Key Management Contracts in England

Key Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Key Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Key Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 462 580 705
Rank change year-on-year +118 +125 -117
Contract jobs citing Key Management 76 75 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 52 61
10th Percentile £431 £426 £525
25th Percentile £470 £506 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £638 £616 £725
90th Percentile £704 £720 £813
UK median daily rate £625 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £59.75 -
25th Percentile - £72.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +305.41% -
75th Percentile - £79.75 £19.25
90th Percentile - £84.40 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +6.67% +305.41% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Key Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Key Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Key Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Key Management in England

Key Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Key Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Key Management in England

Key Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Key Management in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Key Management in England

Key Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Key Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Key Management in England

Key Management
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Key Management within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
South East +65 52 £625 +21.95% 3
London +66 12 £540 -1.82% 5
North of England - 6 £434 - 1
East of England +11 3 - - 5
North West - 3 £750 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £432 -
South West +12 2 £470 -21.67%
West Midlands +30 1 £750 - 1
Midlands +20 1 £750 - 1
Key Management
UK

Key Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (2.63%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 49 (64.47%) AWS
1 49 (64.47%) Azure
2 3 (3.95%) Amazon S3
2 3 (3.95%) Apigee
2 3 (3.95%) Entra ID
2 3 (3.95%) IaaS
2 3 (3.95%) PaaS
2 3 (3.95%) SaaS
3 2 (2.63%) AWS KMS
3 2 (2.63%) Azure API Management
3 2 (2.63%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (2.63%) GCP
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.32%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (1.32%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 44 (57.89%) SSL
2 10 (13.16%) Firewall
2 10 (13.16%) SD-WAN
2 10 (13.16%) WAN
3 3 (3.95%) DNS
3 3 (3.95%) Network Security
3 3 (3.95%) VPN
4 2 (2.63%) DHCP
4 2 (2.63%) Internet
4 2 (2.63%) NAS
4 2 (2.63%) SAN
4 2 (2.63%) Skype
5 1 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.95%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.95%) gulp
1 3 (3.95%) Jenkins
1 3 (3.95%) Maven
2 2 (2.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (19.74%) Finance
2 6 (7.89%) Banking
3 4 (5.26%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.32%) Automotive
5 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.32%) Military
5 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (55.26%) Architect
2 10 (13.16%) Consultant
2 10 (13.16%) Security Consultant
3 7 (9.21%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (6.58%) Cloud Consultant
4 5 (6.58%) Cloud Security Consultant
5 4 (5.26%) Azure Consultant
5 4 (5.26%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 4 (5.26%) Security Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Applications Consultant
6 3 (3.95%) Designer
7 2 (2.63%) Analyst
7 2 (2.63%) Business Analyst
7 2 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.63%) Lead
7 2 (2.63%) Wintel Engineer
8 1 (1.32%) Apigee Developer
8 1 (1.32%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (1.32%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 1 (1.32%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (55.26%) Web Services
2 5 (6.58%) .NET
3 3 (3.95%) Kafka
3 3 (3.95%) Node.js
3 3 (3.95%) OAuth
3 3 (3.95%) OpenID
3 3 (3.95%) RESTful
3 3 (3.95%) SAML
4 2 (2.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 56 (73.68%) PKI
2 5 (6.58%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.95%) IoT
4 3 (3.95%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.63%) Clustering
5 2 (2.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.63%) Fat Client
5 2 (2.63%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.63%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.32%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.37%) Linux
2 6 (7.89%) Windows
3 3 (3.95%) Android
3 3 (3.95%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.95%) zOS
4 2 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (60.53%) Cryptography
2 18 (23.68%) Data Encryption
3 17 (22.37%) Identity Access Management
4 15 (19.74%) Cloud Security
4 15 (19.74%) SIEM
5 12 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (14.47%) Risk Assessment
7 10 (13.16%) Database Security
7 10 (13.16%) Ethical Hacking
7 10 (13.16%) Penetration Testing
7 10 (13.16%) Security Auditing
8 8 (10.53%) Knowledge Transfer
9 7 (9.21%) DevSecOps
9 7 (9.21%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (7.89%) Application Security
10 6 (7.89%) ERP
10 6 (7.89%) Information Security
11 5 (6.58%) API Management
11 5 (6.58%) Security Architecture
11 5 (6.58%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.58%) Java
1 5 (6.58%) Kusto Query Language
1 5 (6.58%) Python
2 3 (3.95%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.63%) C#
3 2 (2.63%) PHP
3 2 (2.63%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.63%) Ruby
3 2 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (67.11%) Degree
2 48 (63.16%) Security Cleared
3 27 (35.53%) SC Cleared
4 24 (31.58%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 4 (5.26%) NIST
3 3 (3.95%) QA
4 1 (1.32%) GDPR
4 1 (1.32%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.32%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.32%) NCSC
4 1 (1.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 45 (59.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.26%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.63%) Docker
4 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.63%) vSphere
5 1 (1.32%) Firmware
5 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (13.16%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (5.26%) Ansible
3 2 (2.63%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 2 (2.63%) SCCM
4 1 (1.32%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.21%) Salesforce
3 5 (6.58%) VMware
4 3 (3.95%) F5
4 3 (3.95%) Google
5 2 (2.63%) Citrix
5 2 (2.63%) Qualys
5 2 (2.63%) Splunk
6 1 (1.32%) CA
6 1 (1.32%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.32%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.32%) IBM
6 1 (1.32%) Remedy
6 1 (1.32%) SAP
6 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow