PKI Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 233 250 285
Rank change year-on-year +17 +35 +165
Contract jobs citing PKI 71 95 196
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.72% 0.62% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.17% 2.16% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 64 158
10th Percentile £450 £465 £413
25th Percentile £492 £563 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.92% +10.00% +1.20%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £695
90th Percentile £700 - £729
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £58.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -9.85%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £66.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £31.15 £59.50
% change year-on-year - -47.65% +6.25%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

PKI
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PKI trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

PKI
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PKI.

PKI daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing PKI over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

PKI daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PKI
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PKI.

PKI hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (15.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.04%) nginx
2 5 (7.04%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.04%) Skype for Business
2 5 (7.04%) Traefik
3 2 (2.82%) Apache
3 2 (2.82%) Camunda
3 2 (2.82%) IIS
4 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (35.21%) AWS
2 15 (21.13%) Azure
2 15 (21.13%) Entra ID
3 9 (12.68%) IaaS
3 9 (12.68%) PaaS
3 9 (12.68%) SaaS
3 9 (12.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (9.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (9.86%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (9.86%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (9.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (9.86%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (7.04%) Route 53
6 3 (4.23%) AWS KMS
6 3 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (2.82%) GCP
8 1 (1.41%) Akamai
8 1 (1.41%) Datadog
8 1 (1.41%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 25 (35.21%) DNS
2 15 (21.13%) SSL
3 13 (18.31%) DHCP
4 9 (12.68%) Skype
4 9 (12.68%) TCP/IP
4 9 (12.68%) VPN
5 8 (11.27%) Firewall
5 8 (11.27%) S/MIME
6 7 (9.86%) VSAN
7 6 (8.45%) WAN
8 5 (7.04%) LAN
8 5 (7.04%) Network Security
9 4 (5.63%) HTTPS
10 3 (4.23%) HTTP
10 3 (4.23%) NGFW
10 3 (4.23%) SMTP
10 3 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (2.82%) VLAN
11 2 (2.82%) VXLAN
11 2 (2.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.68%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.82%) GIS
3 2 (2.82%) MySQL
3 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.82%) Redis
4 1 (1.41%) Power BI
4 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (15.49%) GitLab
2 7 (9.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.41%) JUnit
General
1 22 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.31%) Public Sector
3 10 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Aerospace
4 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.41%) Finance
5 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Law
5 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (30.99%) Architect
2 18 (25.35%) Senior
3 10 (14.08%) Lead
4 8 (11.27%) Technical Architect
5 7 (9.86%) Senior Architect
5 7 (9.86%) Senior Technical Architect
6 6 (8.45%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (7.04%) Active Directory Architect
7 5 (7.04%) Developer
7 5 (7.04%) ForgeRock Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Wintel Architect
8 4 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Security Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Senior Wintel Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Wintel Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Security Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.08%) Kafka
2 9 (12.68%) Keycloak
3 7 (9.86%) cloud-init
4 5 (7.04%) OAuth
4 5 (7.04%) OAuth2
4 5 (7.04%) OpenID
5 4 (5.63%) JDBC
5 4 (5.63%) SOAP
6 3 (4.23%) 802.1X
6 3 (4.23%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.23%) HTML
6 3 (4.23%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.82%) .NET
7 2 (2.82%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (2.82%) SAML
7 2 (2.82%) Spring
7 2 (2.82%) XML
8 1 (1.41%) Hibernate
8 1 (1.41%) LDAP
8 1 (1.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Algorithms
2 8 (11.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.04%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.04%) Security Posture
4 4 (5.63%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.63%) Taxonomies
5 3 (4.23%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.82%) Clustering
6 2 (2.82%) Replication
6 2 (2.82%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.41%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) RSA SecurID
7 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (28.17%) Windows
2 18 (25.35%) Windows Server
3 13 (18.31%) Linux
4 8 (11.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (11.27%) Unix
5 7 (9.86%) CentOS
6 6 (8.45%) Windows 10
6 6 (8.45%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (7.04%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (4.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (1.41%) Android
10 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (25.35%) CI/CD
2 16 (22.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (19.72%) DevSecOps
4 13 (18.31%) Cloud Security
4 13 (18.31%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (18.31%) ITIL
5 12 (16.90%) DevOps
5 12 (16.90%) Identity Management
5 12 (16.90%) Microservices
5 12 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (15.49%) Identity Access Management
6 11 (15.49%) Key Management
6 11 (15.49%) Migration
6 11 (15.49%) RBAC
7 10 (14.08%) Agile
8 8 (11.27%) Containerisation
8 8 (11.27%) Mentoring
8 8 (11.27%) Observability
8 8 (11.27%) Service Management
8 8 (11.27%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 19 (26.76%) PowerShell
2 18 (25.35%) Python
3 10 (14.08%) Java
4 7 (9.86%) Bash
4 7 (9.86%) Go
4 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.45%) SQL
6 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.41%) Bicep
7 1 (1.41%) C#
7 1 (1.41%) VB
7 1 (1.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (54.93%) Security Cleared
2 32 (45.07%) SC Cleared
3 15 (21.13%) AWS Certification
4 14 (19.72%) Degree
4 14 (19.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (16.90%) MCSE
6 10 (14.08%) DV Cleared
7 6 (8.45%) Azure Certification
7 6 (8.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (8.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (7.04%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (4.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.82%) CCIE
10 2 (2.82%) CISM
10 2 (2.82%) CISSP
10 2 (2.82%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (2.82%) MCSA
11 1 (1.41%) CCSP
11 1 (1.41%) CEH
11 1 (1.41%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (21.13%) NCSC
2 11 (15.49%) NIST
3 7 (9.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (4.23%) GDPR
6 2 (2.82%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (2.82%) FIPS 140-2
6 2 (2.82%) NIST 800
6 2 (2.82%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (32.39%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (9.86%) VMware NSX
4 4 (5.63%) Docker
5 3 (4.23%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.23%) vSphere
6 2 (2.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.82%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.82%) XenApp
6 2 (2.82%) XenDesktop
7 1 (1.41%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (16.90%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.08%) Terraform
2 10 (14.08%) WSUS
3 9 (12.68%) Istio
4 7 (9.86%) Consul
4 7 (9.86%) Grafana
4 7 (9.86%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (9.86%) linkerd
4 7 (9.86%) Packer
4 7 (9.86%) Prometheus
4 7 (9.86%) Rancher
4 7 (9.86%) ZABBIX
5 5 (7.04%) HAProxy
5 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (7.04%) OPNET
5 5 (7.04%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (5.63%) SCCM
7 3 (4.23%) Ansible
7 3 (4.23%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.82%) SCOM
Vendors
1 34 (47.89%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.90%) VMware
3 10 (14.08%) Palo Alto
4 7 (9.86%) Cisco
4 7 (9.86%) ForgeRock
4 7 (9.86%) Okta
4 7 (9.86%) Splunk
5 6 (8.45%) Apple
6 5 (7.04%) ESET
7 4 (5.63%) Ping Identity
8 3 (4.23%) Citrix
8 3 (4.23%) HP
9 2 (2.82%) BMC
9 2 (2.82%) Dell
9 2 (2.82%) Ericsson
9 2 (2.82%) F5
9 2 (2.82%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.82%) Google
9 2 (2.82%) NetScout
9 2 (2.82%) Veeam