PKI Contract Job Trends 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 15 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 94 102
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 +30
Contract jobs citing PKI 6 31 41
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.35% 1.43% 1.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.99% 4.81% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 27 40
10th Percentile £350 £391 £465
25th Percentile £369 £462 £542
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £610
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -14.75% +32.61%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £641
90th Percentile £588 - £675
South East median daily rate £575 £503 £610
% change year-on-year +14.43% -17.62% +19.61%

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 604 645 817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 34.83% 29.72% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 363 552
10th Percentile £274 £264 £210
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £608 £625
90th Percentile £668 £675 £713
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 23 29
10th Percentile - £18.55 £21.20
25th Percentile £15.13 £23.37 £32.32
Median hourly rate £33.47 £42.88 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% -31.94% +218.99%
75th Percentile £58.00 £60.28 £72.00
90th Percentile £86.53 £62.24 £76.02
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £56.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -50.22% +2.27% +132.12%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

PKI job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PKI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PKI

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the Thames Valley

PKI
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PKI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PKI

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 15 October 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
Berkshire 0 3 £350 -42.15% 3
Buckinghamshire -12 3 £550 +10.00% 4
PKI
South East

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Coordinator
2 2 (33.33%) Project Coordinator
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Coordinator
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Project Coordinator
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) AI
1 3 (50.00%) AI Transformation
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Budget Management
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) RBAC
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Podman
1 3 (50.00%) Proxmox
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) Zscaler
2 2 (33.33%) Intel
2 2 (33.33%) VMware