Vulnerability Scanning Contracts with Work from Home Options

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 423 531
Rank change year-on-year +107 +108 -48
Contract jobs citing Vulnerability Scanning 33 36 95
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 24 67
10th Percentile £301 £500 £394
25th Percentile £425 £522 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £666 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.48% +26.86% -1.50%
75th Percentile £606 £679 £561
90th Percentile £668 £782 £673
UK median daily rate £538 £560 £525
% change year-on-year -3.93% +6.67% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £39.38
90th Percentile - - £45.75
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year - +190.91% -54.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Vulnerability Scanning 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 12,824 21,734 40,250
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,646 15,426 29,289
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 572 503 517
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £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 £58.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Vulnerability Scanning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Vulnerability Scanning trend for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning.

Vulnerability Scanning daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Scanning
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Vulnerability Scanning over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Vulnerability Scanning daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Scanning
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 Scanning.

Vulnerability Scanning hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Vulnerability Scanning
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 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Azure
2 6 (18.18%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (6.06%) AWS KMS
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (6.06%) GCP
4 2 (6.06%) Sumo Logic
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.03%) IaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Serverless
5 1 (3.03%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (33.33%) Firewall
2 5 (15.15%) DNS
3 4 (12.12%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (6.06%) Network Security
4 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.06%) VPN
5 1 (3.03%) DHCP
5 1 (3.03%) LAN
5 1 (3.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) GitLab
1 6 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.03%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) Terragrunt
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Finance
3 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) Security Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Senior
3 4 (12.12%) SOC Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Security Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Security Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Security Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Security Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Service Manager
5 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) JSON
1 3 (9.09%) XML
2 2 (6.06%) Ajax
2 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.06%) CSS
2 2 (6.06%) HTML
2 2 (6.06%) SOAP
2 2 (6.06%) Web Services
3 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (3.03%) OAuth
3 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.03%) SAML
3 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Management Information System
2 6 (18.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (15.15%) Security Posture
4 3 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (6.06%) CMDB
6 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.03%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
6 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Windows
2 6 (18.18%) Linux
3 5 (15.15%) Windows Server
4 4 (12.12%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.03%) Mac OS X
5 1 (3.03%) Unix
5 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Vulnerability Management
2 12 (36.36%) Information Security
3 11 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 11 (33.33%) SIEM
4 10 (30.30%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 9 (27.27%) Incident Response
6 8 (24.24%) Computer Science
6 8 (24.24%) DevOps
6 8 (24.24%) Security Testing
7 7 (21.21%) DevSecOps
8 6 (18.18%) DDoS Mitigation
8 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (18.18%) Security Operations
9 5 (15.15%) Application Security
9 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
9 5 (15.15%) ITIL
10 4 (12.12%) Agile
10 4 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) Python
2 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.06%) Bicep
3 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.03%) Bash
4 1 (3.03%) Go
4 1 (3.03%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Degree
2 5 (15.15%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) CISSP
4 1 (3.03%) CCNA
4 1 (3.03%) CCSP
4 1 (3.03%) CEH
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (15.15%) NIST
3 4 (12.12%) GDPR
4 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.12%) Docker
3 1 (3.03%) Snort
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Terraform
2 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.12%) Ansible
3 4 (12.12%) SCCM
4 3 (9.09%) Nessus
5 1 (3.03%) Argo
5 1 (3.03%) CASB
5 1 (3.03%) HP Fortify
5 1 (3.03%) Istio
5 1 (3.03%) Nmap
5 1 (3.03%) vCenter Server
5 1 (3.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.15%) Qualys
3 4 (12.12%) Splunk
3 4 (12.12%) VMware
4 3 (9.09%) CA
4 3 (9.09%) CyberArk
5 2 (6.06%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (6.06%) Google
5 2 (6.06%) Rapid7
5 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.03%) Cisco
6 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto