Secrets Management Contracts in England

Secrets Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Secrets Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Secrets Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 499 564
Rank change year-on-year +57 +65 +66
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 43 43 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.13% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 32 68
10th Percentile £376 £467 £463
25th Percentile £428 £553 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £775
90th Percentile £750 £734 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -5.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Secrets Management in England

Secrets Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Secrets Management in England

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secrets Management in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secrets Management in England

Secrets Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +25 24 £525 -12.50% 28
North of England +30 13 £725 - 8
Yorkshire +14 7 £725 - 1
North West +20 4 £358 - 7
Midlands - 3 £475 - 7
West Midlands - 2 £544 -
North East - 2 £750 -
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 7
East of England - 1 £420 - 2
Secrets Management
UK

Secrets Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (37.21%) nginx
2 12 (27.91%) Traefik
3 4 (9.30%) Apache
3 4 (9.30%) Tomcat
4 2 (4.65%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 32 (74.42%) AWS
2 27 (62.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 20 (46.51%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (44.19%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (37.21%) Entra ID
6 15 (34.88%) Amazon S3
6 15 (34.88%) AWS Fargate
6 15 (34.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (25.58%) AWS KMS
8 9 (20.93%) Amazon ECR
8 9 (20.93%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (20.93%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (20.93%) Serverless
9 7 (16.28%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (11.63%) GitHub
11 4 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (6.98%) Azure
13 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (4.65%) Datadog
13 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (32.56%) DNS
1 14 (32.56%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.65%) VPN
3 1 (2.33%) Firewall
3 1 (2.33%) Network Security
3 1 (2.33%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (2.33%) VSAN
3 1 (2.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (44.19%) MongoDB
2 8 (18.60%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (18.60%) DynamoDB
3 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.33%) Redis
5 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (46.51%) Jenkins
2 19 (44.19%) GitLab
3 3 (6.98%) JIRA
4 1 (2.33%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.33%) JMeter
4 1 (2.33%) JProfiler
4 1 (2.33%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.33%) Snyk
4 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.33%) Toad
General
1 5 (11.63%) Military
1 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.30%) Finance
2 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Banking
4 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (46.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (37.21%) Senior
3 15 (34.88%) Senior DevOps
4 10 (23.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 9 (20.93%) Developer
6 4 (9.30%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (9.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Lead
7 3 (6.98%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Cloud Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Lead DevOps
8 2 (4.65%) Security Architect
9 1 (2.33%) Cloud Architect
9 1 (2.33%) Information Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (39.53%) Kafka
2 15 (34.88%) cloud-init
2 15 (34.88%) Keycloak
3 6 (13.95%) boto
3 6 (13.95%) Node.js
3 6 (13.95%) OAuth
3 6 (13.95%) React
4 5 (11.63%) .NET
5 2 (4.65%) OpenID
5 2 (4.65%) YAML
6 1 (2.33%) CSS
6 1 (2.33%) HTML
6 1 (2.33%) LDAP
6 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.33%) SailPoint
6 1 (2.33%) SAML
6 1 (2.33%) Serverless Framework
6 1 (2.33%) TypeORM
6 1 (2.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (32.56%) PKI
2 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Insider Threat
3 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.33%) NHS
3 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (53.49%) Linux
2 19 (44.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (37.21%) Unix
4 15 (34.88%) CentOS
5 4 (9.30%) Windows
6 2 (4.65%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (88.37%) CI/CD
2 34 (79.07%) DevOps
2 34 (79.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (39.53%) Continuous Integration
4 16 (37.21%) Identity Management
4 16 (37.21%) Observability
5 15 (34.88%) Cloud Security
6 14 (32.56%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 14 (32.56%) Static Application Security Testing
7 12 (27.91%) Mobile Device Management
8 11 (25.58%) Agile
9 7 (16.28%) Containerisation
9 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (16.28%) Static Code Analysis
10 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (9.30%) Blue-Green Deployment
11 4 (9.30%) Configuration Management
11 4 (9.30%) GitOps
11 4 (9.30%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (67.44%) Python
2 18 (41.86%) Go
3 17 (39.53%) Bash
4 7 (16.28%) SQL
5 6 (13.95%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.33%) C
6 1 (2.33%) C#
6 1 (2.33%) Groovy
6 1 (2.33%) Java
6 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (46.51%) AWS Certification
2 15 (34.88%) Security Cleared
3 14 (32.56%) SC Cleared
4 5 (11.63%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Degree
6 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (32.56%) NCSC
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.65%) Docker
3 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (83.72%) Terraform
2 22 (51.16%) Kubernetes
3 17 (39.53%) Grafana
3 17 (39.53%) Prometheus
4 15 (34.88%) Consul
4 15 (34.88%) Packer
5 14 (32.56%) Istio
5 14 (32.56%) Jamf Pro
5 14 (32.56%) linkerd
5 14 (32.56%) Rancher
5 14 (32.56%) ZABBIX
6 12 (27.91%) HAProxy
7 8 (18.60%) Ansible
8 4 (9.30%) Kibana
9 3 (6.98%) Podman
10 2 (4.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (4.65%) Argo
10 2 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (2.33%) CASB
11 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (53.49%) Splunk
2 14 (32.56%) Okta
3 12 (27.91%) Apple
3 12 (27.91%) ESET
4 4 (9.30%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.33%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (2.33%) Confluent
6 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.33%) Google
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.33%) Rollbar
6 1 (2.33%) VMware