YubiKey Contract Job Trends in England

Yubico YubiKey
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term YubiKey in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited YubiKey over the 6 months leading up to 13 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 580 477 -
Rank change year-on-year -103 - -
Contract jobs citing YubiKey 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.010% 0.008% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.031% 0.024% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £450 £450 -

All Generic Skills
England

YubiKey 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 12,866 8,310 11,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.76% 34.09% 31.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,164 5,462 7,566
10th Percentile £300 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% -0.50% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 654 313 821
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.67 £12.28
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.72 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.89% +25.00% +24.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £85.85 £85.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.46% +18.18% +22.30%

YubiKey
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing YubiKey relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

YubiKey job vacancy trend in England

YubiKey
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing YubiKey.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing YubiKey

YubiKey
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 YubiKey within the England region over the 6 months to 13 April 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
East of England -39 2 £450 - 4
London - 2 - -
YubiKey
UK

YubiKey
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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Skype
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Nessus
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
1 2 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Tenable