PKI Contracts with Work from Home Options

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PKI over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 276 432
Rank change year-on-year +24 +156 -39
Contract jobs citing PKI 93 184 188
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.63% 0.75% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.19% 2.37% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 151 127
10th Percentile £465 £413 £413
25th Percentile £563 £456 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £543 £540
Median % change year-on-year +11.52% +0.46% +20.00%
75th Percentile £638 £639 £622
90th Percentile - £700 £741
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +18.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 9
10th Percentile - £62.40 £44.55
25th Percentile - £63.00 £56.00
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -1.52% -
75th Percentile - £66.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £65.00 £61.75
% change year-on-year -63.38% +5.26% +64.67%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,242 7,770 13,904
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.74% 31.54% 31.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,893 5,493 9,954
10th Percentile £325 £370 £360
25th Percentile £438 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £825 £793 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 149 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £13.66
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.71 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +29.93%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.90
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
% change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%

PKI
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PKI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PKI trend for jobs with a WFH option

PKI
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PKI.

PKI daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PKI
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PKI over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

PKI daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PKI
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PKI.

PKI hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

PKI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 28 (30.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.15%) Apache
2 2 (2.15%) Confluence
2 2 (2.15%) nginx
3 1 (1.08%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.08%) Ethereum
3 1 (1.08%) Hyperledger
3 1 (1.08%) IIS
3 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.08%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.08%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 63 (67.74%) Azure
2 45 (48.39%) AWS
3 21 (22.58%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (21.51%) Entra ID
5 17 (18.28%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (18.28%) Azure Storage
6 3 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (2.15%) GCP
7 2 (2.15%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.08%) Boomi
8 1 (1.08%) GitHub
8 1 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.08%) IaaS
8 1 (1.08%) iPaaS
8 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.08%) PaaS
8 1 (1.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 37 (39.78%) SSL
2 31 (33.33%) DNS
3 29 (31.18%) DHCP
4 25 (26.88%) Firewall
5 6 (6.45%) VPN
5 6 (6.45%) WAN
6 5 (5.38%) LAN
7 4 (4.30%) Network Security
7 4 (4.30%) TCP/IP
7 4 (4.30%) Wireless
8 3 (3.23%) BGP
8 3 (3.23%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (3.23%) IPsec
8 3 (3.23%) OSPF
8 3 (3.23%) WLAN
9 2 (2.15%) SAN
10 1 (1.08%) BIG-IP
10 1 (1.08%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (1.08%) Internet
10 1 (1.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.08%) CouchDB
2 1 (1.08%) MySQL
2 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.08%) Redis
2 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Git
2 2 (2.15%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.15%) JIRA
2 2 (2.15%) Terragrunt
3 1 (1.08%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.08%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.08%) Darcs
3 1 (1.08%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.08%) Mercurial
3 1 (1.08%) Travis CI
General
1 22 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.15%) Finance
4 2 (2.15%) Military
4 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.08%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.08%) Automotive
5 1 (1.08%) Banking
5 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (43.01%) Architect
2 17 (18.28%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (15.05%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (15.05%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (15.05%) Support Specialist
4 8 (8.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (8.60%) Senior
5 5 (5.38%) Security Architect
6 4 (4.30%) Active Directory Engineer
6 4 (4.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Developer
7 3 (3.23%) Network Specialist
7 3 (3.23%) Support Engineer
8 2 (2.15%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 2 (2.15%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.15%) Network Engineer
8 2 (2.15%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (2.15%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (36.56%) Web Services
2 17 (18.28%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.23%) React
3 3 (3.23%) REST
4 2 (2.15%) .NET
4 2 (2.15%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.15%) CSS
5 1 (1.08%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.08%) EJB
5 1 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.08%) gRPC
5 1 (1.08%) HTML
5 1 (1.08%) JWT
5 1 (1.08%) Kafka
5 1 (1.08%) LDAP
5 1 (1.08%) Middleware
5 1 (1.08%) SAML
5 1 (1.08%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (1.08%) Svelte
5 1 (1.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.35%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (2.15%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.08%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.08%) CBDC
3 1 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.08%) Digital Currency
3 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.08%) Smartcard
3 1 (1.08%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 36 (38.71%) Linux
2 30 (32.26%) Windows
3 25 (26.88%) Windows Server
4 17 (18.28%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (18.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.15%) CentOS
5 2 (2.15%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (43.01%) Cryptography
2 35 (37.63%) Key Management
3 30 (32.26%) Agile
4 27 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (27.96%) ITIL
6 24 (25.81%) DevOps
7 21 (22.58%) CI/CD
8 20 (21.51%) Release Management
9 19 (20.43%) Service Management
10 18 (19.35%) Identity Management
10 18 (19.35%) RBAC
11 17 (18.28%) Analytics
11 17 (18.28%) Log Analytics
11 17 (18.28%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 17 (18.28%) Privileged Identity Management
12 9 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (8.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (7.53%) Problem Management
15 6 (6.45%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.81%) PowerShell
2 19 (20.43%) C#
3 17 (18.28%) Bicep
3 17 (18.28%) VB
3 17 (18.28%) VBScript
4 4 (4.30%) SQL
5 3 (3.23%) Bash
5 3 (3.23%) Java
5 3 (3.23%) Python
6 2 (2.15%) C++
6 2 (2.15%) Go
7 1 (1.08%) C
7 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.08%) Perl
7 1 (1.08%) PHP
7 1 (1.08%) Ruby
7 1 (1.08%) Rust
7 1 (1.08%) Solidity
7 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 70 (75.27%) Security Cleared
2 65 (69.89%) Degree
3 54 (58.06%) SC Cleared
4 45 (48.39%) DV Cleared
5 17 (18.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (3.23%) MCSE
6 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.08%) MCSA
8 1 (1.08%) SANS
8 1 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (3.23%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.08%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.08%) NCSC
3 1 (1.08%) NIST
System Software
1 68 (73.12%) Active Directory
2 19 (20.43%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (18.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (3.23%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.15%) Squid
6 2 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.08%) Docker
7 1 (1.08%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.08%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (20.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 19 (20.43%) Kubernetes
1 19 (20.43%) SCCM
2 18 (19.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (19.35%) WSUS
3 17 (18.28%) SCOM
4 9 (9.68%) Terraform
5 6 (6.45%) Ansible
6 3 (3.23%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.15%) HAProxy
7 2 (2.15%) Kibana
8 1 (1.08%) Check_MK
8 1 (1.08%) Grafana
8 1 (1.08%) logstash
8 1 (1.08%) Nessus
8 1 (1.08%) Nmap
8 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.08%) Puppet
8 1 (1.08%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.45%) Cisco
2 6 (6.45%) Palo Alto
3 5 (5.38%) VMware
4 4 (4.30%) Fortinet
4 4 (4.30%) Juniper
5 2 (2.15%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.15%) Oracle
5 2 (2.15%) SAP
5 2 (2.15%) Splunk
6 1 (1.08%) Axway
6 1 (1.08%) Citrix
6 1 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.08%) Dell
6 1 (1.08%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.08%) Google
6 1 (1.08%) HP
6 1 (1.08%) IBM
6 1 (1.08%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.08%) SolarWinds