PKI Contracts in the Midlands

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 92 46 137
Rank change year-on-year -46 +91 +43
Contract jobs citing PKI 19 97 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.99% 3.52% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.28% 11.32% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 41 17
10th Percentile £207 £300 £440
25th Percentile £263 £325 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -31.82% +20.22%
75th Percentile £588 £388 £700
90th Percentile £631 - £720
England median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £15.00
England median hourly rate - £31.15 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -43.36% +4.77%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 580 857 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.30% 31.08% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 557 737
10th Percentile £200 £220 £237
25th Percentile £375 £350 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £594 £611 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 62 41
10th Percentile - £10.47 £16.70
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.93 £18.13
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -13.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £30.34 £28.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands -47 19 £425 +13.33% 5
PKI
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (5.26%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) IPsec
1 11 (57.89%) MPLS
1 11 (57.89%) VPN
1 11 (57.89%) WAN
2 10 (52.63%) BGP
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (5.26%) DNS
4 1 (5.26%) Junos
4 1 (5.26%) NetScaler
4 1 (5.26%) SMTP
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) GitLab
General
1 7 (36.84%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 9 (47.37%) 2nd Line Support
1 9 (47.37%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 9 (47.37%) Support Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) Network Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) Network Support
3 7 (36.84%) Network Support Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) WAN Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 2 (10.53%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Load Balancing
2 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
2 5 (26.32%) DevOps
2 5 (26.32%) Software Delivery
2 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
3 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (5.26%) Cryptography
5 1 (5.26%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (5.26%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (5.26%) Identity Management
5 1 (5.26%) Principle of Least Privilege
5 1 (5.26%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.26%) RBAC
5 1 (5.26%) Task Automation
5 1 (5.26%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (84.21%) Security Cleared
2 11 (57.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) vSphere
2 1 (5.26%) XenApp
2 1 (5.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Ansible
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Juniper
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) Alibaba
4 1 (5.26%) Citrix
4 1 (5.26%) Dell
4 1 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) HP
4 1 (5.26%) Okta
4 1 (5.26%) VMware