Key Management Job Trends in England

Key Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Key Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 649 616
Rank change year-on-year +51 -33 +215
Permanent jobs citing Key Management 19 30 64
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.036% 0.062% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.069% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 8 17 57
10th Percentile £42,000 £55,500 £51,900
25th Percentile £45,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £92,500 £66,640
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% +38.81% -4.80%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £83,750
90th Percentile - £128,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £90,000 £92,500 £67,070
% change year-on-year -2.70% +37.92% -4.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Key Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,913 43,729 44,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.84% 89.77%
Number of salaries quoted 25,804 21,413 34,236
10th Percentile £28,742 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Key Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Key Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Key Management job vacancy trend in England

Key Management
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Key Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Key Management

Key Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Key Management in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Key Management in England

Key Management
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Key Management within the England region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +43 7 £100,000 - 3
South East - 7 £45,000 - 7
East of England - 3 - - 2
South West +9 2 £55,000 - 2
Key Management
UK

Key Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Storage
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub
6 1 (5.26%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.26%) Mimecast
6 1 (5.26%) Serverless
6 1 (5.26%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) Firewall
2 7 (36.84%) Network Security
3 6 (31.58%) DMZ
4 3 (15.79%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (15.79%) SSL
5 1 (5.26%) DHCP
5 1 (5.26%) DMARC
5 1 (5.26%) DNS
5 1 (5.26%) S/MIME
5 1 (5.26%) VPN
5 1 (5.26%) WAN
5 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Law
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Consultant
2 4 (21.05%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 4 (21.05%) Security Consultant
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Information Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Information Security Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Security Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Security Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) AS400 Operator
5 1 (5.26%) Architect
5 1 (5.26%) AS400 Support
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Risk Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) PKI
1 7 (36.84%) Security Posture
2 6 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 6 (31.58%) Cloud Security Posture
2 6 (31.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 5 (26.32%) Blog
4 3 (15.79%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (15.79%) IBM Storwize
4 3 (15.79%) Web3
5 2 (10.53%) AS400
6 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
6 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
6 1 (5.26%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Cryptography
2 9 (47.37%) Cloud Security
2 9 (47.37%) SDLC
2 9 (47.37%) Use Case
3 8 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (36.84%) Zero Trust
5 6 (31.58%) AI
5 6 (31.58%) Containerisation
5 6 (31.58%) ISMS
5 6 (31.58%) RBAC
5 6 (31.58%) Risk Management
5 6 (31.58%) Security Architecture
5 6 (31.58%) Threat Modelling
5 6 (31.58%) Workshop Facilitation
6 5 (26.32%) DevOps
6 5 (26.32%) Incident Management
6 5 (26.32%) Incident Response
6 5 (26.32%) SIEM
7 4 (21.05%) Data Loss Prevention
7 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.26%) Perl
3 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) DV Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) Degree
3 4 (21.05%) GIAC
4 3 (15.79%) CCNA
4 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (15.79%) CompTIA CySA+
4 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (15.79%) GCIH
4 3 (15.79%) Postgraduate
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.26%) CEH
5 1 (5.26%) CISM
5 1 (5.26%) CISSP
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (52.63%) GDPR
1 10 (52.63%) NIST
2 9 (47.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (36.84%) PCI DSS
4 6 (31.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 6 (31.58%) JSP 440
4 6 (31.58%) NCSC
5 5 (26.32%) GRC
6 3 (15.79%) ITGC
7 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
7 1 (5.26%) NIST 800
7 1 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.26%) Docker
3 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) QRadar
2 3 (15.79%) ArcSight ESM
2 3 (15.79%) ZABBIX
3 1 (5.26%) CASB
3 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) SCCM
3 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Splunk
3 3 (15.79%) ArcSight
3 3 (15.79%) IBM
3 3 (15.79%) LogLogic
3 3 (15.79%) McAfee
3 3 (15.79%) Thales
4 2 (10.53%) VMware
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco
5 1 (5.26%) Citrix
5 1 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
5 1 (5.26%) Exabeam
5 1 (5.26%) Forcepoint
5 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.26%) Qualys