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 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 581 660
Rank change year-on-year +72 +79 -23
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 71 133 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.23% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.26% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 108 120
10th Percentile £500 £463 £511
25th Percentile £542 £525 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £627
Median % change year-on-year - -4.23% +13.91%
75th Percentile £699 £700 £725
90th Percentile £703 £788 £818
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £585
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% +28.57%

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 36,590 50,902 79,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.76% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,576 35,243 55,751
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.92%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £639
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,484 1,677 1,876
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

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 26 May 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 26 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 +74 46 £600 - 6
London +70 39 £613 +2.08% 6
Work from Home +58 25 £543 -16.46%
UK excluding London +10 8 £600 +4.35% 3
Scotland +5 5 £600 +7.43% 1
North of England +30 3 £500 +17.65%
Yorkshire +14 2 £500 +66.67%
North West +25 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 (2.82%) Confluence
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (1.41%) IIS
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 48 (67.61%) AWS
2 40 (56.34%) Azure
3 32 (45.07%) GCP
4 7 (9.86%) GitHub
5 5 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (7.04%) AWS KMS
6 4 (5.63%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (5.63%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.63%) OCI
6 4 (5.63%) Route 53
7 3 (4.23%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.82%) Amazon Macie
8 2 (2.82%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.82%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.82%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) DMZ
2 2 (2.82%) Firewall
2 2 (2.82%) SSH
3 1 (1.41%) DNS
3 1 (1.41%) HTTP
3 1 (1.41%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.41%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.45%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.04%) MySQL
3 4 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.41%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 13 (18.31%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.08%) JIRA
3 4 (5.63%) Git
3 4 (5.63%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.82%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.82%) Selenium
5 1 (1.41%) Terragrunt
General
1 14 (19.72%) Documentation Skills
2 10 (14.08%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.68%) Finance
3 9 (12.68%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.27%) Banking
5 5 (7.04%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (7.04%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (53.52%) Architect
2 24 (33.80%) Solutions Architect
3 16 (22.54%) SailPoint Architect
4 9 (12.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Security Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Consultant
7 3 (4.23%) Database Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Security Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Developer
8 2 (2.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Java Developer
8 2 (2.82%) Management Consultant
8 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 1 (1.41%) AWS DevOps
9 1 (1.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 1 (1.41%) CyberArk Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (54.93%) SailPoint
2 13 (18.31%) HTML
2 13 (18.31%) JSP
2 13 (18.31%) LDAP
2 13 (18.31%) Servlets
2 13 (18.31%) SOAP
2 13 (18.31%) SPML
2 13 (18.31%) XML
3 4 (5.63%) Laravel
4 3 (4.23%) OpenID
4 3 (4.23%) SAML
4 3 (4.23%) YAML
5 2 (2.82%) OAuth
5 2 (2.82%) REST
5 2 (2.82%) Web Services
6 1 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.41%) JSON
6 1 (1.41%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (1.41%) MSMQ
6 1 (1.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Mainframe
2 7 (9.86%) PKI
2 7 (9.86%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.04%) Legacy Applications
3 5 (7.04%) Private Cloud
3 5 (7.04%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.23%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.82%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.86%) Linux
1 7 (9.86%) Unix
1 7 (9.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (56.34%) DevOps
2 27 (38.03%) Architectural Design
3 26 (36.62%) CI/CD
4 24 (33.80%) Cloud Security
5 20 (28.17%) Application Security
5 20 (28.17%) Containerisation
6 19 (26.76%) Migration
7 18 (25.35%) Deployment Automation
7 18 (25.35%) High Availability
7 18 (25.35%) Privileged Access Management
8 17 (23.94%) Identity Access Management
9 15 (21.13%) RBAC
10 13 (18.31%) Technical Architecture
11 12 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (16.90%) Roadmaps
12 11 (15.49%) Agile
12 11 (15.49%) Use Case
13 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (9.86%) Build Automation
14 7 (9.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (23.94%) SQL
2 16 (22.54%) Java
3 13 (18.31%) JavaScript
4 11 (15.49%) Python
5 8 (11.27%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.23%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.82%) Bash
7 2 (2.82%) Perl
7 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (21.13%) SC Cleared
1 15 (21.13%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.27%) Degree
3 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.82%) CISSP
4 2 (2.82%) GIAC
5 1 (1.41%) CCNP
5 1 (1.41%) CEH
5 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.41%) GCIA
5 1 (1.41%) GCIH
5 1 (1.41%) GSEC
5 1 (1.41%) OSCP
5 1 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.63%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (4.23%) GRC
3 1 (1.41%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (22.54%) Active Directory
2 13 (18.31%) ACF2
2 13 (18.31%) IAG
2 13 (18.31%) RACF
3 9 (12.68%) Docker
4 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (28.17%) Terraform
2 13 (18.31%) Ansible
3 12 (16.90%) Kubernetes
4 8 (11.27%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (9.86%) Puppet
6 4 (5.63%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.82%) Grafana
8 1 (1.41%) Argo
8 1 (1.41%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.41%) Istio
8 1 (1.41%) PowerBroker
8 1 (1.41%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 49 (69.01%) CyberArk
2 34 (47.89%) BeyondTrust
2 34 (47.89%) ServiceNow
3 7 (9.86%) Centrify
4 6 (8.45%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.63%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.82%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle
6 2 (2.82%) Splunk
7 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.41%) CA
7 1 (1.41%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.41%) Google
7 1 (1.41%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.41%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.41%) Trend Micro