PKI Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in Surrey. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PKI 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.34% - 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.20% - 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £633 - -
25th Percentile £644 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £500
75th Percentile £694 - £688
90th Percentile £698 - £740
South East median daily rate £583 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +1.30% -4.17% -

All Generic Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 167 76 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 28.55% 24.36% 26.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 55 111
10th Percentile £204 £196 £203
25th Percentile £400 £250 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £494 £596
90th Percentile £650 £590 £725
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 19
10th Percentile £16.82 £24.66 -
25th Percentile £51.56 £28.00 £11.71
Median hourly rate £67.50 £32.77 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year +105.98% +78.58% -55.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.96 £73.45
90th Percentile £85.40 £70.16 £76.00
South East median hourly rate £58.75 £33.47 £57.35
% change year-on-year +75.54% -41.64% +11.90%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

PKI job vacancy trend in Surrey

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing PKI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing PKI

PKI
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing PKI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing PKI

PKI
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 29 July 2026. 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
Leatherhead - 2 £675 -
PKI
South East

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Python Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes