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 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 465 502 552
Rank change year-on-year +37 +50 +97
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 44 69 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.16% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.19% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 53 109
10th Percentile £376 £500 £463
25th Percentile £428 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -4.23%
75th Percentile £583 £699 £700
90th Percentile £718 £703 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +0.88%

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 26,620 36,673 51,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.98% 86.13% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,067 23,631 35,432
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 2,440 1,683
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.99 £16.01
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 19 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 12 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 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
England +39 30 £493 -16.17% 70
Work from Home +44 18 £563 +3.59% 20
London +27 18 £525 -12.50% 40
UK excluding London +56 14 £525 -12.50% 41
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 - 8
Yorkshire +13 2 £725 +45.00%
West Midlands - 2 £544 - 1
East of England - 2 £473 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 7

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 7 (15.91%) nginx
2 4 (9.09%) Apache
2 4 (9.09%) Tomcat
3 3 (6.82%) Confluence
3 3 (6.82%) Traefik
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 26 (59.09%) AWS
2 17 (38.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 15 (34.09%) Amazon S3
4 12 (27.27%) Serverless
5 11 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (25.00%) AWS KMS
5 11 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (20.45%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (20.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (20.45%) GitHub
7 7 (15.91%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (15.91%) Amazon ECR
7 7 (15.91%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (15.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (13.64%) AWS Fargate
8 6 (13.64%) Azure
8 6 (13.64%) Entra ID
9 5 (11.36%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (9.09%) GCP
11 2 (4.55%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.64%) DNS
2 5 (11.36%) TCP/IP
3 4 (9.09%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (6.82%) VPN
5 2 (4.55%) Firewall
5 2 (4.55%) Network Security
5 2 (4.55%) SSL
6 1 (2.27%) DKIM
6 1 (2.27%) FTP
6 1 (2.27%) VSAN
6 1 (2.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.45%) MongoDB
2 7 (15.91%) DynamoDB
3 6 (13.64%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.27%) DocumentDB
7 1 (2.27%) GIS
7 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.27%) Redis
7 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 9 (20.45%) GitLab
3 5 (11.36%) JIRA
4 2 (4.55%) Git
4 2 (4.55%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.55%) Toad
5 1 (2.27%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.27%) JMeter
5 1 (2.27%) JProfiler
5 1 (2.27%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.27%) Mockito
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (2.27%) Snyk
5 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (15.91%) Finance
2 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Military
4 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.27%) Retail
5 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (43.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (25.00%) Senior
3 10 (22.73%) Senior DevOps
4 9 (20.45%) Developer
4 9 (20.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (11.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) CyberArk Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) AWS Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Lead
6 4 (9.09%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Architect
7 3 (6.82%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.73%) OAuth
2 8 (18.18%) Kafka
2 8 (18.18%) Keycloak
3 7 (15.91%) .NET
4 6 (13.64%) Node.js
4 6 (13.64%) OpenID
5 5 (11.36%) SAML
6 4 (9.09%) boto
6 4 (9.09%) cloud-init
6 4 (9.09%) LDAP
6 4 (9.09%) OAuth2
6 4 (9.09%) React
6 4 (9.09%) YAML
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Amplify
7 2 (4.55%) CSS
7 2 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (4.55%) HTML
7 2 (4.55%) REST
8 1 (2.27%) ADO
8 1 (2.27%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.09%) PKI
3 3 (6.82%) Insider Threat
3 3 (6.82%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.27%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (36.36%) Linux
2 9 (20.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (15.91%) Unix
3 7 (15.91%) Windows
4 4 (9.09%) CentOS
5 3 (6.82%) Windows Server
6 2 (4.55%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (70.45%) DevOps
2 30 (68.18%) CI/CD
2 30 (68.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (31.82%) Agile
4 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 8 (18.18%) GitOps
6 8 (18.18%) RBAC
7 7 (15.91%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (15.91%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (15.91%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (13.64%) Cloud Security
8 6 (13.64%) Observability
8 6 (13.64%) Static Code Analysis
9 5 (11.36%) Configuration Management
9 5 (11.36%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (11.36%) Privileged Access Management
9 5 (11.36%) Service Catalogue
9 5 (11.36%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (47.73%) Python
2 9 (20.45%) Bash
3 8 (18.18%) SQL
4 7 (15.91%) Go
5 5 (11.36%) PowerShell
6 4 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 3 (6.82%) C#
7 3 (6.82%) Java
7 3 (6.82%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.27%) Apex Code
9 1 (2.27%) C
9 1 (2.27%) Groovy
9 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.27%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) AWS Certification
2 8 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 8 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (6.82%) Degree
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.27%) OCP
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) GDPR
1 4 (9.09%) NCSC
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.55%) NIST
3 1 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.27%) SLA
3 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (22.73%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.09%) Docker
3 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (65.91%) Terraform
2 16 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 15 (34.09%) Ansible
4 7 (15.91%) Grafana
4 7 (15.91%) Prometheus
5 5 (11.36%) Consul
5 5 (11.36%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (9.09%) Istio
6 4 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (9.09%) Kibana
6 4 (9.09%) linkerd
6 4 (9.09%) Packer
6 4 (9.09%) Puppet
6 4 (9.09%) Rancher
6 4 (9.09%) ZABBIX
7 3 (6.82%) HAProxy
7 3 (6.82%) Podman
7 3 (6.82%) Progress Chef
8 2 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (2.27%) CASB
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Splunk
2 5 (11.36%) CyberArk
2 5 (11.36%) Okta
3 4 (9.09%) AppDynamics
3 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.09%) Oracle
4 3 (6.82%) Apple
4 3 (6.82%) BeyondTrust
4 3 (6.82%) ESET
5 2 (4.55%) Google
5 2 (4.55%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.27%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.27%) Rollbar
6 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.27%) SAP
6 1 (2.27%) Talend
6 1 (2.27%) VMware