Secrets Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Secrets Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Secrets Management over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 748 879 1133
Rank change year-on-year +131 +254 -255
Permanent jobs citing Secrets Management 140 116 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.11% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.12% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 51 69 47
10th Percentile £55,750 £71,500 -
25th Percentile £57,597 £75,208 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £94,052 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.89% +39.34% -1.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £117,236 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 - £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £94,052 £62,500
% change year-on-year -33.25% +50.48% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Secrets Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Secrets Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Secrets Management in the UK

Secrets Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Secrets Management.

Salary trend for Secrets Management in the UK

Secrets Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Secrets Management over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Secrets Management in the UK

Secrets Management
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Secrets Management within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
England +112 138 £65,000 -30.89% 15
UK excluding London +16 82 £62,783 -33.25% 8
North of England +72 65 £62,783 -34.22% 3
London +140 57 £72,500 -19.44% 8
North West +39 43 £62,783 -38.30% 1
Work from Home +47 41 £62,783 -35.17% 6
Yorkshire +71 15 £56,500 -39.93% 1
Midlands +12 14 £75,000 -3.23% 1
East Midlands - 8 - -
North East - 7 £60,141 - 1
West Midlands +12 6 £75,000 -3.23% 1
South West -27 4 £65,000 -36.12% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £70,000 -

Secrets Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (0.71%) Apache
1 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 114 (81.43%) AWS
2 71 (50.71%) Amazon S3
3 70 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
4 58 (41.43%) Amazon ECR
4 58 (41.43%) IBM Cloud
4 58 (41.43%) OCI
4 58 (41.43%) Route 53
5 55 (39.29%) Azure
6 20 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
7 18 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (12.86%) GCP
8 17 (12.14%) AWS KMS
8 17 (12.14%) Microsoft Purview
9 16 (11.43%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (10.71%) Azure Sentinel
10 15 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (8.57%) Entra ID
12 12 (8.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.00%) Firewall
2 20 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 19 (13.57%) Network Security
4 18 (12.86%) DNS
5 14 (10.00%) LAN
5 14 (10.00%) WAN
5 14 (10.00%) Wireshark
6 6 (4.29%) VPN
7 5 (3.57%) DHCP
8 1 (0.71%) HTTP
8 1 (0.71%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.71%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.71%) SAN
8 1 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (10.71%) MongoDB
3 13 (9.29%) SQL Server
4 12 (8.57%) DB2
4 12 (8.57%) DynamoDB
4 12 (8.57%) RDBMS
4 12 (8.57%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.57%) Redis
6 1 (0.71%) Flink
6 1 (0.71%) MySQL
6 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (12.14%) Jenkins
2 13 (9.29%) Git
3 4 (2.86%) GitLab
3 4 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.71%) JIRA
4 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 79 (56.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 70 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 31 (22.14%) Finance
4 16 (11.43%) Social Skills
5 12 (8.57%) Law
6 10 (7.14%) Banking
7 8 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (56.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 71 (50.71%) Senior
3 48 (34.29%) Senior DevOps
3 48 (34.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 33 (23.57%) Security Engineer
5 21 (15.00%) Senior Security Engineer
6 17 (12.14%) AWS DevOps
6 17 (12.14%) AWS Engineer
7 16 (11.43%) Architect
7 16 (11.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 14 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (9.29%) Lead
10 12 (8.57%) Information Security Engineer
10 12 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (8.57%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 12 (8.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (7.14%) SailPoint Architect
12 9 (6.43%) Team Leader
13 5 (3.57%) Infrastructure Architect
13 5 (3.57%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.57%) .NET
1 12 (8.57%) Spring
1 12 (8.57%) Spring XD
2 11 (7.86%) SailPoint
3 7 (5.00%) Node.js
4 5 (3.57%) Lambda Expressions
4 5 (3.57%) Middleware
5 4 (2.86%) AWS CDK
5 4 (2.86%) OAuth
6 2 (1.43%) JWT
6 2 (1.43%) OpenID
6 2 (1.43%) SAML
7 1 (0.71%) JSON
7 1 (0.71%) Kafka
7 1 (0.71%) Loki
7 1 (0.71%) REST
7 1 (0.71%) RESTful
7 1 (0.71%) Web Services
7 1 (0.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (50.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 58 (41.43%) Blockchain
2 58 (41.43%) e-Learning
3 20 (14.29%) Public Cloud
4 19 (13.57%) Management Information System
5 17 (12.14%) PKI
6 14 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
7 12 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (5.71%) Robotics
9 7 (5.00%) Security Posture
10 6 (4.29%) Data Centre
11 3 (2.14%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (2.14%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.00%) Windows
2 14 (10.00%) Android
2 14 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 8 (5.71%) Linux
4 2 (1.43%) Unix
5 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (87.14%) DevOps
2 100 (71.43%) Agile
3 85 (60.71%) Mentoring
4 83 (59.29%) Containerisation
5 75 (53.57%) Coaching
6 70 (50.00%) Test Automation
7 66 (47.14%) Artificial Intelligence
8 58 (41.43%) Observability
9 54 (38.57%) CI/CD
10 32 (22.86%) Cloud Security
11 29 (20.71%) Key Management
12 24 (17.14%) Migration
13 22 (15.71%) Roadmaps
14 19 (13.57%) Information Security
15 18 (12.86%) Configuration Management
15 18 (12.86%) Identity Access Management
16 17 (12.14%) Cybersecurity
16 17 (12.14%) Data Loss Prevention
16 17 (12.14%) Security Operations
16 17 (12.14%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 38 (27.14%) Python
2 20 (14.29%) Java
3 19 (13.57%) PowerShell
4 18 (12.86%) Go
5 9 (6.43%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.29%) SQL
7 5 (3.57%) Bash
8 4 (2.86%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.43%) C#
9 2 (1.43%) Lua
9 2 (1.43%) Ruby
9 2 (1.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (15.71%) CISSP
2 17 (12.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 17 (12.14%) CCSP
2 17 (12.14%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (10.00%) CEH
3 14 (10.00%) SANS
3 14 (10.00%) SSCP
4 13 (9.29%) AWS Certification
5 9 (6.43%) Degree
6 6 (4.29%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.29%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.29%) Security Cleared
7 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (2.14%) CCSK
9 1 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (10.00%) NIST
2 14 (10.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.43%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (16.43%) Docker
2 18 (12.86%) Active Directory
3 14 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (3.57%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.71%) vCloud
6 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (57.14%) Terraform
2 76 (54.29%) Kubernetes
3 68 (48.57%) Prometheus
4 14 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (10.00%) Nmap
4 14 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (8.57%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (7.14%) Grafana
7 7 (5.00%) Ansible
8 6 (4.29%) Progress Chef
9 5 (3.57%) Puppet
9 5 (3.57%) SCOM
10 3 (2.14%) CASB
11 1 (0.71%) Nagios
11 1 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (41.43%) Dynatrace
1 58 (41.43%) IBM
1 58 (41.43%) Red Hat
2 37 (26.43%) Microsoft
3 23 (16.43%) CyberArk
3 23 (16.43%) ServiceNow
4 18 (12.86%) Splunk
5 17 (12.14%) Oracle
6 14 (10.00%) Qualys
6 14 (10.00%) Rapid7
6 14 (10.00%) Thycotic
7 12 (8.57%) CA
7 12 (8.57%) Sybase
8 11 (7.86%) BeyondTrust
9 6 (4.29%) SolarWinds
10 3 (2.14%) Netskope
10 3 (2.14%) Symantec
10 3 (2.14%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.71%) VMware
11 1 (0.71%) Zerto