Key Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Key Management
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 322 421
Rank change year-on-year +11 +99 +71
Contract jobs citing Key Management 26 66 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.32% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.38% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 41 12
10th Percentile £503 £418 £415
25th Percentile £525 £460 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £460
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +35.94% -26.44%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £539
90th Percentile £715 £750 £645
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £59.75
25th Percentile £77.50 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +305.41%
75th Percentile £92.50 - £79.75
90th Percentile - - £84.40
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +305.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,463 17,414 21,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.37% 84.70% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,190 10,403 14,840
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 832 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.56
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
% change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%

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 5 May 2025.

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 5 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
North of England +26 10 £525 +20.41% 5
South East -2 7 £664 +6.16% 5
Yorkshire +19 6 £425 -1.62%
South West +38 5 £639 +35.85% 9
North West +14 4 £563 -26.23% 5
East of England +31 3 £525 - 3
Midlands +19 1 £603 -19.60% 1
West Midlands +18 1 £603 -19.60% 1
Scotland +12 1 - - 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) AWS KMS
2 5 (19.23%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) GCP
5 1 (3.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (50.00%) SSL
2 4 (15.38%) Ethernet
2 4 (15.38%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (15.38%) NAS
2 4 (15.38%) SAN
2 4 (15.38%) X.509
3 2 (7.69%) HTTPS
3 2 (7.69%) SSH
4 1 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
General
1 4 (15.38%) Automotive
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Military
4 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Architect
2 3 (11.54%) Consultant
2 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Security Architect
2 3 (11.54%) Security Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Hardware Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (3.85%) Administrator
4 1 (3.85%) Applications Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (3.85%) IAM Consultant
4 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Kafka
1 4 (15.38%) LDAP
1 4 (15.38%) Middleware
1 4 (15.38%) REST
1 4 (15.38%) Web Services
2 1 (3.85%) OAuth
2 1 (3.85%) OpenID
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.85%) SAML
2 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) PKI
2 5 (19.23%) Algorithms
3 4 (15.38%) Clustering
3 4 (15.38%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.85%) Robotics
5 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Unix
3 1 (3.85%) AIX
3 1 (3.85%) Solaris
3 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Cryptography
2 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (26.92%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
4 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (19.23%) High Availability
5 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 4 (15.38%) Risk Analysis
5 4 (15.38%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 3 (11.54%) Cloud Security
6 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (11.54%) Data Protection
6 3 (11.54%) Digital Identity
6 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (7.69%) DevOps
7 2 (7.69%) Identity Management
7 2 (7.69%) RBAC
8 1 (3.85%) Data Security
8 1 (3.85%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) ActionScript
1 2 (7.69%) ActionScript 2.0
1 2 (7.69%) Java
1 2 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) Bash
2 1 (3.85%) C
2 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.85%) Korn
2 1 (3.85%) Perl
2 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 7 (26.92%) DV Cleared
3 5 (19.23%) Degree
4 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.85%) IBM Certification
6 1 (3.85%) OCP
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) GDPR
2 4 (15.38%) NIST
2 4 (15.38%) PCI DSS
3 3 (11.54%) AUTOSAR
3 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (11.54%) NIST 800
4 2 (7.69%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (7.69%) SOC 2
5 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (3.85%) JSP 440
5 1 (3.85%) NCSC
5 1 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (15.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (3.85%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 4 (15.38%) Grafana
2 4 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) Nagios
3 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.85%) Puppet
3 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle
1 5 (19.23%) Splunk
2 4 (15.38%) Confluent
3 3 (11.54%) Thales
4 2 (7.69%) IBM
4 2 (7.69%) IBM Sterling
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.85%) ForgeRock
5 1 (3.85%) Ping Identity
5 1 (3.85%) Red Hat