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 advertised in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 122 152
Rank change year-on-year +95 +30 -42
Contract jobs citing PKI 96 19 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.97% 0.79% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.91% 2.44% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 9 13
10th Percentile £300 £405 £380
25th Percentile £325 £559 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £650 £450
Median % change year-on-year -42.31% +44.44% +0.84%
75th Percentile £388 £700 £700
90th Percentile - £710 £770
England median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
England median hourly rate £31.15 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -43.36% +4.77% +249.97%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

PKI is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 644 780 1,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.37% 32.34% 28.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 532 728
10th Percentile £300 £237 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +14.46%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £585
90th Percentile £750 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 20 27
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.36 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.71 £18.12 £12.96
Median hourly rate £22.50 £25.50 £15.86
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +60.78% -4.69%
75th Percentile £40.25 £52.50 £17.70
90th Percentile £58.75 £61.50 £19.38
England median hourly rate £28.50 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +26.67% -15.09% +1.92%

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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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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 +6 63 £375 +7.14% 7
Birmingham +33 32 £350 -50.00% 2
Coventry - 2 £500 -
Shropshire - 1 - -
PKI
England

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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 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.33%) Azure
2 6 (6.25%) Entra ID
2 6 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (6.25%) OneDrive
2 6 (6.25%) Power Automate
2 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
2 6 (6.25%) PowerApps
3 2 (2.08%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (71.88%) BGP
1 69 (71.88%) IPsec
1 69 (71.88%) MPLS
2 68 (70.83%) WAN
3 47 (48.96%) VPN
4 44 (45.83%) Junos
5 20 (20.83%) Firewall
6 6 (6.25%) Unified Communications
7 2 (2.08%) DMZ
7 2 (2.08%) DNS
7 2 (2.08%) Network Security
7 2 (2.08%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.04%) DHCP
8 1 (1.04%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.04%) LAN
8 1 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.04%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.04%) JIRA
General
1 10 (10.42%) Public Sector
2 7 (7.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.08%) Aerospace
3 2 (2.08%) Aviation
4 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (38.54%) WAN Engineer
2 35 (36.46%) Network Support
3 23 (23.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 23 (23.96%) 3rd Line Support
4 19 (19.79%) Network Engineer
5 18 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support
6 17 (17.71%) 1st Line Engineer
7 13 (13.54%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 12 (12.50%) Support Engineer
9 10 (10.42%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
10 6 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 6 (6.25%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 6 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 5 (5.21%) Network Support Engineer
12 1 (1.04%) 1st Line Support Engineer
12 1 (1.04%) Administrator
12 1 (1.04%) Project Engineer
12 1 (1.04%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 27 (28.13%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.25%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.29%) Windows
1 7 (7.29%) Windows Server
2 6 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.04%) CentOS
3 1 (1.04%) Linux
3 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (47.92%) Load Balancing
2 18 (18.75%) Network Design
3 17 (17.71%) Impact Assessments
4 12 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 8 (8.33%) ITIL
6 6 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (6.25%) Customer Service
6 6 (6.25%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 6 (6.25%) Service Delivery
7 2 (2.08%) Change Management
7 2 (2.08%) Cloud Security
7 2 (2.08%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (2.08%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (2.08%) Hardware Maintenance
7 2 (2.08%) High Availability
7 2 (2.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (2.08%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (2.08%) Zero Trust
8 1 (1.04%) Business Analysis
8 1 (1.04%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.04%) Bash
Qualifications
1 59 (61.46%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.08%) CCNA
3 2 (2.08%) CCNP
3 2 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.08%) JNCIA
4 1 (1.04%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (7.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.04%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.04%) VMware Server
2 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.08%) Ansible
2 2 (2.08%) Terraform
3 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 69 (71.88%) Juniper
2 17 (17.71%) CA
3 8 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.25%) Oracle
5 2 (2.08%) F5
5 2 (2.08%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.08%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.04%) VMware