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 8 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 303 336
Rank change year-on-year -45 +33 -17
Contract jobs citing PKI 106 66 49
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.49% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.37% 1.27% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 55 28
10th Percentile £425 £434 £399
25th Percentile £472 £485 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £599 £585 £543
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% +7.64% -9.42%
75th Percentile £688 £697 £631
90th Percentile £727 £738 £725
England median daily rate £575 £550 £542
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.48% -8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
England median hourly rate £96.00 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -56.73%

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 7,724 5,213 5,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.21% 38.92% 33.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,908 3,354 3,503
10th Percentile £354 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £553 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -3.91% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 121 70
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.83 £24.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.82 £26.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year +35.17% -19.08% +16.44%
75th Percentile £59.75 £47.00 £55.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £78.75 £78.44
England median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +13.30% -45.45% +19.49%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -9 16 £625 -6.72% 7
West London -19 1 £475 -36.67% 4
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 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.83%) IIS
3 2 (1.89%) Confluence
4 1 (0.94%) Apache
4 1 (0.94%) nginx
4 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 58 (54.72%) Azure
2 46 (43.40%) AWS
3 29 (27.36%) Entra ID
4 17 (16.04%) GCP
5 11 (10.38%) SaaS
6 9 (8.49%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (8.49%) IaaS
7 8 (7.55%) PaaS
8 6 (5.66%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (5.66%) GitHub
8 6 (5.66%) OCI
9 5 (4.72%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.77%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (3.77%) Rubrik
10 4 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 31 (29.25%) DNS
2 23 (21.70%) DHCP
3 19 (17.92%) Firewall
4 14 (13.21%) VPN
5 13 (12.26%) SSL
6 9 (8.49%) Network Security
7 7 (6.60%) SAN
7 7 (6.60%) TCP/IP
8 5 (4.72%) NAS
8 5 (4.72%) X.509
9 4 (3.77%) Kerberos
9 4 (3.77%) SSH
9 4 (3.77%) VLAN
10 3 (2.83%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (2.83%) SMTP
10 3 (2.83%) Wireless
11 2 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (1.89%) S/MIME
11 2 (1.89%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.49%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.55%) MySQL
3 7 (6.60%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.60%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (4.72%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.77%) Db2
6 3 (2.83%) Big Data
6 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.89%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.89%) Power BI
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.94%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (16.04%) Git
2 12 (11.32%) GitLab
3 11 (10.38%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.89%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.89%) JIRA
5 2 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.89%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
General
1 31 (29.25%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.87%) Finance
3 12 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.49%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.55%) Banking
6 4 (3.77%) Automotive
6 4 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.89%) Legal
9 1 (0.94%) Law
9 1 (0.94%) Local Government
9 1 (0.94%) Military
9 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Police
9 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (16.98%) Architect
2 14 (13.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (11.32%) Senior
4 11 (10.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (7.55%) Security Engineer
6 7 (6.60%) Active Directory Engineer
7 6 (5.66%) Lead
8 5 (4.72%) Network Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.77%) Analyst
9 4 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Incident Manager
9 4 (3.77%) Major Incident Manager
9 4 (3.77%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Security Architect
9 4 (3.77%) Senior Network Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Software Engineer
10 3 (2.83%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.83%) Production Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (24.53%) Terraform
2 12 (11.32%) Kafka
2 12 (11.32%) OpenID
3 10 (9.43%) Keycloak
4 8 (7.55%) OAuth
4 8 (7.55%) SAML
5 7 (6.60%) 802.1X
5 7 (6.60%) LDAP
6 6 (5.66%) REST
7 5 (4.72%) Middleware
7 5 (4.72%) SailPoint
8 4 (3.77%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (2.83%) eBPF
9 3 (2.83%) Loki
10 2 (1.89%) .NET
10 2 (1.89%) ASP.NET
10 2 (1.89%) EJB
10 2 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.89%) JSON
10 2 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.21%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.38%) Onboarding
3 10 (9.43%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (6.60%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.60%) Security Posture
5 6 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.72%) Clustering
6 5 (4.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.72%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (4.72%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.77%) Mainframe
7 4 (3.77%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.77%) Replication
7 4 (3.77%) Robotics
8 3 (2.83%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (2.83%) Smartcard
9 2 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.89%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.94%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 34 (32.08%) Linux
2 33 (31.13%) Windows
3 15 (14.15%) Windows Server
4 9 (8.49%) Ubuntu
5 5 (4.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.77%) Unix
7 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.02%) DevOps
2 29 (27.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (26.42%) CI/CD
4 20 (18.87%) Migration
5 18 (16.98%) Secrets Management
6 17 (16.04%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (16.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (15.09%) Containerisation
8 15 (14.15%) Cryptography
8 15 (14.15%) High Availability
9 14 (13.21%) Incident Response
9 14 (13.21%) Validation
10 13 (12.26%) Identity Access Management
10 13 (12.26%) Observability
10 13 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (12.26%) Zero Trust
11 12 (11.32%) AI
11 12 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (11.32%) ITIL
11 12 (11.32%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (26.42%) Python
2 22 (20.75%) PowerShell
3 18 (16.98%) Bash
4 8 (7.55%) SQL
5 4 (3.77%) Go
6 3 (2.83%) C#
6 3 (2.83%) C++
6 3 (2.83%) Java
6 3 (2.83%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.94%) Bicep
7 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (33.96%) Security Cleared
2 25 (23.58%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.38%) DV Cleared
4 9 (8.49%) Azure Certification
5 7 (6.60%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (6.60%) CISSP
6 5 (4.72%) CCNP
7 4 (3.77%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.77%) CISM
7 4 (3.77%) Degree
7 4 (3.77%) JNCIP
7 4 (3.77%) JNCIS
7 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.89%) CRISC
9 2 (1.89%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.89%) PMP
9 2 (1.89%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (13.21%) NIST
3 4 (3.77%) SOC 2
4 3 (2.83%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.89%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.89%) ITGC
5 2 (1.89%) NCSC
5 2 (1.89%) QA
5 2 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.89%) SLA
6 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.94%) GRC
6 1 (0.94%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.94%) PSD2
System Software
1 54 (50.94%) Active Directory
2 20 (18.87%) Docker
3 11 (10.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.77%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.77%) NFS
4 4 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.83%) BitLocker
5 3 (2.83%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (2.83%) Terminal Services
5 3 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.94%) OpenSSH
7 1 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (31.13%) Kubernetes
2 24 (22.64%) Ansible
3 15 (14.15%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (10.38%) Grafana
5 10 (9.43%) Prometheus
5 10 (9.43%) Puppet
6 9 (8.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (3.77%) Argo
7 4 (3.77%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.77%) systemd
8 3 (2.83%) Cilium
8 3 (2.83%) Kibana
8 3 (2.83%) Nagios
8 3 (2.83%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.83%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.83%) vMotion
9 1 (0.94%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.94%) SCCM
9 1 (0.94%) SCOM
9 1 (0.94%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 52 (49.06%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.26%) VMware
3 9 (8.49%) CyberArk
4 7 (6.60%) Cisco
4 7 (6.60%) Google
5 4 (3.77%) Citrix
5 4 (3.77%) Greenplum
5 4 (3.77%) Juniper
5 4 (3.77%) MikroTik
5 4 (3.77%) Sybase
5 4 (3.77%) Thales
6 3 (2.83%) HP
6 3 (2.83%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.83%) Symantec
7 2 (1.89%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (1.89%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.94%) ForeScout
8 1 (0.94%) Okta
8 1 (0.94%) Sparx