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

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 118 131
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 +28
Contract jobs citing PKI 11 4 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.50% 0.17% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.62% 0.63% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 14
10th Percentile £350 £442 £458
25th Percentile £410 £528 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £584 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 - £646
England median daily rate £559 £540 £583
% change year-on-year +3.47% -7.38% -2.83%

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 678 632 901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.87% 26.40% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 392 597
10th Percentile £270 £308 £267
25th Percentile £368 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £611
90th Percentile £650 £713 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 38 41
10th Percentile £21.77 £12.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.88 £15.92 £16.85
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.28% -23.24% +79.75%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £79.20 £76.12 £67.00
England median hourly rate £31.00 £45.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -31.11% +10.86% +56.12%

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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 2 August 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 2 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
Cheshire -9 9 £492 +26.15% 1
Manchester +6 2 £506 -19.00% 1
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England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Apache
1 3 (27.27%) JBoss
2 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Datadog
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) HTTPS
2 3 (27.27%) SSL
3 2 (18.18%) HTTP
3 2 (18.18%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Artifactory
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
1 2 (18.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) ForgeRock Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Applications Support
2 1 (9.09%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Principal Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) OAuth
1 4 (36.36%) OAuth2
1 4 (36.36%) OpenID
2 3 (27.27%) JDBC
2 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) SOAP
3 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
3 2 (18.18%) Gherkin
3 2 (18.18%) Playwright
4 1 (9.09%) LDAP
4 1 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (27.27%) Taxonomies
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
1 5 (45.45%) Coaching
1 5 (45.45%) DevSecOps
1 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) API Integration
3 3 (27.27%) High Availability
3 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (27.27%) Identity Management
3 3 (27.27%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (27.27%) Open Source
3 3 (27.27%) OWASP
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (27.27%) Scrum
3 3 (27.27%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Forensic Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) SOLID
4 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
2 5 (45.45%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) ForgeRock
2 3 (27.27%) IBM
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Ping Identity
3 2 (18.18%) Atlassian
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft