Secrets Management Contracts in the North West

Secrets Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 138 159
Rank change year-on-year +17 +21 +11
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 4 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.20% 0.036% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.042% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £325 - £620
25th Percentile £346 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £456 - £775
90th Percentile £632 - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,774 2,370 2,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.14% 86.37% 90.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,145 1,513 2,045
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 246 142
10th Percentile £16.03 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.72 £13.36 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £21.56 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% -38.41% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.66 £48.56
90th Percentile £84.51 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Secrets Management in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Secrets Management in the North West

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secrets Management in the North West over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secrets Management in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cheshire - 3 £358 - 1
Manchester - 1 £750 - 4
Secrets Management
England

Secrets Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) nginx
1 3 (75.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) cloud-init
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 3 (75.00%) Service Catalogue
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Kibana
3 1 (25.00%) Consul
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Istio
3 1 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) linkerd
3 1 (25.00%) Packer
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Rancher
3 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (25.00%) Okta
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk