Secrets Management Contract Job Trends in Reading

Secrets Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Secrets Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 65 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.44% 0.33% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.36% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £750 -
% change year-on-year -31.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £71.00 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £71.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 930 556 975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 82.08% 92.51% 86.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 354 528
10th Percentile £360 £350 £347
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £588
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -8.55% +6.86%
75th Percentile £647 £614 £650
90th Percentile £746 £700 £715
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £508 £550
% change year-on-year +3.45% -7.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 18 34
10th Percentile £57.50 - £14.50
25th Percentile £80.75 £14.75 £51.86
Median hourly rate £84.00 £20.38 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +312.27% -66.92% -6.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £38.42 £75.83
90th Percentile £104.50 £59.13 £87.46
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £32.05 £61.33
% change year-on-year +158.97% -47.74% +7.81%

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Secrets Management job vacancy trend in Reading

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Secrets Management

Secrets Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (80.00%) Zero Trust
3 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (60.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 3 (60.00%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (60.00%) SIEM
3 3 (60.00%) SOAR
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) RBAC
4 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Bash
2 3 (60.00%) Bicep
2 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (60.00%) CEH
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) CISSP
2 3 (60.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
2 3 (60.00%) NCSC
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk