SPIFFE Contract Job Trends

SPIFFE (Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SPIFFE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 - 590
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SPIFFE 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% - 0.002%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.021% - 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £625
75th Percentile - - £638
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

SPIFFE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,558 6,609 8,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.89% 22.61% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,370 4,524 6,239
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 99 176
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £18.74
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.25 £31.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.75 £62.62
90th Percentile £81.00 £84.95 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -25.78%

SPIFFE
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SPIFFE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SPIFFE job vacancy trend in the UK

SPIFFE
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SPIFFE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SPIFFE

SPIFFE
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SPIFFE within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
London - 2 - -
England - 2 - -

SPIFFE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SSH
1 2 (100.00%) X.509
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) OpenSSH
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune