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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 328 438
Rank change year-on-year +107 +110 +36
Contract jobs citing PKI 471 429 489
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.09% 0.77% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.63% 2.32% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 314 349
10th Percentile £363 £428 £413
25th Percentile £438 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% +18.42%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £675 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £565 £523
% change year-on-year -2.57% +8.04% +14.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 12
10th Percentile - £29.10 £51.73
25th Percentile - £50.25 £56.19
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 12,981 18,515 29,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.98% 33.24% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 12,737 20,609
10th Percentile £274 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £446 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £660 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 927 612 694
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.24 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £22.13 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +60.45% -18.03% +5.84%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.58
90th Percentile £71.50 £74.93 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +59.09% +2.33% -6.52%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +130 450 £550 -8.33% 53
UK excluding London +110 385 £550 -2.57% 47
South East +88 170 £605 -1.22% 23
South West +69 103 £550 -4.35% 9
Work from Home +33 91 £605 +9.26% 25
Midlands +68 85 £375 -30.23% 8
West Midlands +64 85 £375 -33.92% 8
London +4 76 £540 -13.60% 7
Scotland +24 15 £600 +12.29% 1
North of England -9 13 £575 +1.95% 6
North West -14 9 £600 +10.19% 4
East of England -8 5 £650 -7.14%
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 81 (17.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (5.31%) Confluence
3 19 (4.03%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.12%) IIS
5 6 (1.27%) nginx
6 2 (0.42%) Apache
6 2 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.21%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.21%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.21%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.64%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 130 (27.60%) Azure
2 85 (18.05%) AWS
3 58 (12.31%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (9.98%) Entra ID
5 24 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
6 20 (4.25%) Azure Storage
7 14 (2.97%) GCP
8 11 (2.34%) Power Platform
9 9 (1.91%) Mimecast
9 9 (1.91%) PaaS
10 8 (1.70%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 6 (1.27%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.27%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.06%) GitHub
12 5 (1.06%) Serverless
13 4 (0.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 101 (21.44%) DNS
2 93 (19.75%) Firewall
3 83 (17.62%) DHCP
4 79 (16.77%) WAN
5 70 (14.86%) VPN
6 65 (13.80%) IPsec
7 63 (13.38%) BGP
8 59 (12.53%) MPLS
8 59 (12.53%) SSL
9 46 (9.77%) Junos
10 22 (4.67%) Network Security
11 20 (4.25%) LAN
11 20 (4.25%) VSAN
12 17 (3.61%) SAN
12 17 (3.61%) SD-WAN
13 11 (2.34%) NAS
14 10 (2.12%) Wireless
15 9 (1.91%) OSPF
16 8 (1.70%) Unified Communications
17 7 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.18%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.49%) MySQL
3 7 (1.49%) Power BI
4 5 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.42%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.42%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.42%) Tableau
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.21%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.21%) Redis
6 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (5.31%) JIRA
2 16 (3.40%) Robot Framework
2 16 (3.40%) Sonatype Nexus
3 10 (2.12%) Git
4 7 (1.49%) Bitbucket
4 7 (1.49%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.06%) GitLab
6 2 (0.42%) JMeter
6 2 (0.42%) Selenium
7 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.21%) Darcs
7 1 (0.21%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.21%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.21%) MSI
7 1 (0.21%) Travis CI
General
1 64 (13.59%) Social Skills
2 39 (8.28%) Public Sector
3 34 (7.22%) Finance
4 26 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.03%) Military
6 16 (3.40%) Banking
7 6 (1.27%) Financial Institution
8 4 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (0.85%) Manufacturing
8 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.64%) Automotive
10 2 (0.42%) Advertising
10 2 (0.42%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.21%) Electronics
11 1 (0.21%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.21%) Marketing
11 1 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.21%) Retail
Job Titles
1 105 (22.29%) Architect
2 46 (9.77%) Security Architect
3 43 (9.13%) Administrator
4 37 (7.86%) Systems Administrator
4 37 (7.86%) Wintel Administrator
4 37 (7.86%) Wintel Systems Administrator
5 36 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 34 (7.22%) Security Engineer
7 33 (7.01%) Network Support
8 30 (6.37%) 3rd Line Support
9 27 (5.73%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 23 (4.88%) Support Engineer
10 23 (4.88%) WAN Engineer
11 20 (4.25%) Active Directory Support
11 20 (4.25%) Senior
12 18 (3.82%) Test Engineer
12 18 (3.82%) VMware Engineer
13 17 (3.61%) 1st Line Engineer
14 16 (3.40%) Integration Engineer
14 16 (3.40%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (8.49%) Web Services
2 20 (4.25%) ARM Templates
3 15 (3.18%) LDAP
4 9 (1.91%) SAML
5 7 (1.49%) .NET
6 5 (1.06%) JSON
6 5 (1.06%) OAuth
6 5 (1.06%) OpenID
6 5 (1.06%) RESTful
6 5 (1.06%) SailPoint
6 5 (1.06%) XML
7 4 (0.85%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.85%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.85%) ModSecurity
7 4 (0.85%) REST
8 3 (0.64%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.64%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (0.64%) NETCONF
8 3 (0.64%) Software Packaging
8 3 (0.64%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.55%) Self-Motivation
2 29 (6.16%) Data Centre
3 14 (2.97%) Public Cloud
3 14 (2.97%) Security Posture
4 12 (2.55%) Clustering
5 9 (1.91%) Fat Client
5 9 (1.91%) Thin Client
6 8 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (1.70%) Replication
7 6 (1.27%) Digital Signage
7 6 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.27%) Product Ownership
8 4 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.85%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.64%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.64%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.64%) IoT
10 2 (0.42%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 177 (37.58%) Windows
2 107 (22.72%) Windows Server
3 85 (18.05%) Linux
4 57 (12.10%) Windows Server 2019
5 35 (7.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 25 (5.31%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (2.12%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.70%) CentOS
9 6 (1.27%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.85%) Unix
10 4 (0.85%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.42%) VMS
11 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.21%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.21%) Debian
12 1 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (18.05%) Agile
2 53 (11.25%) Cryptography
2 53 (11.25%) Key Management
3 52 (11.04%) Load Balancing
4 48 (10.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (9.98%) Identity Access Management
6 46 (9.77%) Cybersecurity
6 46 (9.77%) ITIL
7 44 (9.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 39 (8.28%) Service Management
9 37 (7.86%) DevOps
10 31 (6.58%) CI/CD
11 29 (6.16%) Change Management
11 29 (6.16%) Cloud Security
11 29 (6.16%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 26 (5.52%) Identity Management
13 25 (5.31%) RBAC
14 24 (5.10%) Release Management
14 24 (5.10%) Test Automation
15 22 (4.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 115 (24.42%) PowerShell
2 63 (13.38%) Python
3 30 (6.37%) SQL
4 22 (4.67%) C#
5 20 (4.25%) Bicep
5 20 (4.25%) VB
5 20 (4.25%) VBScript
6 9 (1.91%) Bash
7 5 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.64%) Go
9 2 (0.42%) C++
9 2 (0.42%) Java
9 2 (0.42%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.42%) Ruby
10 1 (0.21%) C
10 1 (0.21%) Perl
10 1 (0.21%) PHP
10 1 (0.21%) Rust
10 1 (0.21%) Solidity
10 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 327 (69.43%) Security Cleared
2 183 (38.85%) DV Cleared
3 127 (26.96%) SC Cleared
4 96 (20.38%) Degree
5 45 (9.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (5.31%) MCSE
7 20 (4.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 19 (4.03%) MCSA
8 19 (4.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (1.91%) CISSP
10 8 (1.70%) CISM
11 7 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.27%) SANS
13 5 (1.06%) CRISC
13 5 (1.06%) OSCP
14 4 (0.85%) CCNP
14 4 (0.85%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.64%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.64%) CISA
15 3 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 9 (1.91%) Disclosure Scotland
4 8 (1.70%) JSP 440
5 7 (1.49%) RMADS
6 5 (1.06%) NCSC
7 4 (0.85%) SLA
8 3 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.42%) NIST
10 1 (0.21%) COBIT
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.21%) QA
System Software
1 190 (40.34%) Active Directory
2 68 (14.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (8.07%) VMware ESXi
4 35 (7.43%) vSphere
5 30 (6.37%) VMware NSX
6 25 (5.31%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (4.46%) Hyper-V
7 21 (4.46%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (2.34%) Docker
9 7 (1.49%) BitLocker
9 7 (1.49%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (1.06%) VMware Server
11 4 (0.85%) Shibboleth
11 4 (0.85%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.42%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 2 (0.42%) Squid
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 69 (14.65%) Terraform
2 68 (14.44%) Ansible
3 34 (7.22%) Kubernetes
3 34 (7.22%) SCCM
4 33 (7.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 33 (7.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (7.01%) SCOM
5 28 (5.94%) WSUS
6 19 (4.03%) vCenter Server
7 15 (3.18%) OPNET
8 14 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.70%) Nessus
10 7 (1.49%) FortiGate
11 5 (1.06%) VxRail
11 5 (1.06%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (0.85%) Oracle Identity Management
12 4 (0.85%) PowerCLI
12 4 (0.85%) vMotion
Vendors
1 147 (31.21%) Microsoft
2 105 (22.29%) VMware
3 66 (14.01%) Juniper
4 32 (6.79%) CA
5 22 (4.67%) Cisco
6 20 (4.25%) Oracle
7 15 (3.18%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.97%) Palo Alto
9 13 (2.76%) Dell
10 12 (2.55%) SolarWinds
11 11 (2.34%) Google
12 8 (1.70%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.27%) Citrix
13 6 (1.27%) ForgeRock
13 6 (1.27%) HP
13 6 (1.27%) Ping Identity
14 5 (1.06%) Forcepoint
14 5 (1.06%) Fortinet
14 5 (1.06%) SAP
14 5 (1.06%) Veeam