Secrets Management Contracts in the North of England

Secrets Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 182 209
Rank change year-on-year +20 +27 +31
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 6 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% 0.065% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.076% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile £330 - -
25th Percentile - - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.40% -9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £738 - £606
90th Percentile £745 - £693
England median daily rate £493 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -16.17% -2.08% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,970 3,960 5,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.62% 85.44% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,421 3,492
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £557 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 365 204
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £15.54
Median hourly rate £26.28 £17.72 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -36.35% +46.53%
75th Percentile £57.76 £45.00 £43.94
90th Percentile £81.08 £59.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Secrets Management in the North of England

Secrets Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Secrets Management in the North of England

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secrets Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secrets Management in the North of England

Secrets Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 19 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
North West +17 4 £358 - 8
Yorkshire +13 2 £725 +45.00%
Secrets Management
England

Secrets Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (66.67%) nginx
2 3 (50.00%) Apache
2 3 (50.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (16.67%) Confluence
3 1 (16.67%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (66.67%) AWS KMS
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
3 3 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Military
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) OAuth
2 2 (33.33%) cloud-init
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) Keycloak
3 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (33.33%) CentOS
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (50.00%) Observability
2 3 (50.00%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (16.67%) Release Management
4 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) NCSC
2 1 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Grafana
2 3 (50.00%) Kibana
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (33.33%) Consul
3 2 (33.33%) Istio
3 2 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (33.33%) linkerd
3 2 (33.33%) Packer
3 2 (33.33%) Rancher
3 2 (33.33%) ZABBIX
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (16.67%) HAProxy
4 1 (16.67%) Kustomize
4 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) Okta
3 1 (16.67%) Apple
3 1 (16.67%) ESET