PKI Contracts in Scotland

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in Scotland. 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 108 112 134
Rank change year-on-year +4 +22 +25
Contract jobs citing PKI 8 17 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.49% 0.77% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.29% 2.32% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 22
10th Percentile £462 £486 £450
25th Percentile £508 £513 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £534
Median % change year-on-year -10.92% +12.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £539 £625 £584
90th Percentile £546 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for PKI in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PKI in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for PKI in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for PKI in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PKI in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for PKI in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +2 7 £534 -11.00%
Glasgow - 1 £535 - 2
PKI
UK

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) IaaS
3 2 (25.00%) PaaS
3 2 (25.00%) SaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Security Specialist
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Compliance Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
1 6 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Email Filtering
2 5 (62.50%) Kalman Filter
3 4 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (37.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
4 3 (37.50%) Security Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Cryptography
5 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (25.00%) Information Security
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
5 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (25.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (12.50%) CCSP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (12.50%) CRISC
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (12.50%) MCSE
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (12.50%) PMO
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (62.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) SCCM
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Aruba
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco
1 1 (12.50%) Citrix
1 1 (12.50%) HP
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
1 1 (12.50%) VMware