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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 569 818 820
Rank change year-on-year +249 +2 +278
Permanent jobs citing Key Management 144 92 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.090% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 38 80 60
10th Percentile - £54,900 £31,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,597 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £85,625 £88,125
90th Percentile £138,000 £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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 28 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 28 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 +215 143 £75,000 +7.14% 501
Work from Home +161 101 £60,000 -14.29% 359
London +121 55 £60,000 -19.07% 50
UK excluding London +216 51 £92,500 +47.33% 510
South East +111 22 £95,000 +46.15% 119
East of England +53 13 £130,000 +271.43% 79
Midlands - 7 - - 101
West Midlands - 7 - - 58
South West +123 6 £68,750 +27.31% 64
North of England +23 3 £92,500 +47.33% 122
North West -3 3 £92,500 +47.33% 67
Scotland - 1 £80,000 - 21

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
1 122 (84.72%) AWS
2 109 (75.69%) AWS Lambda
2 109 (75.69%) Serverless
3 24 (16.67%) AWS KMS
4 18 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (12.50%) Azure
5 13 (9.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 12 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.56%) GCP
8 7 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (4.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 6 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.08%) Amazon Cognito
11 3 (2.08%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (2.08%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (2.08%) CloudFront
11 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.08%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 93 (64.58%) SSL
2 82 (56.94%) Broadband
2 82 (56.94%) SSH
3 15 (10.42%) Network Security
4 11 (7.64%) TCP/IP
5 10 (6.94%) Firewall
6 7 (4.86%) Link 16
6 7 (4.86%) RS-232
6 7 (4.86%) RS-485
6 7 (4.86%) Tactical Data Link
6 7 (4.86%) VLAN
7 4 (2.78%) HTTP
7 4 (2.78%) HTTPS
8 2 (1.39%) S/MIME
8 2 (1.39%) X.509
9 1 (0.69%) Fast Ethernet
9 1 (0.69%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.69%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
3 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 13 (9.03%) Finance
3 10 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.86%) Military
4 7 (4.86%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.08%) Advertising
5 3 (2.08%) Electronics
5 3 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.08%) Law
5 3 (2.08%) Legal
5 3 (2.08%) Marketing
6 2 (1.39%) Banking
6 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 86 (59.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 82 (56.94%) Cloud Engineer
3 19 (13.19%) Architect
4 14 (9.72%) Cloud Architect
4 14 (9.72%) Senior
5 13 (9.03%) AWS Architect
6 9 (6.25%) Lead
6 9 (6.25%) Security Engineer
7 7 (4.86%) Field Engineer
7 7 (4.86%) Senior Security Engineer
8 6 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) Data Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Mobile 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 15 (10.42%) Kafka
4 14 (9.72%) 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%) CSS
7 1 (0.69%) LDAP
7 1 (0.69%) LINQ to SQL
7 1 (0.69%) OAuth
7 1 (0.69%) OpenID
7 1 (0.69%) REST
7 1 (0.69%) SAML
7 1 (0.69%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.69%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 97 (67.36%) 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%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.17%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.78%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.78%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.08%) Blockchain
8 3 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.39%) Bitcoin
9 2 (1.39%) CMDB
9 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.69%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.69%) Taxonomies
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
1 109 (75.69%) DevOps
2 96 (66.67%) 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 28 (19.44%) Cloud Security
7 22 (15.28%) CI/CD
7 22 (15.28%) Data Protection
8 19 (13.19%) Computer Science
8 19 (13.19%) Mentoring
9 18 (12.50%) Incident Response
9 18 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (11.81%) Design Patterns
10 17 (11.81%) Software Engineering
11 16 (11.11%) High Availability
11 16 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (10.42%) Architectural Design
12 15 (10.42%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 96 (66.67%) Python
2 28 (19.44%) Java
3 14 (9.72%) C
4 8 (5.56%) Shell Script
5 7 (4.86%) R
6 6 (4.17%) C++
7 4 (2.78%) Groovy
7 4 (2.78%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.78%) Objective-C
8 3 (2.08%) Bash
8 3 (2.08%) Perl
8 3 (2.08%) Ruby
9 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.69%) Rust
9 1 (0.69%) Solidity
9 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (23.61%) Degree
2 31 (21.53%) Security Cleared
3 19 (13.19%) SC Cleared
4 15 (10.42%) AWS Certification
4 15 (10.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 15 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (6.94%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (4.86%) CCNA
7 7 (4.86%) CCNP
7 7 (4.86%) CISSP
7 7 (4.86%) DV Cleared
7 7 (4.86%) GSEC
7 7 (4.86%) SSCP
8 5 (3.47%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.08%) CCSK
9 3 (2.08%) CCSP
9 3 (2.08%) CISM
10 2 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (61.11%) NIST
2 86 (59.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (13.89%) GDPR
4 17 (11.81%) 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 21 (14.58%) 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
1 103 (71.53%) Terraform
2 17 (11.81%) Grafana
3 16 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 14 (9.72%) 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 9 (6.25%) Juniper
3 4 (2.78%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.08%) Cisco
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