PKI Contracts in the South East

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies in the South East. 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 64 151 183
Rank change year-on-year +87 +32 +4
Contract jobs citing PKI 173 64 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.01% 1.13% 1.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.65% 3.32% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 46 61
10th Percentile - £478 £413
25th Percentile £425 £514 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £613 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +22.50% -
75th Percentile £638 £698 £650
90th Percentile £675 £721 £700
England median daily rate £550 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.24% +18.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £38.50 - -
75th Percentile £40.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.80 £64.00 £60.25
% change year-on-year -62.81% +6.22% +301.67%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,624 1,926 2,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.23% 34.01% 33.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 1,308 1,650
10th Percentile £210 £205 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £719 £675
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 93 117
10th Percentile £11.79 £17.82 £13.95
25th Percentile £18.35 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £54.37 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +152.88% -40.45%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £49.18
90th Percentile £75.16 £75.00 £63.25
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the South East 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
Hampshire +49 120 £600 - 13
Thames Valley +37 46 £605 +12.04% 6
Berkshire +18 38 £605 -3.20% 4
Buckinghamshire +28 8 £465 -9.27% 2
Surrey - 5 £675 -
West Sussex -5 2 £193 -72.32%
PKI
England

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 40 (23.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.36%) Confluence
3 4 (2.31%) IIS
4 3 (1.73%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.16%) Apache
6 1 (0.58%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 66 (38.15%) Azure
2 43 (24.86%) AWS
3 21 (12.14%) Azure Monitor
3 21 (12.14%) Azure Storage
3 21 (12.14%) Entra ID
3 21 (12.14%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.16%) PaaS
5 1 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.58%) Azure Stack
5 1 (0.58%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 51 (29.48%) SSL
2 44 (25.43%) DHCP
2 44 (25.43%) DNS
3 30 (17.34%) Firewall
4 5 (2.89%) SAN
5 4 (2.31%) BGP
5 4 (2.31%) IPsec
5 4 (2.31%) Junos
5 4 (2.31%) MPLS
5 4 (2.31%) NAS
6 3 (1.73%) Kerberos
6 3 (1.73%) VPN
6 3 (1.73%) WAN
7 2 (1.16%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.58%) 4G
8 1 (0.58%) 5G
8 1 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.58%) FCoE
8 1 (0.58%) Skype
8 1 (0.58%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.05%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.31%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (9.25%) Robot Framework
1 16 (9.25%) Sonatype Nexus
2 11 (6.36%) JIRA
3 3 (1.73%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.16%) Git
4 2 (1.16%) JMeter
4 2 (1.16%) Selenium
5 1 (0.58%) GitLab
5 1 (0.58%) MSI
General
1 33 (19.08%) Social Skills
2 9 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (5.20%) Military
3 6 (3.47%) Public Sector
4 5 (2.89%) Telecoms
5 3 (1.73%) Finance
5 3 (1.73%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.16%) Advertising
6 2 (1.16%) Automotive
6 2 (1.16%) Electronics
6 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.16%) Marketing
7 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.58%) Banking
7 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 79 (45.66%) Architect
2 29 (16.76%) Security Architect
3 28 (16.18%) Security Engineer
4 21 (12.14%) Active Directory Support
5 14 (8.09%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (8.09%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (8.09%) Support Specialist
6 13 (7.51%) Support Engineer
7 9 (5.20%) Active Directory Engineer
7 9 (5.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (5.20%) Test Engineer
8 8 (4.62%) Integration Engineer
8 8 (4.62%) Test and Integration Engineer
9 7 (4.05%) Active Directory Support Engineer
9 7 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (3.47%) Senior
11 5 (2.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 4 (2.31%) Operations Engineer
13 3 (1.73%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 3 (1.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (21.97%) Web Services
2 21 (12.14%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.73%) LDAP
4 2 (1.16%) .NET
4 2 (1.16%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.16%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.16%) Kafka
4 2 (1.16%) RESTful
5 1 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.58%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.58%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.14%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (2.31%) Fat Client
2 4 (2.31%) Thin Client
3 3 (1.73%) Replication
4 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.58%) Clustering
5 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.58%) IoT
5 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (37.57%) Windows
2 58 (33.53%) Windows Server
3 43 (24.86%) Windows Server 2019
4 41 (23.70%) Linux
5 23 (13.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (6.94%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (2.89%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.73%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.16%) Solaris
9 2 (1.16%) VMS
10 1 (0.58%) Unix
10 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (34.10%) Agile
2 45 (26.01%) Cryptography
3 38 (21.97%) Key Management
4 30 (17.34%) ITIL
5 29 (16.76%) Service Management
6 25 (14.45%) Release Management
7 22 (12.72%) DevOps
7 22 (12.72%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (12.14%) Analytics
8 21 (12.14%) CI/CD
8 21 (12.14%) Identity Management
8 21 (12.14%) Log Analytics
8 21 (12.14%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 21 (12.14%) Privileged Identity Management
8 21 (12.14%) RBAC
9 20 (11.56%) Test Automation
10 12 (6.94%) Identity Access Management
10 12 (6.94%) Scrum
11 11 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (5.78%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 77 (44.51%) PowerShell
2 44 (25.43%) Python
3 21 (12.14%) Bicep
3 21 (12.14%) C#
3 21 (12.14%) VB
3 21 (12.14%) VBScript
4 13 (7.51%) SQL
Qualifications
1 164 (94.80%) Security Cleared
2 99 (57.23%) DV Cleared
3 81 (46.82%) SC Cleared
4 69 (39.88%) Degree
5 21 (12.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 9 (5.20%) MCSA
6 9 (5.20%) MCSE
6 9 (5.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (5.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (1.73%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.73%) OSCP
8 2 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.58%) CCNA
9 1 (0.58%) CCSP
9 1 (0.58%) CISSP
9 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.05%) RMADS
2 1 (0.58%) COBIT
2 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 111 (64.16%) Active Directory
2 33 (19.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (12.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 21 (12.14%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.89%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.73%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 50 (28.90%) Ansible
2 43 (24.86%) Terraform
3 26 (15.03%) WSUS
4 25 (14.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 24 (13.87%) Kubernetes
6 22 (12.72%) SCCM
7 21 (12.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (12.14%) SCOM
8 6 (3.47%) Nessus
9 5 (2.89%) vCenter Server
10 4 (2.31%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (2.31%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.58%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.58%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.58%) WMI
Vendors
1 50 (28.90%) Microsoft
2 35 (20.23%) VMware
3 9 (5.20%) Red Hat
4 8 (4.62%) Oracle
5 5 (2.89%) Veeam
6 4 (2.31%) CA
6 4 (2.31%) Juniper
6 4 (2.31%) SAP
7 2 (1.16%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.58%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (0.58%) Cisco
8 1 (0.58%) F5
8 1 (0.58%) Forcepoint
8 1 (0.58%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.58%) Splunk