YubiKey Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Yubico YubiKey
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term YubiKey in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited YubiKey over the 6 months leading up to 13 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 338 -
Rank change year-on-year -99 - -
Contract jobs citing YubiKey 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.009% 0.016% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.029% 0.047% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £450 £450 -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

YubiKey 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,942 4,228 6,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.94% 33.29% 29.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,321 2,626 3,717
10th Percentile £223 £205 £206
25th Percentile £370 £363 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 293 711
10th Percentile £15.67 £16.95 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.25 £14.19
Median hourly rate £47.52 £32.05 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.27% +23.27% +18.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £85.45 £83.88 £66.25
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.46% +18.18% +22.30%

YubiKey
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing YubiKey relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

YubiKey job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

YubiKey
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing YubiKey.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing YubiKey

YubiKey
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YubiKey within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 April 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
East of England -39 2 £450 - 4
YubiKey
UK

YubiKey
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Skype
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Nessus
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Tenable