PKI Contract Job Trends in London

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 298 294
Rank change year-on-year -25 -4 +25
Contract jobs citing PKI 81 56 96
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.46% 0.45% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.28% 1.24% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 42 70
10th Percentile £419 £421 £379
25th Percentile £490 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £537 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.66% -6.61% -8.00%
75th Percentile £822 £712 £805
90th Percentile £838 £750 £864
England median daily rate £561 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -2.39% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
England median hourly rate £79.50 - £31.15
% change year-on-year - - -43.36%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,311 4,507 5,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.67% 35.91% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,040 3,049 4,200
10th Percentile £350 £325 £301
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
England median daily rate £513 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -6.31% -0.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 75 161
10th Percentile £18.07 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.93 £18.93
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +32.69% -25.71%
75th Percentile £61.44 £50.50 £46.86
90th Percentile £88.75 £79.81 £67.00
England median hourly rate £46.23 £33.91 £30.00
% change year-on-year +36.33% +13.03% +33.33%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

PKI job vacancy trend in London

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PKI

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in London

PKI
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PKI

PKI
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Central London -18 2 £563 +25.00% 3
South London -17 1 £513 +8.47%
PKI
England

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (4.94%) Confluence
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (32.10%) Azure
2 24 (29.63%) AWS
2 24 (29.63%) IaaS
3 15 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (11.11%) PaaS
5 6 (7.41%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.94%) GCP
7 3 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.70%) AWS KMS
7 3 (3.70%) SaaS
8 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.47%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.23%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (1.23%) GitHub
9 1 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.23%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.23%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 17 (20.99%) Firewall
2 15 (18.52%) DNS
3 11 (13.58%) DHCP
3 11 (13.58%) Network Security
4 9 (11.11%) VPN
5 8 (9.88%) SMTP
6 6 (7.41%) SSL
7 4 (4.94%) BGP
8 3 (3.70%) X.509
9 2 (2.47%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (2.47%) LAN
9 2 (2.47%) OSPF
9 2 (2.47%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (2.47%) SSH
9 2 (2.47%) TACACS
9 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.47%) VLAN
9 2 (2.47%) WAN
10 1 (1.23%) NetScaler
10 1 (1.23%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.64%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.47%) Metadata
3 1 (1.23%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.23%) MySQL
3 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.17%) JIRA
2 3 (3.70%) GitLab
3 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.47%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.23%) Git
4 1 (1.23%) JUnit
General
1 19 (23.46%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (13.58%) Finance
3 4 (4.94%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.70%) Banking
4 3 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.47%) Local Government
5 2 (2.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (28.40%) Architect
2 9 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 9 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (8.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (8.64%) NetApp Engineer
3 7 (8.64%) Storage Engineer
4 6 (7.41%) Administrator
4 6 (7.41%) Platform Manager
4 6 (7.41%) Systems Administrator
4 6 (7.41%) Systems Manager
4 6 (7.41%) Wintel Administrator
4 6 (7.41%) Wintel Systems Administrator
5 5 (6.17%) Senior
6 4 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.94%) Lead
7 3 (3.70%) Consultant
7 3 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 3 (3.70%) Network Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) Security Consultant
8 2 (2.47%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.46%) JSON
2 18 (22.22%) REST
3 6 (7.41%) OpenID
3 6 (7.41%) SAML
4 3 (3.70%) 802.1X
4 3 (3.70%) OAuth
4 3 (3.70%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.47%) CSS
5 2 (2.47%) eBPF
5 2 (2.47%) HTML
5 2 (2.47%) LDAP
5 2 (2.47%) Loki
5 2 (2.47%) SPIFFE
6 1 (1.23%) EJB
6 1 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.23%) Kafka
6 1 (1.23%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.99%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (13.58%) Clustering
3 9 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (4.94%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.70%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.47%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (34.57%) Windows
2 17 (20.99%) Linux
3 14 (17.28%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.64%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.47%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.23%) Android
6 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.23%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.23%) Unix
6 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (29.63%) Key Management
2 19 (23.46%) Agile
2 19 (23.46%) Configuration Management
3 15 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (14.81%) DevOps
5 11 (13.58%) Change Management
5 11 (13.58%) CI/CD
5 11 (13.58%) Vulnerability Management
6 10 (12.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (11.11%) Migration
8 8 (9.88%) Cryptography
9 7 (8.64%) Incident Management
10 6 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
10 6 (7.41%) ITIL
10 6 (7.41%) Security Patching
11 5 (6.17%) Information Security
11 5 (6.17%) Load Balancing
11 5 (6.17%) Log Aggregation
11 5 (6.17%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 33 (40.74%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.70%) Bash
2 3 (3.70%) Python
3 2 (2.47%) Go
3 2 (2.47%) Java
3 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (61.73%) Security Cleared
2 30 (37.04%) SC Cleared
3 15 (18.52%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.41%) Degree
5 3 (3.70%) CCNP
5 3 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.23%) CCNA
7 1 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.94%) QA
2 3 (3.70%) NIST
3 2 (2.47%) GDPR
3 2 (2.47%) NCSC
4 1 (1.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 22 (27.16%) Active Directory
2 13 (16.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (12.35%) BitLocker
3 10 (12.35%) Docker
3 10 (12.35%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (9.88%) Hyper-V
4 8 (9.88%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.47%) OpenSSH
6 2 (2.47%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.23%) Firmware
7 1 (1.23%) Squid
7 1 (1.23%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.23%) vSphere
7 1 (1.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (19.75%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.05%) Ansible
3 9 (11.11%) Terraform
3 9 (11.11%) vCenter Server
4 8 (9.88%) Puppet
4 8 (9.88%) vMotion
5 4 (4.94%) Grafana
5 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.94%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.47%) CA Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.47%) Cilium
7 2 (2.47%) PingFederate
8 1 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.23%) SCCM
8 1 (1.23%) SCOM
8 1 (1.23%) vRealize
8 1 (1.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (28.40%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.28%) VMware
3 12 (14.81%) Splunk
4 10 (12.35%) Citrix
5 8 (9.88%) NetApp
6 4 (4.94%) Aruba
6 4 (4.94%) Cisco
7 3 (3.70%) CyberArk
7 3 (3.70%) Dell
7 3 (3.70%) ForeScout
7 3 (3.70%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.70%) Symantec
8 2 (2.47%) Broadcom
8 2 (2.47%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.47%) HP
8 2 (2.47%) Netskope
8 2 (2.47%) Ping Identity
8 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.23%) Becrypt
9 1 (1.23%) Dell KACE