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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 483 570
Rank change year-on-year +53 +87 +147
Contract jobs citing Key Management 53 70 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.22% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 48 47
10th Percentile £460 £437 £495
25th Percentile £506 £540 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -16.98%
75th Percentile £683 £638 £640
90th Percentile £721 £741 £725
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £84.90 - -
25th Percentile £88.50 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £91.00 £80.00 £75.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% +5.61% +309.46%
75th Percentile £91.50 - £81.69
90th Percentile - - £85.18
UK median hourly rate £91.00 £80.00 £75.75
% change year-on-year +13.75% +5.61% +309.46%

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 22,825 31,956 42,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.34% 85.23% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,747 20,674 29,622
10th Percentile £300 £303 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,101 2,390 1,546
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £37.75 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -29.93% +7.76% +36.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +65 26 £648 +20.00% 78
North of England +19 10 £525 +20.41% 18
East of England +31 9 £306 - 20
Yorkshire +6 6 £425 -1.62% 4
North West +3 4 £563 -26.23% 13
South East +7 3 - - 48
West Midlands +10 2 £614 +11.64% 1
Midlands +6 2 £614 +11.64% 2
South West +45 1 £650 - 18
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 (1.89%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 13 (24.53%) Azure
2 12 (22.64%) AWS
3 7 (13.21%) AWS KMS
3 7 (13.21%) OCI
4 4 (7.55%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (5.66%) GCP
5 3 (5.66%) Serverless
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (3.77%) Azure AI
6 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 19 (35.85%) SSL
2 7 (13.21%) HTTPS
2 7 (13.21%) SSH
3 4 (7.55%) Ethernet
3 4 (7.55%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (7.55%) NAS
3 4 (7.55%) SAN
4 3 (5.66%) S/MIME
5 2 (3.77%) Network Security
5 2 (3.77%) X.509
6 1 (1.89%) Firewall
6 1 (1.89%) Internet
6 1 (1.89%) LAN
6 1 (1.89%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (7.55%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.66%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.89%) DB2
3 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.89%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) GitLab
2 1 (1.89%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (18.87%) Public Sector
2 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
3 8 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (13.21%) Banking
4 7 (13.21%) Military
5 5 (9.43%) Finance
6 4 (7.55%) Automotive
7 2 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.89%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Architect
2 12 (22.64%) Lead
3 11 (20.75%) Security Engineer
4 10 (18.87%) Security Architect
5 4 (7.55%) Consultant
6 3 (5.66%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Applications Consultant
7 2 (3.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.77%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 2 (3.77%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.77%) Oracle Architect
7 2 (3.77%) Security Consultant
7 2 (3.77%) Senior
8 1 (1.89%) Administrator
8 1 (1.89%) Applications Architect
8 1 (1.89%) Data Consultant
8 1 (1.89%) Deployment Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) Senior Security Consultant
8 1 (1.89%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) OAuth
1 8 (15.09%) OpenID
2 7 (13.21%) SAML
3 6 (11.32%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (7.55%) Kafka
4 4 (7.55%) LDAP
4 4 (7.55%) Middleware
4 4 (7.55%) REST
4 4 (7.55%) Web Services
5 1 (1.89%) HTML
5 1 (1.89%) JSON
5 1 (1.89%) Node.js
5 1 (1.89%) React
5 1 (1.89%) SOAP
5 1 (1.89%) Spring
5 1 (1.89%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.42%) PKI
2 9 (16.98%) Management Information System
3 8 (15.09%) Security Posture
4 5 (9.43%) Algorithms
4 5 (9.43%) Onboarding
5 4 (7.55%) Clustering
6 3 (5.66%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.89%) Online Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Robotics
7 1 (1.89%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.09%) Unix
2 7 (13.21%) Windows
3 2 (3.77%) AIX
3 2 (3.77%) Linux
4 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.89%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (30.19%) Cloud Security
3 13 (24.53%) Cryptography
4 12 (22.64%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (22.64%) Mentoring
5 11 (20.75%) Identity Access Management
6 10 (18.87%) Data Security
6 10 (18.87%) DevOps
7 9 (16.98%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (16.98%) Project Management
7 9 (16.98%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (13.21%) GAP Analysis
8 7 (13.21%) Incident Management
8 7 (13.21%) Information Assurance
8 7 (13.21%) Patch Management
8 7 (13.21%) Security Management
9 6 (11.32%) Agile
9 6 (11.32%) Data Protection
9 6 (11.32%) MODAF
9 6 (11.32%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.75%) Python
2 8 (15.09%) Java
3 7 (13.21%) ActionScript
3 7 (13.21%) ActionScript 2.0
4 5 (9.43%) C
5 2 (3.77%) Bash
5 2 (3.77%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (3.77%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.89%) C++
6 1 (1.89%) Korn
6 1 (1.89%) Perl
6 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (43.40%) Security Cleared
2 14 (26.42%) Degree
3 12 (22.64%) SC Cleared
4 6 (11.32%) OCP
4 6 (11.32%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (9.43%) DV Cleared
6 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.89%) CISSP
8 1 (1.89%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (37.74%) NIST
2 12 (22.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (16.98%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 9 (16.98%) NIST 800
4 8 (15.09%) GDPR
5 7 (13.21%) JSP 440
5 7 (13.21%) NCSC
6 6 (11.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (7.55%) SOC 2
8 3 (5.66%) AUTOSAR
9 2 (3.77%) FIPS 140-2
System Software
1 9 (16.98%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.32%) Firmware
3 4 (7.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 4 (7.55%) Docker
4 1 (1.89%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.43%) Grafana
3 4 (7.55%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.66%) CASB
5 2 (3.77%) Ansible
5 2 (3.77%) Terraform
6 1 (1.89%) Nagios
6 1 (1.89%) Nessus
6 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.89%) Puppet
6 1 (1.89%) SCCM
6 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) Oracle
2 9 (16.98%) Microsoft
3 8 (15.09%) IBM
4 7 (13.21%) IBM Sterling
5 6 (11.32%) Splunk
6 4 (7.55%) Confluent
6 4 (7.55%) Thales
7 2 (3.77%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.77%) Tenable
8 1 (1.89%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.89%) Google
8 1 (1.89%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.89%) Qualys
8 1 (1.89%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.89%) Tripwire