PKI Contracts in the North West

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in the North West. 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 113 126 100
Rank change year-on-year +13 -26 +35
Contract jobs citing PKI 7 11 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.40% 1.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.25% 1.48% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 42
10th Percentile £480 £431 £464
25th Percentile - £500 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £575 £593
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% -2.95% -5.20%
75th Percentile £584 £638 £650
90th Percentile £701 - £688
England median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 560 742 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.46% 26.93% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 493 722
10th Percentile £203 £289 £296
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £675
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 77 47
10th Percentile £22.05 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £57.50 £70.00
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire +3 5 £492 +10.56% 3
Manchester +14 2 £706 +13.00% 13
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England

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) HTTPS
2 2 (28.57%) HTTP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) ForgeRock Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) OAuth
1 4 (57.14%) OAuth2
1 4 (57.14%) OpenID
2 3 (42.86%) JDBC
2 3 (42.86%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) cloud-init
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) Keycloak
3 1 (14.29%) LDAP
3 1 (14.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (42.86%) Taxonomies
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) CentOS
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) DevSecOps
2 4 (57.14%) Identity Management
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) API Integration
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
3 3 (42.86%) Coaching
3 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (42.86%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Open Source
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Forensic Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
1 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NCSC
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
3 1 (14.29%) Consul
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Istio
3 1 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (14.29%) linkerd
3 1 (14.29%) Packer
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Rancher
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) ForgeRock
2 3 (42.86%) Ping Identity
3 1 (14.29%) Okta
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk