Key Management Contracts

Key Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 612 758
Rank change year-on-year +91 +146 -134
Contract jobs citing Key Management 79 101 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.19% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 68 67
10th Percentile £433 £425 £513
25th Percentile £500 £489 £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £725
90th Percentile £695 £720 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £460 £625
% change year-on-year +35.94% -26.44% +34.77%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +6.67% +305.41% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,621 53,662 80,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.30% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,254 37,244 56,449
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%

Key Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Key Management in the UK

Key Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Key Management in the UK

Key Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Key Management over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Key Management in the UK

Key Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Key Management in the UK

Key Management
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 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
England +106 76 £625 +13.64% 13
UK excluding London +100 64 £625 +35.94% 9
South East +63 52 £625 +21.95% 3
Work from Home +121 44 £625 +15.74% 6
London +66 12 £540 -1.82% 4
North of England - 6 £434 - 1
East of England +15 3 - - 5
Yorkshire - 3 £432 -
North West - 3 £750 - 1
South West +9 2 £470 -21.67%
West Midlands +27 1 £750 - 1
Midlands +21 1 £750 - 1

Key Management
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 3 (3.80%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 50 (63.29%) AWS
1 50 (63.29%) Azure
2 3 (3.80%) Amazon S3
2 3 (3.80%) Apigee
2 3 (3.80%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (3.80%) Entra ID
2 3 (3.80%) GCP
2 3 (3.80%) IaaS
2 3 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (3.80%) PaaS
2 3 (3.80%) SaaS
3 2 (2.53%) AWS KMS
3 2 (2.53%) Azure API Management
3 2 (2.53%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (2.53%) Serverless
4 1 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.27%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (1.27%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (1.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 44 (55.70%) SSL
2 10 (12.66%) Firewall
2 10 (12.66%) SD-WAN
2 10 (12.66%) WAN
3 3 (3.80%) DNS
3 3 (3.80%) Network Security
3 3 (3.80%) VPN
4 2 (2.53%) DHCP
4 2 (2.53%) Internet
4 2 (2.53%) NAS
4 2 (2.53%) SAN
4 2 (2.53%) Skype
5 1 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.80%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.80%) gulp
2 3 (3.80%) Maven
3 2 (2.53%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.27%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.27%) GitLab
General
1 15 (18.99%) Finance
2 6 (7.59%) Banking
3 4 (5.06%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.27%) Automotive
5 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.27%) Military
5 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (53.16%) Architect
2 10 (12.66%) Consultant
2 10 (12.66%) Security Consultant
3 7 (8.86%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (7.59%) Security Engineer
5 5 (6.33%) Cloud Consultant
5 5 (6.33%) Cloud Security Consultant
6 4 (5.06%) Azure Consultant
6 4 (5.06%) DevSecOps Consultant
7 3 (3.80%) Applications Consultant
7 3 (3.80%) Designer
8 2 (2.53%) Analyst
8 2 (2.53%) Business Analyst
8 2 (2.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.53%) Lead
8 2 (2.53%) Wintel Engineer
9 1 (1.27%) Developer
9 1 (1.27%) IT Consultant
9 1 (1.27%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.27%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (53.16%) Web Services
2 5 (6.33%) .NET
3 3 (3.80%) Kafka
3 3 (3.80%) Node.js
3 3 (3.80%) OAuth
3 3 (3.80%) OpenID
3 3 (3.80%) RESTful
3 3 (3.80%) SAML
4 2 (2.53%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 57 (72.15%) PKI
2 5 (6.33%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.06%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.80%) IoT
4 3 (3.80%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.80%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.53%) Clustering
5 2 (2.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (2.53%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.53%) Fat Client
5 2 (2.53%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.53%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.53%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.27%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.52%) Linux
2 6 (7.59%) Windows
3 3 (3.80%) Android
3 3 (3.80%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.80%) zOS
4 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.53%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (59.49%) Cryptography
2 19 (24.05%) Data Encryption
3 17 (21.52%) Identity Access Management
4 16 (20.25%) Cloud Security
5 15 (18.99%) SIEM
6 13 (16.46%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (13.92%) Penetration Testing
7 11 (13.92%) Risk Assessment
8 10 (12.66%) Database Security
8 10 (12.66%) Ethical Hacking
8 10 (12.66%) Security Auditing
9 8 (10.13%) DevSecOps
9 8 (10.13%) Knowledge Transfer
10 7 (8.86%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (7.59%) Application Security
11 6 (7.59%) ERP
11 6 (7.59%) Information Security
12 5 (6.33%) DevOps
12 5 (6.33%) SDLC
12 5 (6.33%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.59%) Python
2 5 (6.33%) Java
2 5 (6.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.53%) C#
4 2 (2.53%) PHP
4 2 (2.53%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.53%) Ruby
4 2 (2.53%) SQL
5 1 (1.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 51 (64.56%) Degree
2 48 (60.76%) Security Cleared
3 27 (34.18%) SC Cleared
4 24 (30.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (15.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 4 (5.06%) NIST
3 3 (3.80%) QA
4 1 (1.27%) GDPR
4 1 (1.27%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.27%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.27%) NCSC
4 1 (1.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 45 (56.96%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.06%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.53%) Docker
4 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.53%) vSphere
5 1 (1.27%) Firmware
5 1 (1.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (12.66%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (5.06%) Ansible
3 3 (3.80%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.53%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (2.53%) SCCM
4 2 (2.53%) Terraform
5 1 (1.27%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.27%) CASB
5 1 (1.27%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 12 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.86%) Salesforce
3 5 (6.33%) VMware
4 4 (5.06%) Google
5 3 (3.80%) F5
6 2 (2.53%) Citrix
6 2 (2.53%) Qualys
6 2 (2.53%) Splunk
7 1 (1.27%) CA
7 1 (1.27%) Cognizant
7 1 (1.27%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.27%) IBM
7 1 (1.27%) Remedy
7 1 (1.27%) SAP
7 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow