Secrets Management Job Trends in the South East

Secrets Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Secrets Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 291 281
Rank change year-on-year +45 -10 +129
Permanent jobs citing Secrets Management 21 7 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.20% 0.077% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.088% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 19 0 7
10th Percentile £35,900 - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 - £90,000
75th Percentile £97,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £83,500 £120,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -30.42% +65.52% -19.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,281 7,962 7,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.27% 88.01% 88.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,926 3,813 5,426
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
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 South East

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

Secrets Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Secrets Management
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Secrets Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Secrets Management

Secrets Management
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Secrets Management in the South East over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Secrets Management in the South East

Secrets Management
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Secrets Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 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
Hampshire +56 21 £78,000 - 2
Secrets Management
England

Secrets Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (23.81%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (23.81%) Appian
2 4 (19.05%) Apache
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (95.24%) Azure
1 20 (95.24%) Azure DevOps
2 18 (85.71%) AWS
3 5 (23.81%) Amazon S3
3 5 (23.81%) MinIO
3 5 (23.81%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (57.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 20 (95.24%) Robot Framework
1 20 (95.24%) Selenium
1 20 (95.24%) Snyk
2 16 (76.19%) Git
General
1 14 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (61.90%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Lead
2 8 (38.10%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Applications Architect
3 5 (23.81%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Junior
5 1 (4.76%) Junior DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Junior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) Apache NiFi
1 5 (23.81%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 5 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 5 (23.81%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Linux
1 12 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 21 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 21 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 21 (100.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 21 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 20 (95.24%) DevOps
2 20 (95.24%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (95.24%) Test Management
3 17 (80.95%) Agile
4 16 (76.19%) Scrum
5 13 (61.90%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (57.14%) Build Automation
6 12 (57.14%) Roadmaps
6 12 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (38.10%) Mentoring
8 7 (33.33%) Dependency Management
9 5 (23.81%) Data Integration
9 5 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (23.81%) Microservices
9 5 (23.81%) Robotic Process Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (95.24%) Security Cleared
2 17 (80.95%) DV Cleared
3 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (95.24%) Ansible
1 20 (95.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (95.24%) Black Duck
2 19 (90.48%) Coverity
3 5 (23.81%) BiZZdesign
3 5 (23.81%) UiPath
3 5 (23.81%) VMware
4 4 (19.05%) Blue Prism