PKI Contracts in Manchester

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 91 77
Rank change year-on-year +14 -14 +41
Contract jobs citing PKI 2 5 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.22% 0.33% 2.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.75% 1.19% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 30
10th Percentile £666 £583 £463
25th Percentile £680 £594 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £706 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% +6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £730 £638 £650
90th Percentile £742 - -
North West median daily rate £492 £575 £593
% change year-on-year -14.43% -2.95% -5.20%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 266 419 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.73% 27.62% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 283 435
10th Percentile £203 £300 £320
25th Percentile £382 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £602 £588 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £686
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 32 31
10th Percentile £20.75 £13.08 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.82 £20.74
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -27.86% +141.38%
75th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £65.50
90th Percentile £76.00 £62.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in Manchester

PKI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in Manchester

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) cloud-init
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Keycloak
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Boundary Protection
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Consul
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Istio
2 1 (50.00%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (50.00%) linkerd
2 1 (50.00%) Packer
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Rancher
2 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Okta
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk