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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 129 140
Rank change year-on-year +37 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing PKI 46 18 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.72% 0.63% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.94% 1.93% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 18 27
10th Percentile £407 £499 £430
25th Percentile £465 £506 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £540 £520
Median % change year-on-year +12.04% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £584
90th Percentile - £750 £676
South East median daily rate £605 £613 £500
% change year-on-year -1.22% +22.50% -

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 775 935 1,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.90% 32.50% 30.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 619 680
10th Percentile £205 £303 £226
25th Percentile £313 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £664
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 24 33
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.08 £16.12
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £60.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.00% +204.38% -42.03%
75th Percentile £59.57 £73.69 £29.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.93 £67.47
South East median hourly rate £54.00 £54.37 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.68% +152.88% -40.45%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the Thames Valley

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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

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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 20 June 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
Berkshire +18 38 £605 -3.20% 3
Buckinghamshire +28 8 £465 -9.27% 1
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 29 (63.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 30 (65.22%) Azure
2 21 (45.65%) Azure Monitor
2 21 (45.65%) Azure Storage
2 21 (45.65%) Entra ID
2 21 (45.65%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (19.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (71.74%) DHCP
1 33 (71.74%) DNS
2 21 (45.65%) Firewall
3 8 (17.39%) SSL
4 4 (8.70%) NAS
4 4 (8.70%) SAN
5 3 (6.52%) BGP
5 3 (6.52%) IPsec
5 3 (6.52%) Junos
5 3 (6.52%) MPLS
5 3 (6.52%) VPN
6 2 (4.35%) WAN
7 1 (2.17%) 4G
7 1 (2.17%) 5G
7 1 (2.17%) Network Security
7 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (8.70%) MySQL
1 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
General
1 21 (45.65%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.17%) Advertising
2 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (45.65%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (30.43%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (30.43%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (30.43%) Support Specialist
3 11 (23.91%) Support Engineer
4 9 (19.57%) Active Directory Engineer
4 9 (19.57%) Architect
5 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (15.22%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 7 (15.22%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior
8 3 (6.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Network Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Operations Engineer
10 1 (2.17%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (45.65%) ARM Templates
2 8 (17.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (45.65%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (8.70%) Fat Client
2 4 (8.70%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.17%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 33 (71.74%) Linux
2 27 (58.70%) Windows
3 25 (54.35%) Windows Server
3 25 (54.35%) Windows Server 2019
4 21 (45.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (8.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (63.04%) Agile
1 29 (63.04%) ITIL
2 25 (54.35%) Release Management
3 22 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (45.65%) Analytics
4 21 (45.65%) CI/CD
4 21 (45.65%) DevOps
4 21 (45.65%) Identity Management
4 21 (45.65%) Log Analytics
4 21 (45.65%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 21 (45.65%) Privileged Identity Management
4 21 (45.65%) RBAC
4 21 (45.65%) Service Management
5 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (17.39%) Cryptography
6 8 (17.39%) Incident Management
6 8 (17.39%) Key Management
7 7 (15.22%) Problem Management
8 4 (8.70%) Mentoring
8 4 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 28 (60.87%) PowerShell
2 21 (45.65%) Bicep
2 21 (45.65%) C#
2 21 (45.65%) VB
2 21 (45.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (93.48%) Security Cleared
2 37 (80.43%) Degree
3 32 (69.57%) SC Cleared
4 27 (58.70%) DV Cleared
5 21 (45.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.17%) CCSP
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) COBIT
1 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (89.13%) Active Directory
2 21 (45.65%) Virtual Desktop
2 21 (45.65%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (54.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 25 (54.35%) WSUS
2 22 (47.83%) SCCM
3 21 (45.65%) Kubernetes
3 21 (45.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (45.65%) SCOM
4 7 (15.22%) Ansible
5 4 (8.70%) Nessus
5 4 (8.70%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (8.70%) vCenter Server
5 4 (8.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (71.74%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) VMware
3 4 (8.70%) Oracle
3 4 (8.70%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.70%) Veeam
4 3 (6.52%) Juniper