Secrets Management Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Secrets Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Secrets Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £442 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
75th Percentile £561 - -
90th Percentile £571 - -
England median daily rate £525 £613 £620
% change year-on-year -14.29% -1.21% +4.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,953 1,868 2,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 84.91% 88.24% 83.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,851 1,163 1,525
10th Percentile £256 £213 £220
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% +4.21% -1.87%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £689 £683
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 69 170
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £11.70
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.75 £14.78
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.59 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% -4.04% +33.69%
75th Percentile £25.03 £33.54 £46.56
90th Percentile £30.00 £52.50 £65.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Secrets Management job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Secrets Management

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secrets Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 8 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Secrets Management in the Midlands

Secrets Management
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 February 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
West Midlands - 8 £561 - 4
East Midlands - 3 £438 -
Secrets Management
England

Secrets Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (63.64%) AWS
1 7 (63.64%) GCP
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
3 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (27.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
4 2 (18.18%) Azure API Management
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (9.09%) CloudFront
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (9.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Network Security
1 3 (27.27%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (9.09%) Anycast
2 1 (9.09%) BGP
2 1 (9.09%) DMVPN
2 1 (9.09%) IPsec
2 1 (9.09%) MPLS
2 1 (9.09%) NGFW
2 1 (9.09%) OSPF
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) CircleCI
4 1 (9.09%) AppScan
4 1 (9.09%) Burp Suite
4 1 (9.09%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Security Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 2 (18.18%) GCP DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Migration Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) OpenID
1 4 (36.36%) SAML
2 3 (27.27%) OAuth
2 3 (27.27%) OAuth2
2 3 (27.27%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
3 1 (9.09%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
1 1 (9.09%) Kali Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) DevSecOps
4 6 (54.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (54.55%) Runbook
4 6 (54.55%) SBOM
4 6 (54.55%) Threat Modelling
5 5 (45.45%) Auto-Scaling
5 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
5 5 (45.45%) RBAC
5 5 (45.45%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (45.45%) SIEM
6 4 (36.36%) Application Security
6 4 (36.36%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 4 (36.36%) Incident Response
6 4 (36.36%) Interactive Application Security Testing
6 4 (36.36%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 4 (36.36%) Static Application Security Testing
6 4 (36.36%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Bicep
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) Groovy
2 1 (9.09%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
1 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (45.45%) NIST
2 4 (36.36%) GDPR
2 4 (36.36%) PCI DSS
3 3 (27.27%) GRC
3 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (27.27%) SOC 2
4 1 (9.09%) COBIT
4 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 6 (54.55%) Terraform
3 3 (27.27%) Grafana
3 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
3 3 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (9.09%) Ansible
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (9.09%) Nessus
4 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
1 5 (45.45%) Splunk
2 2 (18.18%) CyberArk
3 1 (9.09%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (9.09%) LogRhythm
3 1 (9.09%) Tenable
3 1 (9.09%) Veracode
3 1 (9.09%) Xamarin