PKI Contracts in the West Midlands

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 107 162
Rank change year-on-year +73 +55 -48
Contract jobs citing PKI 90 24 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.63% 1.07% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.33% 3.22% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 8 12
10th Percentile £300 £386 £428
25th Percentile £313 £422 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £568 £563
Median % change year-on-year -33.92% +0.89% +25.00%
75th Percentile £388 £700 £700
90th Percentile - - £779
England median daily rate £550 £598 £563
% change year-on-year -8.08% +6.37% +18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
England median hourly rate £23.80 £64.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -62.81% +68.42% +153.33%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 628 745 1,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.29% 33.13% 28.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 483 739
10th Percentile £265 £265 £275
25th Percentile £363 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £645 £638 £591
90th Percentile £750 £700 £700
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 23 20
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.72 £12.63
25th Percentile £14.71 £20.74 £15.00
Median hourly rate £24.65 £27.50 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% +64.18% -0.42%
75th Percentile £40.50 £30.00 £20.75
90th Percentile £58.75 £56.75 £30.03
England median hourly rate £36.00 £22.49 £26.39
% change year-on-year +60.11% -14.78% +3.47%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PKI in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for PKI in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PKI in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PKI in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for PKI in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Solihull +7 59 £375 +7.14% 2
Birmingham +20 22 £350 -50.00%
Shropshire - 5 £300 -
Warwickshire - 5 £674 - 2
PKI
England

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.56%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.67%) Azure
1 6 (6.67%) Entra ID
1 6 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
1 6 (6.67%) OneDrive
1 6 (6.67%) Power Automate
1 6 (6.67%) Power Platform
1 6 (6.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 59 (65.56%) WAN
2 57 (63.33%) BGP
2 57 (63.33%) IPsec
2 57 (63.33%) MPLS
3 45 (50.00%) Junos
3 45 (50.00%) VPN
4 17 (18.89%) Firewall
5 6 (6.67%) DNS
5 6 (6.67%) Unified Communications
6 5 (5.56%) DHCP
6 5 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
6 5 (5.56%) Kerberos
6 5 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (5.56%) SAN
7 4 (4.44%) LAN
8 2 (2.22%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.67%) Power BI
General
1 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
1 8 (8.89%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (36.67%) Network Support
2 27 (30.00%) WAN Engineer
3 26 (28.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 26 (28.89%) 3rd Line Support
4 17 (18.89%) 1st Line Engineer
5 13 (14.44%) 2nd Line Support
5 13 (14.44%) Support Engineer
6 10 (11.11%) Network Engineer
7 8 (8.89%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 8 (8.89%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Network Support Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Administrator
9 5 (5.56%) Server Administrator
9 5 (5.56%) VMWare Administrator
10 4 (4.44%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Project Engineer
12 2 (2.22%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (27.78%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.67%) Digital Signage
3 5 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.78%) Windows
2 11 (12.22%) Windows Server
3 6 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (4.44%) CentOS
4 4 (4.44%) Linux
4 4 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (55.56%) Load Balancing
2 20 (22.22%) Network Design
3 17 (18.89%) Impact Assessments
4 9 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 6 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (6.67%) Customer Service
5 6 (6.67%) ITIL
5 6 (6.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 6 (6.67%) Service Delivery
6 5 (5.56%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (5.56%) Validation
6 5 (5.56%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 4 (4.44%) Change Control
7 4 (4.44%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (4.44%) Patch Management
7 4 (4.44%) Task Automation
8 3 (3.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.44%) Bash
Qualifications
1 54 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.22%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.56%) OSCP
System Software
1 16 (17.78%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.56%) VMware NSX
2 5 (5.56%) VMware Server
2 5 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 57 (63.33%) Juniper
2 22 (24.44%) CA
3 16 (17.78%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.67%) Oracle
5 5 (5.56%) VMware