PKI Contracts in the South East

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 64 150
Rank change year-on-year -72 +86 +41
DemandTrendContract jobs citing PKI 34 138 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.96% 2.89% 1.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.05% 9.84% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 102 44
10th Percentile £463 - £487
25th Percentile £476 £425 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £573
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -6.11% +12.25%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £690
90th Percentile - £675 £699
England median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
England median hourly rate - £23.80 £63.38
% change year-on-year - -62.45% -11.36%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,115 1,402 1,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.59% 29.35% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 813 1,248
10th Percentile £204 £213 £205
25th Percentile £358 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £625 £616
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 139 95
10th Percentile £15.39 £11.92 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £21.58 £21.00
Median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.92% +9.24% +129.86%
75th Percentile £63.37 £65.00 £65.73
90th Percentile £71.95 £75.16 £74.70
England median hourly rate £32.05 £50.00 £45.82
% change year-on-year -35.90% +9.12% +76.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PKI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PKI

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in the South East over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PKI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PKI

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire -28 31 £575 -2.13% 2
Berkshire -2 3 £350 -42.15% 2
Thames Valley -26 3 £350 -35.19% 2
PKI
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (38.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (23.53%) Apache
3 4 (11.76%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) AWS
2 8 (23.53%) GCP
2 8 (23.53%) IaaS
2 8 (23.53%) OpenShift
2 8 (23.53%) PaaS
3 6 (17.65%) Azure
4 3 (8.82%) AWS KMS
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (44.12%) DNS
2 12 (35.29%) Firewall
2 12 (35.29%) SMTP
3 11 (32.35%) DHCP
4 8 (23.53%) VPN
5 3 (8.82%) Network Security
5 3 (8.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (23.53%) Big Data
1 8 (23.53%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) MSI
1 4 (11.76%) Robot Framework
1 4 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 11 (32.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (26.47%) Support Engineer
4 8 (23.53%) 3rd Line Support
4 8 (23.53%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 7 (20.59%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (20.59%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Support
5 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Architect
6 4 (11.76%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Administrator
7 3 (8.82%) Platform Manager
7 3 (8.82%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (8.82%) Systems Manager
7 3 (8.82%) Wintel Administrator
7 3 (8.82%) Wintel Systems Administrator
8 2 (5.88%) Project Coordinator
8 2 (5.88%) Technical Coordinator
8 2 (5.88%) Technical Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) YAML
2 3 (8.82%) Web Services
3 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Clustering
1 8 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.94%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.94%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 21 (61.76%) Windows
2 20 (58.82%) Linux
3 17 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (14.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (11.76%) CentOS
5 4 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (8.82%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (8.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (5.88%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (5.88%) Solaris
7 2 (5.88%) Windows 10
7 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (2.94%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) DevOps
2 15 (44.12%) Agile
3 11 (32.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (26.47%) Prototyping
5 8 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (23.53%) Cryptography
5 8 (23.53%) Machine Learning
5 8 (23.53%) Software Deployment
6 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (17.65%) Threat Analysis
8 5 (14.71%) Migration
8 5 (14.71%) Test Automation
9 4 (11.76%) Batch Scripting
9 4 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (11.76%) Web Development
9 4 (11.76%) Workflow
10 3 (8.82%) Change Management
10 3 (8.82%) Digital Identity
10 3 (8.82%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (70.59%) PowerShell
2 5 (14.71%) Python
3 4 (11.76%) PHP
4 2 (5.88%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) Bicep
5 1 (2.94%) C#
5 1 (2.94%) VB
5 1 (2.94%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (97.06%) Security Cleared
2 32 (94.12%) DV Cleared
3 12 (35.29%) Degree
4 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (67.65%) Active Directory
2 18 (52.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (35.29%) Hyper-V
4 10 (29.41%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (23.53%) BitLocker
5 8 (23.53%) Docker
5 8 (23.53%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (23.53%) Terminal Services
6 1 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (47.06%) Ansible
2 9 (26.47%) Kubernetes
3 8 (23.53%) Nagios
3 8 (23.53%) Puppet
3 8 (23.53%) vCenter Server
3 8 (23.53%) vMotion
4 5 (14.71%) WMI
5 4 (11.76%) Terraform
6 1 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.94%) SCCM
6 1 (2.94%) SCOM
6 1 (2.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (61.76%) Microsoft
1 21 (61.76%) VMware
2 8 (23.53%) Citrix
2 8 (23.53%) Google
2 8 (23.53%) HP
2 8 (23.53%) Symantec
3 3 (8.82%) Thales
4 2 (5.88%) Intel
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle
4 2 (5.88%) Red Hat