PKI Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 295 316
Rank change year-on-year -3 +21 +119
Contract jobs citing PKI 55 96 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.44% 0.54% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.22% 1.62% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 71 142
10th Percentile £420 £385 £400
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% -8.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £700 £784 £700
90th Percentile £750 £863 £775
England median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £54.40
25th Percentile - - £57.25
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year - -62.81% -
75th Percentile - - £74.50
90th Percentile - - £79.60
England median hourly rate - £31.15 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -43.36% +4.77%

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 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for PKI in London

PKI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PKI in London.

Daily rate trend for PKI in London

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in London

PKI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PKI in London.

Hourly rate trend for PKI in London

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 1 May 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 -3 10 £450 -18.18% 6
South London +10 4 £473 -30.00%
West London +10 2 £750 +42.86% 1
PKI
England

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (9.09%) nginx
1 5 (9.09%) Traefik
2 4 (7.27%) Camunda
3 3 (5.45%) Apache
4 2 (3.64%) Alfresco
4 2 (3.64%) Confluence
5 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (50.91%) AWS
2 17 (30.91%) Entra ID
3 14 (25.45%) Azure
4 5 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (9.09%) GCP
4 5 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (5.45%) IaaS
5 3 (5.45%) PaaS
6 2 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (3.64%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.82%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (27.27%) DNS
2 12 (21.82%) SSL
3 11 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 10 (18.18%) DHCP
4 10 (18.18%) Firewall
4 10 (18.18%) VPN
5 9 (16.36%) S/MIME
6 6 (10.91%) Network Security
7 5 (9.09%) Radio Access Network
7 5 (9.09%) Wireless
8 3 (5.45%) HTTPS
8 3 (5.45%) SMTP
9 2 (3.64%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (1.82%) EIGRP
10 1 (1.82%) HTTP
10 1 (1.82%) IPsec
10 1 (1.82%) SNMP
10 1 (1.82%) VLAN
10 1 (1.82%) WAN
10 1 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 8 (14.55%) MySQL
3 5 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 4 (7.27%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (7.27%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.64%) GIS
5 2 (3.64%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.64%) Redis
5 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.82%) Big Data
6 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.91%) GitLab
3 5 (9.09%) JUnit
4 2 (3.64%) Gradle
4 2 (3.64%) JIRA
4 2 (3.64%) Maven
5 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.82%) Git
General
1 15 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.45%) Military
5 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.82%) Legal
6 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (20.00%) Lead
2 10 (18.18%) Developer
2 10 (18.18%) Senior
3 8 (14.55%) Architect
3 8 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (7.27%) Security Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) ForgeRock Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) ForgeRock Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Network Architect
7 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.00%) Kafka
2 9 (16.36%) Keycloak
3 7 (12.73%) HTML
3 7 (12.73%) Spring
3 7 (12.73%) Spring Boot
4 6 (10.91%) OAuth
4 6 (10.91%) OpenID
5 5 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 5 (9.09%) cloud-init
6 4 (7.27%) Hibernate
6 4 (7.27%) JPA
6 4 (7.27%) OAuth2
6 4 (7.27%) REST
6 4 (7.27%) SOAP
6 4 (7.27%) XML
7 3 (5.45%) .NET
7 3 (5.45%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (5.45%) ASP.NET
7 3 (5.45%) JDBC
8 2 (3.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Algorithms
2 7 (12.73%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.27%) Taxonomies
4 2 (3.64%) Clustering
4 2 (3.64%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.82%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (27.27%) Windows
2 13 (23.64%) Windows Server
3 12 (21.82%) Linux
4 6 (10.91%) Unix
5 5 (9.09%) CentOS
5 5 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.82%) Android
7 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.82%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.82%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (23.64%) Cloud Security
1 13 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (21.82%) CI/CD
2 12 (21.82%) High Availability
2 12 (21.82%) Mentoring
2 12 (21.82%) Microservices
3 11 (20.00%) DevOps
3 11 (20.00%) Key Management
3 11 (20.00%) Migration
4 10 (18.18%) Agile
4 10 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 9 (16.36%) Identity Access Management
5 9 (16.36%) Identity Management
5 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (16.36%) Observability
6 6 (10.91%) DevSecOps
6 6 (10.91%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 6 (10.91%) Static Application Security Testing
6 6 (10.91%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (36.36%) Python
2 18 (32.73%) PowerShell
3 13 (23.64%) Java
4 8 (14.55%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.09%) Bash
5 5 (9.09%) Go
6 4 (7.27%) SQL
7 3 (5.45%) C#
8 2 (3.64%) VB
9 1 (1.82%) Ruby
9 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (41.82%) Security Cleared
2 19 (34.55%) SC Cleared
3 14 (25.45%) Degree
4 8 (14.55%) AWS Certification
5 7 (12.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (9.09%) CCIE
6 5 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
7 3 (5.45%) CISA
7 3 (5.45%) CISM
7 3 (5.45%) CISSP
7 3 (5.45%) CRISC
7 3 (5.45%) DV Cleared
7 3 (5.45%) PMI Certification
7 3 (5.45%) PMP
8 1 (1.82%) CCIE Security
8 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.36%) NCSC
2 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.64%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (3.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 2 (3.64%) NIST
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.82%) GDPR
4 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (34.55%) Active Directory
2 10 (18.18%) Docker
3 7 (12.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (7.27%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (5.45%) BitLocker
5 3 (5.45%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.64%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (3.64%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (34.55%) Kubernetes
2 13 (23.64%) Terraform
3 7 (12.73%) Istio
3 7 (12.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (10.91%) HAProxy
4 6 (10.91%) Rancher
4 6 (10.91%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (9.09%) Consul
5 5 (9.09%) Grafana
5 5 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (9.09%) linkerd
5 5 (9.09%) Packer
5 5 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 5 (9.09%) ZABBIX
6 3 (5.45%) SCCM
7 2 (3.64%) Ansible
7 2 (3.64%) Puppet
7 2 (3.64%) vCenter Server
7 2 (3.64%) vMotion
8 1 (1.82%) CASB
Vendors
1 22 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.55%) VMware
3 6 (10.91%) Apple
4 5 (9.09%) Ericsson
4 5 (9.09%) ESET
4 5 (9.09%) ForgeRock
4 5 (9.09%) Fortinet
4 5 (9.09%) Okta
4 5 (9.09%) Splunk
5 4 (7.27%) Cisco
5 4 (7.27%) Google
5 4 (7.27%) Palo Alto
5 4 (7.27%) Ping Identity
6 3 (5.45%) Citrix
6 3 (5.45%) Zscaler
7 2 (3.64%) QAD
8 1 (1.82%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.82%) Remedy
8 1 (1.82%) Symantec
8 1 (1.82%) Tripwire