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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 53 78
Rank change year-on-year -37 +25 +92
DemandTrendContract jobs citing PKI 27 56 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.56% 2.96% 2.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.18% 10.04% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 27 12
10th Percentile £243 £300 £328
25th Percentile £313 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £438
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -14.29% -20.45%
75th Percentile £525 £388 £607
90th Percentile £635 £550 £700
England median daily rate £568 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +5.58% -6.52% -4.17%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 646 558 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 37.21% 29.46% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 353 437
10th Percentile £239 £240 £275
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £660 £625
90th Percentile £645 £750 £731
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 18 28
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.13 £19.48
25th Percentile £22.53 £18.50 £22.56
Median hourly rate £33.91 £32.40 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +17.83% +44.74%
75th Percentile £50.00 £46.69 £34.22
90th Percentile - £56.25 £70.50
England median hourly rate £32.05 £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -35.90% +11.11% +73.08%

PKI
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

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PKI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PKI

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the West Midlands

PKI
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PKI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PKI

PKI
DemandTrendContract 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 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +6 10 £400 +14.29% 2
Warwickshire -12 5 £600 -1.80% 1
Shropshire -14 4 £626 +108.85%
Solihull -14 2 £363 -3.33% 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Azure
1 6 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.70%) AWS
3 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (3.70%) AWS KMS
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.70%) Route 53
3 1 (3.70%) Serverless
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (62.96%) WAN
2 16 (59.26%) BGP
2 16 (59.26%) IPsec
2 16 (59.26%) MPLS
2 16 (59.26%) VPN
3 5 (18.52%) Junos
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (3.70%) DHCP
5 1 (3.70%) DNS
5 1 (3.70%) iSCSI
5 1 (3.70%) LAN
5 1 (3.70%) VLAN
5 1 (3.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) GitLab
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Support Engineer
2 9 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 8 (29.63%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 8 (29.63%) 2nd Line Support
3 8 (29.63%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (29.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (29.63%) Network Support
3 8 (29.63%) Network Support Engineer
4 7 (25.93%) 3rd Line Support
4 7 (25.93%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 6 (22.22%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
6 5 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (18.52%) WAN Engineer
7 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 2 (7.41%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) Consultant
9 1 (3.70%) Operations Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 3 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.41%) Replication
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.70%) SUSE
1 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Load Balancing
2 6 (22.22%) DevOps
2 6 (22.22%) Network Design
3 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
3 5 (18.52%) Software Delivery
3 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
4 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
4 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
5 3 (11.11%) Agile
5 3 (11.11%) Cryptography
5 3 (11.11%) Key Management
5 3 (11.11%) Product Management
5 3 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
5 3 (11.11%) Product Vision
5 3 (11.11%) User Stories
6 2 (7.41%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (7.41%) Project Delivery
7 1 (3.70%) Analytical Thinking
7 1 (3.70%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 19 (70.37%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) FIPS 140-2
1 3 (11.11%) GDPR
1 3 (11.11%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Ansible
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 2 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.70%) PowerCLI
3 1 (3.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (59.26%) Juniper
2 4 (14.81%) Cisco
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Veeam
4 1 (3.70%) VMware