Key Management Contracts in the North of England

Key Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 165 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Key Management 13 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.12% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £342 £751 -
25th Percentile £459 £753 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £763 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.95% - -
75th Percentile £570 £778 -
90th Percentile £653 £784 -
England median daily rate £585 £625 £588
% change year-on-year -6.40% +6.38% -9.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,489 3,500 4,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.73% 84.03% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,218 2,115 3,202
10th Percentile £268 £300 £298
25th Percentile £375 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% -0.50% +0.50%
75th Percentile £553 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 248 209
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.06 £18.25
Median hourly rate £22.63 £25.45 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year -11.08% -13.14% +48.35%
75th Percentile £44.09 £48.75 £45.88
90th Percentile £73.25 £70.00 £56.62
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Key Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Key Management in the North of England

Key Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Key Management in the North of England

Key Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Key Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Key Management in the North of England

Key Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
North West -5 7 £492 -35.48% 7
Yorkshire - 6 £500 - 2
Key Management
England

Key Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 5 (38.46%) Confluence
2 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) SSH
2 3 (23.08%) Ethernet
2 3 (23.08%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (15.38%) NAS
3 2 (15.38%) SAN
3 2 (15.38%) SSL
4 1 (7.69%) Firewall
4 1 (7.69%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Automotive
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Security Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Subject Matter Expert
4 1 (7.69%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
1 2 (15.38%) LDAP
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
1 2 (15.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Tandem
2 3 (23.08%) Algorithms
3 2 (15.38%) Clustering
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (7.69%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Unix
2 4 (30.77%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) AIX
3 1 (7.69%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Cryptography
2 5 (38.46%) Change Management
2 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
3 4 (30.77%) Attestation
3 4 (30.77%) Customer Experience
3 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (30.77%) Data Protection
3 4 (30.77%) Incident Management
3 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
3 4 (30.77%) Information Security
3 4 (30.77%) ITIL
3 4 (30.77%) Project Delivery
3 4 (30.77%) Project Management
3 4 (30.77%) Release Management
3 4 (30.77%) Service Management
3 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) High Availability
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) ActionScript
1 1 (7.69%) ActionScript 2.0
1 1 (7.69%) Bash
1 1 (7.69%) Korn
1 1 (7.69%) Perl
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) CISM
3 1 (7.69%) CISSP
3 1 (7.69%) IBM Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) AUTOSAR
1 3 (23.08%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) FIPS 140-2
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Nagios
3 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) IBM
2 3 (23.08%) Splunk
3 2 (15.38%) Confluent
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (7.69%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat