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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 318 304
Rank change year-on-year +29 -14 +37
Contract jobs citing PKI 96 32 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 0.23% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.71% 0.68% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 21 71
10th Percentile £449 £448 £400
25th Percentile £500 £450 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £838 £738 £800
90th Percentile - £750 £850
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%

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 5,607 4,725 6,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.86% 34.15% 33.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,640 2,975 4,359
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £838 £813
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 60 172
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.16 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.21 £19.86
Median hourly rate £27.71 £38.54 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.09% +31.74% -16.43%
75th Percentile £53.44 £61.50 £47.90
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.00 £66.58
England median hourly rate £30.30 £37.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.65% +6.43% +55.66%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -10 3 £613 +36.11% 4
South London - 1 £513 -
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 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.21%) Confluence
3 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.04%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (30.21%) IaaS
2 18 (18.75%) Azure
3 14 (14.58%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (10.42%) AWS
5 6 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.25%) PaaS
6 3 (3.13%) GCP
6 3 (3.13%) GitHub
6 3 (3.13%) SaaS
7 2 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.04%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (1.04%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.04%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.04%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.04%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.71%) DNS
2 16 (16.67%) Firewall
2 16 (16.67%) Network Security
3 11 (11.46%) BGP
3 11 (11.46%) SSL
4 9 (9.38%) OSPF
5 8 (8.33%) HTTPS
6 7 (7.29%) DHCP
6 7 (7.29%) IPsec
6 7 (7.29%) VPN
7 5 (5.21%) EIGRP
7 5 (5.21%) S/MIME
8 4 (4.17%) LAN
8 4 (4.17%) SMTP
8 4 (4.17%) WAN
9 3 (3.13%) Kerberos
9 3 (3.13%) SSH
9 3 (3.13%) Wireless
10 2 (2.08%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (2.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (1.04%) Redis
2 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) JIRA
2 2 (2.08%) Git
2 2 (2.08%) GitLab
3 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.04%) JUnit
General
1 30 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (9.38%) Finance
2 9 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.21%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.17%) Banking
4 4 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.13%) Military
6 2 (2.08%) Local Government
7 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (39.58%) Architect
2 13 (13.54%) Senior
3 9 (9.38%) Administrator
3 9 (9.38%) Platform Manager
3 9 (9.38%) Systems Administrator
3 9 (9.38%) Systems Manager
3 9 (9.38%) Wintel Administrator
3 9 (9.38%) Wintel Systems Administrator
4 7 (7.29%) Network Engineer
4 7 (7.29%) Security Architect
5 6 (6.25%) Senior Wintel Engineer
5 6 (6.25%) Wintel Engineer
6 4 (4.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (4.17%) Cisco Engineer
6 4 (4.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 4 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.17%) Juniper Engineer
7 3 (3.13%) Cryptography Engineer
7 3 (3.13%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (28.13%) JSON
1 27 (28.13%) REST
2 11 (11.46%) OpenID
3 8 (8.33%) SAML
4 7 (7.29%) OAuth
4 7 (7.29%) OAuth2
5 3 (3.13%) JDBC
5 3 (3.13%) LDAP
5 3 (3.13%) SOAP
6 2 (2.08%) .NET
6 2 (2.08%) 802.1X
6 2 (2.08%) CSS
6 2 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.08%) HTML
6 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.04%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.04%) eBPF
7 1 (1.04%) Loki
7 1 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.08%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.17%) Clustering
3 4 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (4.17%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.13%) Replication
4 3 (3.13%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.04%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.04%) Tandem
6 1 (1.04%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 28 (29.17%) Windows
2 13 (13.54%) Windows Server
3 10 (10.42%) Linux
4 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.08%) Unix
6 1 (1.04%) Android
6 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.04%) VMS
6 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (41.67%) Key Management
2 32 (33.33%) Agile
3 28 (29.17%) Configuration Management
4 15 (15.63%) Change Management
5 11 (11.46%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (10.42%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (9.38%) DevSecOps
7 9 (9.38%) Information Security
7 9 (9.38%) ITIL
7 9 (9.38%) Kalman Filter
7 9 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (9.38%) Security Patching
8 8 (8.33%) CI/CD
8 8 (8.33%) Cryptography
8 8 (8.33%) Migration
9 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (7.29%) Network Management
9 7 (7.29%) SIEM
10 6 (6.25%) DevOps
10 6 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 10 (10.42%) Python
3 6 (6.25%) Bash
4 5 (5.21%) C++
4 5 (5.21%) Java
4 5 (5.21%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.21%) Perl
5 1 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (60.42%) Security Cleared
2 39 (40.63%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.58%) DV Cleared
4 11 (11.46%) Degree
5 10 (10.42%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (8.33%) CCNP
7 5 (5.21%) CISSP
7 5 (5.21%) JNCIA
7 5 (5.21%) JNCIS
8 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.08%) CCSP
9 2 (2.08%) CEH
9 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
9 2 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (1.04%) ISACA
10 1 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.13%) GDPR
3 2 (2.08%) FIPS 140-2
3 2 (2.08%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.08%) NCSC
3 2 (2.08%) NIST
4 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.04%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.04%) PSD2
System Software
1 25 (26.04%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.29%) Docker
4 6 (6.25%) Firmware
4 6 (6.25%) vSphere
5 5 (5.21%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (4.17%) BitLocker
7 3 (3.13%) Hyper-V
7 3 (3.13%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (2.08%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 2 (2.08%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.04%) Squid
9 1 (1.04%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.25%) SCOM
2 6 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (5.21%) Ansible
4 4 (4.17%) Terraform
4 4 (4.17%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (3.13%) FortiGate
5 3 (3.13%) Grafana
5 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.13%) Puppet
5 3 (3.13%) vMotion
6 2 (2.08%) SCCM
7 1 (1.04%) Cilium
7 1 (1.04%) vRealize
7 1 (1.04%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (26.04%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.58%) VMware
3 12 (12.50%) Cisco
4 7 (7.29%) Dell
4 7 (7.29%) Juniper
4 7 (7.29%) Splunk
5 6 (6.25%) Palo Alto
6 4 (4.17%) Aruba
6 4 (4.17%) Citrix
7 3 (3.13%) CyberArk
7 3 (3.13%) ForgeRock
7 3 (3.13%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.13%) NetApp
7 3 (3.13%) Thales
8 2 (2.08%) Broadcom
8 2 (2.08%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (2.08%) ForeScout
8 2 (2.08%) Netskope
8 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.08%) Veeam