YubiKey Contract Job Trends

Yubico YubiKey
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term YubiKey in contract job vacancies. 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 614 521 -
Rank change year-on-year -93 - -
Contract jobs citing YubiKey 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% 0.007% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.027% 0.020% -
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 excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 14,873 9,913 13,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.37% 33.86% 30.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,305 6,359 8,584
10th Percentile £300 £288 £263
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 706 382 907
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.37 £22.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +18.18% +22.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.75 £83.20 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.52 £32.05 £26.00
% change year-on-year +48.27% +23.27% +18.18%

YubiKey
Job Vacancy Trend

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

YubiKey job vacancy trend in the UK

YubiKey
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

YubiKey
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England -103 4 £450 - 4
East of England -39 2 £450 - 4
UK excluding London -99 2 £450 - 4
Work from Home - 2 - - 1
London - 2 - -

YubiKey
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Skype
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Nessus
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
1 2 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Tenable