Secrets Management Job Trends in England

Secrets Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Secrets Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 613 615
Rank change year-on-year +60 +2 +298
Permanent jobs citing Secrets Management 47 63 51
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.090% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 38 7 40
10th Percentile £43,800 £53,830 £53,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £71,525 £57,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,750 £120,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% +74.55% -25.29%
75th Percentile £97,500 £128,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £132,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £120,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +65.52% -14.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Secrets Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,728 44,744 41,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.15% 90.24% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 25,461 22,347 32,089
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Secrets Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Secrets Management job vacancy trend in England

Secrets Management
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Secrets Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Secrets Management

Secrets Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Secrets Management in England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Secrets Management in England

Secrets Management
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Secrets Management within the England region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +42 22 £77,750 - 16
London +26 14 £85,000 -29.17% 19
North of England -4 4 £90,000 - 10
West Midlands - 3 £47,500 - 5
East of England - 3 £85,000 - 6
Yorkshire - 3 - - 9
Midlands - 3 £47,500 - 7
North West -6 1 £90,000 - 1
Secrets Management
UK

Secrets Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (12.77%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (12.77%) Appian
2 5 (10.64%) Apache
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 37 (78.72%) AWS
2 29 (61.70%) Azure
3 27 (57.45%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (21.28%) Amazon S3
5 8 (17.02%) GitHub
5 8 (17.02%) Power Platform
6 7 (14.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (14.89%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (14.89%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (12.77%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (12.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 6 (12.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (12.77%) MinIO
8 5 (10.64%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (10.64%) Serverless
8 5 (10.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (8.51%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 4 (8.51%) Azure AKS
9 4 (8.51%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 13 (27.66%) DNS
2 1 (2.13%) DHCP
2 1 (2.13%) HTTP
2 1 (2.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (10.64%) Airbyte
3 4 (8.51%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (4.26%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.13%) Power BI
5 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (44.68%) Robot Framework
1 21 (44.68%) Selenium
1 21 (44.68%) Snyk
2 19 (40.43%) Git
3 4 (8.51%) GitLab
4 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 23 (48.94%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.79%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Finance
4 3 (6.38%) Banking
4 3 (6.38%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.26%) Advertising
5 2 (4.26%) Back Office
5 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.26%) Law
5 2 (4.26%) Retail
6 1 (2.13%) Automotive
6 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Lead
2 9 (19.15%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) Architect
3 7 (14.89%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Applications Architect
4 6 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior
7 3 (6.38%) Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Security Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) Apache NiFi
1 6 (12.77%) Kafka
2 4 (8.51%) AWS CDK
2 4 (8.51%) Loki
3 2 (4.26%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.26%) Node.js
4 1 (2.13%) JSON
4 1 (2.13%) LDAP
4 1 (2.13%) Middleware
4 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Product Ownership
2 8 (17.02%) Cloud Native
3 6 (12.77%) Low-Code
4 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.26%) Blog
5 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.26%) PKI
6 1 (2.13%) CMDB
6 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (51.06%) Linux
2 13 (27.66%) Windows
3 1 (2.13%) Unix
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (87.23%) CI/CD
2 40 (85.11%) DevOps
3 36 (76.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (59.57%) Test Automation
5 27 (57.45%) DevSecOps
6 24 (51.06%) Agile
7 23 (48.94%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 22 (46.81%) Interactive Application Security Testing
9 21 (44.68%) Test Management
10 16 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (34.04%) Scrum
11 15 (31.91%) Observability
11 15 (31.91%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (27.66%) API Management
12 13 (27.66%) Roadmaps
13 12 (25.53%) Build Automation
13 12 (25.53%) Cloud Security
14 10 (21.28%) Mentoring
15 8 (17.02%) Dependency Management
15 8 (17.02%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (42.55%) Python
2 10 (21.28%) Bash
3 5 (10.64%) Java
3 5 (10.64%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.51%) Bicep
4 4 (8.51%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.26%) Kotlin
5 2 (4.26%) SQL
6 1 (2.13%) C
Qualifications
1 24 (51.06%) Security Cleared
2 17 (36.17%) DV Cleared
3 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.51%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.51%) Degree
5 2 (4.26%) CISSP
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.13%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (2.13%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) PCI DSS
1 3 (6.38%) SOC 2
2 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.13%) NIST
3 1 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) iptables
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (72.34%) Terraform
2 23 (48.94%) Ansible
3 14 (29.79%) Kubernetes
4 6 (12.77%) Prometheus
5 5 (10.64%) Grafana
6 4 (8.51%) logstash
7 2 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (44.68%) Black Duck
2 20 (42.55%) Coverity
3 7 (14.89%) BiZZdesign
4 6 (12.77%) UiPath
4 6 (12.77%) VMware
5 5 (10.64%) Blue Prism
6 2 (4.26%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.13%) Arista
7 1 (2.13%) Centrify
7 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.13%) ForgeRock
7 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.13%) Thycotic