Vulnerability Management Contracts in England

Vulnerability Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Vulnerability Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 312 450
Rank change year-on-year +31 +138 -36
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 289 381 354
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.79% 0.79% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.88% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 278 277
10th Percentile £380 £425 £400
25th Percentile £425 £482 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £748 £747
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +11.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +30.95%
75th Percentile - £27.50 £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £25.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -5.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,446 43,440 63,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.15% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,588 30,513 45,420
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,538 1,746
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £16.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £49.37
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Vulnerability Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Vulnerability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Vulnerability Management in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Vulnerability Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Vulnerability Management in England

Vulnerability Management
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Vulnerability Management within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +67 151 £575 +2.22% 48
South East +50 66 £450 -21.74% 31
South West -12 23 £550 +10.00% 13
Midlands +6 18 £438 -27.45% 12
West Midlands +13 16 £438 -27.08% 8
East of England +13 14 £688 +52.78% 4
North of England 0 12 £567 -3.98% 16
Yorkshire +5 7 £550 -8.33% 9
North West +2 5 £659 +8.66% 7
East Midlands +8 2 £596 -1.65% 4
Vulnerability Management
UK

Vulnerability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (2.77%) Confluence
2 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.69%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 54 (18.69%) Azure
2 37 (12.80%) AWS
3 24 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (5.19%) Entra ID
5 13 (4.50%) GCP
6 10 (3.46%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (3.11%) GitHub
8 7 (2.42%) SaaS
9 6 (2.08%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.08%) IaaS
9 6 (2.08%) Nutanix
9 6 (2.08%) PaaS
9 6 (2.08%) Rubrik
10 5 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.73%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.73%) Slack
10 5 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.04%) AWS KMS
11 3 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 54 (18.69%) Firewall
2 33 (11.42%) DNS
3 18 (6.23%) DHCP
4 16 (5.54%) Network Security
5 12 (4.15%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.42%) VLAN
6 7 (2.42%) VPN
7 6 (2.08%) Internet
7 6 (2.08%) Kerberos
7 6 (2.08%) NAS
7 6 (2.08%) SAN
8 5 (1.73%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (1.38%) LAN
9 4 (1.38%) WAN
9 4 (1.38%) Wireless
10 3 (1.04%) OSPF
10 3 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.69%) BGP
11 2 (0.69%) EIGRP
11 2 (0.69%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.73%) Power BI
3 4 (1.38%) Metadata
4 3 (1.04%) Apache Hive
4 3 (1.04%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.69%) Big Data
5 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.69%) Bigtable
5 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.69%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.69%) HBase
5 2 (0.69%) IBM BigInsights
5 2 (0.69%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.69%) Parquet
5 2 (0.69%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 19 (6.57%) JIRA
2 11 (3.81%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.08%) Git
3 6 (2.08%) TeamCity
4 5 (1.73%) Burp Suite
5 4 (1.38%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (0.69%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.35%) GitLab
7 1 (0.35%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 72 (24.91%) Finance
2 45 (15.57%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.61%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.19%) Telecoms
5 14 (4.84%) Banking
5 14 (4.84%) Legal
6 12 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.11%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.08%) Electronics
9 6 (2.08%) Marketing
10 5 (1.73%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.04%) Retail
11 3 (1.04%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Advertising
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (21.80%) Analyst
2 35 (12.11%) SOC Analyst
3 34 (11.76%) Security Engineer
4 27 (9.34%) Consultant
5 23 (7.96%) Lead
6 20 (6.92%) Architect
7 18 (6.23%) Security Consultant
8 17 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (5.88%) Security Architect
8 17 (5.88%) Security Manager
9 16 (5.54%) Security Analyst
9 16 (5.54%) Vulnerability Specialist
10 15 (5.19%) Security Specialist
11 14 (4.84%) Senior
11 14 (4.84%) Vulnerability Analyst
12 13 (4.50%) Project Manager
13 12 (4.15%) Security Project Manager
14 10 (3.46%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 10 (3.46%) IT Security Specialist
14 10 (3.46%) Security Operations Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.08%) LDAP
2 4 (1.38%) Kafka
3 2 (0.69%) Apache Avro
3 2 (0.69%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (0.69%) EDI
3 2 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.35%) OLE
4 1 (0.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.49%) Management Information System
2 28 (9.69%) Security Posture
3 21 (7.27%) Cyber Threat
4 13 (4.50%) Security Operations Centre
5 12 (4.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 11 (3.81%) Data Centre
7 10 (3.46%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (3.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 9 (3.11%) Onboarding
8 9 (3.11%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.42%) Clustering
9 7 (2.42%) Replication
10 6 (2.08%) Cyberattack
11 5 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.38%) IoT
12 4 (1.38%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.38%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 2 (0.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 67 (23.18%) Windows
2 44 (15.22%) Windows Server
3 42 (14.53%) Linux
4 16 (5.54%) Unix
5 15 (5.19%) Windows 10
6 10 (3.46%) Mac OS X
6 10 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.46%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (2.42%) VMS
8 6 (2.08%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (2.08%) Solaris
9 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (34.95%) Cybersecurity
2 94 (32.53%) SIEM
3 72 (24.91%) Security Operations
4 68 (23.53%) Incident Response
5 66 (22.84%) Information Security
6 42 (14.53%) Risk Management
7 37 (12.80%) Data Security
8 32 (11.07%) Application Security
8 32 (11.07%) Data Loss Prevention
9 29 (10.03%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
10 28 (9.69%) Incident Management
11 26 (9.00%) Static Application Security Testing
11 26 (9.00%) Threat Intelligence
12 24 (8.30%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 24 (8.30%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 23 (7.96%) ITIL
13 23 (7.96%) Patch Management
14 22 (7.61%) Cloud Security
14 22 (7.61%) DevOps
14 22 (7.61%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 23 (7.96%) PowerShell
2 10 (3.46%) Python
3 6 (2.08%) Bash
4 4 (1.38%) Go
4 4 (1.38%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.04%) SQL
6 2 (0.69%) U-SQL
7 1 (0.35%) C#
Qualifications
1 54 (18.69%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.03%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.65%) DV Cleared
4 19 (6.57%) CISSP
5 17 (5.88%) Degree
6 8 (2.77%) CISM
6 8 (2.77%) ISACA
7 6 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.08%) GIAC
8 3 (1.04%) CEH
8 3 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.69%) CCSP
9 2 (0.69%) CISA
9 2 (0.69%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.35%) CCSK
10 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.35%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (16.96%) NIST
2 33 (11.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (10.38%) GDPR
4 12 (4.15%) PCI DSS
5 11 (3.81%) HIPAA
6 10 (3.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 9 (3.11%) COBIT
8 8 (2.77%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (2.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (2.08%) NIST 800
9 6 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (2.08%) SLA
10 4 (1.38%) QA
11 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (14.88%) Active Directory
2 34 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.50%) XenApp
4 11 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.08%) Docker
6 4 (1.38%) Firmware
7 3 (1.04%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.35%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.35%) Snort
Systems Management
1 22 (7.61%) SCCM
2 17 (5.88%) Ansible
3 12 (4.15%) Terraform
4 10 (3.46%) Nessus
5 9 (3.11%) Kubernetes
6 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.08%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (2.08%) Netcool
7 6 (2.08%) Tivoli
7 6 (2.08%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (1.38%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.38%) Puppet
9 3 (1.04%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (1.04%) Kibana
9 3 (1.04%) WSUS
10 2 (0.69%) CASB
10 2 (0.69%) logstash
10 2 (0.69%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (0.69%) Packer
10 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (30.80%) Microsoft
2 64 (22.15%) Qualys
3 49 (16.96%) VMware
4 21 (7.27%) Splunk
4 21 (7.27%) Varonis
5 16 (5.54%) Cisco
5 16 (5.54%) Forcepoint
5 16 (5.54%) LogRhythm
6 14 (4.84%) Citrix
7 9 (3.11%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.77%) CA
8 8 (2.77%) Dell
8 8 (2.77%) IBM
8 8 (2.77%) Ivanti
8 8 (2.77%) Rapid7
8 8 (2.77%) Veeam
9 7 (2.42%) CyberArk
9 7 (2.42%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.42%) SAP
9 7 (2.42%) Veracode