Key Management Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Key Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Key Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 119 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Contract jobs citing Key Management 18 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.57% 0.13% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £325 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £638 - -
England median daily rate £600 £575 £675
% change year-on-year +4.35% -14.81% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,707 1,980 2,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.40% 86.16% 84.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 1,249 1,512
10th Percentile £250 £250 £259
25th Percentile £376 £375 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £481
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.06% -2.93%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 68 96
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.13
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.97
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -2.17% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.59 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Key Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Key Management job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Key Management
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Key Management

Key Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Key Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Key Management in the Midlands

Key Management
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
West Midlands -17 18 £482 - 8
Key Management
England

Key Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
2 3 (16.67%) AWS KMS
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 3 (16.67%) IaaS
2 3 (16.67%) PaaS
2 3 (16.67%) SaaS
2 3 (16.67%) Serverless
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) SSH
2 5 (27.78%) Kerberos
3 3 (16.67%) DHCP
3 3 (16.67%) DNS
4 2 (11.11%) SSL
General
1 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Consultant
2 6 (33.33%) Management Consultant
3 4 (22.22%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) Administrator
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Build Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Development Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) IT Security Officer
5 1 (5.56%) Security Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Security Officer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) LDAP
2 5 (27.78%) OAuth
2 5 (27.78%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) PKI
2 5 (27.78%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (16.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Linux
1 10 (55.56%) Windows
2 7 (38.89%) AIX
2 7 (38.89%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (38.89%) RBAC
3 6 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
4 5 (27.78%) Data Protection
4 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) Cryptography
5 4 (22.22%) Migration
5 4 (22.22%) Strategic Planning
6 3 (16.67%) Agile
6 3 (16.67%) Change Management
6 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 3 (16.67%) IT Governance
6 3 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 3 (16.67%) Product Management
6 3 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (16.67%) Product Vision
6 3 (16.67%) User Stories
6 3 (16.67%) Workflow
7 2 (11.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (22.22%) Bash
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) CISM
1 4 (22.22%) CISSP
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) PCI DSS
2 5 (27.78%) GDPR
3 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (16.67%) FIPS 140-2
4 3 (16.67%) NIST
4 3 (16.67%) SOC 2
5 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (11.11%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) CASB
4 1 (5.56%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) BeyondTrust
1 7 (38.89%) CyberArk
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) AppDynamics
3 3 (16.67%) Dynatrace