Key Management Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Key Management
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring Key Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Key Management 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 0.56% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
North West median daily rate £497 £466 £775
% change year-on-year +6.78% -39.94% +10.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 251 75 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 70.31% 75.76% 82.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 35 81
10th Percentile £305 £399 £363
25th Percentile £400 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -
75th Percentile £539 £541 £550
90th Percentile £675 £606 £650
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 21
10th Percentile £13.64 £25.15 £45.22
25th Percentile £17.69 £25.82 £48.60
Median hourly rate £46.43 £36.53 £62.32
Median % change year-on-year +27.09% -41.37% +18.70%
75th Percentile £73.25 £56.82 £70.90
90th Percentile £78.11 £63.40 £80.59
North West median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +88.90% -37.64% +15.21%

Key Management
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria region over the 6 months to 14 October 2026. 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
Barrow-in-Furness - 2 £400 - 1
Key Management
North West

Key Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) CATAPAN
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Avaya
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Ekahau
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Meraki
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds