PKI Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 34 27 45
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 -8
Contract jobs citing PKI 3 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.23% 2.06% 2.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.85% 7.46% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £368 £381 £640
25th Percentile £431 £398 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £423 £750
Median % change year-on-year +30.02% -43.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £486 £806
90th Percentile £713 £584 £840
North East median daily rate £550 £423 £750
% change year-on-year +30.02% -43.60% +4.90%

All Generic Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 78 67 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 31.97% 27.57% 25.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 38 69
10th Percentile £325 £299 £460
25th Percentile £381 £363 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £725
90th Percentile £653 £615 £836
North East median daily rate £534 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +12.42% -20.83% +37.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% - -
North East median hourly rate £49.09 £32.50 -
% change year-on-year +51.05% - -

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for PKI in Tyne and Wear

PKI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PKI in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for PKI in Tyne and Wear

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in Tyne and Wear

PKI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PKI in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for PKI in Tyne and Wear

PKI
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -8 3 £550 +11.11% 3
PKI
North East

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 2 (66.67%) nginx
1 2 (66.67%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Fargate
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Wintel Support
2 1 (33.33%) Wintel Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) cloud-init
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) Keycloak
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) CentOS
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile Device Management
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
1 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Server Migrations
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Go
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Consul
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) HAProxy
1 2 (66.67%) Istio
1 2 (66.67%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) linkerd
1 2 (66.67%) Packer
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Rancher
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
1 2 (66.67%) ZABBIX
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Apple
1 2 (66.67%) ESET
1 2 (66.67%) Okta
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) VMware