PKI Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing PKI 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.86% - 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.72% - 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £1,075
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 - £1,150
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.84%
75th Percentile £487 - £1,225
90th Percentile £489 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 - £1,150
% change year-on-year - - +60.84%

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 349 144 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 49.93% 40.34% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 93 69
10th Percentile £325 £220 £385
25th Percentile £405 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -1.90% -8.70%
75th Percentile £537 £600 £590
90th Percentile £600 £650 £693
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -5.72% +2.25% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -40.00% +18.42%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £13.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.11% -40.00% +18.42%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

PKI job vacancy trend in Sheffield

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing PKI

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 6 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) SSL
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Build Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Management Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Security Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Officer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Key Management
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (83.33%) Change Management
2 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
2 5 (83.33%) IT Governance
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Runbook
4 3 (50.00%) API Integration
4 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (33.33%) DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) High Availability
5 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
5 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
6 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) CISM
1 6 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Grafana
3 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft