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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 294 328
Rank change year-on-year -53 +34 +14
Contract jobs citing PKI 71 56 76
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.45% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.04% 1.24% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 43 58
10th Percentile £423 £421 £367
25th Percentile £463 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +5.50% -12.91%
75th Percentile £656 £692 £650
90th Percentile £735 £743 £825
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
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 6,805 4,499 5,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 36.49% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,321 2,992 4,109
10th Percentile £360 £331 £315
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 £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 89 143
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.44
25th Percentile £23.68 £23.45 £18.02
Median hourly rate £35.25 £32.89 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% +18.14% -20.46%
75th Percentile £63.75 £49.50 £49.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £78.72 £71.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £33.91 £36.50
% change year-on-year +25.33% -7.10% +62.33%

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 June 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 June 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 -13 9 £625 +2.04% 4
South London -11 1 £513 +8.18%
West London -23 1 £475 -36.67% 3
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 (7.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.63%) Confluence
3 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.41%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 28 (39.44%) Azure
2 27 (38.03%) AWS
3 11 (15.49%) Entra ID
4 10 (14.08%) IaaS
5 9 (12.68%) PaaS
6 8 (11.27%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (9.86%) GCP
8 4 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (5.63%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (4.23%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.82%) AWS KMS
10 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.82%) SaaS
11 1 (1.41%) AWS Control Tower
11 1 (1.41%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.41%) Nutanix
11 1 (1.41%) Power Automate
11 1 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (29.58%) DNS
2 18 (25.35%) Firewall
3 16 (22.54%) DHCP
4 10 (14.08%) SMTP
4 10 (14.08%) VPN
5 9 (12.68%) Network Security
6 6 (8.45%) SSL
7 4 (5.63%) BGP
7 4 (5.63%) TCP/IP
7 4 (5.63%) X.509
8 3 (4.23%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (4.23%) SSH
9 2 (2.82%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (2.82%) DMZ
9 2 (2.82%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (2.82%) LAN
9 2 (2.82%) OSPF
9 2 (2.82%) TACACS
9 2 (2.82%) VLAN
9 2 (2.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.68%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.23%) Big Data
4 3 (4.23%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.23%) MySQL
4 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.82%) Metadata
5 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.82%) Power BI
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.04%) GitLab
1 5 (7.04%) JIRA
2 3 (4.23%) Git
3 2 (2.82%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.41%) JUnit
General
1 13 (18.31%) Finance
2 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
2 8 (11.27%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.63%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.23%) Local Government
5 2 (2.82%) Banking
5 2 (2.82%) Retail
6 1 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (16.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (15.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 10 (14.08%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) Lead
4 6 (8.45%) NetApp Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) Storage Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Senior
6 4 (5.63%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (5.63%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Administrator
6 4 (5.63%) Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Consultant
6 4 (5.63%) Platform Manager
6 4 (5.63%) Support Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (5.63%) Systems Manager
6 4 (5.63%) Wintel Administrator
6 4 (5.63%) Wintel Systems Administrator
7 3 (4.23%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.45%) OpenID
1 6 (8.45%) SAML
2 3 (4.23%) 802.1X
2 3 (4.23%) Kafka
2 3 (4.23%) Keycloak
2 3 (4.23%) LDAP
2 3 (4.23%) OAuth
2 3 (4.23%) OAuth2
2 3 (4.23%) SPIFFE
3 2 (2.82%) .NET
3 2 (2.82%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.82%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.82%) Blazor
3 2 (2.82%) CSS
3 2 (2.82%) eBPF
3 2 (2.82%) HTML
3 2 (2.82%) JSON
3 2 (2.82%) Loki
4 1 (1.41%) EJB
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.90%) Clustering
2 8 (11.27%) Enterprise Storage
3 7 (9.86%) Data Centre
4 5 (7.04%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.63%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.23%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.82%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.82%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.41%) CMDB
8 1 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 34 (47.89%) Windows
2 26 (36.62%) Linux
3 20 (28.17%) Windows Server
4 7 (9.86%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.23%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.41%) Android
7 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.41%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.41%) Unix
7 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.54%) DevOps
2 13 (18.31%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (16.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (15.49%) CI/CD
5 10 (14.08%) Cryptography
6 9 (12.68%) Change Management
7 8 (11.27%) High Availability
7 8 (11.27%) Key Management
8 7 (9.86%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (9.86%) Incident Management
8 7 (9.86%) Migration
8 7 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (9.86%) Vulnerability Management
9 6 (8.45%) Incident Response
9 6 (8.45%) ITIL
9 6 (8.45%) Load Balancing
9 6 (8.45%) Secrets Management
9 6 (8.45%) SIEM
9 6 (8.45%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.58%) PowerShell
2 5 (7.04%) Python
3 3 (4.23%) Bash
4 2 (2.82%) Go
4 2 (2.82%) Java
4 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.82%) SQL
5 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (43.66%) Security Cleared
2 16 (22.54%) DV Cleared
3 11 (15.49%) SC Cleared
4 7 (9.86%) Degree
5 4 (5.63%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.23%) CCNP
6 3 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.82%) CISSP
8 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.41%) CCNA
8 1 (1.41%) CISA
8 1 (1.41%) CISM
8 1 (1.41%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) QA
2 4 (5.63%) NIST
3 2 (2.82%) GDPR
3 2 (2.82%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.82%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.41%) GRC
4 1 (1.41%) NCSC
4 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (43.66%) Active Directory
2 15 (21.13%) Docker
2 15 (21.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (15.49%) BitLocker
4 10 (14.08%) Hyper-V
4 10 (14.08%) Microsoft App-V
4 10 (14.08%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (5.63%) Terminal Services
6 3 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.82%) OpenSSH
7 2 (2.82%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.41%) Squid
8 1 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (29.58%) Kubernetes
2 18 (25.35%) Ansible
3 12 (16.90%) Puppet
4 10 (14.08%) Terraform
4 10 (14.08%) vCenter Server
4 10 (14.08%) vMotion
5 8 (11.27%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (8.45%) Grafana
6 6 (8.45%) Prometheus
7 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (4.23%) Nagios
9 2 (2.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.82%) CA Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.82%) Cilium
9 2 (2.82%) PingFederate
10 1 (1.41%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (1.41%) vRealize
10 1 (1.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 30 (42.25%) Microsoft
2 17 (23.94%) VMware
3 11 (15.49%) Citrix
4 9 (12.68%) Splunk
5 7 (9.86%) Cisco
5 7 (9.86%) NetApp
6 6 (8.45%) Symantec
7 5 (7.04%) Google
8 4 (5.63%) Aruba
8 4 (5.63%) HP
8 4 (5.63%) Palo Alto
9 3 (4.23%) CyberArk
9 3 (4.23%) ForeScout
9 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.82%) Broadcom
10 2 (2.82%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (2.82%) Netskope
10 2 (2.82%) Okta
10 2 (2.82%) Ping Identity
10 2 (2.82%) Zscaler