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 11 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 293 278
Rank change year-on-year -36 -15 +28
Contract jobs citing PKI 92 55 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.53% 0.44% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.48% 1.22% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 41 76
10th Percentile £424 £420 £394
25th Percentile £500 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £581 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.63% +0.99% -8.73%
75th Percentile £838 £700 £764
90th Percentile - £750 £863
England median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

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 6,232 4,522 5,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.04% 35.77% 32.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,016 3,065 4,203
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £439 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £713
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -0.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 72 164
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.75 £18.90
Median hourly rate £32.56 £34.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% +28.70% -22.86%
75th Percentile £58.57 £50.88 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.13 £80.55 £66.23
England median hourly rate £45.46 £35.00 £27.75
% change year-on-year +29.89% +26.13% +23.33%

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 11 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 11 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 -21 3 £575 +27.78% 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 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.35%) Confluence
3 3 (3.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (35.87%) IaaS
2 28 (30.43%) Azure
3 20 (21.74%) AWS
4 17 (18.48%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (10.87%) PaaS
6 7 (7.61%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.35%) GCP
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.26%) AWS KMS
8 3 (3.26%) SaaS
9 2 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.09%) GitHub
10 1 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.09%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.09%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.09%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 20 (21.74%) Firewall
2 16 (17.39%) DNS
3 11 (11.96%) DHCP
3 11 (11.96%) Network Security
3 11 (11.96%) VPN
4 8 (8.70%) SMTP
5 6 (6.52%) SSL
6 5 (5.43%) BGP
7 3 (3.26%) LAN
7 3 (3.26%) OSPF
7 3 (3.26%) WAN
8 2 (2.17%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (2.17%) Kerberos
8 2 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (2.17%) SSH
8 2 (2.17%) TACACS
8 2 (2.17%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.17%) VLAN
8 2 (2.17%) X.500
8 2 (2.17%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.61%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.17%) Metadata
3 1 (1.09%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.09%) MySQL
3 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (5.43%) JIRA
2 2 (2.17%) GitLab
3 1 (1.09%) Git
3 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.09%) JUnit
General
1 28 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (11.96%) Finance
3 4 (4.35%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.35%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.26%) Banking
4 3 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.17%) Local Government
5 2 (2.17%) Retail
6 1 (1.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (36.96%) Architect
2 9 (9.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 9 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (7.61%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (7.61%) Administrator
3 7 (7.61%) NetApp Engineer
3 7 (7.61%) Platform Manager
3 7 (7.61%) Senior
3 7 (7.61%) Storage Engineer
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 4 (4.35%) Lead
5 3 (3.26%) Consultant
5 3 (3.26%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 3 (3.26%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 3 (3.26%) Security Architect
5 3 (3.26%) Security Consultant
6 2 (2.17%) Senior Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (31.52%) JSON
2 27 (29.35%) REST
3 7 (7.61%) OpenID
3 7 (7.61%) SAML
4 4 (4.35%) LDAP
5 3 (3.26%) OAuth
5 3 (3.26%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.17%) 802.1X
6 2 (2.17%) CSS
6 2 (2.17%) eBPF
6 2 (2.17%) HTML
6 2 (2.17%) Loki
6 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (2.17%) SPIFFE
7 1 (1.09%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.09%) Kafka
7 1 (1.09%) Keycloak
7 1 (1.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.26%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (11.96%) Clustering
3 9 (9.78%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.35%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.26%) Replication
6 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (29.35%) Windows
2 15 (16.30%) Linux
3 14 (15.22%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.61%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.17%) Android
5 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.09%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.09%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.09%) Unix
6 1 (1.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (36.96%) Key Management
2 29 (31.52%) Agile
3 28 (30.43%) Configuration Management
4 17 (18.48%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (14.13%) Change Management
6 11 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (11.96%) Vulnerability Management
7 10 (10.87%) Migration
8 8 (8.70%) CI/CD
8 8 (8.70%) Cryptography
8 8 (8.70%) DevOps
9 7 (7.61%) Identity Access Management
9 7 (7.61%) Incident Management
9 7 (7.61%) ITIL
9 7 (7.61%) Security Patching
10 6 (6.52%) Information Security
10 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (5.43%) Load Balancing
11 5 (5.43%) Network Virtualisation
11 5 (5.43%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 43 (46.74%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.26%) Bash
2 3 (3.26%) Python
3 2 (2.17%) Go
3 2 (2.17%) Java
3 2 (2.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (67.39%) Security Cleared
2 40 (43.48%) SC Cleared
3 16 (17.39%) DV Cleared
4 8 (8.70%) Degree
5 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.26%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.17%) CCNP
7 2 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) QA
2 3 (3.26%) NIST
3 2 (2.17%) GDPR
3 2 (2.17%) NCSC
4 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.09%) NIST 800
System Software
1 25 (27.17%) Active Directory
2 13 (14.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.87%) BitLocker
3 10 (10.87%) Docker
3 10 (10.87%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (8.70%) Hyper-V
4 8 (8.70%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (2.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 2 (2.17%) OpenSSH
5 2 (2.17%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.17%) vSphere
6 1 (1.09%) Firmware
6 1 (1.09%) Squid
6 1 (1.09%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.09%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (16.30%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.13%) Ansible
3 9 (9.78%) vCenter Server
4 8 (8.70%) Puppet
4 8 (8.70%) vMotion
5 6 (6.52%) Terraform
6 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (4.35%) Grafana
7 4 (4.35%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.17%) CA Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.17%) Cilium
9 2 (2.17%) PingFederate
9 2 (2.17%) SCCM
9 2 (2.17%) SCOM
10 1 (1.09%) FortiGate
10 1 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (1.09%) vRealize
10 1 (1.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (27.17%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.30%) VMware
3 12 (13.04%) Splunk
4 9 (9.78%) Citrix
5 8 (8.70%) NetApp
6 6 (6.52%) Cisco
7 4 (4.35%) Aruba
7 4 (4.35%) Dell
7 4 (4.35%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.26%) Symantec
9 2 (2.17%) Broadcom
9 2 (2.17%) CheckPoint
9 2 (2.17%) CyberArk
9 2 (2.17%) ForeScout
9 2 (2.17%) HP
9 2 (2.17%) Netskope
9 2 (2.17%) Ping Identity
9 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.09%) BeyondTrust
10 1 (1.09%) Okta