PKI Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
North West > Lancashire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in Lancashire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - -14
Contract jobs citing PKI 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.45% - 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.09% - 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate £500 £488 £388
% change year-on-year +2.56% +25.81% -38.00%

All Generic Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 92 26 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 41.63% 17.93% 17.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 12 18
10th Percentile £161 £400 £500
25th Percentile £258 £466 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £631
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -12.87% -2.88%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £655
90th Percentile - £646 £725
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -5.26% -7.32% +3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 4 10
10th Percentile £41.94 £20.37 £35.17
25th Percentile - £22.05 £39.82
Median hourly rate £45.46 £24.67 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +84.25% -46.22% -1.08%
75th Percentile £60.61 £31.19 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £40.18 -
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £27.33 £40.33
% change year-on-year +66.34% -32.23% +15.21%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

PKI job vacancy trend in Lancashire

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing PKI

PKI
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing PKI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing PKI

PKI
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Preston - 1 - -
PKI
North West

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2