Key Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Key Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Key Management over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 793 851 1123
Rank change year-on-year +58 +272 -295
Permanent jobs citing Key Management 95 144 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.14% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.15% 0.074%
Number of salaries quoted 83 56 67
10th Percentile £55,000 £31,250 £62,000
25th Percentile £57,597 £41,250 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -16.13% -3.13%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,625 £88,750
90th Percentile £96,500 £100,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £42,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +47.72% -34.62% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Key Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 +35 89 £72,500 +11.54% 14
Work from Home +72 62 £70,000 +7.69% 7
London +90 57 £75,000 - 6
UK excluding London -26 29 £62,783 +47.72% 7
North of England +59 21 £62,783 +93.18% 1
Yorkshire +89 11 £56,500 -
North West +12 7 £62,783 +93.18% 1
Northern Ireland +29 3 - -
East of England +9 3 £35,000 +12.00% 5
North East - 3 £62,783 -
South East -1 1 £65,000 +52.94% 3
South West - 1 £54,000 -

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 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 56 (58.95%) Azure
2 26 (27.37%) AWS
3 25 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (18.95%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (18.95%) Azure Sentinel
5 17 (17.89%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (17.89%) Microsoft Purview
6 12 (12.63%) AWS KMS
6 12 (12.63%) Azure Key Vault
6 12 (12.63%) Entra ID
6 12 (12.63%) GCP
7 7 (7.37%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.16%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 3 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.16%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (3.16%) Route 53
8 3 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (31.58%) TCP/IP
2 18 (18.95%) Firewall
3 14 (14.74%) LAN
3 14 (14.74%) Network Security
3 14 (14.74%) WAN
3 14 (14.74%) Wireshark
4 12 (12.63%) DNS
5 8 (8.42%) SSL
6 3 (3.16%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.05%) NAS
7 1 (1.05%) SAN
7 1 (1.05%) Skype
7 1 (1.05%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.63%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.11%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Artifactory
1 2 (2.11%) GitLab
1 2 (2.11%) Gradle
General
1 35 (36.84%) Finance
2 17 (17.89%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.79%) Banking
4 12 (12.63%) Law
4 12 (12.63%) Public Sector
5 10 (10.53%) Financial Institution
5 10 (10.53%) Legal
6 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Military
7 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (34.74%) Security Engineer
2 26 (27.37%) Lead
3 21 (22.11%) Senior
4 19 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
5 16 (16.84%) Linux Engineer
5 16 (16.84%) Software Engineer
6 13 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (13.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (12.63%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 11 (11.58%) Information Security Engineer
9 10 (10.53%) Security Manager
10 9 (9.47%) Team Leader
11 8 (8.42%) Technical Leader
11 8 (8.42%) Ubuntu Engineer
12 7 (7.37%) Data Engineer
12 7 (7.37%) Information Manager
12 7 (7.37%) Information Security Manager
13 6 (6.32%) DevOps Engineer
14 4 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
14 4 (4.21%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.63%) Kafka
2 10 (10.53%) GTK
3 8 (8.42%) Middleware
4 6 (6.32%) YAML
5 4 (4.21%) ARM Templates
6 3 (3.16%) Flash
7 2 (2.11%) Spring
7 2 (2.11%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (37.89%) PKI
2 16 (16.84%) Management Information System
2 16 (16.84%) Public Cloud
3 15 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (14.74%) Security Operations Centre
5 12 (12.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (8.42%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (8.42%) Cyberattack
6 8 (8.42%) Data Fabric
6 8 (8.42%) Replication
7 4 (4.21%) CESG
7 4 (4.21%) CESG CLAS
7 4 (4.21%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.16%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (3.16%) IBM Storwize
8 3 (3.16%) Security Posture
8 3 (3.16%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.11%) Insider Threat
9 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 35 (36.84%) Linux
2 31 (32.63%) Windows
3 28 (29.47%) Ubuntu
4 16 (16.84%) Debian
4 16 (16.84%) Unix
5 14 (14.74%) Android
5 14 (14.74%) Apple iOS
6 12 (12.63%) CentOS
6 12 (12.63%) Solaris
6 12 (12.63%) zOS
7 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.95%) DevOps
2 35 (36.84%) Information Security
3 30 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (30.53%) Agile
4 29 (30.53%) Secrets Management
5 24 (25.26%) SIEM
6 21 (22.11%) Cloud Security
6 21 (22.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (21.05%) Identity Access Management
7 20 (21.05%) Zero Trust
8 19 (20.00%) Cryptography
8 19 (20.00%) Security Operations
8 19 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
9 18 (18.95%) Data Loss Prevention
9 18 (18.95%) Ethical Hacking
9 18 (18.95%) Mentoring
10 17 (17.89%) Roadmaps
10 17 (17.89%) Validation
11 16 (16.84%) Privileged Access Management
11 16 (16.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (34.74%) Python
2 19 (20.00%) Bash
2 19 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 17 (17.89%) C
4 6 (6.32%) C++
5 4 (4.21%) SQL
6 2 (2.11%) Java
6 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.05%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.05%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 29 (30.53%) CISSP
2 20 (21.05%) CEH
2 20 (21.05%) Degree
3 18 (18.95%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (17.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 17 (17.89%) CCSP
5 14 (14.74%) SANS
5 14 (14.74%) SSCP
6 8 (8.42%) CISA
7 7 (7.37%) Security Cleared
8 6 (6.32%) CISM
8 6 (6.32%) CompTIA CySA+
8 6 (6.32%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared
10 4 (4.21%) AWS Certification
10 4 (4.21%) CESG Certified Professional
10 4 (4.21%) CLAS
11 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.16%) Azure Certification
11 3 (3.16%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (33.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (22.11%) NIST
3 15 (15.79%) PCI DSS
4 10 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (4.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 4 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (4.21%) JSP 440
5 4 (4.21%) RMADS
6 1 (1.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 14 (14.74%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (5.26%) Docker
4 3 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.05%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (14.74%) Microsoft Intune
1 14 (14.74%) Nmap
2 12 (12.63%) CA Single Sign-On
2 12 (12.63%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.21%) CASB
5 3 (3.16%) Terraform
5 3 (3.16%) ZABBIX
6 2 (2.11%) Grafana
6 2 (2.11%) Kibana
7 1 (1.05%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (1.05%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.95%) Qualys
2 18 (18.95%) Splunk
3 14 (14.74%) Rapid7
3 14 (14.74%) Thycotic
4 12 (12.63%) CA
4 12 (12.63%) CyberArk
4 12 (12.63%) IBM
4 12 (12.63%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.21%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.16%) Google
6 3 (3.16%) Netskope
6 3 (3.16%) Symantec
6 3 (3.16%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.11%) Intel
7 2 (2.11%) Oracle
8 1 (1.05%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.05%) Thales
8 1 (1.05%) VMware