Key Management Contracts

Key Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 491 593 751
Rank change year-on-year +102 +158 -97
Contract jobs citing Key Management 80 94 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.18% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 68 60
10th Percentile £433 £422 £513
25th Percentile £503 £456 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £638 £581 £725
90th Percentile £746 £720 £818
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £460 £625
% change year-on-year +35.94% -26.44% +37.36%
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 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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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 18 May 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 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +117 76 £625 +13.64% 13
UK excluding London +98 63 £625 +35.94% 9
South East +79 50 £625 +21.95% 3
Work from Home +113 44 £625 +15.74% 6
London +60 13 £540 -1.82% 6
North of England - 7 £436 - 1
North West - 4 £763 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £432 -
East of England - 3 - - 2
Scotland +33 1 £775 +70.33%
West Midlands +22 1 £750 -
Midlands +18 1 £750 -
South West +3 1 - - 2

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 50 (62.50%) Azure
2 49 (61.25%) 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%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (1.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 42 (52.50%) SSL
2 10 (12.50%) Firewall
2 10 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 10 (12.50%) WAN
3 4 (5.00%) VPN
4 3 (3.75%) Network Security
5 2 (2.50%) Internet
5 2 (2.50%) NAS
5 2 (2.50%) SAN
5 2 (2.50%) Skype
6 1 (1.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) 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 19 (23.75%) Finance
2 8 (10.00%) Banking
3 4 (5.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Automotive
5 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.25%) Military
5 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (50.00%) Architect
2 10 (12.50%) Consultant
2 10 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 7 (8.75%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (8.75%) Security Engineer
4 5 (6.25%) Cloud Consultant
4 5 (6.25%) Cloud Security Consultant
5 4 (5.00%) Azure Consultant
5 4 (5.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 4 (5.00%) Lead
6 3 (3.75%) Applications Consultant
6 3 (3.75%) Designer
7 2 (2.50%) Analyst
7 2 (2.50%) Business Analyst
7 2 (2.50%) Wintel Engineer
8 1 (1.25%) Cryptography Specialist
8 1 (1.25%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 1 (1.25%) Middleware Engineer
8 1 (1.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 1 (1.25%) Wintel Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (52.50%) Web Services
2 6 (7.50%) .NET
3 5 (6.25%) 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 4 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.75%) IoT
4 3 (3.75%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.50%) Clustering
5 2 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.50%) Fat Client
5 2 (2.50%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.50%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.25%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 18 (22.50%) Linux
2 8 (10.00%) Windows
3 5 (6.25%) 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 20 (25.00%) Data Encryption
3 17 (21.25%) Cloud Security
3 17 (21.25%) Identity Access Management
4 15 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (17.50%) SIEM
6 11 (13.75%) 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 Auditing
8 8 (10.00%) DevSecOps
8 8 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
8 8 (10.00%) Security Architecture
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%) Python
2 6 (7.50%) Java
3 5 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (3.75%) C#
4 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.75%) PHP
4 3 (3.75%) Ruby
5 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.50%) SQL
6 1 (1.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 50 (62.50%) Degree
2 45 (56.25%) 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 14 (17.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (16.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 5 (6.25%) 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 45 (56.25%) 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%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.50%) vSphere
6 1 (1.25%) Firmware
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%) VMware
4 5 (6.25%) F5
5 4 (5.00%) Google
6 3 (3.75%) Qualys
6 3 (3.75%) Splunk
7 2 (2.50%) IBM
8 1 (1.25%) CA
8 1 (1.25%) Cognizant
8 1 (1.25%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.25%) Darktrace
8 1 (1.25%) Remedy
8 1 (1.25%) SAP
8 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.25%) Thales