Hybrid/Remote Secrets Management Job Trends

Secrets Management
UK > Work from Home

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 437 460
Rank change year-on-year +81 +23 +198
Permanent jobs citing Secrets Management 20 2 25
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.13% 0.012% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.013% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 24
10th Percentile £49,750 £60,745 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £64,788 £55,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,450 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.75% +29.08% -32.19%
75th Percentile £92,500 £89,188 £73,750
90th Percentile - £92,675 £88,625
UK median annual salary £80,000 £120,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +65.52% -14.71%

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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,281 15,500 19,599
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.95% 93.36% 93.91%
Number of salaries quoted 8,418 9,178 15,800
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,620 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Secrets Management
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Secrets Management job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Secrets Management
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Secrets Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Secrets Management

Secrets Management
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Secrets Management salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
1 12 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) AWS
2 8 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 8 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 8 (40.00%) dbt
2 8 (40.00%) Snowflake
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 5 (25.00%) CloudFront
3 5 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 4 (20.00%) Azure Pipelines
4 4 (20.00%) GitHub
4 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.00%) SaaS
6 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Back Office
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (10.00%) Law
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Senior
3 7 (35.00%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) YAML
2 5 (25.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Blog
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (90.00%) DevOps
3 15 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
4 12 (60.00%) Agile
5 11 (55.00%) Observability
6 10 (50.00%) Cloud Security
6 10 (50.00%) RBAC
7 9 (45.00%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (40.00%) Asset Management
8 8 (40.00%) Coaching
8 8 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (40.00%) Data Modelling
8 8 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (40.00%) Data Sharing
8 8 (40.00%) Data Transformation
9 6 (30.00%) API Management
10 5 (25.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
10 5 (25.00%) Incident Response
10 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (90.00%) Python
2 12 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 10 (50.00%) Bash
4 8 (40.00%) SQL
5 4 (20.00%) Bicep
6 2 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (10.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (100.00%) Terraform
2 10 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (25.00%) Grafana
3 5 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (20.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft