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 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 312 418
Rank change year-on-year -7 +106 +92
Contract jobs citing Key Management 40 54 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.29% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.35% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 39 10
10th Percentile £232 £493 £413
25th Percentile £388 £613 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £460
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +35.94% -9.32%
75th Percentile £602 £706 £519
90th Percentile £640 £788 £605
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £84.75 - -
25th Percentile £88.13 - -
Median hourly rate £91.00 £80.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% +45.45% -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £91.00 £80.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +13.75% +45.45% -

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 13,682 15,214 19,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.30% 83.07% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,212 9,119 13,131
10th Percentile £240 £250 £263
25th Percentile £369 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,350 1,552 1,202
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.76 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.84 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.75% +13.33% +70.57%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -39.40% -1.19% +58.49%

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 13 August 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 13 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
North of England -7 13 £500 -34.43% 9
East of England +19 12 £306 -
Midlands -4 11 £527 -4.27% 1
West Midlands -7 11 £527 -4.27% 1
Yorkshire - 7 £600 - 2
North West -7 6 £484 -36.59% 6
South East -6 3 - - 9
Scotland -8 1 - - 7
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 5 (12.50%) Confluence
2 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) AWS
1 8 (20.00%) AWS KMS
2 6 (15.00%) Azure
3 5 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
3 5 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.50%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (7.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.50%) IaaS
4 3 (7.50%) PaaS
4 3 (7.50%) SaaS
4 3 (7.50%) Serverless
5 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.00%) SSH
2 7 (17.50%) SSL
3 3 (7.50%) DHCP
3 3 (7.50%) DNS
4 2 (5.00%) Ethernet
4 2 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (5.00%) NAS
4 2 (5.00%) SAN
4 2 (5.00%) X.509
5 1 (2.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Military
3 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.00%) Automotive
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Security Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) Lead
3 7 (17.50%) Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Consultant
5 4 (10.00%) Analyst
5 4 (10.00%) Senior
6 3 (7.50%) Administrator
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Administrator
7 2 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Management Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) Security Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Applications Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Applications Consultant
8 1 (2.50%) IAM Consultant
8 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Security Consultant
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Consultant
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Security Consultant
8 1 (2.50%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) LDAP
2 3 (7.50%) Web Services
3 2 (5.00%) Kafka
3 2 (5.00%) Middleware
3 2 (5.00%) OAuth
3 2 (5.00%) REST
3 2 (5.00%) SAML
4 1 (2.50%) OpenID
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) PKI
2 7 (17.50%) Algorithms
2 7 (17.50%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.00%) Tandem
4 2 (5.00%) Clustering
4 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.00%) Machine to Machine
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Windows
2 6 (15.00%) Linux
3 4 (10.00%) Unix
4 3 (7.50%) AIX
4 3 (7.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) Cryptography
2 14 (35.00%) Incident Management
3 10 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 10 (25.00%) Information Assurance
3 10 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 10 (25.00%) Security Management
4 9 (22.50%) MODAF
4 9 (22.50%) SABSA
5 7 (17.50%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (17.50%) Data Protection
5 7 (17.50%) Privileged Access Management
6 6 (15.00%) Computer Science
6 6 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (15.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (12.50%) Change Management
7 5 (12.50%) Information Security
7 5 (12.50%) Project Management
7 5 (12.50%) RBAC
7 5 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.00%) Java
2 2 (5.00%) Python
3 1 (2.50%) Bash
3 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (35.00%) Degree
1 14 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (7.50%) CISSP
4 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.50%) CISM
6 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.50%) OCP
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (40.00%) NIST
2 12 (30.00%) NIST 800
3 10 (25.00%) JSP 440
3 10 (25.00%) NCSC
4 7 (17.50%) GDPR
5 6 (15.00%) FIPS 140-2
6 4 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (10.00%) PCI DSS
7 3 (7.50%) SOC 2
8 2 (5.00%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
9 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Active Directory
2 9 (22.50%) Firmware
3 2 (5.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (5.00%) Grafana
2 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.50%) CASB
3 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) IBM
3 3 (7.50%) AppDynamics
3 3 (7.50%) BeyondTrust
3 3 (7.50%) CyberArk
3 3 (7.50%) Dynatrace
3 3 (7.50%) Oracle
3 3 (7.50%) Thales
4 2 (5.00%) Confluent
4 2 (5.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.50%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (2.50%) ForgeRock
5 1 (2.50%) Ping Identity