PKI Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 331 333
Rank change year-on-year +33 +2 +95
Contract jobs citing PKI 62 76 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.47% 0.43% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.28% 1.29% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 59 121
10th Percentile £407 £373 £405
25th Percentile £463 £513 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £545 £630
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -13.49% +1.82%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £725
90th Percentile £750 £749 £830
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £64.10
25th Percentile - - £67.25
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £73.50
Median % change year-on-year - -67.62% -
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - £81.30
England median hourly rate - £23.80 £64.00
% change year-on-year - -62.81% +4.07%

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 4,829 5,879 9,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.85% 33.36% 35.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,183 4,127 6,536
10th Percentile £331 £315 £363
25th Percentile £448 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £738 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 142 97
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.56
25th Percentile £22.50 £19.34 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.40 £27.42 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.88% -21.66% -13.58%
75th Percentile £48.44 £49.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.39 £71.25 £86.32
England median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year -12.61% +59.57% -11.32%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for PKI in London

PKI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PKI in London.

Daily rate trend for PKI in London

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in London

PKI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PKI in London.

Hourly rate trend for PKI in London

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 3 July 2025. 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 -2 7 £641 +15.02% 8
South London - 5 £474 -
West London +7 3 £750 +42.86% 1
East London +10 2 £585 -
PKI
England

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.45%) Camunda
1 4 (6.45%) Confluence
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.84%) Apache
3 2 (3.23%) Alfresco
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 30 (48.39%) AWS
2 23 (37.10%) Azure
3 14 (22.58%) Entra ID
4 6 (9.68%) GCP
5 5 (8.06%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (8.06%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (6.45%) SaaS
6 4 (6.45%) Serverless
7 3 (4.84%) IaaS
7 3 (4.84%) PaaS
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.23%) Azure AI
8 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.23%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.23%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.35%) Firewall
1 12 (19.35%) VPN
2 11 (17.74%) DNS
3 10 (16.13%) DHCP
3 10 (16.13%) SSL
4 8 (12.90%) Network Security
5 6 (9.68%) TCP/IP
5 6 (9.68%) Wireless
6 5 (8.06%) Radio Access Network
7 4 (6.45%) HTTPS
8 3 (4.84%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (4.84%) S/MIME
8 3 (4.84%) SMTP
9 2 (3.23%) BGP
9 2 (3.23%) EIGRP
9 2 (3.23%) IPsec
9 2 (3.23%) OSPF
10 1 (1.61%) HTTP
10 1 (1.61%) Internet
10 1 (1.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.13%) MongoDB
2 8 (12.90%) MySQL
3 5 (8.06%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.23%) GIS
5 2 (3.23%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.23%) Redis
5 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.61%) Big Data
6 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (8.06%) JUnit
2 4 (6.45%) JIRA
3 3 (4.84%) Git
4 2 (3.23%) GitLab
4 2 (3.23%) Gradle
4 2 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.23%) Maven
5 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.61%) Fiddler
5 1 (1.61%) Postman
General
1 14 (22.58%) Public Sector
2 11 (17.74%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.06%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Finance
5 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.23%) Military
6 1 (1.61%) Legal
6 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (17.74%) Architect
2 10 (16.13%) Developer
2 10 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (9.68%) Security Architect
3 6 (9.68%) Senior
4 5 (8.06%) Consultant
4 5 (8.06%) Lead
4 5 (8.06%) Security Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Security Consultant
6 3 (4.84%) ForgeRock Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Design Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) ForgeRock Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Network Security Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.90%) OAuth
2 7 (11.29%) HTML
2 7 (11.29%) OpenID
2 7 (11.29%) Spring
2 7 (11.29%) Spring Boot
3 6 (9.68%) Kafka
3 6 (9.68%) OAuth2
4 5 (8.06%) AngularJS
4 5 (8.06%) SAML
5 4 (6.45%) Hibernate
5 4 (6.45%) JPA
5 4 (6.45%) Keycloak
5 4 (6.45%) REST
5 4 (6.45%) SOAP
5 4 (6.45%) XML
6 3 (4.84%) .NET
6 3 (4.84%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET
6 3 (4.84%) JDBC
6 3 (4.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.06%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.45%) Taxonomies
4 3 (4.84%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.84%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.23%) Clustering
5 2 (3.23%) CSOC
5 2 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.23%) Smart Meter
6 1 (1.61%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.61%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.81%) Windows
2 13 (20.97%) Windows Server
3 7 (11.29%) Linux
4 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.61%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.58%) Agile
1 14 (22.58%) Cloud Security
1 14 (22.58%) DevOps
2 13 (20.97%) High Availability
2 13 (20.97%) Identity Access Management
3 12 (19.35%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (19.35%) Mentoring
3 12 (19.35%) Microservices
4 10 (16.13%) CI/CD
4 10 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (14.52%) Security Architecture
6 8 (12.90%) DevSecOps
6 8 (12.90%) Key Management
7 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (11.29%) ITIL
7 7 (11.29%) OWASP
7 7 (11.29%) SIEM
7 7 (11.29%) Vulnerability Management
8 6 (9.68%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.97%) Java
1 13 (20.97%) Python
2 12 (19.35%) PowerShell
3 8 (12.90%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.45%) SQL
5 3 (4.84%) C#
6 2 (3.23%) Bash
6 2 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (3.23%) VB
7 1 (1.61%) C++
7 1 (1.61%) Perl
7 1 (1.61%) Ruby
7 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (38.71%) Security Cleared
2 19 (30.65%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.90%) Degree
4 7 (11.29%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (8.06%) CCIE
6 5 (8.06%) CISSP
7 4 (6.45%) DV Cleared
8 3 (4.84%) AWS Certification
8 3 (4.84%) Azure Certification
8 3 (4.84%) CISA
8 3 (4.84%) CISM
8 3 (4.84%) CRISC
8 3 (4.84%) PMI Certification
8 3 (4.84%) PMP
9 2 (3.23%) CREST Certified
9 2 (3.23%) GIAC
9 2 (3.23%) SANS
10 1 (1.61%) CCNA
10 1 (1.61%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (11.29%) NIST
2 4 (6.45%) NCSC
3 3 (4.84%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.23%) GDPR
4 2 (3.23%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (3.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (3.23%) QA
5 1 (1.61%) COBIT
5 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (33.87%) Active Directory
2 11 (17.74%) Docker
3 6 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.84%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (4.84%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.23%) BitLocker
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (3.23%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (27.42%) Kubernetes
2 10 (16.13%) Terraform
3 8 (12.90%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.23%) Ansible
5 2 (3.23%) Istio
5 2 (3.23%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (3.23%) Puppet
5 2 (3.23%) SCCM
5 2 (3.23%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.23%) vMotion
6 1 (1.61%) CASB
6 1 (1.61%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.61%) Kibana
6 1 (1.61%) Nagios
6 1 (1.61%) Nessus
6 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.61%) Rancher
Vendors
1 23 (37.10%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.52%) VMware
3 6 (9.68%) Cisco
4 5 (8.06%) Ericsson
4 5 (8.06%) ForgeRock
4 5 (8.06%) Fortinet
5 4 (6.45%) Google
5 4 (6.45%) Ping Identity
5 4 (6.45%) Zscaler
6 3 (4.84%) Citrix
6 3 (4.84%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.84%) Splunk
7 2 (3.23%) Canon
7 2 (3.23%) McAfee
7 2 (3.23%) QAD
8 1 (1.61%) Dell
8 1 (1.61%) EMC
8 1 (1.61%) HP
8 1 (1.61%) IBM
8 1 (1.61%) Juniper