Secrets Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Secrets Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 278 319 392
Rank change year-on-year +41 +73 +165
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 26 26 85
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.17% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.19% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 73
10th Percentile - £515 £501
25th Percentile £550 £542 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £559 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -10.56% +12.11%
75th Percentile £716 £690 £750
90th Percentile £750 £715 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -5.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Secrets Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Secrets Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Secrets Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Secrets Management.

Secrets Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Secrets Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Secrets Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (19.23%) nginx
1 5 (19.23%) Traefik
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) AWS
2 10 (38.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (34.62%) Entra ID
4 8 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (30.77%) AWS Fargate
4 8 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (19.23%) GitHub
6 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
6 4 (15.38%) Azure
7 3 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (7.69%) GCP
8 2 (7.69%) Serverless
9 1 (3.85%) IaaS
9 1 (3.85%) PaaS
9 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) DNS
1 7 (26.92%) TCP/IP
2 4 (15.38%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (3.85%) FTP
3 1 (3.85%) Network Security
3 1 (3.85%) SSL
3 1 (3.85%) VPN
3 1 (3.85%) VSAN
3 1 (3.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.85%) DocumentDB
3 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) GitLab
1 10 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) Toad
3 1 (3.85%) IntelliJ
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) JMeter
3 1 (3.85%) JProfiler
3 1 (3.85%) LoadRunner
3 1 (3.85%) Mockito
3 1 (3.85%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.85%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Senior
1 12 (46.15%) Senior DevOps
2 11 (42.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (34.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) CyberArk Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Architect
5 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) DevOps Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) Keycloak
2 9 (34.62%) Kafka
3 7 (26.92%) cloud-init
4 6 (23.08%) OAuth
4 6 (23.08%) OpenID
5 5 (19.23%) SAML
6 4 (15.38%) LDAP
6 4 (15.38%) OAuth2
7 3 (11.54%) .NET
8 2 (7.69%) Node.js
8 2 (7.69%) REST
8 2 (7.69%) YAML
9 1 (3.85%) Apache Camel
9 1 (3.85%) AWS Amplify
9 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
9 1 (3.85%) JSON
9 1 (3.85%) JWT
9 1 (3.85%) Spring
9 1 (3.85%) Spring Batch
9 1 (3.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) PKI
2 5 (19.23%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.54%) Insider Threat
4 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
4 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (53.85%) Linux
2 10 (38.46%) Unix
3 8 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (26.92%) CentOS
5 5 (19.23%) Windows
6 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
7 1 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) DevOps
2 16 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (57.69%) CI/CD
4 9 (34.62%) Agile
5 8 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (30.77%) Identity Management
5 8 (30.77%) Observability
5 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (26.92%) Cloud Security
6 7 (26.92%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 7 (26.92%) GitOps
6 7 (26.92%) RBAC
6 7 (26.92%) Static Application Security Testing
7 6 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (19.23%) Mobile Device Management
9 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (15.38%) Privileged Access Management
9 4 (15.38%) Storage Management
10 3 (11.54%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Python
2 11 (42.31%) Bash
3 8 (30.77%) Go
4 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
5 3 (11.54%) C#
5 3 (11.54%) SQL
6 2 (7.69%) Java
7 1 (3.85%) C
7 1 (3.85%) Groovy
7 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 8 (30.77%) AWS Certification
2 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) OCP
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) NCSC
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.85%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.85%) NIST
3 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (61.54%) Kubernetes
1 16 (61.54%) Terraform
2 9 (34.62%) Ansible
2 9 (34.62%) Grafana
2 9 (34.62%) Prometheus
3 7 (26.92%) Consul
3 7 (26.92%) Istio
3 7 (26.92%) Jamf Pro
3 7 (26.92%) linkerd
3 7 (26.92%) Packer
3 7 (26.92%) Rancher
3 7 (26.92%) ZABBIX
4 5 (19.23%) HAProxy
4 5 (19.23%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (11.54%) Progress Chef
5 3 (11.54%) Puppet
6 1 (3.85%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Splunk
2 8 (30.77%) Okta
3 5 (19.23%) Apple
3 5 (19.23%) ESET
4 4 (15.38%) CyberArk
4 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
5 3 (11.54%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (7.69%) Oracle
7 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
7 1 (3.85%) Confluent
7 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
7 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.85%) Talend
7 1 (3.85%) VMware