Secrets Management Job Trends in the North of England

Secrets Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of 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 257 253 262
Rank change year-on-year -4 +9 +153
Permanent jobs citing Secrets Management 4 33 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.038% 0.35% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.39% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £52,500
25th Percentile £85,000 - £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.93%
75th Percentile £95,000 - £57,500
90th Percentile - - £58,625
England median annual salary £81,750 £120,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -31.88% +74.55% -25.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,617 8,495 6,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 82.05% 89.86% 90.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,549 3,856 5,290
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,726
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -1.04%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Secrets Management job vacancy trend in the North of England

Secrets Management
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Secrets Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Secrets Management

Secrets Management
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
Yorkshire - 3 - - 9
North West -6 1 £90,000 - 1
Secrets Management
England

Secrets Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Datadog
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow Management
3 1 (25.00%) API Design
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Dependency Management
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Kotlin
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CISM
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (25.00%) Centrify
1 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (25.00%) Thycotic