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 in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 51 106
Rank change year-on-year -15 +55 +40
DemandTrendContract jobs citing PKI 50 99 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.59% 3.58% 1.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.01% 12.24% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 84 39
10th Percentile £470 £463 £469
25th Percentile £525 £502 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £578 £618
90th Percentile £657 £609 £708
England median daily rate £575 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +6.98% -6.52% -4.17%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 624 809 865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.28% 29.29% 25.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 510 639
10th Percentile £225 £298 £300
25th Percentile £375 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £639 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 120 48
10th Percentile £6.00 £13.69 £17.56
25th Percentile £15.48 £45.00 £34.06
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% - +66.67%
75th Percentile £36.00 £72.50 £83.40
90th Percentile £77.96 £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £31.43 £49.50 £43.42
% change year-on-year -36.52% +14.01% +66.99%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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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 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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DemandTrendContract 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 20 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
Wiltshire -14 28 £585 +6.36% 9
Dorset - 7 £540 -
Gloucestershire +26 6 £535 +13.83% 5
Bristol +4 4 £500 -10.51% 7
Somerset -2 4 £633 - 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 12 (24.00%) Confluence
1 12 (24.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (8.00%) Skype for Business
3 3 (6.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.00%) Alfresco
4 2 (4.00%) Camunda
5 1 (2.00%) CMS
5 1 (2.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (26.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.00%) AWS
2 3 (6.00%) Azure
3 1 (2.00%) Akamai
3 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (34.00%) DNS
2 15 (30.00%) Firewall
3 11 (22.00%) Unified Communications
4 10 (20.00%) Skype
5 9 (18.00%) Network Security
5 9 (18.00%) VPN
6 8 (16.00%) BGP
7 7 (14.00%) IPsec
7 7 (14.00%) MPLS
8 6 (12.00%) DHCP
9 4 (8.00%) Kerberos
9 4 (8.00%) VSAN
10 3 (6.00%) 4G
10 3 (6.00%) 5G
10 3 (6.00%) SSL
11 1 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (2.00%) VoIP
11 1 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.00%) MySQL
2 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) JIRA
2 2 (4.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.00%) JUnit
General
1 20 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.00%) Military
3 7 (14.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (18.00%) Architect
2 8 (16.00%) Administrator
2 8 (16.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Platform Manager
2 8 (16.00%) Systems Administrator
2 8 (16.00%) Systems Manager
2 8 (16.00%) Wintel Administrator
2 8 (16.00%) Wintel Systems Administrator
3 5 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 5 (10.00%) Senior
4 4 (8.00%) Test Specialist
4 4 (8.00%) Wintel Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Engineering Specialist
5 3 (6.00%) Senior Wintel Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) NETCONF
1 7 (14.00%) RESTCONF
2 5 (10.00%) .NET
3 3 (6.00%) 802.1X
3 3 (6.00%) ModSecurity
4 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.00%) Hibernate
4 2 (4.00%) HTML
4 2 (4.00%) JPA
4 2 (4.00%) Kafka
4 2 (4.00%) Keycloak
4 2 (4.00%) REST
4 2 (4.00%) Spring
4 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.00%) XML
5 1 (2.00%) LDAP
5 1 (2.00%) OAuth
5 1 (2.00%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.00%) OpenID
5 1 (2.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.00%) Cyber Defence
2 4 (8.00%) Private Cloud
2 4 (8.00%) Replication
3 3 (6.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.00%) CESG
4 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (52.00%) Windows
2 14 (28.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (22.00%) Windows 10
4 8 (16.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (8.00%) Linux
5 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.00%) Solaris
7 1 (2.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.00%) Service Management
2 14 (28.00%) Critical Thinking
3 12 (24.00%) NsoIT
3 12 (24.00%) System Testing
4 11 (22.00%) Change Management
5 9 (18.00%) Network Management
6 8 (16.00%) Agile
6 8 (16.00%) ITIL
6 8 (16.00%) Security Patching
7 7 (14.00%) Cryptography
7 7 (14.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 7 (14.00%) Test Scripting
7 7 (14.00%) Validation
8 5 (10.00%) Information Security
8 5 (10.00%) RBAC
9 4 (8.00%) End-to-End Testing
9 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (8.00%) Regression Testing
9 4 (8.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) SQL
2 8 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (16.00%) Python
3 3 (6.00%) Java
4 1 (2.00%) Bash
4 1 (2.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (94.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (62.00%) SC Cleared
3 23 (46.00%) DV Cleared
4 13 (26.00%) Degree
5 8 (16.00%) CCNP
5 8 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (10.00%) MCSE
8 2 (4.00%) ISTQB
8 2 (4.00%) MCSA
8 2 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 1 (2.00%) CCNA
9 1 (2.00%) CEH
9 1 (2.00%) CISM
9 1 (2.00%) CISSP
9 1 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (2.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.00%) NCSC
2 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.00%) NIST
3 1 (2.00%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.00%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (22.00%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (10.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (6.00%) Docker
5 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (6.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (16.00%) Ansible
2 7 (14.00%) OPNET
3 6 (12.00%) WSUS
4 4 (8.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (6.00%) Check_MK
5 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
5 3 (6.00%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.00%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (2.00%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (2.00%) PowerCLI
6 1 (2.00%) Puppet
6 1 (2.00%) SCCM
6 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (32.00%) VMware
3 11 (22.00%) Cisco
4 10 (20.00%) Atlassian
5 3 (6.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (6.00%) Juniper
5 3 (6.00%) Splunk
5 3 (6.00%) Veeam
6 1 (2.00%) Oracle
6 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.00%) Red Hat