Secrets Management Contracts

Secrets Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 513 574
Rank change year-on-year +50 +61 +95
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 57 69 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.16% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.18% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 51 117
10th Percentile £405 £500 £463
25th Percentile £459 £543 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -5.51%
75th Percentile £731 £699 £750
90th Percentile £748 £703 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £606 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +1.04% +4.35% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Secrets Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Secrets Management in the UK

Secrets Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Secrets Management.

Daily rate trend for Secrets Management in the UK

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Secrets Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Secrets Management in the UK

Secrets Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Secrets Management.

Hourly rate trend for Secrets Management in the UK

Secrets Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +57 43 £525 -12.50% 51
Work from Home +41 26 £583 +4.20% 19
London +25 24 £525 -12.50% 28
UK excluding London +77 20 £606 +1.04% 29
North of England +30 13 £725 - 8
Yorkshire +14 7 £725 - 1
North West +20 4 £358 - 7
Scotland +12 3 £550 -8.33% 4
Midlands - 3 £475 - 7
West Midlands - 2 £544 -
North East - 2 £750 -
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 7
East of England - 1 £420 - 2

Secrets Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (28.07%) nginx
2 12 (21.05%) Traefik
3 4 (7.02%) Apache
3 4 (7.02%) Tomcat
4 3 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 37 (64.91%) AWS
2 29 (50.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 21 (36.84%) Amazon ECS
4 20 (35.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (29.82%) Amazon S3
6 16 (28.07%) AWS Fargate
6 16 (28.07%) Entra ID
6 16 (28.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (19.30%) AWS KMS
8 10 (17.54%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (17.54%) Serverless
9 9 (15.79%) Amazon ECR
9 9 (15.79%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (15.79%) GitHub
10 8 (14.04%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (12.28%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (8.77%) Azure
13 4 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (7.02%) GCP
14 2 (3.51%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 14 (24.56%) DNS
1 14 (24.56%) TCP/IP
2 5 (8.77%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (3.51%) VPN
4 1 (1.75%) Firewall
4 1 (1.75%) FTP
4 1 (1.75%) Network Security
4 1 (1.75%) SSL
4 1 (1.75%) VSAN
4 1 (1.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (35.09%) MongoDB
2 8 (14.04%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (14.04%) DynamoDB
3 4 (7.02%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.75%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.75%) Redis
6 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (38.60%) Jenkins
2 21 (36.84%) GitLab
3 4 (7.02%) JIRA
4 2 (3.51%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.51%) Toad
5 1 (1.75%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.75%) JMeter
5 1 (1.75%) JProfiler
5 1 (1.75%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.75%) Mockito
5 1 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.75%) Snyk
5 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (12.28%) Finance
1 7 (12.28%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.77%) Military
2 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.75%) Banking
4 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (45.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (36.84%) Senior
3 20 (35.09%) Senior DevOps
4 15 (26.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 9 (15.79%) Developer
6 6 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 6 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) CyberArk Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (7.02%) Lead
8 4 (7.02%) Senior Technical Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Technical Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Architect
9 3 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) AWS Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Lead Developer
10 2 (3.51%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (33.33%) Keycloak
2 18 (31.58%) Kafka
3 15 (26.32%) cloud-init
4 11 (19.30%) OAuth
5 7 (12.28%) .NET
5 7 (12.28%) Node.js
5 7 (12.28%) OpenID
6 6 (10.53%) boto
6 6 (10.53%) React
6 6 (10.53%) SAML
7 5 (8.77%) LDAP
7 5 (8.77%) OAuth2
7 5 (8.77%) YAML
8 2 (3.51%) REST
9 1 (1.75%) Apache Camel
9 1 (1.75%) SailPoint
9 1 (1.75%) Serverless Framework
9 1 (1.75%) Spring Batch
9 1 (1.75%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.75%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.56%) PKI
2 6 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.26%) Insider Threat
3 3 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.51%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.51%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.75%) NHS
5 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (47.37%) Linux
2 20 (35.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 18 (31.58%) Unix
4 15 (26.32%) CentOS
5 7 (12.28%) Windows
6 3 (5.26%) Windows Server
7 2 (3.51%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (77.19%) DevOps
2 43 (75.44%) CI/CD
3 41 (71.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (31.58%) Agile
4 18 (31.58%) Continuous Integration
5 16 (28.07%) Identity Management
5 16 (28.07%) Observability
6 15 (26.32%) Cloud Security
7 14 (24.56%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 14 (24.56%) Static Application Security Testing
8 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (21.05%) Mobile Device Management
10 10 (17.54%) Containerisation
11 9 (15.79%) GitOps
11 9 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
12 8 (14.04%) RBAC
13 7 (12.28%) Static Code Analysis
14 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
15 5 (8.77%) Full-Stack Development
15 5 (8.77%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (59.65%) Python
2 20 (35.09%) Bash
3 19 (33.33%) Go
4 8 (14.04%) SQL
5 6 (10.53%) PowerShell
5 6 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.26%) C#
7 2 (3.51%) Java
7 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.75%) C
8 1 (1.75%) Groovy
8 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (35.09%) AWS Certification
2 18 (31.58%) Security Cleared
3 17 (29.82%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.77%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (5.26%) Degree
6 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.75%) OCP
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (24.56%) NCSC
2 3 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.75%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.75%) NIST
3 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (19.30%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.02%) Docker
3 2 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.75%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (75.44%) Terraform
2 30 (52.63%) Kubernetes
3 18 (31.58%) Grafana
3 18 (31.58%) Prometheus
4 15 (26.32%) Ansible
4 15 (26.32%) Consul
4 15 (26.32%) Packer
5 14 (24.56%) Istio
5 14 (24.56%) Jamf Pro
5 14 (24.56%) linkerd
5 14 (24.56%) Rancher
5 14 (24.56%) ZABBIX
6 12 (21.05%) HAProxy
7 6 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (7.02%) Kibana
9 3 (5.26%) Podman
9 3 (5.26%) Progress Chef
9 3 (5.26%) Puppet
10 2 (3.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (3.51%) Argo
Vendors
1 24 (42.11%) Splunk
2 15 (26.32%) Okta
3 12 (21.05%) Apple
3 12 (21.05%) ESET
4 4 (7.02%) AppDynamics
4 4 (7.02%) CyberArk
4 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.26%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (3.51%) Google
6 2 (3.51%) Oracle
6 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.75%) Confluent
7 1 (1.75%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.75%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.75%) Rollbar
7 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.75%) Talend
7 1 (1.75%) VMware