Secrets Management Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Secrets Management
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Secrets Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 54 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.46% 0.19% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.21% - -
West Midlands median daily rate £566 £544 -
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Secrets 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 in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 724 464 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.09% 88.38% 83.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 335 425
10th Percentile £306 £187 £250
25th Percentile £405 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 44
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.20
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £14.70 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +36.05% -46.06% +74.20%
75th Percentile £25.00 £30.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £39.41 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £18.07 £22.50
% change year-on-year +38.39% -19.71% +26.98%

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Secrets Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Secrets Management job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Secrets Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Secrets Management

Secrets Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) GCP DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
1 4 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Dependency Management
2 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) SBOM
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft