Secrets Management Contracts

Secrets Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Secrets Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Secrets Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 572 665
Rank change year-on-year +46 +93 -44
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 68 144 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.24% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.27% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 117 119
10th Percentile £500 £463 £513
25th Percentile £543 £513 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £630
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +14.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £725
90th Percentile £706 £800 £823
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £570
% change year-on-year +4.35% +0.88% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Secrets 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 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Secrets Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Secrets Management in the UK

Secrets Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Secrets Management in the UK

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secrets Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Secrets Management in the UK

Secrets Management
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Secrets Management within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +71 43 £600 - 9
London +75 37 £625 +6.38% 3
Work from Home +67 26 £559 -10.56% 4
UK excluding London +7 6 £600 +4.35% 6
Scotland 0 4 £600 +7.72%
North of England +22 2 - - 2
North West +17 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +15 1 - -

Secrets 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 (2.94%) Confluence
1 2 (2.94%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 50 (73.53%) AWS
2 40 (58.82%) Azure
3 35 (51.47%) GCP
4 7 (10.29%) GitHub
5 5 (7.35%) AWS KMS
6 3 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.41%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (4.41%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.94%) OCI
7 2 (2.94%) Route 53
7 2 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) DMZ
2 2 (2.94%) Firewall
2 2 (2.94%) SSH
3 1 (1.47%) DNS
3 1 (1.47%) HTTP
3 1 (1.47%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.47%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.35%) MySQL
2 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 9 (13.24%) JIRA
3 3 (4.41%) Git
4 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.94%) Selenium
4 2 (2.94%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.47%) Terragrunt
General
1 16 (23.53%) Documentation Skills
2 9 (13.24%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.76%) Finance
3 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.35%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.88%) Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (63.24%) Architect
2 29 (42.65%) Solutions Architect
3 17 (25.00%) SailPoint Architect
4 6 (8.82%) Security Architect
5 3 (4.41%) Consultant
5 3 (4.41%) Developer
5 3 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.41%) Security Engineer
6 2 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (2.94%) Java Developer
6 2 (2.94%) Management Consultant
6 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 1 (1.47%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (1.47%) CyberArk Architect
7 1 (1.47%) Full Stack Developer
7 1 (1.47%) IAM Consultant
7 1 (1.47%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (64.71%) SailPoint
2 13 (19.12%) HTML
2 13 (19.12%) JSP
2 13 (19.12%) LDAP
2 13 (19.12%) Servlets
2 13 (19.12%) SOAP
2 13 (19.12%) SPML
2 13 (19.12%) XML
3 3 (4.41%) OpenID
3 3 (4.41%) SAML
4 2 (2.94%) Lambda Expressions
4 2 (2.94%) Laravel
4 2 (2.94%) OAuth
4 2 (2.94%) REST
4 2 (2.94%) Web Services
5 1 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.47%) JSON
5 1 (1.47%) Node.js
5 1 (1.47%) RESTful
5 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.06%) Mainframe
2 7 (10.29%) Product Ownership
3 6 (8.82%) PKI
3 6 (8.82%) Private Cloud
4 5 (7.35%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (7.35%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.41%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.94%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.82%) Linux
1 6 (8.82%) Unix
2 4 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (52.94%) DevOps
2 29 (42.65%) Architectural Design
3 28 (41.18%) Cloud Security
4 27 (39.71%) CI/CD
5 25 (36.76%) Application Security
6 24 (35.29%) Containerisation
7 23 (33.82%) Deployment Automation
8 22 (32.35%) High Availability
8 22 (32.35%) Migration
9 18 (26.47%) Privileged Access Management
10 16 (23.53%) Identity Access Management
11 15 (22.06%) RBAC
12 13 (19.12%) Technical Architecture
13 11 (16.18%) Roadmaps
14 10 (14.71%) Use Case
15 9 (13.24%) Agile
15 9 (13.24%) Infrastructure as Code
16 7 (10.29%) Build Automation
16 7 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
16 7 (10.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (25.00%) Java
2 14 (20.59%) JavaScript
3 13 (19.12%) SQL
4 8 (11.76%) Python
5 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (19.12%) SC Cleared
1 13 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.82%) Degree
3 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.94%) CISSP
4 2 (2.94%) GIAC
5 1 (1.47%) CCNP
5 1 (1.47%) CEH
5 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.47%) GCIA
5 1 (1.47%) GCIH
5 1 (1.47%) GSEC
5 1 (1.47%) OSCP
5 1 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (4.41%) GRC
2 1 (1.47%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (22.06%) Active Directory
2 14 (20.59%) IAG
3 13 (19.12%) ACF2
3 13 (19.12%) RACF
4 7 (10.29%) Docker
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (23.53%) Terraform
2 12 (17.65%) Ansible
3 10 (14.71%) Kubernetes
4 8 (11.76%) Puppet
5 6 (8.82%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.94%) Grafana
6 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.47%) Argo
7 1 (1.47%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.47%) Consul
7 1 (1.47%) Istio
7 1 (1.47%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 53 (77.94%) CyberArk
2 38 (55.88%) BeyondTrust
2 38 (55.88%) ServiceNow
3 7 (10.29%) Centrify
4 3 (4.41%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.94%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.94%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle
5 2 (2.94%) Splunk
6 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.47%) CA
6 1 (1.47%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.47%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.47%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.47%) Trend Micro
6 1 (1.47%) VMware