PKI Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 82 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing PKI 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.79% - 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.61% - 0.79%
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 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £738 £1,150
% change year-on-year -34.31% -35.87% +76.92%

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 373 160 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 49.01% 41.34% 31.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 102 75
10th Percentile £316 £210 £324
25th Percentile £400 £311 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.72% +2.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £589
90th Percentile £638 £650 £673
Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -1.40% +2.56% -4.88%
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 - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.55 £32.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year -52.15% +52.51% +12.16%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

PKI job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing PKI

PKI
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield - 6 £482 - 4
PKI
Yorkshire

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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