Key Management Contracts

Key Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 501 617
Rank change year-on-year +38 +116 +141
Contract jobs citing Key Management 57 81 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.22% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 55 68
10th Percentile £450 £434 £425
25th Percentile £495 £505 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £723 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £625 £460
% change year-on-year -8.00% +35.94% -26.44%
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 excluding London 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

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Key Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Key Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Key Management in the UK

Key Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Key Management in the UK

Key Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Key Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Key Management in the UK

Key Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Key Management.

Hourly rate trend for Key Management in the UK

Key Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +30 51 £588 -6.00% 51
UK excluding London +25 26 £575 -8.00% 36
London +50 25 £602 +10.37% 18
Work from Home +18 21 £525 -16.00% 31
North of England +23 10 £525 +20.97% 9
South East +1 7 £664 +6.16% 8
Yorkshire +11 6 £425 -1.62% 1
South West +49 5 £639 +35.85% 9
North West +18 4 £563 -25.00% 8
East of England +30 3 £525 - 4
Midlands +22 1 £603 -19.60% 1
West Midlands +14 1 £603 -19.60% 1
Scotland - 1 - - 2

Key Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (28.07%) AWS
2 11 (19.30%) Azure
3 7 (12.28%) AWS KMS
3 7 (12.28%) OCI
4 4 (7.02%) GCP
4 4 (7.02%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.51%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.75%) IaaS
6 1 (1.75%) PaaS
6 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (54.39%) SSL
2 10 (17.54%) S/MIME
3 8 (14.04%) HTTPS
3 8 (14.04%) SSH
4 4 (7.02%) Ethernet
4 4 (7.02%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (7.02%) NAS
4 4 (7.02%) SAN
4 4 (7.02%) X.509
5 2 (3.51%) Firewall
6 1 (1.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (7.02%) RDBMS
1 4 (7.02%) Relational Database
General
1 17 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.77%) Finance
5 4 (7.02%) Automotive
5 4 (7.02%) Banking
6 3 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Legal
7 1 (1.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (38.60%) Architect
2 12 (21.05%) Lead
3 10 (17.54%) Security Architect
4 5 (8.77%) Security Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Consultant
6 3 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.51%) Hardware Architect
7 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.51%) Oracle Architect
8 1 (1.75%) Administrator
8 1 (1.75%) Applications Architect
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Architect
8 1 (1.75%) Cryptography Engineer
8 1 (1.75%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 1 (1.75%) Deployment Engineer
8 1 (1.75%) IAM Consultant
8 1 (1.75%) Security Consultant
8 1 (1.75%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) OAuth
1 7 (12.28%) OpenID
1 7 (12.28%) SAML
2 6 (10.53%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (8.77%) Web Services
4 4 (7.02%) Kafka
4 4 (7.02%) LDAP
4 4 (7.02%) Middleware
4 4 (7.02%) REST
5 1 (1.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (36.84%) PKI
2 14 (24.56%) Algorithms
3 9 (15.79%) Security Posture
4 7 (12.28%) Management Information System
5 6 (10.53%) Onboarding
6 5 (8.77%) Data Centre
7 4 (7.02%) Clustering
8 3 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
9 2 (3.51%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.75%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.04%) Unix
1 8 (14.04%) Windows
2 6 (10.53%) Linux
3 1 (1.75%) AIX
3 1 (1.75%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (45.61%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (33.33%) Cryptography
3 14 (24.56%) Cloud Security
4 13 (22.81%) Computer Science
4 13 (22.81%) Mentoring
5 11 (19.30%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (17.54%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (17.54%) Migration
7 9 (15.79%) Data Security
7 9 (15.79%) DevOps
7 9 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (14.04%) Project Management
9 7 (12.28%) Data Protection
9 7 (12.28%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (10.53%) Agile
10 6 (10.53%) Integration Patterns
10 6 (10.53%) Problem Management
10 6 (10.53%) Risk Assessment
11 5 (8.77%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.32%) Python
2 9 (15.79%) PowerShell
3 8 (14.04%) ActionScript
3 8 (14.04%) ActionScript 2.0
4 7 (12.28%) Java
5 5 (8.77%) C
6 1 (1.75%) Bash
6 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.75%) Korn
6 1 (1.75%) Perl
6 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (33.33%) Degree
1 19 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (14.04%) DV Cleared
4 7 (12.28%) SC Cleared
5 6 (10.53%) OCP
5 6 (10.53%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.51%) CISSP
8 1 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.75%) CISM
8 1 (1.75%) GIAC
8 1 (1.75%) IBM Certification
8 1 (1.75%) OSCP
8 1 (1.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.81%) GDPR
2 12 (21.05%) NIST
3 11 (19.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (12.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 6 (10.53%) PCI DSS
5 6 (10.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (5.26%) AUTOSAR
6 3 (5.26%) NIST 800
7 2 (3.51%) FIPS 140-2
7 2 (3.51%) SOC 2
8 1 (1.75%) JSP 440
8 1 (1.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.02%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.75%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.75%) Docker
3 1 (1.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.02%) Grafana
2 4 (7.02%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.75%) Ansible
3 1 (1.75%) CASB
3 1 (1.75%) Nagios
3 1 (1.75%) Nessus
3 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.75%) Puppet
3 1 (1.75%) QRadar
3 1 (1.75%) SCCM
3 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (24.56%) Microsoft
2 11 (19.30%) Oracle
3 8 (14.04%) IBM
3 8 (14.04%) IBM Sterling
4 6 (10.53%) Splunk
5 4 (7.02%) Confluent
5 4 (7.02%) Thales
6 2 (3.51%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.75%) Cisco
7 1 (1.75%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.75%) Gemalto
7 1 (1.75%) Google
7 1 (1.75%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.75%) Qualys
7 1 (1.75%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.75%) Tenable
7 1 (1.75%) Tripwire