Key Management Jobs

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 815 813 1113
Rank change year-on-year -2 +300 -261
Permanent jobs citing Key Management 92 134 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.14% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.15% 0.091%
Number of salaries quoted 80 59 75
10th Percentile £54,900 £39,250 £58,750
25th Percentile £57,597 £41,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £85,625 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £42,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +47.72% -34.62% +44.44%

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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
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 1 June 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 1 June 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 0 86 £70,000 +7.69% 10
Work from Home +50 61 £70,000 +12.00% 3
London +81 54 £74,137 -7.33% 4
UK excluding London -43 29 £62,783 +47.72% 9
North of England +51 21 £62,783 +93.18%
Yorkshire +72 11 £56,500 -
North West +2 7 £62,783 +93.18%
Northern Ireland +23 3 - -
East of England -2 3 £35,000 +7.69%
North East - 3 £62,783 -
South East -25 1 £65,000 +52.94% 2
South West - 1 £54,000 - 1

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 (1.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 53 (57.61%) Azure
2 26 (28.26%) AWS
3 22 (23.91%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (19.57%) Azure Sentinel
5 17 (18.48%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (18.48%) Microsoft Purview
6 12 (13.04%) AWS KMS
6 12 (13.04%) Azure Key Vault
6 12 (13.04%) Entra ID
6 12 (13.04%) GCP
7 7 (7.61%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 3 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.26%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (3.26%) Route 53
8 3 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (32.61%) TCP/IP
2 18 (19.57%) Firewall
3 14 (15.22%) LAN
3 14 (15.22%) Network Security
3 14 (15.22%) WAN
3 14 (15.22%) Wireshark
4 12 (13.04%) DNS
5 8 (8.70%) SSL
6 3 (3.26%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.09%) NAS
7 1 (1.09%) SAN
7 1 (1.09%) Skype
7 1 (1.09%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.17%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.09%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Artifactory
1 2 (2.17%) GitLab
1 2 (2.17%) Gradle
General
1 36 (39.13%) Finance
2 17 (18.48%) Social Skills
3 15 (16.30%) Banking
4 12 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 11 (11.96%) Financial Institution
6 10 (10.87%) Law
7 7 (7.61%) Legal
8 4 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Military
10 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (35.87%) Security Engineer
2 26 (28.26%) Lead
3 21 (22.83%) Senior
4 19 (20.65%) Senior Security Engineer
5 16 (17.39%) Linux Engineer
5 16 (17.39%) Software Engineer
6 13 (14.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (14.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (13.04%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 11 (11.96%) Information Security Engineer
9 9 (9.78%) Team Leader
10 8 (8.70%) Security Manager
10 8 (8.70%) Technical Leader
10 8 (8.70%) Ubuntu Engineer
11 7 (7.61%) Data Engineer
12 6 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (5.43%) Information Manager
13 5 (5.43%) Information Security Manager
14 4 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
14 4 (4.35%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.04%) Kafka
2 10 (10.87%) GTK
3 8 (8.70%) Middleware
4 6 (6.52%) YAML
5 4 (4.35%) ARM Templates
6 3 (3.26%) Flash
7 2 (2.17%) Spring
7 2 (2.17%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (39.13%) PKI
2 17 (18.48%) Management Information System
3 16 (17.39%) Public Cloud
4 14 (15.22%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (15.22%) Security Operations Centre
5 12 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (8.70%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (8.70%) Cyberattack
6 8 (8.70%) Data Fabric
6 8 (8.70%) Replication
7 4 (4.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (3.26%) CESG
8 3 (3.26%) CESG CLAS
8 3 (3.26%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.26%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (3.26%) IBM Storwize
8 3 (3.26%) Insider Threat
8 3 (3.26%) Security Posture
8 3 (3.26%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 35 (38.04%) Linux
2 31 (33.70%) Windows
3 28 (30.43%) Ubuntu
4 16 (17.39%) Debian
4 16 (17.39%) Unix
5 14 (15.22%) Android
5 14 (15.22%) Apple iOS
6 12 (13.04%) CentOS
6 12 (13.04%) Solaris
6 12 (13.04%) zOS
7 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (40.22%) DevOps
2 32 (34.78%) Information Security
3 30 (32.61%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (31.52%) Agile
4 29 (31.52%) Secrets Management
5 25 (27.17%) SIEM
6 21 (22.83%) Cloud Security
6 21 (22.83%) Identity Access Management
7 20 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (21.74%) Zero Trust
8 19 (20.65%) Cryptography
8 19 (20.65%) Security Operations
8 19 (20.65%) Vulnerability Management
9 18 (19.57%) Data Loss Prevention
9 18 (19.57%) Ethical Hacking
9 18 (19.57%) Mentoring
10 17 (18.48%) Roadmaps
10 17 (18.48%) Validation
11 16 (17.39%) Privileged Access Management
11 16 (17.39%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (35.87%) Python
2 19 (20.65%) Bash
2 19 (20.65%) PowerShell
3 17 (18.48%) C
4 6 (6.52%) C++
5 4 (4.35%) SQL
6 2 (2.17%) Java
6 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.09%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.09%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 28 (30.43%) CISSP
2 21 (22.83%) Degree
3 19 (20.65%) CEH
4 18 (19.57%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (18.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 17 (18.48%) CCSP
6 14 (15.22%) SANS
6 14 (15.22%) SSCP
7 7 (7.61%) CISA
8 6 (6.52%) CISM
8 6 (6.52%) Security Cleared
9 5 (5.43%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (5.43%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (4.35%) AWS Certification
10 4 (4.35%) DV Cleared
11 3 (3.26%) CCSK
11 3 (3.26%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (3.26%) CLAS
11 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (30.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (22.83%) NIST
3 15 (16.30%) PCI DSS
4 7 (7.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (7.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (3.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (3.26%) JSP 440
6 3 (3.26%) RMADS
7 1 (1.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (16.30%) Active Directory
2 14 (15.22%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (5.43%) Docker
4 3 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.09%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (15.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 14 (15.22%) Nmap
2 12 (13.04%) CA Single Sign-On
2 12 (13.04%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (5.43%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.35%) CASB
5 3 (3.26%) Terraform
5 3 (3.26%) ZABBIX
6 2 (2.17%) Grafana
6 2 (2.17%) Kibana
7 1 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (1.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (32.61%) Microsoft
2 18 (19.57%) Qualys
2 18 (19.57%) Splunk
3 14 (15.22%) Rapid7
3 14 (15.22%) Thycotic
4 12 (13.04%) CA
4 12 (13.04%) CyberArk
4 12 (13.04%) IBM
4 12 (13.04%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.35%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.26%) Google
6 3 (3.26%) Intel
6 3 (3.26%) Netskope
6 3 (3.26%) Symantec
6 3 (3.26%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.17%) Oracle
8 1 (1.09%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.09%) Thales
8 1 (1.09%) VMware