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 29 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 318 295
Rank change year-on-year +34 -23 +63
Contract jobs citing PKI 92 46 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.31% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 0.91% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 32 70
10th Percentile £463 £427 £350
25th Percentile £506 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £576 £663
Median % change year-on-year +8.03% -13.02% -0.90%
75th Percentile £838 £706 £749
90th Percentile - £749 £851
England median daily rate £550 £560 £573
% change year-on-year -1.79% -2.18% -8.40%

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 5,528 5,041 6,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.58% 34.28% 33.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,569 3,205 4,369
10th Percentile £343 £325 £313
25th Percentile £431 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £719
90th Percentile £800 £844 £813
England median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 63 109
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.30 £18.74
25th Percentile £20.21 £24.15 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.21 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.13% +16.67% -12.82%
75th Percentile £46.94 £59.75 £49.08
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £65.43
England median hourly rate £28.13 £37.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.99% -12.94% +28.79%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 -8 3 £613 +36.11% 9
South London - 1 £513 - 2
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 8 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.52%) IIS
3 5 (5.43%) Confluence
4 3 (3.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (30.43%) IaaS
2 18 (19.57%) Azure
3 14 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (11.96%) AWS
5 5 (5.43%) PaaS
6 4 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.26%) GCP
7 3 (3.26%) GitHub
7 3 (3.26%) SaaS
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.09%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (1.09%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.09%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.09%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.39%) DNS
2 13 (14.13%) Firewall
3 11 (11.96%) Network Security
3 11 (11.96%) SSL
4 10 (10.87%) BGP
5 8 (8.70%) HTTPS
5 8 (8.70%) OSPF
6 7 (7.61%) DHCP
6 7 (7.61%) IPsec
6 7 (7.61%) VPN
7 5 (5.43%) EIGRP
7 5 (5.43%) S/MIME
8 4 (4.35%) Wireless
9 3 (3.26%) Kerberos
9 3 (3.26%) LAN
9 3 (3.26%) SMTP
9 3 (3.26%) SSH
9 3 (3.26%) WAN
10 2 (2.17%) SNMP
10 2 (2.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.09%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (1.09%) Redis
2 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.52%) JIRA
2 2 (2.17%) Git
2 2 (2.17%) GitLab
3 1 (1.09%) Fiddler
3 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.09%) JUnit
3 1 (1.09%) Postman
General
1 30 (32.61%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (11.96%) Finance
3 8 (8.70%) Military
3 8 (8.70%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.43%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.26%) Banking
6 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.09%) Local Government
7 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (41.30%) Architect
2 12 (13.04%) Senior
3 7 (7.61%) Administrator
3 7 (7.61%) Platform Manager
3 7 (7.61%) Security Architect
3 7 (7.61%) Systems Administrator
3 7 (7.61%) Systems Manager
3 7 (7.61%) Wintel Administrator
3 7 (7.61%) Wintel Systems Administrator
4 6 (6.52%) Coordinator
4 6 (6.52%) Network Engineer
4 6 (6.52%) Security Assurance Coordinator
4 6 (6.52%) Senior Wintel Engineer
4 6 (6.52%) Wintel Engineer
5 4 (4.35%) Cisco Engineer
5 4 (4.35%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 4 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 4 (4.35%) Juniper Engineer
6 3 (3.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (3.26%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (29.35%) JSON
1 27 (29.35%) REST
2 11 (11.96%) OpenID
3 9 (9.78%) SAML
4 7 (7.61%) OAuth
4 7 (7.61%) OAuth2
5 3 (3.26%) JDBC
5 3 (3.26%) LDAP
5 3 (3.26%) SOAP
6 2 (2.17%) .NET
6 2 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.09%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.09%) CSS
7 1 (1.09%) HTML
7 1 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.26%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.43%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.43%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.35%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.26%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.26%) Clustering
4 3 (3.26%) Replication
4 3 (3.26%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.09%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.09%) Tandem
6 1 (1.09%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.09%) Windows
2 12 (13.04%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.61%) Linux
4 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.09%) Android
5 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.09%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.09%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.09%) Unix
5 1 (1.09%) VMS
5 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (42.39%) Key Management
2 37 (40.22%) Agile
3 27 (29.35%) Configuration Management
4 14 (15.22%) ITIL
5 13 (14.13%) Information Security
6 12 (13.04%) Change Management
6 12 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (9.78%) DevSecOps
7 9 (9.78%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (8.70%) CI/CD
8 8 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (8.70%) Kalman Filter
9 7 (7.61%) Migration
9 7 (7.61%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 7 (7.61%) Security Patching
10 6 (6.52%) Cryptography
10 6 (6.52%) DevOps
10 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (6.52%) Network Management
10 6 (6.52%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (38.04%) PowerShell
2 10 (10.87%) Python
3 6 (6.52%) Bash
4 5 (5.43%) C++
4 5 (5.43%) Java
4 5 (5.43%) Perl
5 4 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (63.04%) Security Cleared
2 38 (41.30%) SC Cleared
3 15 (16.30%) Degree
4 14 (15.22%) DV Cleared
5 10 (10.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (9.78%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (7.61%) CCNP
8 6 (6.52%) IISP
8 6 (6.52%) ISACA
9 5 (5.43%) CISSP
9 5 (5.43%) JNCIA
9 5 (5.43%) JNCIS
10 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
11 2 (2.17%) CCSP
11 2 (2.17%) CEH
11 2 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (2.17%) Master's Degree
11 2 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.26%) GDPR
2 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.26%) NIST
3 2 (2.17%) FIPS 140-2
3 2 (2.17%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.17%) NCSC
4 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.09%) COBIT
4 1 (1.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.09%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.09%) PSD2
System Software
1 24 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.52%) Docker
3 6 (6.52%) Firmware
3 6 (6.52%) vSphere
4 4 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.26%) BitLocker
6 2 (2.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 2 (2.17%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.17%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (2.17%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.09%) Squid
7 1 (1.09%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (7.61%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.52%) SCOM
2 6 (6.52%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (4.35%) Terraform
4 3 (3.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (3.26%) Ansible
4 3 (3.26%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.26%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.17%) Grafana
5 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.17%) Puppet
5 2 (2.17%) SCCM
5 2 (2.17%) vMotion
6 1 (1.09%) vRealize
6 1 (1.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.04%) VMware
3 9 (9.78%) Cisco
4 8 (8.70%) Splunk
5 7 (7.61%) Dell
5 7 (7.61%) Juniper
6 5 (5.43%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.35%) Citrix
8 3 (3.26%) CyberArk
8 3 (3.26%) ForgeRock
8 3 (3.26%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.26%) Thales
9 2 (2.17%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (2.17%) NetApp
9 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.17%) Veeam
10 1 (1.09%) Aruba
10 1 (1.09%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.09%) Remedy
10 1 (1.09%) Symantec