Java
10 2 (0.44%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.22%) C
11 1 (0.22%) Perl
11 1 (0.22%) PHP
11 1 (0.22%) Rust
11 1 (0.22%) Solidity
11 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 330 (71.90%) Security Cleared
2 183 (39.87%) DV Cleared
3 126 (27.45%) SC Cleared
4 90 (19.61%) Degree
5 48 (10.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (4.79%) MCSE
7 18 (3.92%) MCSA
7 18 (3.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 17 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 9 (1.96%) CISM
9 9 (1.96%) CISSP
10 8 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.53%) SANS
12 6 (1.31%) CCNP
12 6 (1.31%) CRISC
13 4 (0.87%) CCNA
13 4 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (0.65%) CCIE
14 3 (0.65%) CISA
14 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.27%) JSP 440
2 13 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 7 (1.53%) RMADS
5 6 (1.31%) NCSC
6 5 (1.09%) SLA
7 3 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.44%) NIST
9 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.22%) QA
System Software
1 169 (36.82%) Active Directory
2 64 (13.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (6.32%) VMware ESXi
4 28 (6.10%) vSphere
5 25 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (5.23%) VMware NSX
7 20 (4.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (2.40%) Hyper-V
9 10 (2.18%) Docker
10 5 (1.09%) VMware Server
11 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.87%) Shibboleth
11 4 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.65%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 2 (0.44%) Squid
14 1 (0.22%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 59 (12.85%) Terraform
2 56 (12.20%) Ansible
3 30 (6.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 30 (6.54%) SCOM
4 29 (6.32%) Kubernetes
5 28 (6.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (6.10%) SCCM
6 25 (5.45%) WSUS
7 24 (5.23%) OPNET
8 15 (3.27%) vCenter Server
9 12 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (2.18%) FortiGate
11 8 (1.74%) Nessus
12 6 (1.31%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.87%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
13 4 (0.87%) Oracle Identity Management
13 4 (0.87%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.87%) VxRail
14 3 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 143 (31.15%) Microsoft
2 93 (20.26%) VMware
3 74 (16.12%) Juniper
4 27 (5.88%) Cisco
5 26 (5.66%) CA
6 20 (4.36%) Palo Alto
7 19 (4.14%) Oracle
8 16 (3.49%) Red Hat
9 15 (3.27%) SolarWinds
10 11 (2.40%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.96%) Dell
11 9 (1.96%) Google
12 8 (1.74%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.31%) Extreme Networks
13 6 (1.31%) Ping Identity
13 6 (1.31%) Splunk
13 6 (1.31%) Veeam
14 5 (1.09%) ForgeRock
14 5 (1.09%) HP
15 4 (0.87%) NetIQ