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 3 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 306 335
Rank change year-on-year -55 +29 -15
Contract jobs citing PKI 83 67 56
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.51% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.10% 1.32% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 51 36
10th Percentile £424 £425 £331
25th Percentile £463 £509 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £585
90th Percentile £740 £750 £681
England median daily rate £575 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
England median hourly rate £98.82 - £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 7,573 5,068 5,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.76% 38.22% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,759 3,315 3,684
10th Percentile £350 £333 £330
25th Percentile £450 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -1.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 120 78
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.41 £23.21 £22.45
Median hourly rate £32.87 £27.25 £31.31
Median % change year-on-year +20.63% -12.97% -10.54%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.15 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.77 £71.25
England median hourly rate £38.25 £32.71 £52.50
% change year-on-year +16.94% -37.70% +14.58%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -7 15 £625 -2.53% 14
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 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.61%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) Apache
3 1 (1.20%) IIS
3 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 47 (56.63%) Azure
2 36 (43.37%) AWS
3 21 (25.30%) Entra ID
4 11 (13.25%) GCP
4 11 (13.25%) IaaS
5 10 (12.05%) PaaS
6 7 (8.43%) Azure Key Vault
6 7 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (8.43%) SaaS
7 6 (7.23%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (6.02%) OpenShift
9 4 (4.82%) OCI
10 3 (3.61%) GitHub
10 3 (3.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (3.61%) Rubrik
11 2 (2.41%) AWS KMS
11 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.41%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (33.73%) DNS
2 24 (28.92%) DHCP
3 18 (21.69%) Firewall
4 13 (15.66%) VPN
5 8 (9.64%) Network Security
5 8 (9.64%) SSL
6 6 (7.23%) SAN
6 6 (7.23%) SMTP
6 6 (7.23%) TCP/IP
7 5 (6.02%) NAS
7 5 (6.02%) SSH
8 4 (4.82%) Kerberos
8 4 (4.82%) VLAN
8 4 (4.82%) X.509
9 3 (3.61%) Wireless
10 2 (2.41%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (2.41%) S/MIME
11 1 (1.20%) DMZ
11 1 (1.20%) Internet
11 1 (1.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.43%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.23%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (7.23%) MySQL
3 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.82%) Db2
4 4 (4.82%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.61%) Big Data
6 2 (2.41%) Metadata
6 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.41%) Power BI
7 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.20%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (9.64%) Git
1 8 (9.64%) GitLab
2 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.61%) JIRA
4 2 (2.41%) Terragrunt
General
1 20 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.28%) Finance
3 11 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.64%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.82%) Automotive
5 4 (4.82%) Banking
5 4 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.41%) Legal
7 2 (2.41%) Retail
8 1 (1.20%) Local Government
8 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (14.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (10.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (10.84%) Senior
3 6 (7.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 6 (7.23%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (7.23%) Active Directory Engineer
3 6 (7.23%) Architect
4 5 (6.02%) Lead
4 5 (6.02%) Network Engineer
4 5 (6.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (4.82%) Analyst
5 4 (4.82%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (4.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (4.82%) Incident Manager
5 4 (4.82%) Major Incident Manager
5 4 (4.82%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (4.82%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.69%) Terraform
2 8 (9.64%) OpenID
3 7 (8.43%) Kafka
3 7 (8.43%) LDAP
3 7 (8.43%) SAML
4 6 (7.23%) Keycloak
5 5 (6.02%) 802.1X
5 5 (6.02%) Middleware
6 4 (4.82%) SailPoint
7 3 (3.61%) OAuth
7 3 (3.61%) SPIFFE
8 2 (2.41%) .NET
8 2 (2.41%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.41%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (2.41%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.41%) Blazor
8 2 (2.41%) eBPF
8 2 (2.41%) JSON
8 2 (2.41%) Loki
8 2 (2.41%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.84%) Clustering
2 8 (9.64%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.23%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (7.23%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.02%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (6.02%) Public Cloud
4 5 (6.02%) Security Posture
5 4 (4.82%) Mainframe
5 4 (4.82%) Robotics
6 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (3.61%) Replication
7 2 (2.41%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.41%) Smartcard
8 1 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.20%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 30 (36.14%) Windows
2 27 (32.53%) Linux
3 16 (19.28%) Windows Server
4 8 (9.64%) Ubuntu
5 4 (4.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.82%) Unix
6 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.20%) Android
8 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (31.33%) DevOps
2 22 (26.51%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (19.28%) Migration
4 15 (18.07%) High Availability
5 14 (16.87%) CI/CD
6 13 (15.66%) Secrets Management
7 12 (14.46%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (14.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (14.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (14.46%) Zero Trust
8 11 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (12.05%) Change Management
9 10 (12.05%) Cryptography
9 10 (12.05%) Incident Response
9 10 (12.05%) ITIL
9 10 (12.05%) Key Management
9 10 (12.05%) Validation
10 9 (10.84%) AI
10 9 (10.84%) Containerisation
10 9 (10.84%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.69%) PowerShell
2 14 (16.87%) Python
3 10 (12.05%) Bash
4 4 (4.82%) Go
5 3 (3.61%) Java
5 3 (3.61%) SQL
6 1 (1.20%) C#
6 1 (1.20%) C++
6 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (30.12%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.66%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.84%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.02%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.02%) CCNP
4 5 (6.02%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (6.02%) Degree
4 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.82%) JNCIP
5 4 (4.82%) JNCIS
6 3 (3.61%) CISSP
7 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.41%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.41%) PMP
7 2 (2.41%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (12.05%) NIST
2 3 (3.61%) QA
2 3 (3.61%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.41%) GDPR
3 2 (2.41%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (2.41%) ITGC
3 2 (2.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.41%) SLA
4 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.20%) GRC
4 1 (1.20%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 43 (51.81%) Active Directory
2 15 (18.07%) Docker
3 11 (13.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (8.43%) BitLocker
5 6 (7.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (7.23%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (7.23%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (4.82%) NFS
6 4 (4.82%) Terminal Services
7 3 (3.61%) OpenSSH
7 3 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (1.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (26.51%) Kubernetes
2 20 (24.10%) Ansible
3 14 (16.87%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (13.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (10.84%) Puppet
6 6 (7.23%) CA Single Sign-On
6 6 (7.23%) Grafana
6 6 (7.23%) Prometheus
6 6 (7.23%) vCenter Server
6 6 (7.23%) vMotion
7 4 (4.82%) systemd
8 3 (3.61%) Kibana
8 3 (3.61%) Nagios
9 2 (2.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.41%) Argo
9 2 (2.41%) Cilium
9 2 (2.41%) PingFederate
10 1 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 45 (54.22%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.66%) VMware
3 8 (9.64%) CyberArk
4 7 (8.43%) Cisco
4 7 (8.43%) Citrix
4 7 (8.43%) Google
5 6 (7.23%) Splunk
6 5 (6.02%) ServiceNow
7 4 (4.82%) Greenplum
7 4 (4.82%) HP
7 4 (4.82%) Juniper
7 4 (4.82%) MikroTik
7 4 (4.82%) Sybase
7 4 (4.82%) Symantec
8 3 (3.61%) NetApp
8 3 (3.61%) Thales
9 2 (2.41%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (2.41%) Ping Identity
9 2 (2.41%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.20%) Okta