PKI Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 88 108
Rank change year-on-year -35 +20 +11
Contract jobs citing PKI 1 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.056% 0.38% 0.054%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% 1.23% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £686 -
25th Percentile - £703 £1,075
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £738 £1,150
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% -35.87% +76.92%
75th Percentile - £750 £1,225
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £584
% change year-on-year - -5.82% -6.56%

All Generic Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 703 406 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 39.16% 31.21% 28.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 249 330
10th Percentile £303 £186 £280
25th Percentile £400 £358 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £587
90th Percentile £619 £700 £650
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 18
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.87 £15.07
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.13 £17.54
Median hourly rate £15.55 £32.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -52.15% +52.51% +12.16%
75th Percentile £21.30 £42.25 £22.00
90th Percentile £26.31 £60.29 £24.66
England median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.25% -10.11% +27.14%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

PKI job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

PKI
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing PKI

PKI
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing PKI

PKI
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire -13 1 £600 -18.64%
PKI
England

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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