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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 302 320
Rank change year-on-year -50 +18 +21
Contract jobs citing PKI 67 49 84
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.37% 0.41% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.03% 1.12% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 38 62
10th Percentile £413 £440 £331
25th Percentile £425 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £558
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +4.93% -7.08%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £698
90th Percentile £738 £741 £825
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
England median hourly rate £71.33 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -62.81%

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 6,502 4,370 5,853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.53% 36.17% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,154 2,947 4,135
10th Percentile £355 £336 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £520 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.80% -2.73% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 80 149
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.49
25th Percentile £23.08 £22.27 £18.79
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +27.78% -22.86%
75th Percentile £61.31 £49.00 £50.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £34.21 £35.50
% change year-on-year +24.25% -3.65% +60.20%

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 May 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 May 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 -19 4 £625 +2.04% 4
South London -16 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 (5.97%) Confluence
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (41.79%) AWS
2 27 (40.30%) Azure
3 11 (16.42%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (11.94%) Entra ID
5 7 (10.45%) IaaS
5 7 (10.45%) PaaS
6 5 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (5.97%) GCP
8 3 (4.48%) AWS KMS
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.99%) SaaS
9 2 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.49%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (1.49%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.49%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.49%) Route 53
10 1 (1.49%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 17 (25.37%) Firewall
2 15 (22.39%) DNS
3 10 (14.93%) DHCP
3 10 (14.93%) Network Security
4 9 (13.43%) VPN
5 8 (11.94%) SMTP
6 6 (8.96%) SSL
7 4 (5.97%) BGP
8 3 (4.48%) SSH
8 3 (4.48%) TCP/IP
8 3 (4.48%) X.509
9 2 (2.99%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (2.99%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (2.99%) LAN
9 2 (2.99%) OSPF
9 2 (2.99%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (2.99%) TACACS
9 2 (2.99%) VLAN
9 2 (2.99%) WAN
10 1 (1.49%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.48%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.48%) MySQL
4 2 (2.99%) Metadata
4 2 (2.99%) Power BI
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) GitLab
1 5 (7.46%) JIRA
2 3 (4.48%) Git
3 2 (2.99%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.49%) JUnit
General
1 13 (19.40%) Finance
2 7 (10.45%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Banking
4 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Local Government
4 2 (2.99%) Retail
5 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (13.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (10.45%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (10.45%) NetApp Engineer
3 7 (10.45%) Storage Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Administrator
5 5 (7.46%) Architect
5 5 (7.46%) Platform Manager
5 5 (7.46%) Systems Administrator
5 5 (7.46%) Systems Manager
5 5 (7.46%) Wintel Administrator
5 5 (7.46%) Wintel Systems Administrator
6 4 (5.97%) Lead
6 4 (5.97%) Senior
7 3 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Network Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.46%) OpenID
1 5 (7.46%) SAML
2 3 (4.48%) 802.1X
2 3 (4.48%) Kafka
2 3 (4.48%) Keycloak
2 3 (4.48%) LDAP
2 3 (4.48%) OAuth
2 3 (4.48%) OAuth2
2 3 (4.48%) SPIFFE
3 2 (2.99%) CSS
3 2 (2.99%) eBPF
3 2 (2.99%) HTML
3 2 (2.99%) JSON
3 2 (2.99%) Loki
4 1 (1.49%) .NET
4 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.49%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.49%) REST
4 1 (1.49%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Clustering
2 9 (13.43%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (7.46%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.97%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.97%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.48%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.99%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.49%) CMDB
7 1 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (40.30%) Windows
2 22 (32.84%) Linux
3 15 (22.39%) Windows Server
4 7 (10.45%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.48%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.49%) Android
6 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.49%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.49%) Unix
6 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (22.39%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (19.40%) DevOps
3 12 (17.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (16.42%) CI/CD
4 11 (16.42%) Vulnerability Management
5 9 (13.43%) Change Management
5 9 (13.43%) Key Management
6 8 (11.94%) Cryptography
6 8 (11.94%) Identity Access Management
6 8 (11.94%) Incident Management
6 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (10.45%) High Availability
7 7 (10.45%) Load Balancing
8 6 (8.96%) Migration
8 6 (8.96%) Observability
8 6 (8.96%) Secrets Management
8 6 (8.96%) Security Patching
8 6 (8.96%) SIEM
8 6 (8.96%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (8.96%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 15 (22.39%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.97%) Python
3 3 (4.48%) Bash
4 2 (2.99%) Go
4 2 (2.99%) Java
4 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.49%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (47.76%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.39%) DV Cleared
3 14 (20.90%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.46%) Degree
5 3 (4.48%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.48%) CCNP
5 3 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.99%) CISSP
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.49%) CCNA
7 1 (1.49%) CISA
7 1 (1.49%) CISM
7 1 (1.49%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) QA
2 4 (5.97%) NIST
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
3 2 (2.99%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.49%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.49%) GRC
4 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.49%) NCSC
4 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (35.82%) Active Directory
2 13 (19.40%) Docker
3 12 (17.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (13.43%) BitLocker
5 8 (11.94%) Hyper-V
5 8 (11.94%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (11.94%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.99%) OpenSSH
7 2 (2.99%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.49%) Squid
8 1 (1.49%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 18 (26.87%) Kubernetes
2 16 (23.88%) Ansible
3 10 (14.93%) Puppet
3 10 (14.93%) Terraform
4 8 (11.94%) vCenter Server
4 8 (11.94%) vMotion
5 6 (8.96%) Grafana
5 6 (8.96%) Prometheus
6 5 (7.46%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (2.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.99%) CA Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.99%) Cilium
8 2 (2.99%) PingFederate
9 1 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.49%) vRealize
9 1 (1.49%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (34.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (19.40%) Splunk
2 13 (19.40%) VMware
3 9 (13.43%) Citrix
4 8 (11.94%) NetApp
5 6 (8.96%) Cisco
6 4 (5.97%) Aruba
6 4 (5.97%) Palo Alto
7 3 (4.48%) CyberArk
7 3 (4.48%) ForeScout
7 3 (4.48%) Symantec
8 2 (2.99%) Broadcom
8 2 (2.99%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.99%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.99%) Dell
8 2 (2.99%) Google
8 2 (2.99%) Netskope
8 2 (2.99%) Okta
8 2 (2.99%) Ping Identity
8 2 (2.99%) Zscaler