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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 308 312
Rank change year-on-year -44 +4 +15
Contract jobs citing PKI 77 63 73
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.39% 0.46% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.05% 1.24% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 49 55
10th Percentile £414 £407 £330
25th Percentile £456 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.48% -11.48%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £585
90th Percentile £750 £753 £697
England median daily rate £565 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.73% - -6.78%
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 7,332 5,072 5,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.86% 37.10% 33.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,598 3,340 3,925
10th Percentile £356 £336 £325
25th Percentile £450 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £748
90th Percentile £793 £825 £860
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 115 98
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.07 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +23.84% -3.61% -13.83%
75th Percentile £60.25 £45.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.72 £45.00
% change year-on-year +34.34% -27.28% +11.23%

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 27 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 27 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 -8 11 £625 -2.53% 3
West London -20 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 3 (3.90%) Confluence
3 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.30%) Apache
4 1 (1.30%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 38 (49.35%) Azure
2 34 (44.16%) AWS
3 15 (19.48%) Entra ID
4 12 (15.58%) IaaS
5 11 (14.29%) PaaS
6 8 (10.39%) GCP
6 8 (10.39%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (7.79%) SaaS
8 5 (6.49%) OpenShift
9 4 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.60%) AWS KMS
10 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.60%) OCI
10 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.30%) Kong
11 1 (1.30%) Nutanix
11 1 (1.30%) Power Automate
11 1 (1.30%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 28 (36.36%) DNS
2 22 (28.57%) DHCP
3 21 (27.27%) Firewall
4 14 (18.18%) VPN
5 8 (10.39%) SMTP
6 7 (9.09%) TCP/IP
7 6 (7.79%) SSL
8 5 (6.49%) Network Security
8 5 (6.49%) SAN
9 4 (5.19%) Kerberos
9 4 (5.19%) NAS
9 4 (5.19%) X.509
10 3 (3.90%) SSH
10 3 (3.90%) VLAN
10 3 (3.90%) Wireless
11 2 (2.60%) DMZ
11 2 (2.60%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (2.60%) S/MIME
12 1 (1.30%) HTTPS
12 1 (1.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.69%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
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%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (9.09%) Git
2 5 (6.49%) GitLab
3 3 (3.90%) JIRA
4 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.60%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (23.38%) Finance
2 15 (19.48%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Banking
6 3 (3.90%) Automotive
6 3 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.60%) Legal
7 2 (2.60%) Retail
8 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
2 8 (10.39%) Senior
3 7 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (6.49%) 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 Support Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Production Manager
6 3 (3.90%) Support Manager
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%) 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%) eBPF
5 2 (2.60%) JSON
5 2 (2.60%) Loki
5 2 (2.60%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.60%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.30%) EJB
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Clustering
2 9 (11.69%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.79%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.79%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (5.19%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (5.19%) Mainframe
5 4 (5.19%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.90%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.90%) Robotics
6 3 (3.90%) Security Posture
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 34 (44.16%) Windows
2 29 (37.66%) Linux
3 18 (23.38%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.79%) Ubuntu
5 5 (6.49%) Unix
5 5 (6.49%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.30%) Android
8 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.57%) DevOps
2 17 (22.08%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (22.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (16.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (15.58%) Migration
4 12 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 11 (14.29%) Cryptography
6 10 (12.99%) High Availability
6 10 (12.99%) Incident Response
6 10 (12.99%) ITIL
6 10 (12.99%) Zero Trust
7 9 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (10.39%) Change Management
8 8 (10.39%) Containerisation
8 8 (10.39%) Key Management
8 8 (10.39%) Secrets Management
9 7 (9.09%) AI
9 7 (9.09%) Observability
9 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%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.30%) CISA
8 1 (1.30%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.69%) NIST
2 7 (9.09%) 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
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
5 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (48.05%) 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 21 (27.27%) Ansible
3 14 (18.18%) 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 5 (6.49%) Grafana
7 5 (6.49%) 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%) Cilium
9 2 (2.60%) PingFederate
10 1 (1.30%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 37 (48.05%) Microsoft
2 14 (18.18%) VMware
3 9 (11.69%) Citrix
3 9 (11.69%) Splunk
4 6 (7.79%) Cisco
4 6 (7.79%) CyberArk
5 5 (6.49%) Google
5 5 (6.49%) NetApp
6 4 (5.19%) Greenplum
6 4 (5.19%) HP
6 4 (5.19%) Sybase
6 4 (5.19%) Symantec
7 3 (3.90%) Juniper
7 3 (3.90%) MikroTik
7 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.60%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (2.60%) Dell
8 2 (2.60%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.60%) Ping Identity
8 2 (2.60%) Zscaler