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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 489 556
Rank change year-on-year +48 +67 +59
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 30 44 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.14% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 34 64
10th Percentile £358 £474 £463
25th Percentile £413 £528 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -2.08% -4.76%
75th Percentile £569 £699 £675
90th Percentile £738 £703 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -4.23%

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 22,169 31,438 43,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.25% 86.37% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,471 20,622 30,640
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 2,250 1,536
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.96 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 20 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 20 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 +31 18 £525 -12.50% 43
North of England +18 6 £358 -28.40% 8
North West +18 4 £358 - 8
Midlands - 3 £475 - 6
Yorkshire +17 2 £725 +45.00%
West Midlands - 2 £544 - 1
East of England - 2 £473 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 5
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 7 (23.33%) nginx
2 4 (13.33%) Apache
2 4 (13.33%) Tomcat
3 3 (10.00%) Traefik
4 2 (6.67%) Confluence
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 21 (70.00%) AWS
2 16 (53.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 13 (43.33%) Amazon S3
4 11 (36.67%) AWS KMS
5 10 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (33.33%) Serverless
6 9 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (23.33%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (23.33%) Amazon ECR
8 6 (20.00%) Entra ID
8 6 (20.00%) GitHub
8 6 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (13.33%) Azure
11 3 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
12 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) DNS
1 5 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.00%) VPN
3 2 (6.67%) Firewall
3 2 (6.67%) Network Security
4 1 (3.33%) SSL
4 1 (3.33%) VSAN
4 1 (3.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) MongoDB
2 7 (23.33%) DynamoDB
3 6 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.33%) Redis
6 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (36.67%) Jenkins
2 8 (26.67%) GitLab
3 3 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (3.33%) Git
4 1 (3.33%) IntelliJ
4 1 (3.33%) JMeter
4 1 (3.33%) JProfiler
4 1 (3.33%) LoadRunner
4 1 (3.33%) Snyk
4 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.33%) Toad
General
1 4 (13.33%) Finance
2 3 (10.00%) Military
2 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.33%) Retail
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) Developer
3 7 (23.33%) Senior
4 6 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) AWS Developer
6 4 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Lead
7 3 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Architect
8 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Lead Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
8 2 (6.67%) Security Architect
9 1 (3.33%) Performance Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 1 (3.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) Kafka
2 5 (16.67%) .NET
2 5 (16.67%) Node.js
2 5 (16.67%) OAuth
3 4 (13.33%) boto
3 4 (13.33%) cloud-init
3 4 (13.33%) Keycloak
3 4 (13.33%) React
4 2 (6.67%) YAML
5 1 (3.33%) ADO
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (3.33%) CSS
5 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.33%) HTML
5 1 (3.33%) OpenID
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless Framework
5 1 (3.33%) TypeORM
5 1 (3.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) PKI
2 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.33%) Insider Threat
3 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) Linux
2 8 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (16.67%) Unix
4 4 (13.33%) CentOS
4 4 (13.33%) Windows
5 2 (6.67%) Mac OS
6 1 (3.33%) VMS
6 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (86.67%) CI/CD
2 23 (76.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (73.33%) DevOps
4 8 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 6 (20.00%) Agile
5 6 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 6 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (20.00%) Observability
5 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (20.00%) Static Code Analysis
6 5 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 5 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 5 (16.67%) Identity Management
6 5 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
7 4 (13.33%) Blue-Green Deployment
7 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (13.33%) Service Catalogue
8 3 (10.00%) DevSecOps
8 3 (10.00%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) Python
2 7 (23.33%) Go
2 7 (23.33%) SQL
3 6 (20.00%) Bash
4 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.33%) C
6 1 (3.33%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) Groovy
6 1 (3.33%) Java
6 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (13.33%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Degree
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) NCSC
2 3 (10.00%) GDPR
3 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.67%) NIST
4 1 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) Docker
3 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (76.67%) Terraform
2 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 8 (26.67%) Ansible
4 7 (23.33%) Grafana
4 7 (23.33%) Prometheus
5 5 (16.67%) Consul
6 4 (13.33%) Istio
6 4 (13.33%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (13.33%) Kibana
6 4 (13.33%) linkerd
6 4 (13.33%) Packer
6 4 (13.33%) Rancher
6 4 (13.33%) ZABBIX
7 3 (10.00%) HAProxy
7 3 (10.00%) Podman
8 2 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (6.67%) Puppet
9 1 (3.33%) Argo
9 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
9 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Splunk
2 4 (13.33%) AppDynamics
2 4 (13.33%) Okta
3 3 (10.00%) Apple
3 3 (10.00%) ESET
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (3.33%) Confluent
5 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.33%) Rollbar
5 1 (3.33%) VMware