PKI Contracts in Scotland

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 132 157
Rank change year-on-year +24 +25 -24
Contract jobs citing PKI 17 28 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.79% 1.04% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.36% 2.84% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 21 5
10th Percentile £448 £450 £441
25th Percentile £491 £455 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% +10.50%
75th Percentile £619 £575 -
90th Percentile £700 £650 £545
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% +18.42%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 719 985 1,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.43% 36.44% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 667 798
10th Percentile £200 £231 £263
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £559
90th Percentile £651 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 25 21
10th Percentile £12.49 - £15.63
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £18.13 £13.16 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.77% -69.40% -5.49%
75th Percentile £35.00 £22.63 £52.50
90th Percentile £60.10 £51.34 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for PKI in Scotland

PKI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PKI in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for PKI in Scotland

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PKI in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for PKI in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Edinburgh +37 12 £600 +33.33% 2
Renfrewshire 0 4 - -
Glasgow 0 1 - - 2
PKI
UK

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) EPiServer
2 1 (5.88%) IIS
2 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.88%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
4 4 (23.53%) AWS
4 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (5.88%) AWS KMS
5 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) Firewall
2 5 (29.41%) DNS
3 4 (23.53%) DHCP
3 4 (23.53%) SMTP
3 4 (23.53%) SSL
3 4 (23.53%) VPN
4 1 (5.88%) BIG-IP
4 1 (5.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (5.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (5.88%) Internet
4 1 (5.88%) Network Security
4 1 (5.88%) SAN
4 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Security Specialist
2 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Network Security Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) LDAP
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Clustering
1 4 (23.53%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Windows
1 10 (58.82%) Windows Server
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Security Testing
2 8 (47.06%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (35.29%) Email Filtering
3 6 (35.29%) Kalman Filter
3 6 (35.29%) Security Operations
4 5 (29.41%) Agile
4 5 (29.41%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Penetration Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (29.41%) Risk Assessment
4 5 (29.41%) Static Application Security Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Threat Modelling
5 4 (23.53%) Architectural Design
5 4 (23.53%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (23.53%) DevSecOps
5 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (23.53%) ITIL
5 4 (23.53%) Project Delivery
5 4 (23.53%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 4 (23.53%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (23.53%) MCSE
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
1 10 (58.82%) Hyper-V
2 4 (23.53%) BitLocker
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (23.53%) Terminal Services
2 4 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) SCCM
2 5 (29.41%) Ansible
3 4 (23.53%) Terraform
3 4 (23.53%) vCenter Server
3 4 (23.53%) vMotion
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) VMware
2 4 (23.53%) Citrix
2 4 (23.53%) Infoblox
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) CA
3 1 (5.88%) F5