Secrets Management Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Secrets Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Secrets Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £434 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £484 - -
90th Percentile £494 - -
South East median daily rate £650 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +21.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,324 1,415 2,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 84.29% 93.40% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 865 1,438
10th Percentile £282 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -
75th Percentile £597 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £505 £509 £500
% change year-on-year -0.83% +1.85% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 54 177
10th Percentile £15.91 £14.20 £14.76
25th Percentile £19.44 £21.51 £19.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.30 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.39% +8.94% -12.19%
75th Percentile £85.50 £62.57 £63.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.68 £85.41
South East median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +10.77% -18.75% -11.11%

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Secrets Management job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Secrets Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Secrets Management

Secrets Management
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 March 2026. 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 - 4 £463 - 2
Secrets Management
South East

Secrets Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) OCI
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Observability
1 2 (50.00%) RBAC
1 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) SDLC
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Virgin Media
2 1 (25.00%) Checkmarx