PKI Contracts in the North of England

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in the North of England. 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 150 169 156
Rank change year-on-year +19 -13 +30
Contract jobs citing PKI 16 16 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.49% 0.34% 1.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.59% 1.23% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 48
10th Percentile £471 £382 £471
25th Percentile £492 £408 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +36.25% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £747 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £640 £775
England median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,008 1,302 1,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.59% 27.31% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 801 1,220
10th Percentile £220 £263 £285
25th Percentile £367 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £623
90th Percentile £665 £653 £688
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 154 88
10th Percentile £21.00 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.88 £15.14 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year +104.00% -18.70% +0.11%
75th Percentile £44.08 £26.62 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.98 £66.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PKI in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for PKI in the North of England

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PKI in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the North of England 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
North West +13 7 £492 -14.43% 16
Yorkshire - 6 £725 - 2
North East -2 3 £550 +30.02%
PKI
England

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (43.75%) nginx
1 7 (43.75%) Traefik
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) AWS
2 9 (56.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 9 (56.25%) Amazon ECS
2 9 (56.25%) AWS CloudFormation
2 9 (56.25%) AWS Fargate
2 9 (56.25%) Entra ID
2 9 (56.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (62.50%) DNS
2 9 (56.25%) TCP/IP
3 3 (18.75%) HTTPS
4 2 (12.50%) HTTP
5 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) GitLab
2 9 (56.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Senior
1 8 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Wintel Support
5 1 (6.25%) Wintel Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) cloud-init
1 9 (56.25%) Kafka
1 9 (56.25%) Keycloak
2 4 (25.00%) OAuth
2 4 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 4 (25.00%) OpenID
3 3 (18.75%) JDBC
3 3 (18.75%) SOAP
4 1 (6.25%) LDAP
4 1 (6.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (18.75%) Taxonomies
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) CentOS
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
1 9 (56.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 9 (56.25%) Unix
2 2 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Identity Management
2 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 11 (68.75%) Cloud Security
3 9 (56.25%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (56.25%) DevOps
3 9 (56.25%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (56.25%) Observability
3 9 (56.25%) Secrets Management
3 9 (56.25%) Static Application Security Testing
4 7 (43.75%) Mobile Device Management
5 5 (31.25%) Agile
5 5 (31.25%) DevSecOps
6 3 (18.75%) API Integration
6 3 (18.75%) Coaching
6 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (18.75%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (18.75%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 9 (56.25%) Bash
2 9 (56.25%) Go
3 5 (31.25%) Java
3 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (56.25%) AWS Certification
3 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (62.50%) NCSC
2 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 9 (56.25%) Consul
2 9 (56.25%) Grafana
2 9 (56.25%) Istio
2 9 (56.25%) Jamf Pro
2 9 (56.25%) linkerd
2 9 (56.25%) Packer
2 9 (56.25%) Prometheus
2 9 (56.25%) Rancher
2 9 (56.25%) Terraform
2 9 (56.25%) ZABBIX
3 7 (43.75%) HAProxy
4 4 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
6 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (6.25%) SCCM
6 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Okta
1 9 (56.25%) Splunk
2 7 (43.75%) Apple
2 7 (43.75%) ESET
3 5 (31.25%) ForgeRock
4 3 (18.75%) Ping Identity
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 1 (6.25%) VMware