PKI Contracts in the UK excluding London

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 121 225 296
Rank change year-on-year +104 +71 +2
Contract jobs citing PKI 388 219 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.82% 0.97% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.40% 3.01% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 157 169
10th Percentile £363 £456 £413
25th Percentile £425 £506 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% +14.44%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £650
90th Percentile £673 £726 £740
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £570
% change year-on-year -5.98% +2.63% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £21.60
25th Percentile £36.75 - £27.38
Median hourly rate £38.50 £15.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +156.67% -60.53% +153.33%
75th Percentile £40.25 - £48.88
90th Percentile - - £54.80
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £65.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -63.38% -1.52% +107.09%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the UK excluding London

PKI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PKI in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PKI in the UK excluding London

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the UK excluding London

PKI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PKI in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the UK excluding London

PKI
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East +87 173 £605 -1.22% 23
South West +63 105 £550 -4.35% 9
West Midlands +68 85 £375 -33.92% 14
Midlands +65 85 £375 -30.23% 15
Scotland +36 15 £600 +13.74% 3
North of England -18 11 £600 +6.29% 4
North West -15 9 £600 +9.64% 3
East of England -10 5 £650 -7.14%
North East +7 2 £600 -27.18%
PKI
UK

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 63 (16.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (6.19%) Confluence
3 15 (3.87%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.55%) IIS
5 2 (0.52%) Apache
6 1 (0.26%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 92 (23.71%) Azure
2 60 (15.46%) AWS
3 37 (9.54%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (8.76%) Entra ID
5 21 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
5 21 (5.41%) Azure Storage
6 10 (2.58%) Power Platform
7 7 (1.80%) OneDrive
7 7 (1.80%) PaaS
8 6 (1.55%) GCP
8 6 (1.55%) Power Automate
8 6 (1.55%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.03%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.52%) AWS KMS
10 2 (0.52%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.52%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.26%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.26%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 75 (19.33%) DNS
2 67 (17.27%) DHCP
3 63 (16.24%) Firewall
4 57 (14.69%) WAN
5 55 (14.18%) BGP
5 55 (14.18%) IPsec
5 55 (14.18%) MPLS
6 54 (13.92%) SSL
7 52 (13.40%) VPN
8 45 (11.60%) Junos
9 23 (5.93%) VSAN
10 15 (3.87%) Network Security
11 11 (2.84%) SAN
12 8 (2.06%) Unified Communications
13 6 (1.55%) LAN
13 6 (1.55%) Skype
14 5 (1.29%) Fibre Channel
14 5 (1.29%) Kerberos
14 5 (1.29%) Remote Desktop
14 5 (1.29%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.35%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.55%) Power BI
4 4 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.03%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (6.19%) JIRA
2 16 (4.12%) Robot Framework
2 16 (4.12%) Sonatype Nexus
3 7 (1.80%) Bitbucket
4 6 (1.55%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.77%) Git
6 2 (0.52%) GitLab
6 2 (0.52%) JMeter
6 2 (0.52%) Selenium
7 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.26%) MSI
General
1 58 (14.95%) Social Skills
2 30 (7.73%) Public Sector
3 22 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (4.90%) Military
5 7 (1.80%) Finance
6 5 (1.29%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.03%) Automotive
8 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.52%) Advertising
9 2 (0.52%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.52%) Electronics
9 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.52%) Marketing
10 1 (0.26%) Banking
10 1 (0.26%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 88 (22.68%) Architect
2 41 (10.57%) Administrator
3 36 (9.28%) Systems Administrator
3 36 (9.28%) Wintel Administrator
3 36 (9.28%) Wintel Systems Administrator
4 33 (8.51%) Security Architect
5 32 (8.25%) Network Support
6 31 (7.99%) Security Engineer
7 29 (7.47%) 3rd Line Support
8 27 (6.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 26 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 25 (6.44%) Support Engineer
11 23 (5.93%) WAN Engineer
12 22 (5.67%) VMware Engineer
13 21 (5.41%) Active Directory Support
14 18 (4.64%) Test Engineer
15 17 (4.38%) 1st Line Engineer
16 16 (4.12%) Integration Engineer
16 16 (4.12%) Test and Integration Engineer
17 15 (3.87%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.05%) Web Services
2 21 (5.41%) ARM Templates
3 9 (2.32%) LDAP
4 7 (1.80%) .NET
5 4 (1.03%) .NET Framework
5 4 (1.03%) ModSecurity
6 2 (0.52%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.52%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.52%) Kafka
6 2 (0.52%) RESTful
7 1 (0.26%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.26%) cloud-init
7 1 (0.26%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.26%) JSON
7 1 (0.26%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.26%) Middleware
7 1 (0.26%) XML
7 1 (0.26%) XMPP
7 1 (0.26%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 43 (11.08%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (6.19%) Data Centre
3 8 (2.06%) Clustering
3 8 (2.06%) Public Cloud
4 6 (1.55%) Digital Signage
4 6 (1.55%) Security Posture
5 5 (1.29%) Fat Client
5 5 (1.29%) Replication
5 5 (1.29%) Thin Client
6 4 (1.03%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.52%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.26%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.26%) IoT
9 1 (0.26%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.26%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 154 (39.69%) Windows
2 95 (24.48%) Windows Server
3 80 (20.62%) Linux
4 57 (14.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 35 (9.02%) Windows Server 2016
6 25 (6.44%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (2.32%) Ubuntu
9 7 (1.80%) CentOS
10 6 (1.55%) Windows 10
11 4 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.52%) Solaris
12 2 (0.52%) VMS
12 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (20.10%) Agile
2 50 (12.89%) Load Balancing
3 46 (11.86%) Cryptography
4 43 (11.08%) ITIL
5 41 (10.57%) Key Management
6 39 (10.05%) Service Management
7 33 (8.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (7.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (7.22%) DevOps
9 28 (7.22%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 27 (6.96%) CI/CD
11 25 (6.44%) Release Management
12 24 (6.19%) Identity Access Management
13 23 (5.93%) Change Management
14 22 (5.67%) Converged Infrastructure
14 22 (5.67%) Identity Management
14 22 (5.67%) Privileged Identity Management
15 21 (5.41%) Analytics
15 21 (5.41%) Critical Thinking
15 21 (5.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 100 (25.77%) PowerShell
2 54 (13.92%) Python
3 28 (7.22%) SQL
4 21 (5.41%) Bicep
4 21 (5.41%) C#
4 21 (5.41%) VB
4 21 (5.41%) VBScript
5 5 (1.29%) Bash
6 1 (0.26%) C
6 1 (0.26%) C++
6 1 (0.26%) Go
6 1 (0.26%) Java
6 1 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 321 (82.73%) Security Cleared
2 184 (47.42%) DV Cleared
3 119 (30.67%) SC Cleared
4 84 (21.65%) Degree
5 31 (7.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (5.93%) MCSE
7 21 (5.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 19 (4.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 18 (4.64%) MCSA
10 5 (1.29%) OSCP
11 4 (1.03%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.77%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.77%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.26%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.32%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (1.80%) JSP 440
2 7 (1.80%) RMADS
3 1 (0.26%) COBIT
3 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.26%) NCSC
3 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 160 (41.24%) Active Directory
2 64 (16.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (10.05%) VMware ESXi
4 32 (8.25%) VMware NSX
5 30 (7.73%) vSphere
6 26 (6.70%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (5.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (4.12%) Hyper-V
9 6 (1.55%) Docker
10 5 (1.29%) VMware Server
11 4 (1.03%) BitLocker
11 4 (1.03%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (1.03%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.26%) Firmware
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 60 (15.46%) Ansible
2 53 (13.66%) Terraform
3 32 (8.25%) SCCM
4 29 (7.47%) Kubernetes
4 29 (7.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (7.22%) WSUS
6 27 (6.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 22 (5.67%) SCOM
8 18 (4.64%) vCenter Server
9 13 (3.35%) OPNET
10 9 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.55%) Nessus
12 5 (1.29%) ZABBIX
13 4 (1.03%) PowerCLI
13 4 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (1.03%) vMotion
14 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Clustering
15 2 (0.52%) CA Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
15 2 (0.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 109 (28.09%) Microsoft
2 94 (24.23%) VMware
3 55 (14.18%) Juniper
4 27 (6.96%) CA
5 16 (4.12%) Red Hat
6 15 (3.87%) Oracle
7 6 (1.55%) Google
7 6 (1.55%) Veeam
8 5 (1.29%) Cisco
9 4 (1.03%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.03%) Citrix
9 4 (1.03%) Infoblox
9 4 (1.03%) SAP
10 3 (0.77%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.52%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.52%) Splunk
12 1 (0.26%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.26%) PagerDuty
12 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.26%) Thales