PKI Contracts in the West Midlands

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 78 31 118
Rank change year-on-year -47 +87 +38
Contract jobs citing PKI 19 97 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.41% 4.98% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.55% 14.99% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 41 9
10th Percentile £207 £300 £405
25th Percentile £263 £325 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £650
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -42.31% +44.44%
75th Percentile £588 £388 £700
90th Percentile £631 - £710
England median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £15.00
England median hourly rate - £31.15 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -43.36% +4.77%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 418 647 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.08% 33.23% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 410 525
10th Percentile £197 £307 £263
25th Percentile £406 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £632 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 47 19
10th Percentile £16.23 £10.42 £17.10
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.71 £17.99
Median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.24% -6.25% +51.32%
75th Percentile £31.49 £40.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.50
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the West Midlands 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
Solihull -3 5 £325 -13.33%
Shropshire 0 4 £626 -
Birmingham -12 3 £300 -14.29% 1
Warwickshire - 2 £480 - 2
PKI
England

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (5.26%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) IPsec
1 11 (57.89%) MPLS
1 11 (57.89%) VPN
1 11 (57.89%) WAN
2 10 (52.63%) BGP
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (5.26%) DNS
4 1 (5.26%) Junos
4 1 (5.26%) NetScaler
4 1 (5.26%) SMTP
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) GitLab
General
1 7 (36.84%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 9 (47.37%) 2nd Line Support
1 9 (47.37%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 9 (47.37%) Support Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) Network Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) Network Support
3 7 (36.84%) Network Support Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) WAN Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 2 (10.53%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Load Balancing
2 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
2 5 (26.32%) DevOps
2 5 (26.32%) Software Delivery
2 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
3 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (5.26%) Cryptography
5 1 (5.26%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (5.26%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (5.26%) Identity Management
5 1 (5.26%) Principle of Least Privilege
5 1 (5.26%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.26%) RBAC
5 1 (5.26%) Task Automation
5 1 (5.26%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (84.21%) Security Cleared
2 11 (57.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) vSphere
2 1 (5.26%) XenApp
2 1 (5.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Ansible
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Juniper
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) Alibaba
4 1 (5.26%) Citrix
4 1 (5.26%) Dell
4 1 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) HP
4 1 (5.26%) Okta
4 1 (5.26%) VMware