Key Management Contracts in London

Key Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 390 425
Rank change year-on-year +66 +35 +121
Contract jobs citing Key Management 26 14 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.080% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.090% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 38
10th Percentile £499 £438 £505
25th Percentile £578 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -1.82% -15.38%
75th Percentile £700 £585 £626
90th Percentile £740 - £722
England median daily rate £600 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -16.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,626 15,521 22,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.36% 88.34% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,790 11,071 16,509
10th Percentile £338 £343 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 309 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -28.60% +9.63%
75th Percentile £50.25 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.15 £82.50
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

Key Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Key Management in London

Key Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Key Management in London

Key Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Key Management in London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Key Management in London

Key Management
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 24 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
Central London +7 5 £721 +44.82% 4
East London +11 3 £585 - 1
Key Management
England

Key Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (3.85%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) OCI
3 5 (19.23%) AWS
4 3 (11.54%) Serverless
5 2 (7.69%) Azure AI
5 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Functions
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (7.69%) GCP
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.85%) AWS KMS
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.85%) IaaS
6 1 (3.85%) PaaS
6 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) SSL
2 4 (15.38%) HTTPS
2 4 (15.38%) SSH
3 3 (11.54%) S/MIME
4 2 (7.69%) Network Security
5 1 (3.85%) Internet
5 1 (3.85%) LAN
5 1 (3.85%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.85%) DB2
3 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.85%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
1 1 (3.85%) GitLab
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Banking
4 3 (11.54%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Architect
2 8 (30.77%) Security Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) C++ Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Linux Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Security Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) OAuth
1 6 (23.08%) OpenID
1 6 (23.08%) SAML
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.85%) HTML
3 1 (3.85%) JSON
3 1 (3.85%) Node.js
3 1 (3.85%) React
3 1 (3.85%) SOAP
3 1 (3.85%) Spring
3 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.85%) Web Services
3 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) PKI
2 7 (26.92%) Security Posture
3 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
3 4 (15.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (3.85%) Online Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Unix
1 5 (19.23%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) AIX
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Cloud Security
2 9 (34.62%) Identity Access Management
3 8 (30.77%) DevOps
3 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (30.77%) Project Management
4 7 (26.92%) Cryptography
4 7 (26.92%) Mentoring
5 6 (23.08%) Data Security
5 6 (23.08%) Secure Coding
6 5 (19.23%) Agile
6 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (19.23%) Integration Patterns
6 5 (19.23%) Risk Assessment
6 5 (19.23%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
7 4 (15.38%) DevSecOps
7 4 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (15.38%) Problem Management
7 4 (15.38%) Risk Management
7 4 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) Java
3 4 (15.38%) ActionScript
3 4 (15.38%) ActionScript 2.0
4 3 (11.54%) C
5 2 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (3.85%) Bash
6 1 (3.85%) C++
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (26.92%) Degree
3 5 (19.23%) OCP
3 5 (19.23%) Oracle Certification
3 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
4 4 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) NIST
2 9 (34.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 5 (19.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (7.69%) GDPR
5 2 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) CASB
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) Grafana
3 1 (3.85%) Nessus
3 1 (3.85%) SCCM
3 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Oracle
3 5 (19.23%) IBM
4 4 (15.38%) IBM Sterling
5 2 (7.69%) Tenable
6 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.85%) Google
6 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.85%) Qualys
6 1 (3.85%) Rapid7
6 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.85%) Splunk
6 1 (3.85%) Thales
6 1 (3.85%) Tripwire