PKI Contracts

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 207 311 443
Rank change year-on-year +104 +132 +31
Contract jobs citing PKI 490 452 478
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 0.81% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.78% 2.42% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 334 340
10th Percentile £363 £425 £413
25th Percentile £450 £491 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £561
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.45% +18.16%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £675 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £523
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +16.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 9
10th Percentile - £29.10 £44.55
25th Percentile - £50.25 £56.00
Median hourly rate £23.80 £65.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.38% -1.52% +107.09%
75th Percentile £27.91 £70.25 -
90th Percentile £35.32 £77.90 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £15.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +156.67% -60.53% +153.33%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the UK

PKI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in the UK

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the UK

PKI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the UK

PKI
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PKI over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PKI in the UK

PKI
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +121 467 £550 -7.82% 52
UK excluding London +110 394 £550 - 42
South East +83 168 £605 +0.83% 22
South West +61 107 £550 -4.35% 8
Work from Home +40 96 £605 +10.00% 39
Midlands +73 90 £375 -30.23% 6
West Midlands +72 90 £375 -33.92% 6
London +26 85 £550 -9.84% 11
Scotland +23 16 £600 +12.29% 1
North of England -12 14 £575 +1.95% 5
North West -11 10 £600 +9.09% 3
East of England -9 5 £650 -7.14% 1
North East +12 4 £431 -47.69% 1

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 83 (16.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (5.10%) Confluence
3 21 (4.29%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.04%) IIS
5 7 (1.43%) nginx
6 3 (0.61%) Apache
7 2 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.41%) Traefik
8 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.20%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 134 (27.35%) Azure
2 88 (17.96%) AWS
3 61 (12.45%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (9.59%) Entra ID
5 24 (4.90%) Azure Monitor
6 20 (4.08%) Azure Storage
7 16 (3.27%) GCP
8 12 (2.45%) Power Platform
9 9 (1.84%) Mimecast
9 9 (1.84%) PaaS
10 8 (1.63%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 6 (1.22%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.22%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.02%) GitHub
12 5 (1.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 107 (21.84%) DNS
2 103 (21.02%) Firewall
3 94 (19.18%) WAN
4 85 (17.35%) DHCP
5 81 (16.53%) VPN
6 77 (15.71%) IPsec
7 74 (15.10%) BGP
8 64 (13.06%) MPLS
9 60 (12.24%) SSL
10 49 (10.00%) Junos
11 29 (5.92%) LAN
12 23 (4.69%) Network Security
13 19 (3.88%) SD-WAN
14 18 (3.67%) VSAN
15 17 (3.47%) SAN
15 17 (3.47%) Wireless
16 16 (3.27%) OSPF
17 11 (2.24%) NAS
17 11 (2.24%) WLAN
18 10 (2.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.06%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.43%) MySQL
3 7 (1.43%) Power BI
4 6 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.41%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.41%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.41%) Tableau
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.20%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.20%) Redis
7 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (5.10%) JIRA
2 15 (3.06%) Robot Framework
2 15 (3.06%) Sonatype Nexus
3 12 (2.45%) Git
4 8 (1.63%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.22%) GitLab
7 2 (0.41%) JMeter
7 2 (0.41%) Selenium
8 1 (0.20%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.20%) Darcs
8 1 (0.20%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.20%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.20%) MSI
8 1 (0.20%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.20%) Travis CI
General
1 66 (13.47%) Social Skills
2 46 (9.39%) Public Sector
3 35 (7.14%) Finance
4 28 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (4.49%) Military
6 16 (3.27%) Banking
7 6 (1.22%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.82%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.82%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.61%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.61%) Automotive
11 2 (0.41%) Advertising
11 2 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.20%) Electronics
12 1 (0.20%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.20%) Marketing
12 1 (0.20%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 105 (21.43%) Architect
2 46 (9.39%) Security Architect
3 45 (9.18%) Administrator
4 39 (7.96%) Systems Administrator
4 39 (7.96%) Wintel Administrator
4 39 (7.96%) Wintel Systems Administrator
5 36 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 34 (6.94%) Network Support
7 33 (6.73%) Security Engineer
8 31 (6.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 31 (6.33%) 3rd Line Support
9 28 (5.71%) WAN Engineer
10 25 (5.10%) Support Engineer
11 23 (4.69%) Senior
12 20 (4.08%) Active Directory Support
13 19 (3.88%) Network Engineer
14 18 (3.67%) Test Engineer
15 17 (3.47%) 1st Line Engineer
15 17 (3.47%) Integration Engineer
15 17 (3.47%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (8.16%) Web Services
2 20 (4.08%) ARM Templates
3 15 (3.06%) LDAP
4 9 (1.84%) SAML
5 7 (1.43%) .NET
6 5 (1.02%) JSON
6 5 (1.02%) OAuth
6 5 (1.02%) OpenID
6 5 (1.02%) RESTful
6 5 (1.02%) SailPoint
6 5 (1.02%) XML
7 4 (0.82%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.82%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.82%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (0.82%) ModSecurity
7 4 (0.82%) REST
8 3 (0.61%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (0.61%) NETCONF
8 3 (0.61%) Software Packaging
8 3 (0.61%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 49 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 28 (5.71%) Data Centre
3 14 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 14 (2.86%) Security Posture
4 13 (2.65%) Clustering
5 9 (1.84%) Fat Client
5 9 (1.84%) Thin Client
6 8 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (1.63%) Replication
7 7 (1.43%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.22%) Digital Signage
9 5 (1.02%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.82%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.61%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.61%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.61%) IoT
12 2 (0.41%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 183 (37.35%) Windows
2 110 (22.45%) Windows Server
3 86 (17.55%) Linux
4 56 (11.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 35 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 25 (5.10%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (2.24%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.84%) CentOS
9 8 (1.63%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.82%) Unix
10 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.41%) VMS
11 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.20%) Debian
12 1 (0.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (18.57%) Agile
2 57 (11.63%) Load Balancing
3 54 (11.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (10.82%) Cryptography
4 53 (10.82%) Key Management
5 50 (10.20%) ITIL
6 49 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 47 (9.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 45 (9.18%) Identity Access Management
9 43 (8.78%) Service Management
10 40 (8.16%) DevOps
11 37 (7.55%) Change Management
12 33 (6.73%) CI/CD
13 30 (6.12%) Cloud Security
14 29 (5.92%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 27 (5.51%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (5.31%) Identity Management
17 25 (5.10%) RBAC
18 24 (4.90%) Release Management
19 23 (4.69%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 116 (23.67%) PowerShell
2 62 (12.65%) Python
3 33 (6.73%) SQL
4 23 (4.69%) C#
5 20 (4.08%) Bicep
5 20 (4.08%) VB
5 20 (4.08%) VBScript
6 11 (2.24%) Bash
7 5 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.82%) Go
9 3 (0.61%) Ruby
10 2 (0.41%) C++
10 2 (0.41%) Java
10 2 (0.41%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.20%) C
11 1 (0.20%) Perl
11 1 (0.20%) PHP
11 1 (0.20%) Rust
11 1 (0.20%) Solidity
11 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 339 (69.18%) Security Cleared
2 183 (37.35%) DV Cleared
3 137 (27.96%) SC Cleared
4 100 (20.41%) Degree
5 47 (9.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (5.31%) MCSE
7 20 (4.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 19 (3.88%) MCSA
8 19 (3.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (1.84%) CISSP
10 8 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.63%) CISM
11 6 (1.22%) SANS
12 5 (1.02%) CCNP
12 5 (1.02%) CRISC
12 5 (1.02%) OSCP
13 4 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.82%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.61%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 10 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
4 9 (1.84%) JSP 440
5 7 (1.43%) NCSC
5 7 (1.43%) RMADS
6 6 (1.22%) SLA
7 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.41%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) COBIT
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.20%) QA
System Software
1 193 (39.39%) Active Directory
2 70 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (7.35%) VMware ESXi
4 33 (6.73%) vSphere
5 28 (5.71%) VMware NSX
6 26 (5.31%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (4.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (4.49%) Hyper-V
9 13 (2.65%) Docker
10 7 (1.43%) BitLocker
10 7 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (1.02%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.82%) Shibboleth
12 4 (0.82%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 2 (0.41%) Squid
Systems Management
1 70 (14.29%) Terraform
2 68 (13.88%) Ansible
3 37 (7.55%) SCCM
4 35 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 35 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 35 (7.14%) SCOM
5 33 (6.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (5.71%) WSUS
7 19 (3.88%) vCenter Server
8 18 (3.67%) OPNET
9 14 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (2.24%) FortiGate
11 8 (1.63%) Nessus
12 6 (1.22%) ZABBIX
13 5 (1.02%) VxRail
14 4 (0.82%) Failover Clustering
14 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Clustering
14 4 (0.82%) Oracle Identity Management
14 4 (0.82%) PowerCLI
14 4 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 152 (31.02%) Microsoft
2 106 (21.63%) VMware
3 78 (15.92%) Juniper
4 32 (6.53%) CA
5 31 (6.33%) Cisco
6 21 (4.29%) Palo Alto
7 20 (4.08%) Oracle
8 15 (3.06%) Red Hat
8 15 (3.06%) SolarWinds
9 13 (2.65%) Dell
10 11 (2.24%) Fortinet
10 11 (2.24%) Google
11 8 (1.63%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.22%) Citrix
12 6 (1.22%) Extreme Networks
12 6 (1.22%) ForgeRock
12 6 (1.22%) HP
12 6 (1.22%) Ping Identity
12 6 (1.22%) Splunk
13 5 (1.02%) Forcepoint