Key Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Key Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Key Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 797 823 1124
Rank change year-on-year +26 +301 -305
Permanent jobs citing Key Management 99 147 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.14% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.15% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 87 56 65
10th Percentile £54,600 £31,250 £61,750
25th Percentile £57,597 £41,250 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -16.13% -3.13%
75th Percentile £88,750 £93,125 £92,500
90th Percentile £98,500 £100,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £42,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +47.72% -34.62% +18.18%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Key Management in the UK

Key Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Key Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Key Management in the UK

Key Management
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Key Management within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +70 93 £72,500 +11.54% 13
Work from Home +97 65 £70,000 +7.69% 5
London +95 56 £77,500 +3.33% 5
UK excluding London +1 34 £62,783 +47.72% 8
North of England +69 21 £62,783 +93.18%
Yorkshire +102 11 £56,500 -
North West +18 7 £62,783 +93.18%
South West - 4 £54,000 -
Northern Ireland +33 3 - -
South East +17 3 £87,500 +105.88% 3
East of England +10 3 £35,000 +12.00% 5
North East - 3 £62,783 -

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 4 (4.04%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 56 (56.57%) Azure
2 28 (28.28%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (26.26%) AWS
4 18 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
5 17 (17.17%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (17.17%) Microsoft Purview
6 12 (12.12%) AWS KMS
6 12 (12.12%) Azure Key Vault
6 12 (12.12%) Entra ID
6 12 (12.12%) GCP
7 7 (7.07%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.03%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 3 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.03%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (3.03%) Route 53
8 3 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (30.30%) TCP/IP
2 18 (18.18%) Firewall
3 14 (14.14%) LAN
3 14 (14.14%) Network Security
3 14 (14.14%) WAN
3 14 (14.14%) Wireshark
4 13 (13.13%) DNS
5 8 (8.08%) SSL
6 4 (4.04%) NAS
6 4 (4.04%) SAN
6 4 (4.04%) Skype
7 3 (3.03%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.01%) DHCP
8 1 (1.01%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.13%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.02%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Artifactory
1 2 (2.02%) GitLab
1 2 (2.02%) Gradle
General
1 34 (34.34%) Finance
2 17 (17.17%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.15%) Banking
4 13 (13.13%) Public Sector
5 12 (12.12%) Law
6 10 (10.10%) Legal
7 9 (9.09%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (4.04%) Military
9 3 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 26 (26.26%) Lead
3 24 (24.24%) Senior
4 19 (19.19%) Senior Security Engineer
5 16 (16.16%) Linux Engineer
5 16 (16.16%) Software Engineer
6 15 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (15.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (12.12%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 11 (11.11%) Information Security Engineer
9 10 (10.10%) Security Manager
10 9 (9.09%) Team Leader
11 8 (8.08%) Technical Leader
11 8 (8.08%) Ubuntu Engineer
12 7 (7.07%) Data Engineer
12 7 (7.07%) Information Manager
12 7 (7.07%) Information Security Manager
13 6 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
14 5 (5.05%) Architect
15 4 (4.04%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.12%) Kafka
2 10 (10.10%) GTK
3 8 (8.08%) Middleware
4 6 (6.06%) YAML
5 4 (4.04%) ARM Templates
6 3 (3.03%) Flash
7 2 (2.02%) Spring
7 2 (2.02%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (41.41%) PKI
2 16 (16.16%) Public Cloud
3 15 (15.15%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (15.15%) Management Information System
4 14 (14.14%) Security Operations Centre
5 12 (12.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (8.08%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (8.08%) Cyberattack
6 8 (8.08%) Data Fabric
6 8 (8.08%) Replication
7 4 (4.04%) CESG
7 4 (4.04%) CESG CLAS
7 4 (4.04%) Clustering
7 4 (4.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (4.04%) Fat Client
7 4 (4.04%) Thin Client
8 3 (3.03%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.03%) Data Centre
8 3 (3.03%) IBM Storwize
8 3 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (38.38%) Linux
2 34 (34.34%) Windows
3 28 (28.28%) Ubuntu
4 16 (16.16%) Debian
4 16 (16.16%) Unix
5 14 (14.14%) Android
5 14 (14.14%) Apple iOS
6 12 (12.12%) CentOS
6 12 (12.12%) Solaris
6 12 (12.12%) zOS
7 4 (4.04%) Windows Server
7 4 (4.04%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (4.04%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (37.37%) DevOps
2 34 (34.34%) Information Security
3 29 (29.29%) Agile
3 29 (29.29%) Cybersecurity
3 29 (29.29%) Secrets Management
4 25 (25.25%) SIEM
5 21 (21.21%) Cloud Security
5 21 (21.21%) Disaster Recovery
6 20 (20.20%) Zero Trust
7 19 (19.19%) Cryptography
7 19 (19.19%) Identity Access Management
7 19 (19.19%) Security Operations
7 19 (19.19%) Vulnerability Management
8 18 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
8 18 (18.18%) Ethical Hacking
8 18 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 18 (18.18%) Mentoring
8 18 (18.18%) Privileged Access Management
9 17 (17.17%) Roadmaps
9 17 (17.17%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 33 (33.33%) Python
2 22 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 19 (19.19%) Bash
4 17 (17.17%) C
5 7 (7.07%) SQL
6 6 (6.06%) C++
7 2 (2.02%) Java
7 2 (2.02%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.01%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.01%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 29 (29.29%) CISSP
2 20 (20.20%) CEH
3 19 (19.19%) Degree
4 18 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (17.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 17 (17.17%) CCSP
6 14 (14.14%) SANS
6 14 (14.14%) SSCP
7 12 (12.12%) Security Cleared
8 10 (10.10%) DV Cleared
9 8 (8.08%) CISA
10 6 (6.06%) CISM
10 6 (6.06%) CompTIA CySA+
10 6 (6.06%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (5.05%) SC Cleared
12 4 (4.04%) AWS Certification
12 4 (4.04%) CESG Certified Professional
12 4 (4.04%) CLAS
13 3 (3.03%) CCSK
13 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (32.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (21.21%) NIST
3 15 (15.15%) PCI DSS
4 10 (10.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (10.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (4.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 4 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (4.04%) JSP 440
5 4 (4.04%) RMADS
6 1 (1.01%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 14 (14.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (5.05%) Docker
4 4 (4.04%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.04%) VMware NSX
4 4 (4.04%) vSphere
5 3 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (14.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 14 (14.14%) Nmap
2 12 (12.12%) CA Single Sign-On
2 12 (12.12%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (5.05%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.04%) CASB
4 4 (4.04%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 4 (4.04%) SCCM
5 3 (3.03%) Terraform
5 3 (3.03%) ZABBIX
6 2 (2.02%) Grafana
6 2 (2.02%) Kibana
Vendors
1 33 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.18%) Qualys
2 18 (18.18%) Splunk
3 14 (14.14%) Rapid7
3 14 (14.14%) Thycotic
4 12 (12.12%) CA
4 12 (12.12%) CyberArk
4 12 (12.12%) IBM
4 12 (12.12%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.04%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.04%) VMware
6 3 (3.03%) Google
6 3 (3.03%) Netskope
6 3 (3.03%) Symantec
6 3 (3.03%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.02%) Oracle
8 1 (1.01%) Citrix
8 1 (1.01%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.01%) Intel
8 1 (1.01%) Thales