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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 59 98
Rank change year-on-year -55 +39 +90
Contract jobs citing PKI 26 72 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.04% 2.72% 1.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.02% 9.15% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 37 20
10th Percentile £238 £300 £324
25th Percentile £300 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -21.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £388 £571
90th Percentile £638 £460 £700
England median daily rate £550 £539 £575
% change year-on-year +2.09% -6.30% -4.17%

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 860 787 964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.44% 29.74% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 505 634
10th Percentile £250 £271 £265
25th Percentile £365 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £626 £600
90th Percentile £650 £738 £702
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 26 33
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.51 £19.20
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.78 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £21.37 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.01% -22.31% +48.65%
75th Percentile £37.19 £47.63 £43.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.50 £88.00
England median hourly rate £30.25 £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -36.32% +18.75% +53.85%

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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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -55 25 £400 +6.67% 8
East Midlands - 1 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.85%) AWS
4 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (3.85%) AWS KMS
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) Route 53
4 1 (3.85%) Serverless
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (57.69%) WAN
2 14 (53.85%) BGP
2 14 (53.85%) IPsec
2 14 (53.85%) MPLS
2 14 (53.85%) VPN
3 4 (15.38%) Junos
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (7.69%) DNS
4 2 (7.69%) VLAN
4 2 (7.69%) VSAN
5 1 (3.85%) DHCP
5 1 (3.85%) iSCSI
5 1 (3.85%) LAN
5 1 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) GitLab
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) 2nd Line Support
2 8 (30.77%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) Network Engineer
3 7 (26.92%) Network Support
3 7 (26.92%) Network Support Engineer
4 6 (23.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 5 (19.23%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
5 5 (19.23%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (19.23%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (19.23%) WAN Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 2 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Consultant
7 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Consultant
8 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Algorithms
1 3 (11.54%) Replication
2 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.85%) SUSE
1 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
1 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
1 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Load Balancing
2 6 (23.08%) DevOps
3 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
3 5 (19.23%) Network Design
3 5 (19.23%) Software Delivery
3 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
4 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 4 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 3 (11.54%) Agile
5 3 (11.54%) Cryptography
5 3 (11.54%) Key Management
5 3 (11.54%) Product Management
5 3 (11.54%) Product Roadmap
5 3 (11.54%) Product Vision
5 3 (11.54%) User Stories
6 2 (7.69%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (3.85%) Project Delivery
7 1 (3.85%) Reverse Engineering
7 1 (3.85%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (73.08%) Security Cleared
2 17 (65.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) FIPS 140-2
1 3 (11.54%) GDPR
1 3 (11.54%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Ansible
1 5 (19.23%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.85%) PowerCLI
3 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (53.85%) Juniper
2 3 (11.54%) Cisco
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Veeam
3 2 (7.69%) VMware
4 1 (3.85%) Dell
4 1 (3.85%) Zerto