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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 299 289
Rank change year-on-year -19 -10 +35
Contract jobs citing PKI 90 54 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.43% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.45% 1.19% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 40 74
10th Percentile £423 £419 £390
25th Percentile £500 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £578 £580
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% -0.37% -7.43%
75th Percentile £838 £704 £805
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 6,207 4,531 5,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.90% 35.78% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,996 3,057 4,174
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £720
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 72 164
10th Percentile £18.04 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.26 £18.41
Median hourly rate £33.12 £34.25 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +31.73% -25.71%
75th Percentile £59.99 £50.50 £47.81
90th Percentile £77.92 £80.52 £66.93
England median hourly rate £45.46 £35.95 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.47% +30.71% +22.22%

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 15 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 15 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 -15 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 4 (4.44%) Confluence
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (36.67%) IaaS
2 27 (30.00%) Azure
3 20 (22.22%) AWS
4 15 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (11.11%) PaaS
6 6 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.44%) GCP
8 3 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.33%) AWS KMS
8 3 (3.33%) SaaS
9 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.11%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (1.11%) GitHub
10 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.11%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.11%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (21.11%) Firewall
2 15 (16.67%) DNS
3 11 (12.22%) Network Security
4 10 (11.11%) DHCP
4 10 (11.11%) VPN
5 8 (8.89%) SMTP
6 6 (6.67%) SSL
7 5 (5.56%) BGP
8 3 (3.33%) LAN
8 3 (3.33%) OSPF
8 3 (3.33%) WAN
9 2 (2.22%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (2.22%) Kerberos
9 2 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (2.22%) SSH
9 2 (2.22%) TACACS
9 2 (2.22%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.22%) VLAN
9 2 (2.22%) X.500
9 2 (2.22%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.78%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.22%) Metadata
3 1 (1.11%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.11%) MySQL
3 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (5.56%) JIRA
2 2 (2.22%) GitLab
3 1 (1.11%) Git
3 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.11%) JUnit
General
1 28 (31.11%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (12.22%) Finance
3 4 (4.44%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.44%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.33%) Banking
4 3 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Local Government
5 2 (2.22%) Retail
6 1 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (37.78%) Architect
2 9 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (7.78%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (7.78%) Administrator
4 7 (7.78%) NetApp Engineer
4 7 (7.78%) Platform Manager
4 7 (7.78%) Storage Engineer
4 7 (7.78%) Systems Administrator
4 7 (7.78%) Systems Manager
4 7 (7.78%) Wintel Administrator
4 7 (7.78%) Wintel Systems Administrator
5 5 (5.56%) Senior
6 4 (4.44%) Lead
7 3 (3.33%) Consultant
7 3 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 3 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 3 (3.33%) Security Architect
7 3 (3.33%) Security Consultant
8 2 (2.22%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (32.22%) JSON
2 27 (30.00%) REST
3 7 (7.78%) OpenID
3 7 (7.78%) SAML
4 4 (4.44%) LDAP
5 3 (3.33%) OAuth
5 3 (3.33%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.22%) 802.1X
6 2 (2.22%) CSS
6 2 (2.22%) eBPF
6 2 (2.22%) HTML
6 2 (2.22%) Loki
6 2 (2.22%) SPIFFE
7 1 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.11%) Kafka
7 1 (1.11%) Keycloak
7 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.89%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (12.22%) Clustering
3 9 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (4.44%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.44%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.33%) Replication
6 2 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (27.78%) Windows
2 15 (16.67%) Linux
3 13 (14.44%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.78%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.11%) Android
6 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.11%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (37.78%) Key Management
2 29 (32.22%) Agile
3 28 (31.11%) Configuration Management
4 17 (18.89%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (14.44%) Change Management
6 11 (12.22%) Vulnerability Management
7 10 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (10.00%) Migration
9 8 (8.89%) CI/CD
9 8 (8.89%) Cryptography
9 8 (8.89%) DevOps
10 7 (7.78%) Incident Management
10 7 (7.78%) Security Patching
11 6 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
11 6 (6.67%) Information Security
11 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (6.67%) ITIL
12 5 (5.56%) Load Balancing
12 5 (5.56%) Network Management
12 5 (5.56%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 42 (46.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.33%) Bash
2 3 (3.33%) Python
3 2 (2.22%) Go
3 2 (2.22%) Java
3 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (67.78%) Security Cleared
2 39 (43.33%) SC Cleared
3 16 (17.78%) DV Cleared
4 7 (7.78%) Degree
5 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.22%) CCNP
6 2 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) QA
2 3 (3.33%) NIST
3 2 (2.22%) GDPR
3 2 (2.22%) NCSC
4 1 (1.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 23 (25.56%) Active Directory
2 12 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (11.11%) BitLocker
3 10 (11.11%) Docker
3 10 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (8.89%) Hyper-V
4 8 (8.89%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (2.22%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 2 (2.22%) OpenSSH
5 2 (2.22%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.11%) Firmware
6 1 (1.11%) Squid
6 1 (1.11%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.11%) vSphere
6 1 (1.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.44%) Ansible
3 9 (10.00%) vCenter Server
4 8 (8.89%) Puppet
4 8 (8.89%) vMotion
5 6 (6.67%) Terraform
6 4 (4.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (4.44%) Grafana
6 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (4.44%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.22%) CA Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.22%) Cilium
8 2 (2.22%) PingFederate
9 1 (1.11%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.11%) SCCM
9 1 (1.11%) SCOM
9 1 (1.11%) vRealize
9 1 (1.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (25.56%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.44%) VMware
3 12 (13.33%) Splunk
4 9 (10.00%) Citrix
5 8 (8.89%) NetApp
6 5 (5.56%) Cisco
7 4 (4.44%) Aruba
7 4 (4.44%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.33%) Dell
8 3 (3.33%) Symantec
9 2 (2.22%) Broadcom
9 2 (2.22%) CheckPoint
9 2 (2.22%) CyberArk
9 2 (2.22%) ForeScout
9 2 (2.22%) HP
9 2 (2.22%) Netskope
9 2 (2.22%) Ping Identity
9 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.11%) Okta