PKI Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in Milton Keynes. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 32 46
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 +27
Contract jobs citing PKI 3 13 15
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.14% 4.47% 2.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.23% 13.54% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 14
10th Percentile - £413 £463
25th Percentile £525 £436 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% -0.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £520 £555
90th Percentile £595 £557 £573
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +11.11%

All Generic Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 71 96 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 27.00% 32.99% 26.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 71 117
10th Percentile £270 £250 £363
25th Percentile £372 £351 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £534 £625
90th Percentile £673 £588 £800
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £490 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +8.89% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £13.00 £16.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.70% - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.25 £16.19 £22.25
% change year-on-year -5.81% -27.24% +30.88%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

PKI job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing PKI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing PKI

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) AI Transformation
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Podman
1 3 (100.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Zscaler