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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 319 454
Rank change year-on-year +119 +135 -7
Contract jobs citing PKI 511 487 478
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.18% 0.82% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.90% 2.48% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 363 332
10th Percentile £363 £413 £413
25th Percentile £438 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £555
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +6.31% +16.84%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £654
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +16.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 11
10th Percentile - £33.75 £47.41
25th Percentile £23.80 £52.50 £52.23
Median hourly rate £31.15 £59.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.65% +3.48% -4.96%
75th Percentile £47.06 £66.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £59.33 £74.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.75 £35.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +45.00% -33.33% +249.97%

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 13,086 19,646 29,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.32% 33.26% 33.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,417 13,497 20,479
10th Percentile £263 £309 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £676 £657
90th Percentile £798 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 902 642 722
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.04% -17.49% +3.52%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +28.41% +10.00% -16.67%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +126 484 £550 -8.33% 77
UK excluding London +118 400 £550 -4.35% 66
South East +89 158 £605 +0.83% 22
South West +82 110 £550 -4.35% 18
Work from Home +39 96 £605 +10.00% 53
London +36 96 £575 -4.17% 18
Midlands +89 95 £350 -36.36% 11
West Midlands +82 95 £350 -46.15% 6
Scotland +30 17 £600 +13.21% 7
North of England -16 15 £503 -14.02% 5
North West -19 10 £600 +6.19% 3
North East +15 5 £423 -43.60%
East of England 0 5 £650 -7.14% 2

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 75 (14.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (4.31%) SharePoint
3 21 (4.11%) Confluence
4 7 (1.37%) nginx
5 5 (0.98%) IIS
6 4 (0.78%) Apache
7 2 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.39%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.39%) Traefik
8 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.20%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Dynamics GP
1 3 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 134 (26.22%) Azure
2 95 (18.59%) AWS
3 54 (10.57%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (8.81%) Entra ID
5 21 (4.11%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (3.33%) Azure Storage
7 14 (2.74%) GCP
8 10 (1.96%) Power Platform
9 9 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (1.57%) Mimecast
10 8 (1.57%) OneDrive
11 7 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.17%) PaaS
12 6 (1.17%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.17%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.17%) Serverless
13 5 (0.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 5 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (0.98%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 113 (22.11%) Firewall
2 112 (21.92%) WAN
3 111 (21.72%) DNS
4 94 (18.40%) IPsec
5 93 (18.20%) BGP
6 90 (17.61%) VPN
7 84 (16.44%) DHCP
8 74 (14.48%) MPLS
9 63 (12.33%) SSL
10 50 (9.78%) Junos
11 36 (7.05%) LAN
12 27 (5.28%) Network Security
13 24 (4.70%) Wireless
14 23 (4.50%) OSPF
15 20 (3.91%) SD-WAN
16 19 (3.72%) SAN
17 18 (3.52%) WLAN
18 16 (3.13%) VSAN
19 11 (2.15%) Cisco ASA
19 11 (2.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.37%) MySQL
3 7 (1.37%) Power BI
4 6 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.59%) Tableau
6 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.20%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.20%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.20%) Redis
7 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (4.70%) JIRA
2 14 (2.74%) Robot Framework
2 14 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
3 12 (2.35%) Git
4 6 (1.17%) GitLab
4 6 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.78%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.39%) JMeter
6 2 (0.39%) Selenium
6 2 (0.39%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.20%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.20%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.20%) Darcs
7 1 (0.20%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.20%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.20%) MSI
7 1 (0.20%) Travis CI
General
1 64 (12.52%) Social Skills
2 53 (10.37%) Public Sector
3 36 (7.05%) Finance
4 31 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (3.72%) Military
6 13 (2.54%) Banking
7 6 (1.17%) Financial Institution
8 5 (0.98%) Aerospace
8 5 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (0.78%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.59%) Automotive
10 3 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.39%) Advertising
11 2 (0.39%) Aviation
11 2 (0.39%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.20%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.20%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.20%) Police
12 1 (0.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 104 (20.35%) Architect
2 49 (9.59%) Administrator
3 44 (8.61%) Security Architect
4 43 (8.41%) Systems Administrator
4 43 (8.41%) Wintel Administrator
4 43 (8.41%) Wintel Systems Administrator
5 37 (7.24%) WAN Engineer
6 35 (6.85%) Network Support
7 33 (6.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 32 (6.26%) Network Engineer
9 30 (5.87%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 30 (5.87%) 3rd Line Support
10 27 (5.28%) Security Engineer
11 26 (5.09%) Senior
12 21 (4.11%) Support Engineer
13 18 (3.52%) Wintel Engineer
14 17 (3.33%) 1st Line Engineer
14 17 (3.33%) Network Specialist
14 17 (3.33%) Test Engineer
15 16 (3.13%) Active Directory Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (8.61%) Web Services
2 16 (3.13%) ARM Templates
3 13 (2.54%) LDAP
4 10 (1.96%) SAML
5 6 (1.17%) JSON
5 6 (1.17%) XML
6 5 (0.98%) .NET
6 5 (0.98%) Apache NiFi
6 5 (0.98%) RESTful
6 5 (0.98%) SailPoint
7 4 (0.78%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.78%) OAuth
7 4 (0.78%) OpenID
8 3 (0.59%) HTML
8 3 (0.59%) Jinja
8 3 (0.59%) Kafka
8 3 (0.59%) NETCONF
8 3 (0.59%) React
8 3 (0.59%) REST
8 3 (0.59%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 45 (8.81%) Self-Motivation
2 30 (5.87%) Data Centre
3 18 (3.52%) Clustering
4 12 (2.35%) Public Cloud
5 11 (2.15%) Security Posture
6 9 (1.76%) Fat Client
6 9 (1.76%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.76%) Thin Client
7 8 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.17%) Digital Signage
9 5 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.59%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.59%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.59%) IoT
11 3 (0.59%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.59%) Replication
11 3 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 182 (35.62%) Windows
2 108 (21.14%) Windows Server
3 84 (16.44%) Linux
4 53 (10.37%) Windows Server 2019
5 34 (6.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 23 (4.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (2.15%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.57%) Windows Server 2003
9 7 (1.37%) CentOS
9 7 (1.37%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.78%) Unix
11 2 (0.39%) VMS
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.20%) Debian
12 1 (0.20%) Solaris
12 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (17.42%) Agile
2 62 (12.13%) Load Balancing
3 58 (11.35%) Cryptography
4 57 (11.15%) Key Management
5 55 (10.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 48 (9.39%) Cybersecurity
6 48 (9.39%) ITIL
7 46 (9.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 43 (8.41%) Service Management
9 41 (8.02%) Change Management
10 39 (7.63%) DevOps
10 39 (7.63%) Identity Access Management
11 31 (6.07%) Cloud Security
11 31 (6.07%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (5.48%) Change Control
13 27 (5.28%) CI/CD
13 27 (5.28%) SIEM
14 26 (5.09%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 24 (4.70%) Identity Management
15 24 (4.70%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 105 (20.55%) PowerShell
2 50 (9.78%) Python
3 33 (6.46%) SQL
4 22 (4.31%) C#
5 17 (3.33%) VB
5 17 (3.33%) VBScript
6 16 (3.13%) Bicep
7 11 (2.15%) Bash
8 5 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.78%) Go
9 4 (0.78%) Java
10 3 (0.59%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.59%) Ruby
11 2 (0.39%) C++
12 1 (0.20%) C
12 1 (0.20%) Perl
12 1 (0.20%) PHP
12 1 (0.20%) Rust
12 1 (0.20%) Solidity
12 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 354 (69.28%) Security Cleared
2 191 (37.38%) DV Cleared
3 144 (28.18%) SC Cleared
4 98 (19.18%) Degree
5 47 (9.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (4.11%) MCSE
7 17 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 16 (3.13%) MCSA
8 16 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.76%) CISM
10 9 (1.76%) CISSP
11 8 (1.57%) CCNP
12 7 (1.37%) SANS
13 6 (1.17%) CCNA
13 6 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (1.17%) CRISC
13 6 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.59%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.94%) JSP 440
2 13 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 8 (1.57%) Disclosure Scotland
5 7 (1.37%) NCSC
5 7 (1.37%) RMADS
6 5 (0.98%) SLA
7 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.39%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.20%) QA
System Software
1 185 (36.20%) Active Directory
2 63 (12.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (7.05%) VMware ESXi
4 30 (5.87%) vSphere
5 26 (5.09%) VMware NSX
6 25 (4.89%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (4.70%) Hyper-V
8 20 (3.91%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (2.15%) Docker
10 8 (1.57%) BitLocker
10 8 (1.57%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (1.17%) Terminal Services
12 5 (0.98%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.78%) Shibboleth
13 4 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.59%) NFS
15 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
15 2 (0.39%) Squid
Systems Management
1 61 (11.94%) Terraform
2 58 (11.35%) Ansible
3 34 (6.65%) SCCM
4 32 (6.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 30 (5.87%) SCOM
6 29 (5.68%) Kubernetes
6 29 (5.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 24 (4.70%) WSUS
8 23 (4.50%) OPNET
8 23 (4.50%) vCenter Server
9 16 (3.13%) FortiGate
10 12 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.57%) Nessus
12 7 (1.37%) Microsoft Clustering
13 6 (1.17%) vMotion
13 6 (1.17%) ZABBIX
14 5 (0.98%) Failover Clustering
15 4 (0.78%) Grafana
15 4 (0.78%) Oracle Identity Management
15 4 (0.78%) VxRail
Vendors
1 150 (29.35%) Microsoft
2 102 (19.96%) VMware
3 94 (18.40%) Juniper
4 37 (7.24%) Cisco
5 32 (6.26%) Palo Alto
6 27 (5.28%) CA
7 20 (3.91%) Oracle
8 19 (3.72%) Fortinet
9 16 (3.13%) SolarWinds
10 14 (2.74%) Red Hat
11 11 (2.15%) Citrix
11 11 (2.15%) Dell
11 11 (2.15%) Extreme Networks
12 9 (1.76%) Google
13 8 (1.57%) CyberArk
14 7 (1.37%) F5
14 7 (1.37%) HP
14 7 (1.37%) Splunk
15 6 (1.17%) Aruba
15 6 (1.17%) Veeam