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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 377 382
Rank change year-on-year +56 +5 +105
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 14 8 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.039% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.047% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 46
10th Percentile £358 £540 £500
25th Percentile £420 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +0.88%
75th Percentile £600 - £663
90th Percentile £714 £636 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -4.23%

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 11,711 17,111 20,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.54% 84.30% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,219 14,183
10th Percentile £235 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 2,064 1,254
10th Percentile £14.02 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.74
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 19 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 19 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 +20 6 £358 -28.40% 8
North West +17 4 £358 - 8
Scotland +4 3 £550 -8.33% 2
Midlands - 3 £475 - 6
Yorkshire +13 2 £725 +45.00%
West Midlands - 2 £544 - 1
East of England - 2 £473 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 5
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 4 (28.57%) nginx
2 3 (21.43%) Apache
2 3 (21.43%) Tomcat
3 1 (7.14%) Confluence
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (7.14%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (28.57%) AWS Fargate
5 4 (28.57%) AWS KMS
5 4 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (21.43%) GitHub
6 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (21.43%) Serverless
7 2 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (7.14%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (7.14%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) DNS
1 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) SSL
2 2 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (7.14%) FTP
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) MongoDB
2 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) GitLab
3 2 (14.29%) JIRA
4 1 (7.14%) Git
4 1 (7.14%) Mockito
4 1 (7.14%) Snyk
4 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
4 1 (7.14%) Toad
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Military
2 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) CyberArk Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Information Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) .NET
2 4 (28.57%) OAuth
3 3 (21.43%) Kafka
4 2 (14.29%) cloud-init
4 2 (14.29%) Keycloak
4 2 (14.29%) YAML
5 1 (7.14%) Apache Camel
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
5 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (7.14%) JWT
5 1 (7.14%) OpenID
5 1 (7.14%) REST
5 1 (7.14%) SAML
5 1 (7.14%) Spring
5 1 (7.14%) Spring Batch
5 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) PKI
1 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (7.14%) Insider Threat
2 1 (7.14%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
2 5 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (28.57%) Unix
4 3 (21.43%) Windows
5 2 (14.29%) CentOS
5 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
6 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 9 (64.29%) DevOps
3 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) Observability
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Service Catalogue
6 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 2 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
6 2 (14.29%) FinOps
6 2 (14.29%) Identity Management
6 2 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) C#
2 2 (14.29%) Go
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
2 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
2 1 (7.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Docker
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Terraform
2 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 5 (35.71%) Ansible
4 4 (28.57%) Grafana
4 4 (28.57%) Prometheus
5 3 (21.43%) Consul
5 3 (21.43%) Kibana
5 3 (21.43%) Puppet
6 2 (14.29%) Istio
6 2 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (14.29%) linkerd
6 2 (14.29%) Packer
6 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
6 2 (14.29%) Rancher
6 2 (14.29%) ZABBIX
7 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (7.14%) Argo
7 1 (7.14%) CASB
7 1 (7.14%) HAProxy
7 1 (7.14%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) AppDynamics
1 3 (21.43%) Okta
1 3 (21.43%) Splunk
2 2 (14.29%) BeyondTrust
2 2 (14.29%) CyberArk
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Apple
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.14%) ESET
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) Talend