PKI Contracts in the Thames Valley

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 102 138
Rank change year-on-year +20 +36 +3
Contract jobs citing PKI 20 43 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.32% 1.60% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.67% 5.37% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 32 12
10th Percentile £463 £406 £484
25th Percentile £513 £465 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £605 £516
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +17.19% -1.67%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £557
90th Percentile £630 £614 £732
South East median daily rate £575 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -4.96% +0.83% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £50.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -7.73% -

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 545 801 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.07% 29.82% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 473 613
10th Percentile £303 £205 £280
25th Percentile £423 £295 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 62 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.46% +143.75%
75th Percentile £66.12 £59.97 £70.90
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the Thames Valley

PKI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PKI in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for PKI in the Thames Valley

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the Thames Valley

PKI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PKI in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the Thames Valley

PKI
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Buckinghamshire +19 11 £622 +33.67% 7
Berkshire +5 9 £525 -13.22% 11
PKI
South East

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) IaaS
2 9 (45.00%) PaaS
2 9 (45.00%) SaaS
3 5 (25.00%) AWS
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Storage
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) DNS
1 10 (50.00%) VSAN
2 5 (25.00%) NetScaler
2 5 (25.00%) SMTP
3 4 (20.00%) Firewall
3 4 (20.00%) VPN
4 3 (15.00%) BGP
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (15.00%) MPLS
4 3 (15.00%) NGFW
4 3 (15.00%) OSPF
4 3 (15.00%) SD-WAN
4 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (15.00%) VLAN
4 3 (15.00%) WAN
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (10.00%) DHCP
6 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (5.00%) Network Security
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Law
3 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Architect
2 11 (55.00%) Technical Architect
3 10 (50.00%) Senior
3 10 (50.00%) Senior Architect
3 10 (50.00%) Senior Technical Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Senior VMware Architect
5 2 (10.00%) VMware Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Support
6 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Coordinator
6 1 (5.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Project Coordinator
6 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Coordinator
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (65.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (25.00%) Clustering
3 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (5.00%) Cyberattack
4 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (10.00%) Linux
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) DevSecOps
1 12 (60.00%) TOGAF
2 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (55.00%) ITIL
3 10 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 10 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 10 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (50.00%) Microservices
3 10 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
4 8 (40.00%) IT Strategy
4 8 (40.00%) Use Case
5 7 (35.00%) Requirements Management
5 7 (35.00%) Technology Strategy
6 6 (30.00%) Matrix Organization
7 5 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
8 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
9 2 (10.00%) Agile
9 2 (10.00%) Analytics
9 2 (10.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) VB
3 1 (5.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (55.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (50.00%) MCSE
3 10 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (10.00%) Degree
6 1 (5.00%) CCSK
6 1 (5.00%) CEH
6 1 (5.00%) CISSP
6 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.00%) GIAC
6 1 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
6 1 (5.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (55.00%) NIST
2 10 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (50.00%) NCSC
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (55.00%) VMware NSX
3 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (25.00%) vSphere
4 5 (25.00%) XenApp
4 5 (25.00%) XenDesktop
5 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (30.00%) WSUS
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (5.00%) CASB
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) SCCM
3 1 (5.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (90.00%) VMware
2 11 (55.00%) Cisco
2 11 (55.00%) Palo Alto
3 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (25.00%) Citrix
4 5 (25.00%) Dell
4 5 (25.00%) HP
5 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
5 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (5.00%) Forcepoint
5 1 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) IBM
5 1 (5.00%) Intel
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle