PKI Contracts in the North West

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 111 148
Rank change year-on-year -15 +37 -31
Contract jobs citing PKI 9 39 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.32% 1.29% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.29% 4.03% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 28 24
10th Percentile £442 £463 £416
25th Percentile £528 £500 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £547 £619
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% -11.56% +45.59%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile - £650 £646
England median daily rate £550 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.24% +18.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.60
25th Percentile - - £27.38
Median hourly rate - - £38.00
75th Percentile - - £48.88
90th Percentile - - £54.80
England median hourly rate £23.80 £64.00 £60.25
% change year-on-year -62.81% +6.22% +301.67%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 695 967 1,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.89% 32.10% 35.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 633 1,075
10th Percentile £292 £295 £210
25th Percentile £413 £400 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +16.71%
75th Percentile £581 £606 £588
90th Percentile £690 £675 £675
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 39 56
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.50 £11.63
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.11 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.25 £27.50 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +42.86% +7.24%
75th Percentile £39.06 £58.18 £27.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £67.60 £61.88
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester -15 4 £625 +15.74% 2
Cheshire -12 1 £390 -30.91% 1
PKI
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (11.11%) nginx
2 1 (11.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Stack
5 1 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
5 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (11.11%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Skype
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Burp Suite
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) CentOS
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Cost Reduction
2 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Data Encryption
3 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Workflow
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
4 1 (11.11%) OWASP
4 1 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) Go
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (22.22%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Consul
3 1 (11.11%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (11.11%) Graphite
3 1 (11.11%) HAProxy
3 1 (11.11%) HP Fortify
3 1 (11.11%) Istio
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) linkerd
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (11.11%) Nmap
3 1 (11.11%) Packer
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) SCCM
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) CA
3 2 (22.22%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
4 1 (11.11%) PagerDuty
4 1 (11.11%) Proofpoint
4 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (11.11%) Sophos
4 1 (11.11%) Splunk