Secrets Management Contracts

Secrets Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Secrets Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Secrets Management over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 558 663
Rank change year-on-year +38 +105 -28
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 65 135 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.26% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 108 115
10th Percentile £500 £463 £513
25th Percentile £543 £525 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £628
Median % change year-on-year - -4.46% +14.18%
75th Percentile £699 £713 £725
90th Percentile £703 £800 £844
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £560
% change year-on-year +4.35% +2.68% +23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Secrets Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Secrets Management in the UK

Secrets Management
Top 8 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 7 May 2024. 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 +58 41 £600 - 12
London +55 35 £600 - 7
Work from Home +67 24 £543 -16.46% 3
UK excluding London +18 6 £600 +4.35% 6
Scotland +16 4 £600 +7.43% 1
North of England +16 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +19 1 - -
North West +18 1 - -

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 2 (3.08%) Confluence
1 2 (3.08%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 48 (73.85%) AWS
2 36 (55.38%) Azure
3 31 (47.69%) GCP
4 7 (10.77%) GitHub
5 5 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (7.69%) AWS KMS
6 4 (6.15%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (6.15%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.15%) OCI
6 4 (6.15%) Route 53
7 3 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.62%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (4.62%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.08%) SaaS
8 2 (3.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) DMZ
2 2 (3.08%) Firewall
2 2 (3.08%) SSH
3 1 (1.54%) DNS
3 1 (1.54%) HTTP
3 1 (1.54%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.54%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.69%) MySQL
2 4 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (16.92%) Jenkins
2 9 (13.85%) JIRA
3 4 (6.15%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.62%) Git
5 2 (3.08%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.08%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.08%) Selenium
6 1 (1.54%) Terragrunt
General
1 14 (21.54%) Documentation Skills
2 10 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.77%) Finance
5 5 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.62%) Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (58.46%) Architect
2 24 (36.92%) Solutions Architect
3 16 (24.62%) SailPoint Architect
4 6 (9.23%) Security Architect
5 5 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Consultant
6 3 (4.62%) Developer
6 3 (4.62%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.08%) Management Consultant
7 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 1 (1.54%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (1.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.54%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 1 (1.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (1.54%) CyberArk Architect
8 1 (1.54%) Full Stack Developer
8 1 (1.54%) IAM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (60.00%) SailPoint
2 13 (20.00%) HTML
2 13 (20.00%) JSP
2 13 (20.00%) LDAP
2 13 (20.00%) Servlets
2 13 (20.00%) SOAP
2 13 (20.00%) SPML
2 13 (20.00%) XML
3 4 (6.15%) Laravel
4 3 (4.62%) OpenID
4 3 (4.62%) SAML
5 2 (3.08%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (3.08%) OAuth
5 2 (3.08%) REST
5 2 (3.08%) Web Services
6 1 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.54%) JSON
6 1 (1.54%) Node.js
6 1 (1.54%) RESTful
6 1 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.08%) Mainframe
2 7 (10.77%) Product Ownership
3 6 (9.23%) PKI
4 5 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (7.69%) Private Cloud
4 5 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.08%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) Unix
2 5 (7.69%) Linux
3 4 (6.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (53.85%) DevOps
2 26 (40.00%) Architectural Design
3 23 (35.38%) CI/CD
3 23 (35.38%) Cloud Security
4 20 (30.77%) Application Security
4 20 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 19 (29.23%) Migration
6 18 (27.69%) Deployment Automation
6 18 (27.69%) High Availability
6 18 (27.69%) Privileged Access Management
7 16 (24.62%) Identity Access Management
8 15 (23.08%) RBAC
9 13 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
10 11 (16.92%) Roadmaps
11 10 (15.38%) Agile
11 10 (15.38%) Use Case
12 9 (13.85%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (10.77%) Build Automation
13 7 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (10.77%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.15%) Java
2 14 (21.54%) JavaScript
3 13 (20.00%) SQL
4 8 (12.31%) Python
5 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.54%) Go
6 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 15 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.23%) Degree
3 3 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.08%) CISSP
4 2 (3.08%) GIAC
5 1 (1.54%) CCNP
5 1 (1.54%) CEH
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.54%) GCIA
5 1 (1.54%) GCIH
5 1 (1.54%) GSEC
5 1 (1.54%) OSCP
5 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (4.62%) GRC
2 1 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 13 (20.00%) ACF2
2 13 (20.00%) IAG
2 13 (20.00%) RACF
3 7 (10.77%) Docker
4 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (26.15%) Terraform
2 12 (18.46%) Ansible
2 12 (18.46%) Kubernetes
3 8 (12.31%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (10.77%) Puppet
5 4 (6.15%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.08%) Grafana
7 1 (1.54%) Argo
7 1 (1.54%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.54%) Istio
7 1 (1.54%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 49 (75.38%) CyberArk
2 34 (52.31%) BeyondTrust
2 34 (52.31%) ServiceNow
3 7 (10.77%) Centrify
4 5 (7.69%) Red Hat
5 4 (6.15%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.08%) CheckPoint
6 2 (3.08%) Oracle
6 2 (3.08%) Splunk
7 1 (1.54%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.54%) CA
7 1 (1.54%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.54%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.54%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.54%) Trend Micro