Key Management Contracts in the North West

Key Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 119 114 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Key Management 7 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.32% 0.21% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £382 £751 -
25th Percentile £460 £753 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £763 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% - -
75th Percentile £559 £778 -
90th Percentile £619 £784 -
England median daily rate £585 £625 £588
% change year-on-year -6.40% +6.38% -9.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,914 2,031 2,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.96% 84.66% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,228 1,233 1,848
10th Percentile £279 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £401 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £593
90th Percentile £668 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 180 169
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.90 £32.75 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.80% -0.76% +51.52%
75th Percentile £57.57 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.38 £70.90 £63.15
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Key Management in the North West

Key Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Key Management in the North West

Key Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Key Management in the North West

Key Management
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire -12 5 £525 - 4
Manchester +7 2 £479 -37.21% 2
Key Management
England

Key Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (57.14%) Confluence
1 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) SSH
2 3 (42.86%) Ethernet
2 3 (42.86%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Automotive
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Tandem
2 3 (42.86%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Attestation
1 4 (57.14%) Change Management
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
1 4 (57.14%) Cryptography
1 4 (57.14%) Customer Experience
1 4 (57.14%) Data Protection
1 4 (57.14%) Incident Management
1 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
1 4 (57.14%) Information Security
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
1 4 (57.14%) Project Delivery
1 4 (57.14%) Project Management
1 4 (57.14%) Release Management
1 4 (57.14%) Service Management
1 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) AUTOSAR
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft