PKI Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	87	-	45
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	+16
Contract jobs citing PKI	9	0	27
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow	0.74%	-	3.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	1.76%	-	12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted	3	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£413	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£425	-	-
75^th Percentile	£438	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Scotland median daily rate	£481	£538	£550
% change year-on-year	-10.51%	-2.27%	-15.38%

All Generic Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	512	334	224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow	42.07%	44.53%	31.91%
Number of daily rates quoted	296	186	138
10^th Percentile	£300	£221	£301
25^th Percentile	£363	£363	£356
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£425	£450	£450
Median % change year-on-year	-5.56%	-	-14.29%
75^th Percentile	£538	£545	£538
90^th Percentile	£650	£613	£656
Scotland median daily rate	£450	£450	£450
% change year-on-year	-	-	-10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	16	10	5
10^th Percentile	£13.50	£15.79	£18.94
25^th Percentile	£17.87	£17.97	£19.59
Median hourly rate	£43.96	£21.86	£24.15
Median % change year-on-year	+101.10%	-9.48%	+83.51%
75^th Percentile	-	£57.50	£24.18
90^th Percentile	-	£62.68	£36.10
Scotland median hourly rate	£32.34	£24.45	£19.94
% change year-on-year	+32.25%	+22.63%	+12.51%

PKI Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

PKI Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing PKI.

PKI Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 22 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing PKI also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region with a requirement for PKI.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Active Directory	66.7%	6
1	Agile	66.7%	6
1	VMware	66.7%	6
1	vSphere	66.7%	6
1	Windows	66.7%	6
1	Windows Server	66.7%	6
7	DevOps	55.6%	5
7	DNS	55.6%	5
7	PowerShell	55.6%	5
10	Microsoft	44.4%	4
10	VMware Infrastructure	44.4%	4
12	Azure	33.3%	3
12	Cybersecurity	33.3%	3
12	DHCP	33.3%	3
12	Infrastructure Engineering	33.3%	3
12	Kubernetes	33.3%	3
12	NCSC	33.3%	3
12	Platform Engineering	33.3%	3
12	Secrets Management	33.3%	3
12	Security Monitoring	33.3%	3
12	SIEM	33.3%	3
12	Validation	33.3%	3
23	A2A Protocol	22.2%	2
23	AI	22.2%	2
23	Amazon RDS	22.2%	2
23	Build Automation	22.2%	2
23	CI/CD	22.2%	2
23	Citrix	22.2%	2
23	Commvault	22.2%	2
23	DFS Replication	22.2%	2

PKI Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AI Agents	22.2%	2
1	Clustering	22.2%	2
1	Replication	22.2%	2
4	Data Centre	11.1%	1
4	Operational Technology	11.1%	1
4	Public Cloud	11.1%	1
4	Virtual Team	11.1%	1