Key Management Contracts in England

Key Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Key Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Key Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 463 598
Rank change year-on-year +26 +135 +107
Contract jobs citing Key Management 49 78 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.24% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £450 £432 £426
25th Percentile £503 £462 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £602 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £685 £638 £616
90th Percentile £726 £734 £720
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £59.75
25th Percentile £77.50 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +305.41%
75th Percentile £92.50 - £79.75
90th Percentile - - £84.40
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +305.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,247 32,161 45,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.13% 86.56% 90.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,550 21,078 31,861
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 2,252 1,585
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.93 £10.91
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Key Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Key Management in England

Key Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Key Management in England

Key Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Key Management in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Key Management in England

Key Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Key Management in England

Key Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
London +52 22 £622 +15.19% 18
North of England +27 10 £525 +20.97% 9
South East 0 7 £664 +6.16% 7
Yorkshire +10 6 £425 -1.62% 1
South West +46 5 £639 +35.85% 9
North West +15 4 £563 -25.00% 8
East of England +29 3 £525 - 4
Midlands +19 1 £603 -19.60% 1
West Midlands +15 1 £603 -19.60% 1
Key Management
UK

Key Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (2.04%) IBM HTTP Server
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.61%) AWS
2 11 (22.45%) Azure
3 7 (14.29%) AWS KMS
3 7 (14.29%) OCI
4 4 (8.16%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.12%) GCP
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.04%) IaaS
7 1 (2.04%) PaaS
7 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (48.98%) SSL
2 7 (14.29%) HTTPS
2 7 (14.29%) SSH
3 5 (10.20%) S/MIME
4 4 (8.16%) Ethernet
4 4 (8.16%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (8.16%) NAS
4 4 (8.16%) SAN
4 4 (8.16%) X.509
5 2 (4.08%) Firewall
6 1 (2.04%) Internet
6 1 (2.04%) LAN
6 1 (2.04%) Network Security
6 1 (2.04%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (8.16%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.12%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.04%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Git
1 1 (2.04%) GitLab
General
1 10 (20.41%) Public Sector
1 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Banking
3 5 (10.20%) Finance
4 4 (8.16%) Automotive
5 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Legal
6 1 (2.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (44.90%) Architect
2 11 (22.45%) Security Architect
3 8 (16.33%) Lead
4 5 (10.20%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (6.12%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Consultant
6 2 (4.08%) Hardware Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Oracle Architect
7 1 (2.04%) Administrator
7 1 (2.04%) Applications Architect
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Architect
7 1 (2.04%) C++ Developer
7 1 (2.04%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 1 (2.04%) Deployment Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Linux Developer
7 1 (2.04%) Unix Administrator
7 1 (2.04%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) OAuth
1 8 (16.33%) OpenID
2 7 (14.29%) SAML
3 6 (12.24%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (10.20%) Web Services
5 4 (8.16%) Kafka
5 4 (8.16%) LDAP
5 4 (8.16%) Middleware
5 4 (8.16%) REST
6 1 (2.04%) HTML
6 1 (2.04%) JSON
6 1 (2.04%) Node.js
6 1 (2.04%) React
6 1 (2.04%) SOAP
6 1 (2.04%) Spring
6 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (32.65%) PKI
2 8 (16.33%) Algorithms
3 7 (14.29%) Security Posture
4 6 (12.24%) Management Information System
5 5 (10.20%) Onboarding
6 4 (8.16%) Clustering
6 4 (8.16%) Data Centre
7 3 (6.12%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
8 1 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (2.04%) Online Banking
8 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
8 1 (2.04%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Unix
2 7 (14.29%) Windows
3 6 (12.24%) Linux
4 2 (4.08%) AIX
5 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.04%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.82%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (32.65%) Cryptography
3 14 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 12 (24.49%) Mentoring
5 10 (20.41%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (20.41%) Identity Access Management
6 9 (18.37%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (16.33%) Computer Science
7 8 (16.33%) Data Security
7 8 (16.33%) Project Management
7 8 (16.33%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (14.29%) DevOps
9 6 (12.24%) Data Protection
9 6 (12.24%) Integration Patterns
9 6 (12.24%) Migration
9 6 (12.24%) Risk Assessment
10 5 (10.20%) Containerisation
10 5 (10.20%) High Availability
10 5 (10.20%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (10.20%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.45%) Python
2 8 (16.33%) Java
3 7 (14.29%) ActionScript
3 7 (14.29%) ActionScript 2.0
4 5 (10.20%) C
5 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.08%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.04%) Bash
7 1 (2.04%) C++
7 1 (2.04%) Korn
7 1 (2.04%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (40.82%) Security Cleared
2 14 (28.57%) Degree
3 8 (16.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (16.33%) DV Cleared
3 8 (16.33%) SC Cleared
4 6 (12.24%) OCP
4 6 (12.24%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.08%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.04%) CISSP
7 1 (2.04%) IBM Certification
7 1 (2.04%) OSCP
7 1 (2.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.45%) GDPR
1 11 (22.45%) NIST
2 10 (20.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 6 (12.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (8.16%) PCI DSS
6 3 (6.12%) AUTOSAR
6 3 (6.12%) NIST 800
7 2 (4.08%) FIPS 140-2
7 2 (4.08%) SOC 2
8 1 (2.04%) JSP 440
8 1 (2.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (18.37%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (6.12%) Docker
4 1 (2.04%) BitLocker
4 1 (2.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.16%) Grafana
2 4 (8.16%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.04%) Ansible
3 1 (2.04%) CASB
3 1 (2.04%) Nagios
3 1 (2.04%) Nessus
3 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.04%) Puppet
3 1 (2.04%) QRadar
3 1 (2.04%) SCCM
3 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (22.45%) Oracle
2 10 (20.41%) Microsoft
3 8 (16.33%) IBM
4 7 (14.29%) IBM Sterling
4 7 (14.29%) Splunk
5 4 (8.16%) Confluent
6 3 (6.12%) Thales
7 2 (4.08%) Palo Alto
7 2 (4.08%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.04%) Cisco
8 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace
8 1 (2.04%) Qualys
8 1 (2.04%) Rapid7
8 1 (2.04%) Tenable
8 1 (2.04%) Tripwire