PKI Contracts in the South West

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 118 156
Rank change year-on-year +60 +38 -20
Contract jobs citing PKI 107 43 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.30% 1.27% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.23% 4.60% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 35 9
10th Percentile £463 £456 £369
25th Percentile £525 £509 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +21.05% -2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £525
90th Percentile £605 £725 £554
England median daily rate £550 £580 £563
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.11% +18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.22
Median hourly rate - - £54.43
75th Percentile - - £55.65
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.80 £64.00 £54.43
% change year-on-year -62.81% +17.58% +262.87%

All Generic Skills
South West

PKI is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,046 934 974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.27% 27.49% 26.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 639 667 694
10th Percentile £300 £275 £206
25th Percentile £463 £425 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £606 £669 £600
90th Percentile £691 £738 £668
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 123 49
10th Percentile £13.69 - £14.50
25th Percentile £20.13 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £9.80 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +410.20% -80.30% -0.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £22.21 £26.50
% change year-on-year +59.87% -16.21% +3.92%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PKI in the South West.

Daily rate trend for PKI in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in the South West over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PKI in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Wiltshire +54 99 £550 - 10
Bristol +12 6 £583 -27.19% 2
Gloucestershire -5 1 £875 +55.56%
Dorset - 1 - -
PKI
England

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 11 (10.28%) Confluence
1 11 (10.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.80%) IIS
2 3 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (6.54%) AWS
2 6 (5.61%) Azure
3 4 (3.74%) PaaS
4 3 (2.80%) GCP
4 3 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.80%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.93%) OCI
6 1 (0.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (17.76%) DNS
2 17 (15.89%) VSAN
3 13 (12.15%) Network Security
4 12 (11.21%) DHCP
5 6 (5.61%) Firewall
6 5 (4.67%) Skype
7 3 (2.80%) Kerberos
7 3 (2.80%) VPN
8 2 (1.87%) LAN
8 2 (1.87%) SMTP
8 2 (1.87%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.87%) WAN
9 1 (0.93%) 4G
9 1 (0.93%) 5G
9 1 (0.93%) NAS
9 1 (0.93%) SAN
9 1 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (10.28%) JIRA
2 3 (2.80%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.93%) Git
General
1 15 (14.02%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (10.28%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.35%) Military
4 2 (1.87%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (36.45%) Administrator
1 39 (36.45%) Systems Administrator
1 39 (36.45%) Wintel Administrator
1 39 (36.45%) Wintel Systems Administrator
2 15 (14.02%) VMware Engineer
3 10 (9.35%) Platform Manager
4 9 (8.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (8.41%) Wintel Engineer
5 8 (7.48%) Integration Engineer
5 8 (7.48%) Test and Integration Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Test Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Architect
8 4 (3.74%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (2.80%) Automation Architect
10 2 (1.87%) Office Automation Architect
10 2 (1.87%) Service Desk Engineer
11 1 (0.93%) Oracle Architect
11 1 (0.93%) Oracle Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.93%) Technical Leader
11 1 (0.93%) Wintel Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.80%) .NET
1 3 (2.80%) .NET Framework
1 3 (2.80%) LDAP
1 3 (2.80%) ModSecurity
2 1 (0.93%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.89%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.74%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.80%) Replication
3 3 (2.80%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.87%) Clustering
5 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.93%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.93%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 72 (67.29%) Windows
2 23 (21.50%) Linux
3 15 (14.02%) Windows Server
4 10 (9.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (3.74%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.87%) CentOS
6 2 (1.87%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (16.82%) Change Management
2 15 (14.02%) Converged Infrastructure
3 14 (13.08%) Agile
3 14 (13.08%) Service Management
4 13 (12.15%) Security Patching
5 12 (11.21%) Change Control
6 11 (10.28%) Critical Thinking
7 10 (9.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (7.48%) Test Scripting
9 7 (6.54%) Project Management
9 7 (6.54%) Regression Testing
10 6 (5.61%) DevSecOps
11 5 (4.67%) Identity Access Management
11 5 (4.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (4.67%) ITIL
11 5 (4.67%) Office Automation
12 4 (3.74%) NsoIT
12 4 (3.74%) Performance Monitoring
12 4 (3.74%) Validation
13 3 (2.80%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.21%) SQL
2 8 (7.48%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.80%) Python
4 1 (0.93%) Bash
Qualifications
1 98 (91.59%) Security Cleared
2 76 (71.03%) DV Cleared
3 26 (24.30%) SC Cleared
4 19 (17.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (8.41%) Degree
5 9 (8.41%) MCSE
6 8 (7.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (6.54%) MCSA
8 4 (3.74%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.80%) OSCP
10 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) JSP 440
2 2 (1.87%) SLA
3 1 (0.93%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (20.56%) Active Directory
2 21 (19.63%) VMware NSX
3 18 (16.82%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (15.89%) vSphere
5 16 (14.95%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (3.74%) Docker
6 4 (3.74%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.87%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (15.89%) OPNET
2 4 (3.74%) Ansible
2 4 (3.74%) SCCM
2 4 (3.74%) Terraform
2 4 (3.74%) vCenter Server
3 3 (2.80%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.80%) PowerCLI
4 2 (1.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (1.87%) SCOM
4 2 (1.87%) VxRail
4 2 (1.87%) WSUS
5 1 (0.93%) Check_MK
5 1 (0.93%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.93%) Kibana
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 35 (32.71%) VMware
2 34 (31.78%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.74%) Atlassian
3 4 (3.74%) Cisco
3 4 (3.74%) Google
4 3 (2.80%) CA
5 2 (1.87%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.87%) Remedy
5 2 (1.87%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.93%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.93%) Juniper
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle
6 1 (0.93%) Splunk
6 1 (0.93%) Veritas