Key Management Contracts

Key Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Key Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Key Management over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 608 761
Rank change year-on-year +104 +153 -93
Contract jobs citing Key Management 80 89 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.16% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.18% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 65 60
10th Percentile £434 £428 £480
25th Percentile £508 £500 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +25.00%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £713
90th Percentile £750 £697 £806
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £457 £530
% change year-on-year +36.76% -13.77% +15.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £72.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £80.00 £75.75 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.61% +309.46% -
75th Percentile - £81.69 £19.25
90th Percentile - £85.18 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £75.75 £18.50
% change year-on-year +5.61% +309.46% -

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Key Management in the UK

Key Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Key Management over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Key Management in the UK

Key Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Key Management in the UK

Key Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Key Management within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +94 75 £625 +13.64% 27
UK excluding London +69 62 £625 +36.76% 11
South East +60 49 £625 +21.95% 3
Work from Home +125 44 £625 +13.64% 15
London +45 14 £540 -1.82% 14
North of England - 7 £436 -
North West - 4 £763 -
Yorkshire - 3 £432 -
Scotland +43 2 £775 +71.27%
West Midlands +18 2 £650 - 5
Midlands +14 2 £650 - 5
South West -2 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 - - 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 3 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 49 (61.25%) Azure
2 48 (60.00%) AWS
3 4 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (5.00%) IaaS
3 4 (5.00%) PaaS
3 4 (5.00%) SaaS
4 3 (3.75%) Apigee
4 3 (3.75%) Azure API Management
4 3 (3.75%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (3.75%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (3.75%) GCP
4 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.25%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 41 (51.25%) SSL
2 11 (13.75%) Firewall
3 10 (12.50%) SD-WAN
3 10 (12.50%) WAN
4 4 (5.00%) Network Security
4 4 (5.00%) VPN
5 2 (2.50%) NAS
5 2 (2.50%) SAN
5 2 (2.50%) Skype
6 1 (1.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.75%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.75%) gulp
2 3 (3.75%) Maven
2 3 (3.75%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.25%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.25%) GitLab
General
1 20 (25.00%) Finance
2 9 (11.25%) Banking
3 4 (5.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.50%) Automotive
4 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.25%) Military
5 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (48.75%) Architect
2 11 (13.75%) Consultant
2 11 (13.75%) Security Consultant
3 8 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Cloud Consultant
5 5 (6.25%) Cloud Security Consultant
6 4 (5.00%) Azure Consultant
6 4 (5.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
6 4 (5.00%) Lead
7 3 (3.75%) Applications Consultant
7 3 (3.75%) Designer
8 2 (2.50%) Data Engineer
8 2 (2.50%) Wintel Engineer
9 1 (1.25%) Apigee Developer
9 1 (1.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 1 (1.25%) Cryptography Engineer
9 1 (1.25%) Cryptography Specialist
9 1 (1.25%) Middleware Engineer
9 1 (1.25%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (51.25%) Web Services
2 7 (8.75%) .NET
3 6 (7.50%) Kafka
4 3 (3.75%) Middleware
4 3 (3.75%) Node.js
4 3 (3.75%) OAuth
4 3 (3.75%) OpenID
4 3 (3.75%) RESTful
4 3 (3.75%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (67.50%) PKI
2 6 (7.50%) Public Cloud
3 5 (6.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.75%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.50%) Clustering
6 2 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.50%) Fat Client
6 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.50%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.25%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.25%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.25%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 19 (23.75%) Linux
2 9 (11.25%) Windows
3 6 (7.50%) zOS
4 3 (3.75%) Android
4 3 (3.75%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (60.00%) Cryptography
2 21 (26.25%) Data Encryption
3 18 (22.50%) Identity Access Management
4 15 (18.75%) Cloud Security
4 15 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (18.75%) SIEM
5 12 (15.00%) Ethical Hacking
6 11 (13.75%) Penetration Testing
6 11 (13.75%) Risk Assessment
7 10 (12.50%) Database Security
7 10 (12.50%) Security Architecture
7 10 (12.50%) Security Auditing
8 8 (10.00%) DevSecOps
8 8 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
9 7 (8.75%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (7.50%) API Management
10 6 (7.50%) Application Security
10 6 (7.50%) ERP
10 6 (7.50%) Information Security
11 5 (6.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.75%) Java
1 7 (8.75%) Python
2 5 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (3.75%) C#
3 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.75%) PHP
3 3 (3.75%) Ruby
4 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.50%) SQL
5 1 (1.25%) C
5 1 (1.25%) C++
5 1 (1.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 47 (58.75%) Degree
2 44 (55.00%) Security Cleared
3 26 (32.50%) SC Cleared
4 22 (27.50%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.75%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.25%) CISM
6 1 (1.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (17.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 6 (7.50%) NIST
4 3 (3.75%) QA
5 1 (1.25%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.25%) NCSC
5 1 (1.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 44 (55.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.75%) Docker
4 3 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.50%) Firmware
5 2 (2.50%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (13.75%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.75%) Ansible
4 2 (2.50%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (2.50%) SCCM
5 1 (1.25%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.25%) CASB
5 1 (1.25%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.25%) Stealthwatch
5 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.75%) Salesforce
3 6 (7.50%) F5
3 6 (7.50%) VMware
4 4 (5.00%) Google
4 4 (5.00%) Qualys
4 4 (5.00%) Splunk
5 2 (2.50%) IBM
5 2 (2.50%) Thales
6 1 (1.25%) CA
6 1 (1.25%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.25%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.25%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.25%) Remedy
6 1 (1.25%) SAP
6 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow