Secrets Management Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Secrets Management
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Secrets Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 57 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.88% 0.66% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.68% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £550 £320 -
25th Percentile £588 £335 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £358 -
Median % change year-on-year +71.65% - -
75th Percentile £652 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £600 £358 -
% change year-on-year +67.60% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 596 444 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 87.65% 97.16% 84.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 306 278
10th Percentile £319 £319 £280
25th Percentile £393 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £447 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -8.40% +2.74%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £580
90th Percentile £652 £638 £638
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 30
10th Percentile £13.47 £17.80 £13.70
25th Percentile £18.50 £27.19 £16.61
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +38.78% -12.70%
75th Percentile £85.00 £85.63 £42.31
90th Percentile - £86.00 £44.13
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £24.15
% change year-on-year +69.23% +34.60% -32.93%

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Secrets Management job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Secrets Management
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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
Knutsford -17 6 £615 +71.65% 1
Secrets Management
North West

Secrets Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (50.00%) Azure AKS
3 3 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (33.33%) AWS KMS
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Integration Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Designer
3 2 (33.33%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (16.67%) Security Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth
1 2 (33.33%) OpenID
1 2 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 4 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 4 (66.67%) GitOps
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 3 (50.00%) API Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Cryptography
3 2 (33.33%) Data Security
3 2 (33.33%) OWASP
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) SABSA
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) CEH
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Argo
1 4 (66.67%) Grafana
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Istio
2 2 (33.33%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft