Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 316 450
Rank change year-on-year +112 +134 -11
Contract jobs citing PKI 509 487 477
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.18% 0.81% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.87% 2.45% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 368 324
10th Percentile £363 £425 £413
25th Percentile £455 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £660
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +16.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 13
10th Percentile - £33.75 £47.41
25th Percentile £23.80 £52.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £31.15 £59.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.65% +6.25% -7.44%
75th Percentile £47.06 £66.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £59.33 £74.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.75 £35.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +45.00% -33.33% +249.97%

All Generic Skills
UK

PKI is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the UK

PKI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in the UK

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the UK

PKI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the UK

PKI
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PKI over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PKI in the UK

PKI
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +138 482 £550 -8.33% 69
UK excluding London +130 399 £550 -4.35% 66
South East +91 156 £605 +0.83% 20
South West +78 110 £550 -4.35% 11
West Midlands +92 96 £375 -42.31% 12
Midlands +83 96 £375 -31.82% 16
London +19 94 £575 -7.26% 13
Work from Home +37 93 £605 +10.00% 34
Scotland +21 17 £600 +12.29% 9
North of England -16 15 £466 -25.52% 6
North West -30 10 £563 -5.06% 5
North East +17 5 £423 -43.60%
East of England +2 5 £650 -7.14% 2

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 74 (14.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (4.32%) Confluence
2 22 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.38%) nginx
4 5 (0.98%) IIS
5 4 (0.79%) Apache
6 3 (0.59%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.39%) Traefik
8 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.20%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Dynamics GP
1 3 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 137 (26.92%) Azure
2 99 (19.45%) AWS
3 51 (10.02%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (8.45%) Entra ID
5 20 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (3.14%) Azure Storage
7 15 (2.95%) GCP
8 10 (1.96%) Power Platform
9 9 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (1.57%) Mimecast
10 8 (1.57%) OneDrive
11 7 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (1.18%) PaaS
12 6 (1.18%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.18%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.18%) Serverless
13 5 (0.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 5 (0.98%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 117 (22.99%) Firewall
2 113 (22.20%) WAN
3 108 (21.22%) DNS
4 98 (19.25%) IPsec
5 96 (18.86%) BGP
6 93 (18.27%) VPN
7 81 (15.91%) DHCP
8 77 (15.13%) MPLS
9 63 (12.38%) SSL
10 49 (9.63%) Junos
11 34 (6.68%) LAN
12 30 (5.89%) Network Security
13 24 (4.72%) Wireless
14 23 (4.52%) OSPF
15 20 (3.93%) SD-WAN
16 19 (3.73%) WLAN
17 17 (3.34%) VSAN
18 14 (2.75%) SAN
19 11 (2.16%) Cisco ASA
19 11 (2.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.54%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.38%) MySQL
3 7 (1.38%) Power BI
4 6 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (0.59%) Tableau
6 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.20%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.20%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.20%) Redis
7 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (5.11%) JIRA
2 14 (2.75%) Robot Framework
2 14 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
3 12 (2.36%) Git
4 6 (1.18%) GitLab
4 6 (1.18%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.98%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.39%) JMeter
6 2 (0.39%) Selenium
6 2 (0.39%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.20%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.20%) Darcs
7 1 (0.20%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.20%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.20%) MSI
7 1 (0.20%) Travis CI
General
1 63 (12.38%) Social Skills
2 52 (10.22%) Public Sector
3 36 (7.07%) Finance
4 31 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (3.73%) Military
6 12 (2.36%) Banking
7 6 (1.18%) Financial Institution
8 5 (0.98%) Aerospace
8 5 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.59%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.39%) Advertising
11 2 (0.39%) Automotive
11 2 (0.39%) Aviation
12 1 (0.20%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.20%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 105 (20.63%) Architect
2 44 (8.64%) Security Architect
3 43 (8.45%) Administrator
4 41 (8.06%) Systems Administrator
4 41 (8.06%) Wintel Administrator
4 41 (8.06%) Wintel Systems Administrator
5 38 (7.47%) WAN Engineer
6 36 (7.07%) Network Support
7 33 (6.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 33 (6.48%) Network Engineer
8 28 (5.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 28 (5.50%) 3rd Line Support
9 27 (5.30%) Security Engineer
9 27 (5.30%) Senior
10 19 (3.73%) 2nd Line Support
11 18 (3.54%) Support Engineer
12 17 (3.34%) 1st Line Engineer
12 17 (3.34%) Network Specialist
12 17 (3.34%) Test Engineer
12 17 (3.34%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (8.64%) Web Services
2 15 (2.95%) ARM Templates
3 13 (2.55%) LDAP
4 10 (1.96%) SAML
5 6 (1.18%) .NET
5 6 (1.18%) JSON
5 6 (1.18%) XML
6 5 (0.98%) Apache NiFi
6 5 (0.98%) RESTful
6 5 (0.98%) SailPoint
7 4 (0.79%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.79%) OAuth
7 4 (0.79%) OpenID
8 3 (0.59%) HTML
8 3 (0.59%) Jinja
8 3 (0.59%) Kafka
8 3 (0.59%) NETCONF
8 3 (0.59%) React
8 3 (0.59%) REST
8 3 (0.59%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.04%) Self-Motivation
2 31 (6.09%) Data Centre
3 17 (3.34%) Clustering
4 12 (2.36%) Public Cloud
5 10 (1.96%) Security Posture
6 9 (1.77%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.57%) Fat Client
7 8 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.57%) Thin Client
8 6 (1.18%) Digital Signage
9 5 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.59%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.59%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.59%) IoT
11 3 (0.59%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.59%) Replication
11 3 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 174 (34.18%) Windows
2 102 (20.04%) Windows Server
3 80 (15.72%) Linux
4 52 (10.22%) Windows Server 2019
5 32 (6.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 23 (4.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.57%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.57%) Windows 10
7 8 (1.57%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (0.79%) CentOS
8 4 (0.79%) Unix
9 2 (0.39%) VMS
9 2 (0.39%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.20%) Debian
10 1 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (17.68%) Agile
2 58 (11.39%) Cryptography
3 57 (11.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 57 (11.20%) Key Management
3 57 (11.20%) Load Balancing
4 48 (9.43%) ITIL
5 46 (9.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 45 (8.84%) Cybersecurity
7 43 (8.45%) Service Management
8 41 (8.06%) Change Management
9 39 (7.66%) Identity Access Management
10 37 (7.27%) DevOps
11 35 (6.88%) Cloud Security
12 30 (5.89%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (5.50%) SIEM
14 26 (5.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 25 (4.91%) Change Control
15 25 (4.91%) CI/CD
16 23 (4.52%) Identity Management
16 23 (4.52%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 98 (19.25%) PowerShell
2 49 (9.63%) Python
3 33 (6.48%) SQL
4 22 (4.32%) C#
5 16 (3.14%) VB
5 16 (3.14%) VBScript
6 15 (2.95%) Bicep
7 8 (1.57%) Bash
8 5 (0.98%) Java
8 5 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.79%) Go
10 3 (0.59%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.59%) Ruby
11 2 (0.39%) C++
12 1 (0.20%) C
12 1 (0.20%) Perl
12 1 (0.20%) PHP
12 1 (0.20%) Rust
12 1 (0.20%) Solidity
12 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 356 (69.94%) Security Cleared
2 187 (36.74%) DV Cleared
3 149 (29.27%) SC Cleared
4 99 (19.45%) Degree
5 46 (9.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (4.13%) MCSE
7 16 (3.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 16 (3.14%) MCSA
7 16 (3.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 11 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.77%) CISM
9 9 (1.77%) CISSP
10 8 (1.57%) CCNP
11 7 (1.38%) SANS
12 6 (1.18%) CCNA
12 6 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.18%) CRISC
12 6 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.79%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.95%) JSP 440
2 13 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 8 (1.57%) Disclosure Scotland
5 7 (1.38%) NCSC
5 7 (1.38%) RMADS
6 5 (0.98%) SLA
7 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.39%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.20%) QA
System Software
1 179 (35.17%) Active Directory
2 59 (11.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (6.48%) VMware ESXi
4 24 (4.72%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (4.72%) vSphere
5 23 (4.52%) Hyper-V
6 22 (4.32%) VMware NSX
7 19 (3.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (2.36%) Docker
9 8 (1.57%) BitLocker
9 8 (1.57%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (1.18%) Terminal Services
11 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.79%) Shibboleth
13 3 (0.59%) NFS
14 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 2 (0.39%) Squid
15 1 (0.20%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 63 (12.38%) Terraform
2 60 (11.79%) Ansible
3 32 (6.29%) SCCM
4 30 (5.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 29 (5.70%) Kubernetes
6 28 (5.50%) SCOM
7 27 (5.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (4.72%) WSUS
9 23 (4.52%) OPNET
10 20 (3.93%) vCenter Server
11 16 (3.14%) FortiGate
12 12 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (1.57%) Nessus
14 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Clustering
14 6 (1.18%) vMotion
14 6 (1.18%) ZABBIX
15 4 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
15 4 (0.79%) Grafana
15 4 (0.79%) Puppet
15 4 (0.79%) VxRail
Vendors
1 145 (28.49%) Microsoft
2 97 (19.06%) Juniper
2 97 (19.06%) VMware
3 37 (7.27%) Cisco
4 35 (6.88%) Palo Alto
5 27 (5.30%) CA
6 22 (4.32%) Fortinet
7 20 (3.93%) Oracle
8 17 (3.34%) SolarWinds
9 14 (2.75%) Red Hat
10 12 (2.36%) Citrix
11 11 (2.16%) Extreme Networks
12 10 (1.96%) Dell
12 10 (1.96%) F5
12 10 (1.96%) Google
13 8 (1.57%) Splunk
14 7 (1.38%) CyberArk
14 7 (1.38%) HP
14 7 (1.38%) Veeam
15 6 (1.18%) Infoblox