Key Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Key Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Key Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Key Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 426 491
Rank change year-on-year +99 +65 -99
Contract jobs citing Key Management 64 30 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.12% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.14% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 12 11
10th Percentile £418 £415 £513
25th Percentile £455 £448 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £460 £625
Median % change year-on-year +35.94% -26.44% +34.77%
75th Percentile £638 £539 £750
90th Percentile £738 £645 £813
UK median daily rate £625 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £59.75 -
25th Percentile - £72.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +305.41% -
75th Percentile - £79.75 £19.25
90th Percentile - £84.40 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +6.67% +305.41% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Key Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,514 21,548 27,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.76% 89.51% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,486 14,951 19,202
10th Percentile £248 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,030 1,307 1,367
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.18 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Key Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Key Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Key Management in the UK excluding London

Key Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Key Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Key Management in the UK excluding London

Key Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Key Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Key Management in the UK excluding London

Key Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Key Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Key Management in the UK excluding London

Key Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
South East +65 52 £625 +21.95% 3
North of England - 6 £434 - 1
East of England +11 3 - - 5
North West - 3 £750 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £432 -
South West +12 2 £470 -21.67%
West Midlands +30 1 £750 - 1
Midlands +20 1 £750 - 1
Key Management
UK

Key Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 48 (75.00%) AWS
2 45 (70.31%) Azure
3 3 (4.69%) Apigee
3 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
3 3 (4.69%) IaaS
3 3 (4.69%) PaaS
3 3 (4.69%) SaaS
4 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.13%) Azure API Management
4 2 (3.13%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (3.13%) GCP
4 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.56%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 43 (67.19%) SSL
2 3 (4.69%) DNS
2 3 (4.69%) VPN
3 2 (3.13%) DHCP
3 2 (3.13%) Internet
3 2 (3.13%) NAS
3 2 (3.13%) Network Security
3 2 (3.13%) SAN
3 2 (3.13%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.69%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) gulp
1 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.69%) Maven
2 2 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (6.25%) Finance
2 3 (4.69%) Banking
2 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
2 3 (4.69%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.56%) Automotive
3 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
3 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.56%) Military
3 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (65.63%) Architect
2 7 (10.94%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (4.69%) Designer
3 3 (4.69%) Security Engineer
4 2 (3.13%) Analyst
4 2 (3.13%) Business Analyst
4 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (3.13%) Lead
4 2 (3.13%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (1.56%) Apigee Developer
5 1 (1.56%) Consultant
5 1 (1.56%) Developer
5 1 (1.56%) IT Consultant
5 1 (1.56%) IT Security Consultant
5 1 (1.56%) Middleware Engineer
5 1 (1.56%) Security Consultant
5 1 (1.56%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.56%) Technical Architect
5 1 (1.56%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.56%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (65.63%) Web Services
2 5 (7.81%) .NET
3 3 (4.69%) Kafka
3 3 (4.69%) Node.js
3 3 (4.69%) OAuth
3 3 (4.69%) OpenID
3 3 (4.69%) RESTful
3 3 (4.69%) SAML
4 2 (3.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 45 (70.31%) PKI
2 5 (7.81%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.69%) IoT
3 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.69%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.13%) Clustering
4 2 (3.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.13%) Fat Client
4 2 (3.13%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.13%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.13%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.56%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.56%) Linux
2 6 (9.38%) Windows
3 3 (4.69%) Android
3 3 (4.69%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.69%) zOS
4 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (71.88%) Cryptography
2 8 (12.50%) Data Encryption
3 7 (10.94%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (7.81%) API Management
4 5 (7.81%) Cloud Security
4 5 (7.81%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (7.81%) Security Architecture
5 4 (6.25%) Cost Reduction
5 4 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (6.25%) Security Monitoring
5 4 (6.25%) SIEM
6 3 (4.69%) DevOps
6 3 (4.69%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (4.69%) Information Security
6 3 (4.69%) Microservices
6 3 (4.69%) Migration
6 3 (4.69%) Mobile Application Development
6 3 (4.69%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 3 (4.69%) System Testing
6 3 (4.69%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.81%) Java
1 5 (7.81%) Python
2 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.13%) C#
3 2 (3.13%) PHP
3 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.13%) Ruby
3 2 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 43 (67.19%) Degree
3 27 (42.19%) SC Cleared
4 24 (37.50%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) NIST
1 3 (4.69%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.56%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.56%) NCSC
3 1 (1.56%) NIST 800
System Software
1 45 (70.31%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.13%) Docker
4 2 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.13%) vSphere
5 1 (1.56%) Firmware
5 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (15.63%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (4.69%) Ansible
3 2 (3.13%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 2 (3.13%) SCCM
4 1 (1.56%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (10.94%) Salesforce
2 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.81%) VMware
4 3 (4.69%) F5
4 3 (4.69%) Google
5 2 (3.13%) Citrix
5 2 (3.13%) Qualys
5 2 (3.13%) Splunk
6 1 (1.56%) CA
6 1 (1.56%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.56%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.56%) IBM
6 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow