Key Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Key Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Key Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Key Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 414 586
Rank change year-on-year +113 +172 -110
Contract jobs citing Key Management 44 40 26
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.16% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.18% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 27 10
10th Percentile £450 £425 £450
25th Percentile £600 £448 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £540 £688
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -21.45% +52.78%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £813
90th Percentile - £634 £873
UK median daily rate £625 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £75.75 £18.50
% change year-on-year +5.61% +309.46% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Key Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Key Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Key Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Key Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Key Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (84.09%) AWS
2 35 (79.55%) Azure
3 2 (4.55%) Apigee
4 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.27%) Azure API Management
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.27%) GCP
4 1 (2.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (2.27%) IaaS
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.27%) PaaS
4 1 (2.27%) SaaS
4 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (79.55%) SSL
2 1 (2.27%) Firewall
2 1 (2.27%) Network Security
2 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.27%) VPN
2 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.55%) gulp
2 2 (4.55%) Maven
3 1 (2.27%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.27%) GitLab
3 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (6.82%) Finance
2 2 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (2.27%) Automotive
3 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
3 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 33 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (4.55%) Designer
2 2 (4.55%) Lead
2 2 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (4.55%) Security Engineer
3 1 (2.27%) Apigee Developer
3 1 (2.27%) Applications Consultant
3 1 (2.27%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (2.27%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (2.27%) Consultant
3 1 (2.27%) Cryptography Engineer
3 1 (2.27%) Developer
3 1 (2.27%) Middleware Engineer
3 1 (2.27%) Security Consultant
3 1 (2.27%) Senior
3 1 (2.27%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (2.27%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (2.27%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (77.27%) Web Services
2 3 (6.82%) .NET
2 3 (6.82%) Middleware
3 2 (4.55%) Kafka
3 2 (4.55%) Node.js
3 2 (4.55%) OAuth
3 2 (4.55%) OpenID
3 2 (4.55%) RESTful
3 2 (4.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (79.55%) PKI
2 2 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.27%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.27%) IoT
3 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (29.55%) Linux
2 2 (4.55%) Android
2 2 (4.55%) Apple iOS
2 2 (4.55%) Windows
2 2 (4.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (79.55%) Cryptography
2 6 (13.64%) Data Encryption
3 4 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (6.82%) API Management
4 3 (6.82%) Cloud Security
4 3 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (4.55%) Analytics
5 2 (4.55%) API Design
5 2 (4.55%) B2B
5 2 (4.55%) Batch Processing
5 2 (4.55%) Configuration Management
5 2 (4.55%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (4.55%) Data Protection
5 2 (4.55%) DevOps
5 2 (4.55%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (4.55%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (4.55%) ETL
5 2 (4.55%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (4.55%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (4.55%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.09%) Python
2 3 (6.82%) Java
3 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.27%) C#
4 1 (2.27%) Go
4 1 (2.27%) PHP
4 1 (2.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (77.27%) Security Cleared
2 33 (75.00%) Degree
3 21 (47.73%) SC Cleared
4 20 (45.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 34 (77.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.27%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (4.55%) Ansible
2 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.27%) CASB
3 1 (2.27%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.82%) Google
2 2 (4.55%) F5
2 2 (4.55%) IBM
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.27%) Cognizant
3 1 (2.27%) Remedy
3 1 (2.27%) SAP
3 1 (2.27%) VMware