PKI Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 55 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Contract jobs citing PKI 1 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.11% 1.02% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 3.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £725 £1,150
% change year-on-year -32.83% -36.96% +60.84%

All Generic Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 303 168 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 33.70% 28.43% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 104 165
10th Percentile £324 £224 £291
25th Percentile £425 £359 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% +9.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £574 £628 £550
90th Percentile £625 £725 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 10
10th Percentile - £33.38 £12.25
25th Percentile - £36.25 £13.40
Median hourly rate £14.25 £40.00 £16.58
Median % change year-on-year -64.38% +141.22% -11.32%
75th Percentile £21.30 £42.50 £20.99
90th Percentile £21.78 £74.99 £23.15
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £38.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year -45.03% +121.43% +64.63%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PKI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

PKI job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PKI

PKI
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PKI

PKI
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 January 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
Leeds -23 1 £600 -17.24% 2
PKI
Yorkshire

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared