Key Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Key Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 283 301 436
Rank change year-on-year +18 +135 +170
Contract jobs citing Key Management 21 44 41
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.29% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.33% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 26
10th Percentile £412 £449 £423
25th Percentile £450 £600 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £540
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +15.74% -13.60%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £550
90th Percentile £665 - £621
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Key Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Key Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Key Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Key Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Key Management.

Key Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Key Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Key Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Key Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) AWS KMS
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) OCI
3 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (61.90%) SSL
2 8 (38.10%) S/MIME
3 3 (14.29%) HTTPS
3 3 (14.29%) SSH
4 2 (9.52%) Firewall
4 2 (9.52%) X.509
5 1 (4.76%) Ethernet
5 1 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (4.76%) Network Security
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Automotive
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Lead
2 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Cryptography Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) OAuth
1 2 (9.52%) OpenID
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (9.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (52.38%) PKI
2 9 (42.86%) Algorithms
3 4 (19.05%) Management Information System
4 3 (14.29%) Security Posture
5 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
5 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
6 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
1 3 (14.29%) Unix
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
3 1 (4.76%) AIX
3 1 (4.76%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (38.10%) Computer Science
3 6 (28.57%) Cryptography
3 6 (28.57%) Migration
4 5 (23.81%) Cloud Security
5 4 (19.05%) Data Protection
5 4 (19.05%) DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) Project Management
6 3 (14.29%) Agile
6 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (14.29%) Secure Coding
7 2 (9.52%) Data Security
7 2 (9.52%) Performance Monitoring
7 2 (9.52%) Problem Management
7 2 (9.52%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (9.52%) Risk Management
7 2 (9.52%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 3 (14.29%) ActionScript
3 3 (14.29%) ActionScript 2.0
4 2 (9.52%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) Korn
5 1 (4.76%) Perl
5 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (38.10%) Degree
2 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 2 (9.52%) CISSP
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (9.52%) OCP
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.76%) CISM
5 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) GIAC
5 1 (4.76%) IBM Certification
5 1 (4.76%) OSCP
5 1 (4.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) NIST
2 6 (28.57%) GDPR
2 6 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (14.29%) NIST 800
3 3 (14.29%) PCI DSS
4 2 (9.52%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (9.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (9.52%) SOC 2
5 1 (4.76%) JSP 440
5 1 (4.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) Nagios
1 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
1 1 (4.76%) Puppet
1 1 (4.76%) QRadar
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) IBM
2 3 (14.29%) IBM Sterling
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) Splunk
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Gemalto
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.76%) Thales