PKI Contract Job Trends 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 29 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 87 81
Rank change year-on-year -24 -6 +22
Contract jobs citing PKI 9 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.45% 0.098% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.30% 0.29% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £450 - £583
25th Percentile £491 - £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £350 £625
Median % change year-on-year +49.14% -44.00% +35.14%
75th Percentile £556 - £638
90th Percentile £594 - -
North West median daily rate £525 £492 £600
% change year-on-year +6.71% -18.00% +6.38%

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 694 345 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 34.73% 33.92% 27.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 233 190
10th Percentile £359 £313 £313
25th Percentile £421 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £690 £675 £828
North West median daily rate £500 £453 £494
% change year-on-year +10.38% -8.25% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 17 23
10th Percentile £19.46 £18.72 £16.11
25th Percentile £28.75 £34.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £45.50 £49.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +8.89% +55.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £57.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £78.00 £86.90
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £43.86 £27.25
% change year-on-year +0.24% +60.94% -32.42%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PKI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

PKI job vacancy trend in Manchester

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing PKI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing PKI

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in Manchester

PKI
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing PKI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing PKI

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 3 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (11.11%) Akamai
3 1 (11.11%) Apigee
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Kong
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (11.11%) SSH
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Burp Suite
1 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
1 2 (22.22%) Gatling
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) Gradle
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) LoadRunner
1 2 (22.22%) REST Assured
1 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
1 2 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Design Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Node.js
1 2 (22.22%) Playwright
1 2 (22.22%) Quarkus
1 2 (22.22%) React
1 2 (22.22%) Spring
1 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) JWT
2 1 (11.11%) OpenID
2 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (11.11%) Replication
3 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (11.11%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (22.22%) BDD
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) SDLC
2 2 (22.22%) Service Design
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Webhook
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Dependency Management
3 1 (11.11%) Microservices
3 1 (11.11%) SABSA
3 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
3 1 (11.11%) Software Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) CEH
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
4 1 (11.11%) SANS
4 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
1 3 (33.33%) Istio
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) BeyondTrust
2 3 (33.33%) Okta
3 2 (22.22%) Dynatrace
4 1 (11.11%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) F5
4 1 (11.11%) Gemalto
4 1 (11.11%) IBM
4 1 (11.11%) Intel
4 1 (11.11%) Thales