Secrets Management Contract Job Trends in the South East

Secrets Management
England > South East

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 178 214
Rank change year-on-year +5 +36 +53
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.13% 0.048% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.057% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £394 - £705
25th Percentile £415 - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.09%
75th Percentile £613 - £738
90th Percentile £710 - £745
England median daily rate £525 £613 £640
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.30% -1.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,369 3,508 4,807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 87.87% 84.63% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,126 2,133 3,148
10th Percentile £219 £255 £221
25th Percentile £387 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.19% -1.70% +1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £617
90th Percentile £650 £688 £699
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 369 168 246
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £24.63
Median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +40.00%
75th Percentile £33.05 £70.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Secrets Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secrets Management in the South East over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secrets Management in the South East

Secrets Management
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Berkshire - 3 £750 - 4
Thames Valley - 3 £750 - 6
Hampshire - 2 £417 - 7
Secrets Management
England

Secrets Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) SSH
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Parquet
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) MLflow
1 1 (20.00%) Poetry
1 1 (20.00%) PyCharm
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Avro
2 1 (20.00%) Flask
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) NumPy
2 1 (20.00%) Pandas
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (60.00%) Public Cloud
1 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Application Security
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Design
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (60.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (60.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) Secure Coding
2 3 (60.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (60.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (60.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Groovy
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (60.00%) CCSP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
1 3 (60.00%) PCI DSS
1 3 (60.00%) PSD2
2 1 (20.00%) Def Stans
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Argo
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Istio
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) VMware