Key Management Jobs

Key Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Key Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Key Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 567 820 822
Rank change year-on-year +253 +2 +273
Permanent jobs citing Key Management 144 92 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.089% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 39 80 60
10th Percentile £58,250 £54,900 £31,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,597 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £99,250 £85,625 £88,125
90th Percentile £143,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £92,500 £62,783 £42,500
% change year-on-year +47.33% +47.72% -34.62%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Key Management in the UK

Key Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Key Management over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Key Management in the UK

Key Management
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Key Management within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +213 142 £75,000 +7.14% 567
Work from Home +158 100 £60,000 -14.29% 369
London +114 54 £60,000 -19.07% 48
UK excluding London +217 52 £92,500 +47.33% 587
South East +109 22 £95,000 +46.15% 135
East of England +57 13 £130,000 +271.43% 90
South West +111 7 £52,500 -2.78% 70
West Midlands - 6 - - 68
Midlands - 6 - - 117
North of England +34 3 £92,500 +47.33% 146
North West +5 3 £92,500 +47.33% 82
Scotland - 2 £107,500 - 27

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.39%) Confluence
1 2 (1.39%) Ethereum
1 2 (1.39%) SharePoint
1 2 (1.39%) Solana
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (4.86%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (2.78%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 120 (83.33%) AWS
2 107 (74.31%) AWS Lambda
2 107 (74.31%) Serverless
3 23 (15.97%) AWS KMS
4 18 (12.50%) Azure
5 16 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (9.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (7.64%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.56%) GCP
9 7 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 6 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (2.08%) Amazon Cognito
12 3 (2.08%) Amazon Glacier
12 3 (2.08%) AWS Control Tower
12 3 (2.08%) CloudFront
12 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (2.08%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 93 (64.58%) SSL
2 82 (56.94%) Broadband
2 82 (56.94%) SSH
3 14 (9.72%) Network Security
4 11 (7.64%) Firewall
4 11 (7.64%) TCP/IP
5 7 (4.86%) Link 16
5 7 (4.86%) RS-232
5 7 (4.86%) RS-485
5 7 (4.86%) Tactical Data Link
5 7 (4.86%) VLAN
6 4 (2.78%) HTTP
6 4 (2.78%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.39%) S/MIME
7 2 (1.39%) X.509
8 1 (0.69%) Fast Ethernet
8 1 (0.69%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.69%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (4.86%) Bitbucket Server
1 7 (4.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.08%) GDB
2 3 (2.08%) Git
2 3 (2.08%) Vagrant
3 2 (1.39%) JIRA
General
1 109 (75.69%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.72%) Finance
3 10 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.86%) Military
4 7 (4.86%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.78%) Legal
6 3 (2.08%) Advertising
6 3 (2.08%) Electronics
6 3 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.08%) Law
6 3 (2.08%) Marketing
7 2 (1.39%) Banking
7 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 86 (59.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 82 (56.94%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (12.50%) Architect
4 14 (9.72%) Senior
5 13 (9.03%) Cloud Architect
6 12 (8.33%) AWS Architect
7 9 (6.25%) Lead
7 9 (6.25%) Security Engineer
8 7 (4.86%) Field Engineer
8 7 (4.86%) Senior Security Engineer
9 6 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Data Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Mobile Engineer
11 3 (2.08%) AWS Engineer
11 3 (2.08%) Data Protection Engineer
11 3 (2.08%) Data Protection Manager
11 3 (2.08%) IT Engineer
11 3 (2.08%) Senior Data Engineer
11 3 (2.08%) Senior IT Engineer
11 3 (2.08%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (58.33%) Web Services
2 82 (56.94%) RESTful
3 14 (9.72%) Kafka
4 13 (9.03%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.08%) OpenEmbedded
5 3 (2.08%) Spring
5 3 (2.08%) Yocto
6 2 (1.39%) EJB
6 2 (1.39%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.39%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.39%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.69%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.69%) CSS
7 1 (0.69%) LINQ to SQL
7 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.69%) OpenID
7 1 (0.69%) React
7 1 (0.69%) REST
7 1 (0.69%) Smart Contracts
7 1 (0.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 96 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 91 (63.19%) PKI
3 83 (57.64%) Cyber Threat
4 82 (56.94%) Cyberattack
4 82 (56.94%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (4.17%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.17%) Virtual Team
7 5 (3.47%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.78%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.78%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.78%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (2.08%) CMDB
9 3 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.39%) Bitcoin
10 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.69%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.81%) Linux
2 7 (4.86%) Ubuntu
3 4 (2.78%) Android
3 4 (2.78%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.78%) Windows
4 3 (2.08%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (2.08%) VMS
5 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (74.31%) DevOps
2 95 (65.97%) Deployment Automation
3 92 (63.89%) Cybersecurity
4 86 (59.72%) Roadmaps
4 86 (59.72%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 82 (56.94%) Programme Delivery
5 82 (56.94%) Use Case
6 27 (18.75%) Cloud Security
7 21 (14.58%) Data Protection
8 20 (13.89%) CI/CD
9 18 (12.50%) Computer Science
10 17 (11.81%) Incident Response
10 17 (11.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (11.81%) Mentoring
11 16 (11.11%) Design Patterns
11 16 (11.11%) Software Engineering
12 15 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (9.72%) Architectural Design
13 14 (9.72%) Cost Optimisation
13 14 (9.72%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 96 (66.67%) Python
2 27 (18.75%) Java
3 14 (9.72%) C
4 8 (5.56%) Shell Script
5 7 (4.86%) C++
5 7 (4.86%) R
6 4 (2.78%) Groovy
6 4 (2.78%) Kotlin
6 4 (2.78%) Objective-C
7 3 (2.08%) Bash
7 3 (2.08%) Perl
7 3 (2.08%) Ruby
8 2 (1.39%) Rust
9 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.69%) Solidity
9 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (22.92%) Degree
2 31 (21.53%) Security Cleared
3 18 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 14 (9.72%) AWS Certification
4 14 (9.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 14 (9.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (6.94%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (5.56%) DV Cleared
8 7 (4.86%) CCNA
8 7 (4.86%) CCNP
8 7 (4.86%) CISSP
8 7 (4.86%) GSEC
8 7 (4.86%) SSCP
9 5 (3.47%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.08%) CCSK
10 3 (2.08%) CCSP
10 3 (2.08%) CISM
10 3 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (61.11%) NIST
2 86 (59.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (13.19%) GDPR
4 16 (11.11%) HIPAA
5 7 (4.86%) MIL-STD-1553
6 4 (2.78%) SOC 2
7 3 (2.08%) JTAG
8 1 (0.69%) GRC
8 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 1 (0.69%) SLA
8 1 (0.69%) SOC 1
System Software
1 94 (65.28%) Active Directory
2 20 (13.89%) Docker
3 8 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (4.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.78%) Firmware
6 1 (0.69%) NDS
6 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.69%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 102 (70.83%) Terraform
2 16 (11.11%) Grafana
3 15 (10.42%) Kubernetes
4 13 (9.03%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.86%) Ansible
5 7 (4.86%) Nessus
5 7 (4.86%) Proxmox
6 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.08%) CASB
7 3 (2.08%) Nagios
8 2 (1.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.69%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.69%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.69%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (59.72%) Thales
2 10 (6.94%) Juniper
3 4 (2.78%) Cisco
3 4 (2.78%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.08%) Symantec
4 3 (2.08%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.69%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (0.69%) Datto
5 1 (0.69%) Forcepoint
5 1 (0.69%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.69%) NetIQ
5 1 (0.69%) Okta
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle
5 1 (0.69%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.69%) VMware