Key Management Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Key Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Key Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 120 137
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 +48
Contract jobs citing Key Management 6 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.33% 0.15% 0.080%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.16% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £370 - £501
25th Percentile £471 £576 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £578 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +13.24% +2.00%
75th Percentile £606 £579 £523
90th Percentile £644 - £527
Central London median daily rate £543 £450 £510
% change year-on-year +20.56% -11.76% +2.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Key Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,666 1,894 2,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.40% 92.17% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,170 1,158 1,603
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -0.92%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £760 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.52 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £42.12 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £50.63 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -24.29% +27.27% -34.13%

Key Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Key Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Key Management job vacancy trend in the City of London

Key Management
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Key Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Key Management

Key Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Key Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Key Management in the City of London

Key Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (16.67%) Impala
1 1 (16.67%) OLTP
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Local Government
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) DBA
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Senior
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
1 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) OpenID
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Code
2 1 (16.67%) Market Risk
2 1 (16.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Cryptography
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Rapid Prototyping
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) Korn
2 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (16.67%) ProC
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle