PKI Contract Job Trends in Preston

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Lancashire > Preston

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in Preston. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PKI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 1.19% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Lancashire median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 21 7 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 25.00% 13.46% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 5
10th Percentile £262 - £448
25th Percentile £375 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -2.58% +33.45%
75th Percentile £550 £628 £593
90th Percentile - £724 -
Lancashire median daily rate £500 £550 £631
% change year-on-year -9.09% -12.87% -2.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile - - £28.02
25th Percentile - - £37.67
Median hourly rate £41.94 £24.76 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +69.39% -46.03% -1.08%
75th Percentile - - £46.03
90th Percentile £54.87 - £46.18
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 £24.67 £45.88
% change year-on-year +84.25% -46.22% -1.08%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

PKI job vacancy trend in Preston

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing PKI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing PKI

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2