Secrets Management Contract Job Trends in the North West

Secrets Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Secrets Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 118 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 9 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.36% 0.094% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £359 - -
25th Percentile £380 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £650 - -
England median daily rate £525 £643 £600
% change year-on-year -18.29% +7.08% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.53 £72.50 -
Median hourly rate £42.69 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.09% - -
75th Percentile £45.84 £77.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.69 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year -36.76% - -

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 2,206 1,851 2,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.24% 86.62% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 1,041 1,601
10th Percentile £213 £266 £302
25th Percentile £358 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £564 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 102 156
10th Percentile £16.79 £16.00 £15.88
25th Percentile £20.96 £21.05 £18.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.95 £36.73
Median % change year-on-year +5.01% -15.72% +42.29%
75th Percentile £55.00 £51.91 £49.25
90th Percentile £69.72 £69.59 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +22.57%

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Secrets Management job vacancy trend in the North West

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secrets Management in the North West

Secrets Management
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 22 December 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
Manchester -3 8 £600 -20.00%
Lancashire - 1 - - 1
Secrets Management
England

Secrets Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub
1 3 (33.33%) Serverless
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (33.33%) Redis
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Robot Framework
General
1 3 (33.33%) Games
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Software Integration Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Node.js
2 3 (33.33%) OAuth
2 3 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 3 (33.33%) OpenID
2 3 (33.33%) pytest
2 3 (33.33%) REST
3 2 (22.22%) PySpark
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
4 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
1 5 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (44.44%) Observability
2 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 3 (33.33%) RBAC
3 3 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 3 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) Webhook
4 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
4 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Pair Programming
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (22.22%) Trunk-Based Development
4 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) TypeScript
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Bicep
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GRC
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Control-M
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) VMware