Secrets Management Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Secrets Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Secrets Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £519 - -
25th Percentile £539 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 - -
75th Percentile £571 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £613 £620
% change year-on-year -14.29% -1.21% +4.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,131 1,334 1,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.04% 88.81% 83.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,383 831 1,052
10th Percentile £277 £210 £263
25th Percentile £402 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £674 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 49 108
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.66 £12.70
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.22 £17.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £21.59 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% -9.29% +34.46%
75th Percentile £26.91 £33.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £35.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Secrets Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Secrets Management job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Secrets Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Secrets Management

Secrets Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 February 2026. 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
Birmingham - 6 £571 - 2
Coventry - 1 £550 -
Warwickshire - 1 - - 2
Secrets Management
England

Secrets Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (12.50%) CloudFront
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Anycast
1 1 (12.50%) BGP
1 1 (12.50%) DMVPN
1 1 (12.50%) IPsec
1 1 (12.50%) MPLS
1 1 (12.50%) NGFW
1 1 (12.50%) OSPF
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (12.50%) AppScan
4 1 (12.50%) Burp Suite
4 1 (12.50%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) GCP DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) OpenID
2 1 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Kali Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Auto-Scaling
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
2 5 (62.50%) RBAC
2 5 (62.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Dependency Management
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Observability
4 3 (37.50%) Runbook
4 3 (37.50%) SBOM
4 3 (37.50%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (37.50%) Virtual Environments
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Groovy
2 1 (12.50%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) COBIT
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) NCSC
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Grafana
2 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (12.50%) Nessus
3 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (12.50%) LogRhythm
2 1 (12.50%) Tenable
2 1 (12.50%) Veracode
2 1 (12.50%) Xamarin