Hybrid/Remote Secrets Management Contract Job Trends

Secrets Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Secrets Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 286 333
Rank change year-on-year +14 +47 +99
Contract jobs citing Secrets Management 46 17 28
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.46% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.17% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 10 20
10th Percentile £376 £542 £463
25th Percentile £413 £606 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £615 £543
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +13.26% -16.46%
75th Percentile £575 £744 £624
90th Percentile £626 £750 £786
UK median daily rate £525 £615 £547
% change year-on-year -14.63% +12.53% -15.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £68.00
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.24% -
75th Percentile - - £76.25
90th Percentile - - £77.00
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £67.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -36.76% -6.90% -

All Process & 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 9,096 9,814 14,269
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.34% 89.48% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,982 6,138 9,701
10th Percentile £331 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 189 363
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.45 £18.65
25th Percentile £20.33 £22.00 £26.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.25 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.96% -30.88% -11.30%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +22.16%

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Secrets Management and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Secrets Management job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Secrets Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Secrets Management

Secrets Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Secrets Management over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Secrets Management daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Secrets Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Secrets Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Secrets Management

Secrets Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (10.87%) Confluence
2 3 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 26 (56.52%) AWS
2 18 (39.13%) GitHub
3 17 (36.96%) GitHub Actions
4 15 (32.61%) Azure
4 15 (32.61%) Serverless
5 14 (30.43%) Amazon S3
6 12 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (26.09%) GCP
7 10 (21.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (19.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (15.22%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (13.04%) OpenShift
11 6 (13.04%) Route 53
12 5 (10.87%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (8.70%) Datadog
13 4 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (6.52%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) DNS
2 5 (10.87%) Network Security
3 4 (8.70%) Firewall
3 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.35%) SSH
4 2 (4.35%) SSL
5 1 (2.17%) DKIM
5 1 (2.17%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.17%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.35%) Big Data
4 2 (4.35%) Delta Lake
4 2 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.35%) Hazelcast
4 2 (4.35%) Parquet
4 2 (4.35%) Redis
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.17%) DB2
5 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.17%) GIS
5 1 (2.17%) Power BI
5 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (47.83%) Jenkins
2 16 (34.78%) GitLab
3 11 (23.91%) JIRA
4 10 (21.74%) Git
5 4 (8.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (4.35%) Gatling
6 2 (4.35%) JUnit
6 2 (4.35%) MLflow
6 2 (4.35%) Poetry
6 2 (4.35%) PyCharm
6 2 (4.35%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.17%) CircleCI
7 1 (2.17%) git-flow
7 1 (2.17%) Maven
7 1 (2.17%) Postman
7 1 (2.17%) Selenium
7 1 (2.17%) Snyk
7 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.17%) WebDriver
7 1 (2.17%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (21.74%) Finance
1 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Banking
3 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Law
7 1 (2.17%) Marketing
7 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (15.22%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Architect
2 6 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Developer
2 6 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Lead
4 4 (8.70%) Security Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Cloud Automation Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) CyberArk Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.35%) DevOps Specialist
6 2 (4.35%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior
6 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) Kafka
1 6 (13.04%) OpenID
2 4 (8.70%) Apache Avro
2 4 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (8.70%) OAuth
2 4 (8.70%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (8.70%) SAML
2 4 (8.70%) Spring
2 4 (8.70%) Spring Boot
3 3 (6.52%) LDAP
3 3 (6.52%) OAuth2
4 2 (4.35%) AWS CDK
4 2 (4.35%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.35%) Flask
4 2 (4.35%) JSON
4 2 (4.35%) Keycloak
4 2 (4.35%) Micronaut
4 2 (4.35%) NumPy
4 2 (4.35%) Pandas
4 2 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Linux
2 5 (10.87%) Windows
3 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.17%) Android
4 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (78.26%) CI/CD
2 30 (65.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (47.83%) DevOps
4 16 (34.78%) Containerisation
5 15 (32.61%) Observability
6 11 (23.91%) Agile
6 11 (23.91%) Test Automation
7 10 (21.74%) Identity Access Management
7 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (17.39%) DevSecOps
8 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (13.04%) Architectural Patterns
10 6 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (13.04%) Microservices
10 6 (13.04%) Vulnerability Management
11 5 (10.87%) Computer Science
11 5 (10.87%) Dependency Management
11 5 (10.87%) Software Engineering
11 5 (10.87%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 25 (54.35%) Python
2 19 (41.30%) Bash
3 8 (17.39%) Go
3 8 (17.39%) Java
3 8 (17.39%) SQL
4 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.35%) C#
5 2 (4.35%) Groovy
5 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.17%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) CISSP
3 5 (10.87%) Degree
4 4 (8.70%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.52%) CISM
5 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.52%) Master's Degree
6 2 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.35%) CCSP
6 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.35%) PhD
6 2 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.70%) NIST
2 4 (8.70%) PSD2
2 4 (8.70%) QA
3 3 (6.52%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.35%) GDPR
4 2 (4.35%) ISO 20022
4 2 (4.35%) ISO 8583
4 2 (4.35%) NCSC
4 2 (4.35%) SEPA
5 1 (2.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (45.65%) Docker
2 3 (6.52%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 29 (63.04%) Kubernetes
2 26 (56.52%) Terraform
3 19 (41.30%) Grafana
4 17 (36.96%) Prometheus
5 7 (15.22%) Istio
6 6 (13.04%) Ansible
6 6 (13.04%) Argo
7 3 (6.52%) Control-M
8 2 (4.35%) Consul
8 2 (4.35%) IBM Guardium
8 2 (4.35%) Nessus
8 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (2.17%) linkerd
9 1 (2.17%) Opsgenie
9 1 (2.17%) Packer
9 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
9 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (10.87%) CyberArk
2 4 (8.70%) Red Hat
2 4 (8.70%) Splunk
3 3 (6.52%) BiZZdesign
4 2 (4.35%) Centrify
4 2 (4.35%) Cloudera
4 2 (4.35%) Confluent
4 2 (4.35%) Google
4 2 (4.35%) Oracle
4 2 (4.35%) Qualys
4 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.35%) Tenable
5 1 (2.17%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.17%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.17%) Intel
5 1 (2.17%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.17%) Sybase
5 1 (2.17%) Varonis
5 1 (2.17%) Xamarin