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 30 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 303 318
Rank change year-on-year -59 +15 +13
Contract jobs citing PKI 77 68 72
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.50% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.04% 1.34% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 52 54
10th Percentile £413 £408 £329
25th Percentile £453 £491 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £533
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +9.86% -15.02%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £585
90th Percentile £750 £750 £698
England median daily rate £575 £568 £543
% change year-on-year +1.32% +4.61% -7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
England median hourly rate £91.91 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -71.33%

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 7,405 5,058 5,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.99% 37.20% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,647 3,335 3,899
10th Percentile £358 £334 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £749
90th Percentile £795 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 114 89
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -8.82% -13.83%
75th Percentile £60.12 £45.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.13 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.05 £45.00
% change year-on-year +37.16% -28.78% +12.04%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -11 11 £625 -2.53% 2
West London -19 1 £475 -36.67%
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 (6.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.60%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) IIS
3 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 39 (50.65%) Azure
2 36 (46.75%) AWS
3 16 (20.78%) Entra ID
4 12 (15.58%) IaaS
5 11 (14.29%) PaaS
6 9 (11.69%) GCP
7 8 (10.39%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (7.79%) SaaS
9 5 (6.49%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (6.49%) OpenShift
10 4 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (3.90%) OCI
12 2 (2.60%) AWS KMS
12 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
12 2 (2.60%) Rubrik
13 1 (1.30%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 1 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (1.30%) Kong
13 1 (1.30%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 27 (35.06%) DNS
2 22 (28.57%) DHCP
3 20 (25.97%) Firewall
4 14 (18.18%) VPN
5 8 (10.39%) SMTP
6 6 (7.79%) SSL
6 6 (7.79%) TCP/IP
7 5 (6.49%) Network Security
7 5 (6.49%) SAN
8 4 (5.19%) Kerberos
8 4 (5.19%) NAS
8 4 (5.19%) X.509
9 3 (3.90%) SSH
9 3 (3.90%) VLAN
9 3 (3.90%) Wireless
10 2 (2.60%) DMZ
10 2 (2.60%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (2.60%) S/MIME
11 1 (1.30%) BGP
11 1 (1.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.69%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.19%) Db2
3 4 (5.19%) MySQL
3 4 (5.19%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.90%) Big Data
4 3 (3.90%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.60%) Metadata
5 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.60%) Power BI
6 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.30%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (9.09%) Git
2 5 (6.49%) GitLab
3 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.60%) JIRA
3 2 (2.60%) Terragrunt
General
1 17 (22.08%) Finance
2 15 (19.48%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.90%) Automotive
5 3 (3.90%) Banking
5 3 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.60%) Legal
6 2 (2.60%) Retail
7 1 (1.30%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 13 (16.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (10.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (10.39%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (10.39%) Lead
3 7 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (9.09%) Senior
4 6 (7.79%) Architect
5 4 (5.19%) Active Directory Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Consultant
5 4 (5.19%) Incident Manager
5 4 (5.19%) Major Incident Manager
5 4 (5.19%) NetApp Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Network Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Storage Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (3.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (3.90%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) LDAP
1 7 (9.09%) OpenID
2 6 (7.79%) SAML
3 4 (5.19%) 802.1X
3 4 (5.19%) Kafka
3 4 (5.19%) Keycloak
3 4 (5.19%) Middleware
4 3 (3.90%) OAuth
4 3 (3.90%) SailPoint
4 3 (3.90%) SPIFFE
5 2 (2.60%) .NET
5 2 (2.60%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.60%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (2.60%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.60%) Blazor
5 2 (2.60%) JSON
5 2 (2.60%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.30%) eBPF
6 1 (1.30%) Loki
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Clustering
2 9 (11.69%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.79%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.49%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (5.19%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (5.19%) Mainframe
5 4 (5.19%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.19%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.90%) Robotics
7 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.60%) Smartcard
8 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.30%) CMDB
8 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (41.56%) Windows
2 27 (35.06%) Linux
3 18 (23.38%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.79%) Ubuntu
5 5 (6.49%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (5.19%) Unix
7 3 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.30%) Android
9 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.57%) DevOps
2 18 (23.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (22.08%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (16.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (15.58%) Migration
6 11 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 11 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (14.29%) Zero Trust
7 10 (12.99%) Cryptography
7 10 (12.99%) High Availability
8 9 (11.69%) Incident Response
8 9 (11.69%) ITIL
8 9 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (11.69%) Secrets Management
9 8 (10.39%) Containerisation
9 8 (10.39%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (10.39%) Privileged Access Management
10 7 (9.09%) AI
10 7 (9.09%) Key Management
10 7 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.38%) PowerShell
2 11 (14.29%) Python
3 7 (9.09%) Bash
4 3 (3.90%) Java
5 2 (2.60%) Go
5 2 (2.60%) SQL
6 1 (1.30%) C#
6 1 (1.30%) C++
6 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (31.17%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 10 (12.99%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.49%) Degree
5 4 (5.19%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.19%) CCNP
5 4 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.90%) JNCIP
6 3 (3.90%) JNCIS
7 2 (2.60%) CISSP
7 2 (2.60%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.60%) PMP
7 2 (2.60%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.30%) CCNA
8 1 (1.30%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.99%) NIST
2 8 (10.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (7.79%) QA
4 2 (2.60%) GDPR
4 2 (2.60%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (2.60%) ITGC
4 2 (2.60%) NIST 800
4 2 (2.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.60%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.30%) GRC
5 1 (1.30%) NCSC
5 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.30%) PSD2
System Software
1 38 (49.35%) Active Directory
2 15 (19.48%) Docker
3 11 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (11.69%) BitLocker
5 8 (10.39%) Hyper-V
5 8 (10.39%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (10.39%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (5.19%) NFS
6 4 (5.19%) Terminal Services
7 3 (3.90%) OpenSSH
7 3 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (1.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (29.87%) Kubernetes
2 20 (25.97%) Ansible
3 15 (19.48%) Terraform
4 11 (14.29%) Puppet
4 11 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (10.39%) vCenter Server
5 8 (10.39%) vMotion
6 6 (7.79%) CA Single Sign-On
6 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (5.19%) Grafana
7 4 (5.19%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.90%) Kibana
8 3 (3.90%) Nagios
8 3 (3.90%) systemd
9 2 (2.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.60%) Argo
9 2 (2.60%) PingFederate
10 1 (1.30%) Cilium
10 1 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (1.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 38 (49.35%) Microsoft
2 14 (18.18%) VMware
3 9 (11.69%) Citrix
3 9 (11.69%) Splunk
4 7 (9.09%) CyberArk
5 6 (7.79%) Cisco
6 5 (6.49%) Google
6 5 (6.49%) NetApp
7 4 (5.19%) Greenplum
7 4 (5.19%) HP
7 4 (5.19%) Sybase
7 4 (5.19%) Symantec
8 3 (3.90%) Juniper
8 3 (3.90%) MikroTik
8 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.60%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (2.60%) Dell
9 2 (2.60%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.60%) Ping Identity
9 2 (2.60%) Zscaler