PKI Contracts in the Midlands

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 125 182
Rank change year-on-year +65 +57 -34
Contract jobs citing PKI 85 33 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.88% 1.03% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.67% 3.15% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 15 19
10th Percentile £300 £418 £363
25th Percentile £313 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £388 £638 £606
90th Percentile £391 £700 £718
England median daily rate £550 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.24% +18.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
England median hourly rate £23.80 £64.00 £60.25
% change year-on-year -62.81% +6.22% +301.67%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 879 1,047 1,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.82% 32.53% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 690 1,054
10th Percentile £213 £263 £213
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £611 £606 £575
90th Percentile £702 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 38 47
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.41 £14.05
25th Percentile £13.91 £20.22 £15.13
Median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +56.61% +9.75%
75th Percentile £28.88 £54.69 £22.75
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £26.37
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
West Midlands +68 85 £375 -33.92% 14
PKI
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (7.06%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.88%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.06%) Azure
1 6 (7.06%) Entra ID
1 6 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
1 6 (7.06%) OneDrive
1 6 (7.06%) Power Automate
1 6 (7.06%) Power Platform
1 6 (7.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 53 (62.35%) WAN
2 51 (60.00%) BGP
2 51 (60.00%) IPsec
2 51 (60.00%) MPLS
3 41 (48.24%) Junos
3 41 (48.24%) VPN
4 18 (21.18%) Firewall
5 6 (7.06%) Unified Communications
6 5 (5.88%) DHCP
6 5 (5.88%) DNS
6 5 (5.88%) Fibre Channel
6 5 (5.88%) Kerberos
6 5 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (5.88%) SAN
7 4 (4.71%) LAN
8 2 (2.35%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.06%) Power BI
General
1 8 (9.41%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.06%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.18%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 31 (36.47%) Network Support
2 24 (28.24%) 3rd Line Support
3 22 (25.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 22 (25.88%) WAN Engineer
4 17 (20.00%) 1st Line Engineer
5 12 (14.12%) 2nd Line Support
6 11 (12.94%) Support Engineer
7 9 (10.59%) Network Engineer
8 8 (9.41%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Engineer
11 5 (5.88%) Administrator
11 5 (5.88%) Network Support Engineer
11 5 (5.88%) Server Administrator
11 5 (5.88%) VMWare Administrator
12 3 (3.53%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 3 (3.53%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 3 (3.53%) Project Engineer
13 2 (2.35%) IAM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.88%) LDAP
2 1 (1.18%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.88%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (7.06%) Digital Signage
3 5 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.82%) Windows
2 11 (12.94%) Windows Server
3 6 (7.06%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (7.06%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (4.71%) CentOS
4 4 (4.71%) Linux
4 4 (4.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (54.12%) Load Balancing
2 19 (22.35%) Network Design
3 17 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
4 9 (10.59%) Incident Management
5 6 (7.06%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (7.06%) Customer Service
5 6 (7.06%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (7.06%) ITIL
5 6 (7.06%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 6 (7.06%) Service Delivery
6 5 (5.88%) Validation
6 5 (5.88%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 4 (4.71%) Change Control
7 4 (4.71%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (4.71%) Patch Management
7 4 (4.71%) Task Automation
8 3 (3.53%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (1.18%) Key Management
9 1 (1.18%) Security Architecture
9 1 (1.18%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.71%) Bash
3 1 (1.18%) C
3 1 (1.18%) C++
3 1 (1.18%) Java
Qualifications
1 50 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.94%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.88%) OSCP
System Software
1 16 (18.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.88%) VMware NSX
2 5 (5.88%) VMware Server
2 5 (5.88%) vSphere
3 1 (1.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (7.06%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (60.00%) Juniper
2 22 (25.88%) CA
3 16 (18.82%) Microsoft
4 6 (7.06%) Oracle
5 5 (5.88%) VMware
6 1 (1.18%) Thales