Key Management Contracts in the South West

Key Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 151 165
Rank change year-on-year +46 +14 +12
Contract jobs citing Key Management 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.30% 0.063% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.076% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £625 - -
25th Percentile £626 £460 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £639 £470 £600
Median % change year-on-year +35.85% -21.67% -
75th Percentile £663 £480 -
90th Percentile £670 - -
England median daily rate £602 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -3.76% +13.64% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.75
75th Percentile - - £81.69
90th Percentile - - £85.18
England median hourly rate £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +305.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,522 2,648 3,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.33% 82.98% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 966 1,690 2,398
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 335 334
10th Percentile £18.36 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.61 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.37
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Key Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Key Management in the South West

Key Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Key Management in the South West

Key Management
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Wiltshire +40 5 £639 +35.85% 5
Key Management
England

Key Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Hardware Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
1 4 (80.00%) PCI DSS