Key Management Contract Job Trends in the South West

Key Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Key Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 116 145
Rank change year-on-year -12 +29 +31
Contract jobs citing Key Management 3 18 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.14% 0.75% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.89% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £470
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +22.34% -
75th Percentile - £627 £480
90th Percentile - £723 -
England median daily rate £650 £575 £675
% change year-on-year +13.04% -14.81% -

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 1,936 2,030 2,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 87.96% 84.76% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,132 1,222 1,829
10th Percentile £225 £313 £300
25th Percentile £385 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £639 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £721
England median daily rate £508 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 142 283
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.51 £20.30
25th Percentile £18.87 £30.75 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.08 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.30% -18.92% +27.14%

Key Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Key Management job vacancy trend in the South West

Key Management
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Key Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Key Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Key Management

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 13 November 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
Somerset - 3 £550 -
Key Management
England

Key Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (33.33%) MODAF Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (66.67%) Privileged Identity Management
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Detection
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) UX Research
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NCSC
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft