Vulnerability Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Vulnerability Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 303 426
Rank change year-on-year +87 +123 -42
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Management 131 164 198
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.90% 0.68% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.76% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 130 153
10th Percentile £420 £413 £435
25th Percentile £425 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £630 £647 £700
90th Percentile £730 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -1.82% -3.51% +12.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% -28.13%
75th Percentile - £27.50 £32.50
90th Percentile - - £37.00
UK median hourly rate - £25.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -5.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,810 21,655 40,201
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.61% 89.64% 91.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,641 15,361 29,229
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 502 523
10th Percentile £14.88 £18.49 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.13 £25.80 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Vulnerability Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Vulnerability Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Vulnerability Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Vulnerability Management.

Vulnerability Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Vulnerability Management over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Vulnerability Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Vulnerability Management.

Vulnerability Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (6.87%) Confluence
2 2 (1.53%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 24 (18.32%) Azure
2 18 (13.74%) AWS
3 11 (8.40%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (7.63%) Entra ID
5 7 (5.34%) GCP
6 6 (4.58%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (3.82%) IaaS
7 5 (3.82%) Nutanix
7 5 (3.82%) PaaS
7 5 (3.82%) Rubrik
7 5 (3.82%) SaaS
8 3 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.29%) GitHub
9 2 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.53%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.53%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.53%) Route 53
9 2 (1.53%) Serverless
9 2 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (26.72%) Firewall
2 20 (15.27%) DNS
3 14 (10.69%) TCP/IP
4 8 (6.11%) DHCP
4 8 (6.11%) Intrusion Detection
4 8 (6.11%) Network Security
5 6 (4.58%) VLAN
6 5 (3.82%) Kerberos
6 5 (3.82%) NAS
6 5 (3.82%) SAN
6 5 (3.82%) Wireshark
7 4 (3.05%) tcpdump
7 4 (3.05%) VPN
8 3 (2.29%) LAN
8 3 (2.29%) SCCP
8 3 (2.29%) WAN
9 1 (0.76%) HTTP
9 1 (0.76%) MPLS
9 1 (0.76%) OSPF
9 1 (0.76%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.63%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.05%) Apache Hive
2 4 (3.05%) Hadoop
2 4 (3.05%) Tableau
3 2 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (9.16%) JIRA
2 7 (5.34%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.82%) Git
3 5 (3.82%) TeamCity
4 4 (3.05%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 43 (32.82%) Finance
2 19 (14.50%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.63%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.11%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.34%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.58%) Banking
8 3 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.29%) Retail
9 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Law
10 1 (0.76%) Legal
10 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (16.79%) Analyst
2 21 (16.03%) Security Engineer
3 14 (10.69%) Security Analyst
4 13 (9.92%) Vulnerability Specialist
5 11 (8.40%) Security Specialist
5 11 (8.40%) Senior
6 10 (7.63%) Consultant
7 9 (6.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (6.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 8 (6.11%) IT Security Specialist
8 8 (6.11%) Security Consultant
8 8 (6.11%) Security Operations Specialist
9 7 (5.34%) Architect
9 7 (5.34%) Security Manager
9 7 (5.34%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (5.34%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
9 7 (5.34%) Senior Security Analyst
9 7 (5.34%) SOC Analyst
9 7 (5.34%) Unix Specialist
9 7 (5.34%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.82%) LDAP
2 4 (3.05%) OLE
3 2 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.76%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.76%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (0.76%) EDI
4 1 (0.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 41 (31.30%) Management Information System
2 12 (9.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 10 (7.63%) Security Posture
4 9 (6.87%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (5.34%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 5 (3.82%) Clustering
6 5 (3.82%) Replication
7 4 (3.05%) IoT
7 4 (3.05%) YARA
8 3 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.53%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.53%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.53%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.53%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.76%) CSOC
10 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 37 (28.24%) Windows
2 28 (21.37%) Linux
3 24 (18.32%) Windows Server
4 12 (9.16%) Unix
5 10 (7.63%) Windows 10
6 9 (6.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (3.82%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (3.82%) Solaris
8 2 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (35.88%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (34.35%) SIEM
3 36 (27.48%) Incident Response
3 36 (27.48%) Information Security
3 36 (27.48%) Security Operations
4 24 (18.32%) Data Loss Prevention
4 24 (18.32%) Data Security
4 24 (18.32%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 22 (16.79%) Penetration Testing
6 17 (12.98%) Cloud Security
6 17 (12.98%) DevOps
7 16 (12.21%) Risk Management
8 15 (11.45%) Agile
9 14 (10.69%) Application Security
9 14 (10.69%) Incident Management
9 14 (10.69%) ITIL
9 14 (10.69%) Security Testing
10 13 (9.92%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 12 (9.16%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
12 11 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.63%) PowerShell
2 7 (5.34%) Python
3 5 (3.82%) Bash
4 2 (1.53%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (10.69%) CISSP
2 9 (6.87%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.34%) CISM
3 7 (5.34%) Degree
4 6 (4.58%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.05%) CRISC
6 2 (1.53%) CEH
6 2 (1.53%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.53%) GCIH
6 2 (1.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (1.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.76%) CCSP
7 1 (0.76%) CISA
7 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) GCIA
7 1 (0.76%) GIAC
7 1 (0.76%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.03%) NIST
2 20 (15.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (9.92%) GDPR
4 9 (6.87%) PCI DSS
5 6 (4.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (4.58%) SLA
6 5 (3.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (2.29%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.53%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (1.53%) GRC
8 2 (1.53%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.76%) COBIT
9 1 (0.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (20.61%) Active Directory
2 15 (11.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.82%) Docker
3 5 (3.82%) XenApp
4 4 (3.05%) Snort
5 3 (2.29%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (13.74%) SCCM
2 14 (10.69%) Ansible
3 11 (8.40%) Terraform
4 7 (5.34%) Nessus
5 6 (4.58%) Kibana
6 5 (3.82%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (3.82%) Kubernetes
6 5 (3.82%) Netcool
6 5 (3.82%) Tivoli
6 5 (3.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (3.05%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.05%) Puppet
8 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.53%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (1.53%) logstash
9 2 (1.53%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (1.53%) Nexpose
9 2 (1.53%) Packer
9 2 (1.53%) Salt
10 1 (0.76%) Matomo
Vendors
1 50 (38.17%) Qualys
2 44 (33.59%) Microsoft
3 29 (22.14%) VMware
4 17 (12.98%) Varonis
5 16 (12.21%) Forcepoint
5 16 (12.21%) LogRhythm
6 15 (11.45%) Splunk
7 10 (7.63%) Cisco
8 8 (6.11%) CA
8 8 (6.11%) ServiceNow
9 7 (5.34%) Google
9 7 (5.34%) IBM
10 6 (4.58%) CyberArk
11 5 (3.82%) Citrix
11 5 (3.82%) Dell
11 5 (3.82%) EMC
11 5 (3.82%) HP
11 5 (3.82%) Isilon
11 5 (3.82%) Oracle
11 5 (3.82%) Serena