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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 252 291
Rank change year-on-year +17 +39 +146
Contract jobs citing PKI 66 96 192
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.67% 0.63% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.01% 2.22% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 65 155
10th Percentile £450 £465 £413
25th Percentile £498 £563 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.92% +10.00% +1.29%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £650
90th Percentile £705 - £708
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +6.31%
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% +3.48%

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 3,284 4,327 8,034
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.19% 28.56% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,241 2,950 5,650
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £430 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £684
90th Percentile £825 £800 £792
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 195 154
10th Percentile £18.36 £15.45 £19.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £25.50 £25.75
Median hourly rate £44.22 £48.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -11.82% +23.60%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £30.16 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.76% +34.13% -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 6 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.58%) nginx
2 5 (7.58%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.58%) Skype for Business
2 5 (7.58%) Traefik
3 2 (3.03%) Apache
3 2 (3.03%) Camunda
3 2 (3.03%) IIS
4 1 (1.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (10.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (39.39%) AWS
2 16 (24.24%) Entra ID
3 15 (22.73%) Azure
4 9 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 8 (12.12%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (10.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (10.61%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (10.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (10.61%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (7.58%) IaaS
7 5 (7.58%) PaaS
7 5 (7.58%) Route 53
7 5 (7.58%) SaaS
8 4 (6.06%) AWS KMS
9 3 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (3.03%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (3.03%) GCP
11 1 (1.52%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.52%) Azure Storage
11 1 (1.52%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (37.88%) DNS
2 13 (19.70%) DHCP
2 13 (19.70%) SSL
3 9 (13.64%) Skype
3 9 (13.64%) TCP/IP
3 9 (13.64%) VPN
4 8 (12.12%) Firewall
5 6 (9.09%) S/MIME
5 6 (9.09%) WAN
6 5 (7.58%) LAN
6 5 (7.58%) Network Security
7 4 (6.06%) HTTPS
8 3 (4.55%) HTTP
8 3 (4.55%) NGFW
8 3 (4.55%) SMTP
8 3 (4.55%) VSAN
8 3 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (3.03%) VLAN
9 2 (3.03%) VXLAN
9 2 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.64%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.03%) GIS
3 2 (3.03%) MySQL
3 2 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.03%) Redis
4 1 (1.52%) Power BI
4 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (18.18%) GitLab
2 7 (10.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.52%) JIRA
3 1 (1.52%) JUnit
General
1 20 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.70%) Public Sector
3 10 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Aerospace
4 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.52%) Finance
5 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.52%) Law
5 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (28.79%) Architect
2 14 (21.21%) Senior
3 8 (12.12%) Lead
4 6 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (7.58%) Active Directory Architect
5 5 (7.58%) Developer
5 5 (7.58%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Security Architect
5 5 (7.58%) Wintel Architect
6 4 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Senior Wintel Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Technical Architect
6 4 (6.06%) Wintel Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Network Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Senior Architect
7 3 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Senior Technical Architect
7 3 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.15%) Kafka
2 9 (13.64%) Keycloak
3 7 (10.61%) cloud-init
4 6 (9.09%) OAuth
4 6 (9.09%) OpenID
5 5 (7.58%) OAuth2
6 4 (6.06%) JDBC
6 4 (6.06%) SOAP
7 3 (4.55%) 802.1X
7 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.55%) HTML
7 3 (4.55%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.03%) .NET
8 2 (3.03%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (3.03%) SAML
8 2 (3.03%) Spring
8 2 (3.03%) XML
9 1 (1.52%) Hibernate
9 1 (1.52%) LDAP
9 1 (1.52%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.58%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.58%) Security Posture
3 4 (6.06%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.06%) Taxonomies
4 3 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.03%) Clustering
5 2 (3.03%) Replication
5 2 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.52%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) RSA SecurID
6 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (30.30%) Windows
2 18 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 13 (19.70%) Linux
4 8 (12.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (12.12%) Unix
5 7 (10.61%) CentOS
6 6 (9.09%) Windows 10
6 6 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (7.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (1.52%) Android
10 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (21.21%) CI/CD
1 14 (21.21%) Cloud Security
2 12 (18.18%) DevOps
2 12 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
2 12 (18.18%) Identity Management
2 12 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (16.67%) RBAC
4 10 (15.15%) Agile
4 10 (15.15%) DevSecOps
4 10 (15.15%) Key Management
4 10 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (13.64%) ITIL
5 9 (13.64%) Microservices
5 9 (13.64%) Migration
6 8 (12.12%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 8 (12.12%) Mentoring
6 8 (12.12%) Observability
6 8 (12.12%) Service Management
6 8 (12.12%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (25.76%) PowerShell
2 16 (24.24%) Python
3 11 (16.67%) Java
4 7 (10.61%) Bash
4 7 (10.61%) Go
4 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.09%) SQL
6 2 (3.03%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.52%) Bicep
7 1 (1.52%) C#
7 1 (1.52%) VB
7 1 (1.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 29 (43.94%) SC Cleared
3 15 (22.73%) AWS Certification
4 12 (18.18%) Degree
5 10 (15.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (12.12%) MCSE
7 7 (10.61%) DV Cleared
8 6 (9.09%) Azure Certification
9 5 (7.58%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (3.03%) CCIE
12 2 (3.03%) CISM
12 2 (3.03%) CISSP
12 2 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (3.03%) MCSA
12 2 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (1.52%) CCSP
13 1 (1.52%) CEH
13 1 (1.52%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.67%) NCSC
2 7 (10.61%) NIST
3 4 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (4.55%) GDPR
5 2 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (3.03%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (3.03%) NIST 800
5 2 (3.03%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (34.85%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.58%) Docker
2 5 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.55%) VMware NSX
3 3 (4.55%) vSphere
4 2 (3.03%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (3.03%) XenApp
4 2 (3.03%) XenDesktop
5 1 (1.52%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 10 (15.15%) Terraform
2 10 (15.15%) WSUS
3 9 (13.64%) Istio
4 7 (10.61%) Consul
4 7 (10.61%) Grafana
4 7 (10.61%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (10.61%) linkerd
4 7 (10.61%) Packer
4 7 (10.61%) Prometheus
4 7 (10.61%) Rancher
4 7 (10.61%) ZABBIX
5 6 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (7.58%) HAProxy
6 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (7.58%) OPNET
7 4 (6.06%) SCCM
8 3 (4.55%) Ansible
8 3 (4.55%) Progress Chef
9 2 (3.03%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (48.48%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.12%) VMware
3 7 (10.61%) ForgeRock
3 7 (10.61%) Okta
3 7 (10.61%) Splunk
4 6 (9.09%) Apple
4 6 (9.09%) Palo Alto
5 5 (7.58%) ESET
6 4 (6.06%) Ping Identity
7 3 (4.55%) Cisco
7 3 (4.55%) Citrix
7 3 (4.55%) HP
8 2 (3.03%) BMC
8 2 (3.03%) Dell
8 2 (3.03%) Ericsson
8 2 (3.03%) F5
8 2 (3.03%) Fortinet
8 2 (3.03%) Google
8 2 (3.03%) NetScout
8 2 (3.03%) Veeam