Secrets Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Secrets Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 397 395
Rank change year-on-year +83 -2 +105
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 20 6 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.029% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.034% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 51
10th Percentile £358 - £500
25th Percentile £463 - £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +4.35% +2.68%
75th Percentile £738 £615 £673
90th Percentile £750 £642 £676
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,553 17,505 21,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.71% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,248 10,459 14,852
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,060 1,308
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.34 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.19 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Secrets Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Secrets Management in the UK excluding London

Secrets Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Secrets Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Secrets Management in the UK excluding London

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secrets Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secrets Management in the UK excluding London

Secrets Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
North of England +28 13 £725 - 5
Yorkshire +17 7 £725 -
North West +18 4 £358 - 5
Scotland +12 3 £550 -8.33% 2
Midlands - 3 £475 - 7
North East - 2 £750 -
West Midlands - 2 £544 -
East of England - 1 £420 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 7
Secrets Management
UK

Secrets Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (50.00%) nginx
2 7 (35.00%) Traefik
3 3 (15.00%) Apache
3 3 (15.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) AWS
2 14 (70.00%) Amazon ECS
3 13 (65.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (55.00%) AWS Fargate
6 10 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 9 (45.00%) Entra ID
8 5 (25.00%) Amazon S3
9 4 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (15.00%) AWS KMS
11 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (10.00%) GitHub
11 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (5.00%) Azure
12 1 (5.00%) GCP
12 1 (5.00%) IaaS
12 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (5.00%) PaaS
12 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) DNS
1 9 (45.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) FTP
2 1 (5.00%) SSL
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (70.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (65.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (50.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) Mockito
4 1 (5.00%) Snyk
4 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.00%) Toad
General
1 2 (10.00%) Finance
1 2 (10.00%) Military
1 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) Senior
3 8 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Architect
6 2 (10.00%) CyberArk Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Information Security Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Integration Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Security Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Security Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) cloud-init
1 10 (50.00%) Kafka
2 9 (45.00%) Keycloak
3 5 (25.00%) .NET
4 4 (20.00%) OAuth
5 2 (10.00%) YAML
6 1 (5.00%) Apache Camel
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
6 1 (5.00%) JWT
6 1 (5.00%) OpenID
6 1 (5.00%) REST
6 1 (5.00%) SAML
6 1 (5.00%) Spring
6 1 (5.00%) Spring Batch
6 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) PKI
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.00%) Insider Threat
3 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (80.00%) Linux
2 13 (65.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (60.00%) Unix
4 10 (50.00%) CentOS
5 3 (15.00%) Windows
6 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
7 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (80.00%) DevOps
3 15 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (55.00%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (50.00%) Cloud Security
5 10 (50.00%) Observability
6 9 (45.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 9 (45.00%) Identity Management
6 9 (45.00%) Static Application Security Testing
7 7 (35.00%) Mobile Device Management
8 5 (25.00%) Agile
9 3 (15.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
9 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
9 3 (15.00%) Service Catalogue
9 3 (15.00%) Service Delivery
10 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
10 2 (10.00%) Migration
10 2 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
10 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
11 1 (5.00%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) Bash
2 10 (50.00%) Go
3 4 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) AWS Certification
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (45.00%) NCSC
2 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (80.00%) Terraform
2 13 (65.00%) Kubernetes
3 11 (55.00%) Grafana
3 11 (55.00%) Prometheus
4 10 (50.00%) Consul
4 10 (50.00%) Packer
5 9 (45.00%) Istio
5 9 (45.00%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (45.00%) linkerd
5 9 (45.00%) Rancher
5 9 (45.00%) ZABBIX
6 7 (35.00%) HAProxy
7 4 (20.00%) Ansible
8 3 (15.00%) Kibana
9 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
9 2 (10.00%) Puppet
10 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (5.00%) Argo
10 1 (5.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Okta
2 9 (45.00%) Splunk
3 7 (35.00%) Apple
3 7 (35.00%) ESET
4 3 (15.00%) AppDynamics
5 2 (10.00%) BeyondTrust
5 2 (10.00%) CyberArk
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (5.00%) Google
6 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle
6 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.00%) Talend