Secrets Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Secrets Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Secrets Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 759 847 1141
Rank change year-on-year +88 +294 -270
Permanent jobs citing Secrets Management 137 123 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.12% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 50 70 45
10th Percentile £55,750 £67,500 -
25th Percentile £57,597 £75,208 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £94,052 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.23% +39.34% -1.82%
75th Percentile £76,875 £117,236 £90,000
90th Percentile £103,750 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £94,052 £62,500
% change year-on-year -33.25% +50.48% -3.85%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Secrets Management in the UK

Secrets Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Secrets Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Secrets Management in the UK

Secrets Management
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Secrets Management within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +137 135 £65,000 -30.89% 9
UK excluding London +38 81 £62,783 -33.25% 5
North of England +83 65 £62,783 -34.22% 1
London +141 55 £72,500 -19.44% 4
North West +46 43 £62,783 -38.30%
Work from Home +67 40 £62,783 -35.17% 4
Yorkshire +84 15 £56,500 -39.93%
Midlands +16 14 £75,000 -3.23% 1
East Midlands - 8 - -
North East - 7 £60,141 - 1
West Midlands +26 6 £75,000 -3.23% 1
South West -5 2 - - 3
South East - 1 £90,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £70,000 -

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 1 (0.73%) Apache
1 1 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.73%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 112 (81.75%) AWS
2 69 (50.36%) Amazon S3
3 68 (49.64%) Amazon EKS
4 56 (40.88%) Amazon ECR
4 56 (40.88%) IBM Cloud
4 56 (40.88%) OCI
4 56 (40.88%) Route 53
5 54 (39.42%) Azure
6 20 (14.60%) Cloud Computing
7 18 (13.14%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (13.14%) GCP
8 17 (12.41%) AWS KMS
8 17 (12.41%) Microsoft Purview
9 16 (11.68%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (10.95%) Azure Sentinel
10 15 (10.95%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (10.22%) Azure Key Vault
12 13 (9.49%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (9.49%) Serverless
13 12 (8.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.33%) Firewall
2 20 (14.60%) TCP/IP
3 19 (13.87%) Network Security
4 18 (13.14%) DNS
5 14 (10.22%) LAN
5 14 (10.22%) WAN
5 14 (10.22%) Wireshark
6 6 (4.38%) VPN
7 5 (3.65%) DHCP
8 1 (0.73%) HTTP
8 1 (0.73%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.73%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.73%) SAN
8 1 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (49.64%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (9.49%) DynamoDB
3 12 (8.76%) MongoDB
4 11 (8.03%) SQL Server
5 10 (7.30%) DB2
5 10 (7.30%) RDBMS
5 10 (7.30%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.65%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.65%) Redis
7 1 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.73%) Flink
7 1 (0.73%) MySQL
7 1 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (10.95%) Jenkins
2 14 (10.22%) Git
3 4 (2.92%) GitLab
3 4 (2.92%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.73%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.73%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.73%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.73%) git-flow
4 1 (0.73%) JIRA
4 1 (0.73%) Selenium
General
1 77 (56.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 68 (49.64%) Public Sector
3 31 (22.63%) Finance
4 16 (11.68%) Social Skills
5 12 (8.76%) Law
6 10 (7.30%) Banking
7 8 (5.84%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (56.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 71 (51.82%) Senior
3 48 (35.04%) Senior DevOps
3 48 (35.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 33 (24.09%) Security Engineer
5 21 (15.33%) Senior Security Engineer
6 17 (12.41%) AWS DevOps
6 17 (12.41%) AWS Engineer
7 16 (11.68%) Architect
7 16 (11.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 14 (10.22%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (8.76%) Information Security Engineer
9 12 (8.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (8.76%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 12 (8.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (8.03%) Lead
11 10 (7.30%) SailPoint Architect
12 9 (6.57%) Team Leader
13 5 (3.65%) Infrastructure Architect
13 5 (3.65%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.03%) SailPoint
2 10 (7.30%) .NET
2 10 (7.30%) Spring
2 10 (7.30%) Spring XD
3 7 (5.11%) Node.js
4 5 (3.65%) Lambda Expressions
4 5 (3.65%) Middleware
5 4 (2.92%) AWS CDK
6 3 (2.19%) OAuth
7 2 (1.46%) JWT
7 2 (1.46%) YAML
8 1 (0.73%) JSON
8 1 (0.73%) Kafka
8 1 (0.73%) Loki
8 1 (0.73%) OpenID
8 1 (0.73%) REST
8 1 (0.73%) RESTful
8 1 (0.73%) SAML
8 1 (0.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 69 (50.36%) Hybrid Cloud
2 56 (40.88%) Blockchain
2 56 (40.88%) e-Learning
3 20 (14.60%) Public Cloud
4 19 (13.87%) Management Information System
5 17 (12.41%) PKI
6 14 (10.22%) Security Operations Centre
7 12 (8.76%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (5.84%) Robotics
9 6 (4.38%) Data Centre
9 6 (4.38%) Security Posture
10 3 (2.19%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (2.19%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.33%) Windows
2 14 (10.22%) Android
2 14 (10.22%) Apple iOS
3 9 (6.57%) Linux
4 2 (1.46%) Unix
5 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (88.32%) DevOps
2 99 (72.26%) Agile
3 83 (60.58%) Mentoring
4 81 (59.12%) Containerisation
5 73 (53.28%) Coaching
6 68 (49.64%) Test Automation
7 64 (46.72%) Artificial Intelligence
8 56 (40.88%) Observability
9 52 (37.96%) CI/CD
10 32 (23.36%) Cloud Security
11 29 (21.17%) Key Management
12 22 (16.06%) Migration
12 22 (16.06%) Roadmaps
13 19 (13.87%) Configuration Management
13 19 (13.87%) Information Security
14 18 (13.14%) Identity Access Management
15 17 (12.41%) Cybersecurity
15 17 (12.41%) Data Loss Prevention
16 16 (11.68%) Security Operations
16 16 (11.68%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 39 (28.47%) Python
2 19 (13.87%) PowerShell
3 18 (13.14%) Go
3 18 (13.14%) Java
4 9 (6.57%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.38%) SQL
6 5 (3.65%) Bash
7 4 (2.92%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.46%) C#
8 2 (1.46%) Lua
8 2 (1.46%) Ruby
8 2 (1.46%) Rust
9 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (16.06%) CISSP
2 17 (12.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 17 (12.41%) CCSP
2 17 (12.41%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (10.22%) CEH
3 14 (10.22%) SANS
3 14 (10.22%) SSCP
4 13 (9.49%) AWS Certification
5 9 (6.57%) Degree
6 6 (4.38%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (3.65%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.65%) Security Cleared
7 5 (3.65%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (2.19%) CCSK
9 1 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (10.22%) NIST
2 14 (10.22%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.73%) GDPR
3 1 (0.73%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (16.06%) Docker
2 18 (13.14%) Active Directory
3 14 (10.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (3.65%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.73%) vCloud
6 1 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (57.66%) Terraform
2 74 (54.01%) Kubernetes
3 66 (48.18%) Prometheus
4 14 (10.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (10.22%) Nmap
4 14 (10.22%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (8.76%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (7.30%) Grafana
7 8 (5.84%) Ansible
8 6 (4.38%) Progress Chef
9 5 (3.65%) Puppet
9 5 (3.65%) SCOM
10 3 (2.19%) CASB
11 1 (0.73%) Nagios
11 1 (0.73%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 56 (40.88%) Dynatrace
1 56 (40.88%) IBM
1 56 (40.88%) Red Hat
2 37 (27.01%) Microsoft
3 23 (16.79%) CyberArk
3 23 (16.79%) ServiceNow
4 18 (13.14%) Splunk
5 15 (10.95%) Oracle
6 14 (10.22%) Qualys
6 14 (10.22%) Rapid7
6 14 (10.22%) Thycotic
7 12 (8.76%) CA
8 11 (8.03%) BeyondTrust
9 10 (7.30%) Sybase
10 6 (4.38%) SolarWinds
11 3 (2.19%) Netskope
11 3 (2.19%) Symantec
11 3 (2.19%) Zscaler
12 1 (0.73%) EMC
12 1 (0.73%) NetApp