Key Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Key Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 412 491
Rank change year-on-year +89 +79 -84
Contract jobs citing Key Management 64 25 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.11% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.12% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 12 11
10th Percentile £418 £415 £513
25th Percentile £456 £448 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £460 £625
Median % change year-on-year +35.94% -26.44% +34.77%
75th Percentile £638 £539 £750
90th Percentile £750 £645 £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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,110 20,642 27,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.43% 89.51% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,201 14,252 18,911
10th Percentile £250 £255 £236
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £476
Median % change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,261 1,359
10th Percentile £12.31 £10.75 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.71 £61.30
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%

Key Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Key Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Key Management in the UK excluding London

Key Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Key Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Key Management in the UK excluding London

Key Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Key Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Key Management in the UK excluding London

Key Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Key Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Key Management in the UK excluding London

Key Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
South East +68 52 £625 +21.95% 3
North of England - 7 £436 - 1
North West - 4 £763 - 1
East of England +14 3 - - 4
Yorkshire - 3 £432 -
Scotland +39 1 £775 +70.33%
Midlands +27 1 £750 -
West Midlands +18 1 £750 -
Key Management
UK

Key Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 50 (78.13%) AWS
2 47 (73.44%) Azure
3 4 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 4 (6.25%) IaaS
3 4 (6.25%) PaaS
3 4 (6.25%) SaaS
4 3 (4.69%) Apigee
4 3 (4.69%) Azure API Management
4 3 (4.69%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (4.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.13%) GCP
6 1 (1.56%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 44 (68.75%) SSL
2 4 (6.25%) VPN
3 3 (4.69%) Network Security
4 2 (3.13%) Internet
5 1 (1.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.69%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) gulp
1 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.69%) Maven
1 3 (4.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (9.38%) Finance
2 4 (6.25%) Banking
3 3 (4.69%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.56%) Automotive
4 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.56%) Military
4 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (64.06%) Architect
2 7 (10.94%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (6.25%) Lead
3 4 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 3 (4.69%) Designer
5 2 (3.13%) Analyst
5 2 (3.13%) Business Analyst
6 1 (1.56%) Apigee Developer
6 1 (1.56%) Consultant
6 1 (1.56%) Data Engineer
6 1 (1.56%) Developer
6 1 (1.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (1.56%) IT Consultant
6 1 (1.56%) IT Security Consultant
6 1 (1.56%) Middleware Engineer
6 1 (1.56%) Security Consultant
6 1 (1.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (68.75%) Web Services
2 6 (9.38%) .NET
3 5 (7.81%) Kafka
4 3 (4.69%) Middleware
4 3 (4.69%) Node.js
4 3 (4.69%) OAuth
4 3 (4.69%) OpenID
4 3 (4.69%) RESTful
4 3 (4.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (65.63%) PKI
2 6 (9.38%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 3 (4.69%) IoT
3 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.69%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.13%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.56%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.56%) Linux
2 6 (9.38%) Windows
3 5 (7.81%) zOS
4 3 (4.69%) Android
4 3 (4.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (75.00%) Cryptography
2 9 (14.06%) Data Encryption
3 7 (10.94%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (10.94%) Security Architecture
4 6 (9.38%) API Management
4 6 (9.38%) Cloud Security
4 6 (9.38%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (7.81%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (7.81%) Security Monitoring
6 4 (6.25%) Cost Reduction
6 4 (6.25%) DevOps
6 4 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (6.25%) ETL
6 4 (6.25%) Microservices
6 4 (6.25%) Migration
7 3 (4.69%) Affinity Analysis
7 3 (4.69%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 3 (4.69%) Incident Response
7 3 (4.69%) Static Application Security Testing
7 3 (4.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.38%) Java
1 6 (9.38%) Python
2 3 (4.69%) C#
2 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
2 3 (4.69%) PHP
2 3 (4.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 45 (70.31%) Security Cleared
2 44 (68.75%) Degree
3 26 (40.63%) SC Cleared
4 21 (32.81%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) NIST
2 3 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (4.69%) QA
3 1 (1.56%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.56%) NCSC
3 1 (1.56%) NIST 800
System Software
1 45 (70.31%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.69%) Docker
3 3 (4.69%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (17.19%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (4.69%) Ansible
2 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.56%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (10.94%) Salesforce
2 5 (7.81%) F5
2 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.25%) VMware
4 3 (4.69%) Google
4 3 (4.69%) Qualys
4 3 (4.69%) Splunk
5 2 (3.13%) IBM
6 1 (1.56%) CA
6 1 (1.56%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.56%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow