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 7 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PKI 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.90% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 - -
75th Percentile £489 - -
90th Percentile £554 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 - -

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 404 124 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 40.52% 39.24% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 77 76
10th Percentile £366 £306 £395
25th Percentile £428 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £474
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +0.32% -21.08%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £588
90th Percentile £688 £650 £648
South Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +4.21% +5.56% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £15.74 - -
25th Percentile £16.34 - £10.90
Median hourly rate £18.01 - £17.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.88%
75th Percentile £19.01 - £23.75
90th Percentile £19.21 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.01 - £12.75
% change year-on-year - - +19.94%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in Sheffield over the 6 months to 7 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in Sheffield

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) BGP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) SSH
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Build Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Design Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Identity Management Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Security Officer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
1 1 (11.11%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Key Management
1 7 (77.78%) Migration
2 5 (55.56%) Change Management
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Cloud Security
2 5 (55.56%) IT Governance
3 4 (44.44%) Runbook
4 3 (33.33%) API Integration
4 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (33.33%) Identity Management
4 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) High Availability
5 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bash
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) CISM
1 7 (77.78%) CISSP
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (11.11%) OCP
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) KVM
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 6 (66.67%) Ansible
2 6 (66.67%) Terraform
3 3 (33.33%) Grafana
3 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (11.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (11.11%) F5
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
1 1 (11.11%) VMware