Key Management Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Key Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Key Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Key Management 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.41% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £462 - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £492 - -
North West median daily rate £452 £685 £700
% change year-on-year -34.10% -2.12% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,083 950 1,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.73% 89.45% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 727 566 985
10th Percentile £309 £294 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £595
90th Percentile £650 £681 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 36 49
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.42 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.82 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.80% +8.33% -21.36%
75th Percentile £55.00 £34.56 £61.25
90th Percentile £63.88 £65.00 £75.90
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £30.95 £35.73
% change year-on-year +3.39% -13.37% +34.66%

Key Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Key Management job vacancy trend in Manchester

Key Management
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Key Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Key Management

Key Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Local Government
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Legacy Code
2 2 (40.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Batch Processing
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Attestation
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (40.00%) Release Management
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (60.00%) ProC
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft